Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North Carolina attracted a remarkable number of famous and soon-to-be famous artists, writers and visionaries including Anni and Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Ray Johnson, Charles Olson and M.C. Richards. The exploits of these BMC cultural luminaries have been recounted time and time again.
David Silver’s fascinating new book offers a very different perspective. The farm was vital to BMC. Throughout the Depression and . . . .go to book page >>

A group of underwater friends, led by a lanternfish named Bo, encounter a series of disturbances in the sea. They realize their magic glowing potion—the life force of the ocean—is dwindling as a result. The only way to save the potion is to share the message with land friends: to start loving the land and stop putting harmful things in the ocean. Bo embarks on a moonlit mission to the surface and gets tangled up along the way. Scuba Lu and his crew find Bo and receive her message, vowing to spread it far and wide across the land.
Bailey Elder . . . .go to book page >>

Every year, Julien, Cecile and Sebastien, three young Red Knot birds, travel south for the winter. Witnessing the effects of the climate crisis (rising temperatures, air pollution, food and water scarcity), the three friends recognize how human behaviors are harming earth. Julien, Cecile and Sebastien assemble the world’s birds, and together take imaginative actions to help Mother Earth heal.
Espen Friberg is a Norwegian illustrator, artist and musician. His idiosyncratic, analog illustrations have appeared in numerous publications, including Kindling magazine.
Kingston Trinder is a nonfiction author and publisher.

Pablo dreams of painting cats. Will this painter ever be able to make the art he dreams of? Artist Timo Kuilder’s colorful board book, the inaugural title for Atelier Enfants, introduces us to an imaginative dog who is infatuated with cats, celebrating diversity and inviting all animals to conquer their misconceptions and embrace everyone.
Timo Kuilder is an Amsterdam-based illustrator and artist. His work has been published in Vogue and the New York Times. In 2019 he released an illustrated mobile game called Contrast.

In More Than the Eyes, writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000, the book shows how we have become restricted by a hierarchy that values sight and reason above other senses, and how encounters with food in art can help us break this bind. By putting food at the center of the highly visual art world, the artists in this book quicken a range of sensations beyond visual perception, helping us . . . .go to book page >>

This publication introduces the untold story of German artist and poet Anneliese Hager. Active from the 1930s to the 1960s, Hager began her photographic experimentation in Germany during the Nazi censure of modern art. Her preferred medium was the cameraless photograph, or photogram—an image made by placing objects directly on (or in close proximity to) a light-sensitive surface and exposing the assembled material to light. In its final form, a photogram is a one-of-a-kind work that reverses light and dark: the longer the paper is covered, and hence unexposed, the brighter the covered parts will be, and vice versa. Hager . . . .go to book page >>