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February 2023 News
What a thrill it was to be in New Mexico to visit author Arlene Goldbard in her studio and see her portraits from In the Camp of Angels of Freedom! I came for her Collected Works Bookstore launch and visits with authors Sabra Moore (Openings), Lucy Lippard (Stuff, coming this fall) and Margaret Randall (Luck, also coming this fall!).
—Lynne Elizabeth
February Release!
A Peaceful Superpower:
Lessons from the World's Largest
Antiwar Movement
Twenty years ago this February, as the Bush administration prepared to wage war against Iraq, some ten million people (!!) around the globe took to the streets to warn against the impending disaster. It was the largest wave of antiwar protest in world history. This is the story of those dramatic events and the breadth of continuing dissent following the ill-fated invasion of Iraq by the United States in March 2003, told by distinguished peace scholar and activist David Cortright.
Foreword by David S. Meyer.
Original paperback, 240 pages, 18 b/w illus.
“A virtual handbook for activism and organizing that could not be more timely and needed.”
Noam Chomsky

“Antiwar activists came up short in their efforts to avert the Gulf War of 2003. Even so, those efforts have much to teach. The place to begin learning is here, with David Cortright's concise but impressively comprehensive and insightful book.”
Andrew Bacevich
Author David Cortright is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and author or co-editor of more than 20 books, including Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War. Cortright organized against the Vietnam War as an active-duty soldier, was a leader of the Nuclear Freeze movement during the 1980s and helped to found Win Without War in 2002 to oppose the invasion of Iraq.
A Peaceful Superpower Book Launch
at the University of Notre Dame
Tues, Feb 28, 2023, 4:00–5:30 PM
C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Join the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies for the launch of David Cortright's latest book, A Peaceful Superpower Lessons from the World's Largest Antiwar Movement. Panelists will include Ann Mische, associate professor of Sociology and Peace Studies, and Lisa Schirch, Richard G. Starmann, Sr. Professor of the Practice of Peace Studies.
A reception and book signing will follow in the Hesburgh Center Great Hall.
Recent Release
In the Camp of Angels of Freedom:
What Does It Mean to Be Educated?
by Arlene Goldbard

Through her evocative paintings and narrative, author Arlene Goldbard portrays eleven individuals whose work most influenced her— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Paul Goodman, Doris Lessing, Alice Neel, Paulo Freire, Isaiah Berlin, John Trudell, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Jane Jacobs—what she calls a Camp of Angels. She sees each as a brave messenger of love and freedom for a society that badly needs “uncolonized minds.” Readers will learn about the author’s own self education and issues of formal higher education and the damage done by a society that prizes profits over people.

Original Color Paperback • 224 pages
7" x 10" • 16 color illustrations • $34.95
"This book inspires and empowers with the forthrightness of the telling and the beauty of the stories told. Arlene is a master artist in the medium of the possible."
Eric Booth, Founder, International Teaching Artist Collaborative, author of Tending the Perennials: The Art and Spirit of a Personal Religion
If you missed Arlene's book launch reading and conversation with Nina Simons,
you can still see this excellent video of it from Collected Works: Watch HERE.
Arlene Goldbard in the media
Arlene Goldbard is a guest of host Matthew Chase-Daniel on Santa Fe's Coffee and Culture program.

L.M. Bogad reviews In the Camp of Angels of Freedom for The Progressive:
"Organizer, advocate, and artist Arlene Goldbard’s innovative autobiography
is a dazzling chronicle of a life taking down elitism." Read Bogad's "Art as Freedom" review HERE.
For their A Culture of Possibility Episode 25 podcast (Miaaw.net), Arlene Goldbard and Francois Mattarasso will talk with Beverly Naidus, artist, educator, and author of Arts for Change and contributor to Ecoart in Action.

Episode #25 drops Friday, February 17.
Books Reviewed
ClimateCultures, a network of over 200 artists, curators & researchers in many countries, has published the first of three investigative reviews of Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities. Artists Claire Atherton, Beckie Leach, Genevieve Rudd, and Nicky Saunter each take the time to put ecoart activities from the book to use and offer their feedback.
More February Author Events

Sunday, Feb. 5 at 11 AM PT

Louise Dunlap, author of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, will give a guest sermon at the Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists.
1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA 94558
In-person and virtually  

Inherited Silence is an insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may recognize and heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples.
Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 5:30 PM PT

Keith Knight, award-winning cartoonist and coauthor of the very first book New Village published, Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, will give a talk: “The Intersection of Art and Social Justice” for the University of Oregon Humanities Center’s themed speaker series on the topic of “Belonging.”

University of Oregon 1585 E 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403
More info HERE.

In advance of his appearance, Keith is interviewed by Paul Peppis for UOToday
Saturday, Feb 18, 2:00–5:00 pm ET

Aviva Rahmani, ecoartist and author of Divining Chaos and coeditor of Ecoart in Action, will be in New York City to give an in-person presentation with LASER Talks in concert with the College Art Association Conference.

Late arrivals (past 2:30 pm) cannot be admitted.
40 E 19 Street, #3R, NYC

Upcoming Conferences
February 16–18
New Village Press and NYU Press will host a shared on-site exhibit booth at the
2023 College Art Association Conference
Midtown Hilton, 1335 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019

Authors Aviva Rahmani (Divining Chaos and Ecoart in Action) Marcia Annenberg (Ecoart in Action) will be onsite to sign their books on Thursday, February 16, 12:00 – 2:00 PM
Bioneers 34th Annual Conference, April 6–8, 2023, Berkeley, CA
We invite you to attend #Bioneers2023 where New Village Press authors Sharon Danks and Louise Dunlap will have book signings!
Register for Bioneers with this 20% discount code: NewVillagePress20
Exhibits

Selected portraits by Robert Shetterly, artist and author of Portraits of Earth Justice and Portraits of Racial Justice, will be on display from his Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series in two separate exhibits. 

Through February 28 his portraits will exhibited at The Shipley School
814 Yarrow St, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

Through March 31 his portraits can be seen at The Gallery at 900
360 Broadway, Bangor, ME 04401


Each volume of the Americans Who Tell the Truth book series features fifty color portraits by Robert Shetterly, profiles of his subjects, and original essays by inspiring activists, such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Bill McKibbin, and Ai-Jen Poo.
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Coming in March!
Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975–1989
Edited by Ben Fink
March 14, 2023
Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays,
1990–2020
Edited by Ben Fink
March 14, 2023
To celebrate the launch of Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Pregones Theater will host a musical and storytelling celebration featuring performances of Roadside Theater’s most well-known plays. 
575 Walton Ave, The Bronx, NY 10451 
Friday, March 31st at 7:00 PM
Artist and community organizer Ben Fink will discuss Art in a Democracy, his edited
two-volume series of Appalachian and intercultural grassroots plays and essays. 
133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011
Monday, Apr. 10, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
Free and open to the public.