Shana Agid is an artist, teacher, writer, and activist whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference, particularly regarding sexuality, race, and gender in visual and political cultures. Agid is Dean of the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design, at the New School where he teaches book arts, collaborative design, and service design. She has an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. He is on the Editorial Board of Radical Teacher. Agid uses printmaking and letterpress to create books and prints that meld image, text, and form, using both her writing and found texts. His work has been shown at The New York Center for Book Arts, the Minneapolis Center for Book Arts, the San Francisco Center for the Book, Southern Exposure, the Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition, and at the Lower East Side Printshop. Her artist books are in collections at the Walker Art Center, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and DePaul University, among others. His book It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This was re-published in Booklyn’s 2010 Another Booklyn Chapbook (ABC) series.
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Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla
SnitchDartmouth College, Rauner Library
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Park FactorsUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
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