We are pleased to announce an upcoming SCAH program featuring the art historian and curator Katie Anania and the Brooklyn-based artist Aisling Hamrogue. They will be in conversation about Anania's 2024 book, Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America, published by Yale University Pres. 

Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America reveals how paper became an environmental medium in the postwar United States, showing how artists from the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico used drawing, erasing, cutting, shredding, and recording to reckon with the shifting conditions of their surroundings.

In the conversation, Anania and Hamrogue consider drawing’s ability to capture spaces and bodies in the contemporary moment. How might drawings reveal the varied and intense sensations held within the body during a time of intensifying ecological damage and degradation? Using feminist materialist methods from the book’s first two sections, Anania and Hamrogue will consider paper and drawing as models for connecting bodies with worlds.