Lynn Book
Artist Lynn Book (b.1957) has a 45-year body of work that escapes and expands disciplines and cultural spheres to make performance, installation, text and media works and public projects. Oriented to intricate solo methods and experimental practices, the artist has also collaborated with composer-improvisers, architects, students, an opera company and an entire village. In this she inscribes an abiding investment in people, practice and place, with her teaching and institutional research grounding and extending that creative work.
The artist is active internationally, creating original, hybrid projects that have received citations, fellowships, and awards from among others, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacArthur Foundation for a project residency, Illinois Arts Council, Franklin Furnace, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, a residency at MacDowell Colony, and Women Cinemakers Biennale, Berlin.
Lynn Book has lived in Winston-Salem, North Carolina since 2005 after relocating from New York City to develop interdisciplinary critical creativity curricula across the liberal arts and lead the Program for Creativity and Innovation, as well as other nationally recognized initiatives and programs at Wake Forest University (retired, 2022). Since 2004, Book has also been a Faculty Associate with Transart Institute for Creative Research, affiliated with Liverpool John Moores University, UK.