“How did I get inside your head?”; and other questions driving my artist book practice... with Barbara Tetenbaum
- Mar 22
- 2 min read
Thursday ,April 9, 2026, 7:00pm in person and online
Suzzallo Library Fifth Floor Conference Room
University of Washington, Seattle
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This illustrated talk covers artist book and related projects from recent years that ponder the nature of reading. These include projects based on reading Willa Cather's 'My Antonia' and essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It also includes a newly printed artist book 'How did I get inside your head?'. Artist books will be available for handling after the presentation.
Barbara Tetenbaum is a visual artist interested in the act of reading. She uses books, print, installation, and animation to explore this topic. She founded her artist book imprint, Triangular Press in 1979, and produces one to two book projects each year. She resides in Portland, OR where she is on the Studio Art faculty at Reed College. Barb is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, career and project awards from the Oregon Arts Commission, Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (Portland area). Barb led the Book + Print Dept. at Oregon College of Art and Craft for 25 years before the college closed in 2019. She holds a B.S. in Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Logistics:
The Fifth Floor Conference is directly accessible via the elevators and stairs in the middle of Suzzallo Library. (The elevators at the ground level of Allen Library north--beneath the crows installation-- go only as far as the fourth floor. You can walk through the building from the Allen Library elevators to the Suzzallo elevators on any floor below the fifth.
See floor maps with elevator locations:
Note: The front of Suzzallo (Red Square side) is encased in scaffolding for a building restoration, but is fully accessible.
UW Seattle is served by several Metro buses, and light rail.
On campus, evening parking (4:00-9:00pm) costs $14.00 in the Central Plaza Garage, and $7.00 in all other campus lots. The Central Plaza Garage under Red Square is the closest parking to Suzzallo Library. Enter the garage from 15th Avenue NE at NE 41st Street. Pay for parking at the gatehouse, or use Pay by Phone. The Kane Hall exit from the garage is closest to Suzzallo.
