BookWoman

This reading and exhibition will feature artistic expressions of Shay
Youngblood and participants of Bookmaking: A Workshop for Writers and
Artists.

The Bookmaking workshop series held by ALLGO created a space for eight
writers and visual artists to generate new writing, build a portfolio of
future projects, design and craft original handmade books and altered
artists books. In the workshops participants learned to make a variety of
hand-made books and explored possibilities for publishing their creative
works. Books made in the workshop will be available for purchase.

Sponsored in part by the John L. Warfield Center for African and African
American Studies at the University of Texas in Austin and BookWoman.

This project is also funded and supported in part by the City of Austin
through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission
on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which
believes that a great nation deserves great art.

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison

Shay Youngblood is an award winning novelist/playwright/visual artist/teacher/mentor. Her plays include Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery, Talking Bones and Amazing Grace. Her novels Soul Kiss and Black Girl in Paris were published by Riverhead Books, her paintings have been exhibited in Boston, New York City and Texas and her essays have been published in Oprah Magazine among others. She has taught in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU, a Rhode Island Women’s Prison and lectures widely in the U.S. and internationally. Currently she is Writer in Residence at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

The Big Mama Stories (Paperback)

By Shay Youngblood

$9.95

ISBN-13: 9780932379573
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Firebrand Books, 7/1989

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