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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of New Village Press this fall, we invited our authors to a series of three online, moderated gatherings to ask each other questions about their work and issues of the day. It was an inspiring exchange where many authors met each other for the first time. We will be sharing their wit and wisdom from these conversations in a weekly series of short clips on our social media and future newsletters.
Here's the teaser trailer below!
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Huge thanks to Arlene Goldbard for conceiving of the event series with our authors and to Karin Novelia for producing this teaser trailer and developing the coming video clip series.
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Original Paperback, 272 Pages,
7 x 9.15 in, 60 b/w photos
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ArtMill
A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia
Barbara Benish
October 7, 2025
The story starts in totalitarian darkness (Czechoslovakia before 1989) and gradually lays out a groundwork for how creativity within community can influence and change society. The book is a success story for a female artist (the author) who found a way to build an ecologically sustainable life in a rural, post-totalitarian, foreign country, with virtually no income, through her love of the place. It is a testament to the resilience of the people of that small nation that was sacrificed in the tumultuous chess game of colonial superpowers dividing up Europe after the devastation of WWII. It is a textbook protocol on how to instill civil society from the ground up, so that democratic life can thrive.
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“Benish’s pilgrimage to Bohemia from Southern California to build an artist sanctuary weaves together such a breathlessly entertaining cultural and political history of Czechoslovakia’s transition to democracy that you almost lose sight of the specter of the authoritarian present. But not quite. Fortunately, she lights the path forward for how humans can heal ourselves and our planet through boundless creativity and learning –the result is a masterpiece of scholarship, sensibility and storytelling.”
—Sally Jo Fifer, Former President CEO, Independent Television Service; Executive Producer of Independent Lens, PBS
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ArtMill Book Launch!
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 7–9 pm ET
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd St, New York, NY 10021
Hosted by The Czech Center New York
Celebrate the release of this powerful, first-person photo-illustrated account on how art, community, and environmental stewardship came together to shape one of Central Europe's most unique artist-run spaces. A discussion with author Barbara Benish will be moderated by Dr. Marilyn Wyatt, member of the International Advisory Board for the Vaclav Havel Center.
The Bohemian National Hall (Česká národní budova) has been an important center for Czech and Slovak culture in New York City for more than one hundred years.
More information about this feature event HERE. Reserve a free seat HERE.
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ArtMill Reading and Book Signing
Friday, October 10, 2025, 7pm ET
Taylor & Co. Books, 1021 Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11218
A second chance to meet visiting author Barbara Benish!
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ArtMill Center in Radio Prague International
In a profile by Isabella Fattore for Radio Prague International, Barbara Benish’s efforts to create ArtMill, a space for artistic cultural exchange in rural Czechia, are recounted in detail with photos. "From an exhibition opposing a totalitarian regime, to a farm combating climate change, to women defying traditional standards, resistance has had many different motives, but, nevertheless, has remained a constant in the lives of those at ArtMill."
Read the full article HERE.
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Barbara Benish talks about ArtMill on Artist on Art podcast
Hosted by digital artist, filmmaker, and educator Nada Miljković, Artist on Art is a podcast that explores the creative process, the power of storytelling, and the intersection of art and social impact. Barbara Benish appears on the podcast to talk about her book, ArtMill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia
Listen to the podcast episode HERE.
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ArtMill featured on Transformative Territories website
Transformative Territories: Performing Transition through the Arts, is a collaborative project that unites six partners from five European countries that aims to enhance and uplift artistic work in the transformative arts field, strengthening the connection between art, society and ecology.
ArtDialog, along with its home artistic center, ArtMill, is a partner of Transformative Territories and they have published an online feature of the book ArtMill.
Read the full feature HERE.
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In Conversation: Muriel Fox with Debbie Millman
Saturday, Oct 4, 6:30–8pm ET
Nyack Center, Nyack, NY
Muriel Fox, National Organization for Women co-founder and author of The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life is joining designer, writer, and artist Debbie Millman for a community-centered discussion focusing on feminism and believing women. The discussion will feature a clip from the feature film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.
Purchase your ticket HERE.
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New Village Press at 2025 Annual Imagining America Gathering
October 3–5, 2025
Las Cruces, New Mexico
New Village Press will be exhibiting books at the the 25th annual Imagining America Gathering—"Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want." Visit our exhibit tables to see the newest books by author Jan Cohen-Cruz and more Imagining America authors.
More information about Imagining America HERE.
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Margaret Randall book launch with Susan Sherman +
70th anniversary of Ginsberg's reading of HOWL!
Tuesday, October 7th, 6:00pm ET
Bowery Poetry Club, Manhattan
Come join us for a sure-to-be-wild evening at the Bowery Poetry Club with founder Bob Holman hosting Margaret Randall with Susan Sherman to launch Randall's More Letters from the Edge in New York. In a double-feature evening, Margaret will also pay tribute to the 70th anniversary of Alan Ginsberg reading Howl! Margaret will play Allen Ginsberg and Lynne Elizabeth will play surrealist poet Phillip Lamantia, along with five others playing poets who read at the historic 1955 event!
Get Tickets HERE!
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Margaret Randall with Judah Rubin
on her Outrider Conversations series
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 6:30–8pm ET
The Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center, NY
Join legendary poet, activist, oral historian, and translator Margaret Randall for a reading and conversation based on her newest books Letters from the Edge and More Letters from the Edge, which chronicle her correspondence with fellow “outrider” artists, writers, and activists who risk everything to confront censorship, injustice, and the constraints of convention. Randall will be joined in conversation with poet, translator, and scholar Judah Rubin. The reading and conversation will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Books will be available at the event. hosted by the Center for Humanities at CUNY.
More about the free public event HERE.
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A Reading with Margaret Randall
Friday, October 10, 2025, 6–7pm ET
Starr Library, Rhinebeck, NY
Join Margaret Randall for a reading and discussion event in Rhinebeck on her latest books Letters from the Edge and More Letters from the Edge.
Register for the event HERE.
Order copies of Margaret's book for the event HERE.
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Merideth Taylor on Making a Way Out of No Way at St. Mary’s College
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 4:30-6:30pm ET
St. Mary's City, MD
Author, photographer, and SMCM emerita professor Merideth Taylor will talk about her book Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love and Resistance in the Gallery at St. Mary's College. She will meet with Jeffrey Coleman's African American Expression class, as well.
Event information HERE.
Merideth Taylor at the Lexington Park Library
Saturday, October 18, 10:00-11:30am ET
Lexington Park, MD
Professor Taylor is a founding member of the African and African Diaspora (AADS) and Women Studies (WGSX) programs at the College. She served two terms as chair of the Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies; taught movement and dance classes; directed and choreographed mainstage productions; and wrote and developed original productions with SMCM students. In 2015, she was commissioned to produce Crossroads: On Common Ground as part of the 175th Anniversary of the College.
She will be commenting on the process and value of oral history collection at the Lexington Park Library's upcoming event, "Preserving Our Past: A 75th Anniversary Oral History & Memorabilia Collection Event."
Learn more about the event HERE.
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Louise Dunlap presents at the Cultural Healing Convocation
October 24–25, 2025, 10am-6pm ET
Online via Zoom
Described as “a gathering for reckoning, reclaiming, reimagining,” Root System’s Cultural Healing Convocation features “voices of cultural healing,” including Louise Dunlap, author of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, published by New Village Press.
Her session “When They Cry, Their Eyes Are Open” discusses how facing grief can heal the colonizer mind.
More about the event HERE.
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Merideth Taylor • One Maryland One Book Descendants Panel
Emancipation Day, Nov 1, 2025, 9am-5pm ET
Historic Sotterley, Hollywood, MD
The One Maryland One Book initiative has chosen this year's book Kin: Rooted in Hope, by Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford which uses poetry to tell the story of how the authors uncovered their family history. As part of the event, Merideth Taylor will be facilitating a panel conversation with Sotterly descendents focusing on the theme of preservation through nontraditional means — through poetry; events like Day of Unity, sharing research; becoming board members; and work like Kin and Making a Way Out of No Way.
More about the event HERE.
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Lily Yeh and “Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated” at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Through January 18, 2026
Smithsonian: Archives of American Art, New York, NY
An exhibition at The Smithsonian Archives of American Art highlights artist and New Village Press author Lily Yeh’s work on prison art projects with artist Emanuel Martinez. Featuring letters, photographs, exhibition flyers, and other primary source documents from the artists’ personal collections, the exhibition spotlights Yeh and Martinez’s work for The Emmanuel Project and the Graterford Prison Project.
Learn more about the exhibition HERE.
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Sabra Moore in Realms of Seduction I Group Exhibition
October 4 – November 30, 2025
INHABIT Galerie, Corrales, NM
INHABIT Galerie, a recent artistic space that opened in New Mexico, will exhibit the sculpted work of Sabra Moore, author of Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City, 1970-1992, alongside other pieces by Bill Jehle and Petra Gupta-Valentova.
Learn more about the gallery and its hours HERE.
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Exhibition for Americans Who Tell the Truth
Tuesday, October 7-31, 2025
The Herb + Milly Iris Gallery, The South Orange Performing Arts Center,
South Orange, New Jersey
Step into an evening of truth, art, and dialogue at the opening reception of Americans Who Tell the Truth. Five of Robert Shetterly's powerful portraits will be previewed, followed by a panel discussion including Rev. Dr. Terry L. Richardson, Nette Forné Thomas, John McEwen and moderated by Dr. Bryan Crable, Founding Dean of SHU's College of Human Development Culture, and Media.
Find out more about the opening event HERE.
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Lucy Lippard at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary
October 24, 2025 – August 9, 2026
New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary
“Lucy R. Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind," a new exhibition highlighting the career of Lippard is set to open in October. Writer, activist, and curator, Lippard has been a revolutionary force in the international art world for over sixty years. Her autobiographical Stuff: Instead of a Memoir was published by New Village.
More about the exhibition HERE.
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Ai-jen Poo on S2 of Before We Go Podcast
Before We Go, an acclaimed podcast by Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider interviews Ai-jen Poo, an essay contributor to Robert Shetterly's Portraits of Racial Justice, who will be featured alongside Yvette Nicole Brown to talk about "invisible labor and the profound love of caregiving."
Read the original news article HERE. Listen to the podcast HERE
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Award-winning Documentary Featuring Leah Penniman
Releases Educational Cut
Common Ground, the award-winning documentary from Big Picture Ranch about regenerative agriculture, launches The Regenerative Classroom, which features Leah Penniman, portrait subject and essay contributor to Robert Shetterly's Portraits of Earth Justice book in his Americans Who Tell The Truth series.
Read the original reporting by Markos Papadatos HERE.
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Bill McKibben featured in The New York Times Magazine
"The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can?" by Christina Cauterucci discusses Bill McKibben's long years of eco-activism and the current state of the climate change and clean energy movements.
Read the full article HERE.
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