Please join us on Thursday March 6 for a very special artist talk by Lynne Avadenka which will particularly focus on artist books, her own and others.

 

Lynne Avadenka (b. Pontiac, MI, 1955) is a highly respected printmaker whose works explore text and image, the physical and philosophical idea of the book, and the mystery and beauty of visual language. From 2013-2024, she was the director of Signal-Return, an influential Detroit nonprofit arts organization, dedicated to “preserving and teaching traditional letterpress printing, and building a community center for art, craft, design and collaboration.”

 

Avadenka was a 2009 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow and has undertaken residencies and teaching appointments in Germany, Israel, Italy, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia. Avadenka’s art is in the collections of Bibliotecha Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; The British Library, London; The Detroit Institute of Arts; The Jewish Museum, New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan; The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York; The New York Public Library; Museum Meermano/The House of the Book, The Hague, The Netherlands; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ; The Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and over 50 Special Collections and University Libraries.