Sunday, October 30th from 4-6pm

Come celebrate the release of Sabra Moore’s book Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City, 1970-1990 and join in the discussion after the reading/slide show to explore the ways the events and issues in this book reverberate for women artists and activists today.

Artist, writer, and activist Sabra Moore will give a reading/slide show from her forthcoming book Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City, 1970-1990 at A.I.R. Gallery on Sunday afternoon, October 30, 2016 from 4-6pm.

Her memoir is a horizontal narrative of twenty-years of art activism by a diverse group of women artists in New York City written from the point of view of a participant. Sabra was a long-time member of the Heresies Collective, President of NYC/WCA (1980-1982), coordinator of the 16-part exhibition Views By Women Arts (1982), organizer of the collaborative show Reconstruction Project (1984), including a 13-foot Reconstructed Codex with art pages by 20 women artists, co-organizer with Josely Carvalho of Connections Project/Conexus (1987) a collaborative exhibit between women artists from the United States and Brazil. She was also one of the coordinators of the 1984 women artists’ demonstration against MoMA for its lack of inclusivity and a member of WAR (Women Artists in Revolution) and WAC (Women’s Action Coalition) as well as a counsellor at Women's Services (1970-1972), the first legal abortion clinic in NYC. Sabra’s artwork is based on re-interpreting family, social, & natural history through the form of artist’s books, sewn & painted “constructed“ sculptures & wall works, and installations. She sees herself as a “literate” granddaughter who has synthesized the quilt-making/storytelling traditions of her East Texas grandmothers into new forms. She currently lives in Abiquiu, New Mexico.

View the release by New Village Press here.