Past Events (January 2025-)
February 2026
February 19th, 2026 – Jan Cohen-Cruz to give an interactive lecture as part of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies event series at Fordham
Author and podcast creator of See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love Jan Cohen-Cruz will share accessible performance tools and explore the collaborative and imaginative aspects of theater.
The lecture will be held on Thursday, February 19th from 4:00-6:00PM in Fordham Lincoln Center’s Lowenstein 12th Floor Lounge.
More about the event here.
February 19th, 2026 – Documentary featuring Leah Penniman to be screened at Michigan Tech’s Sustainability Film Series, Houghton, MI
In-person
Farming While Black, a “powerful cinematic exploration of the intersectionality of race, class and agriculture,” follows Leah Penniman, essay contributor to Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Earth Justice.
The series is open to the public and free to attend. The screening starts at 7:00PM ET and is held in Fisher Hall Room 138 on Michigan Tech’s main campus.
More about the event here.
February 12th, 2026 – Keith Knight to visit Malden Catholic High School, Malden, MA
In-person
Keith Knight, Malden native and illustrator of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, visited Malden Catholic High School to present his world famous comic strip slideshow followed by a book and print signing.
More about the event here.
February 11th, 2026 – Keith Knight screening and talk at Salem State University, Salem, MA
In-person
Keith Knight, illustrator of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, presented his comedy videos and talked about his work in TV.
The event was held at Marsh Hall.
February 8th, 2026 – Bob Chenoweth and Susan Schnall to be featured at documentary screening for book signing
In-person
The Institute for Policy Studies and Veterans for Peace sponsered a viewing of a special Talk Vietnam episode, where two heroes Bob Chenoweth and Susan Schnall, signed copies of Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War to which they contributed essays.
The event was held at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC .
More about the event here.
January 2026
January 29, 2026 – Alice Rothchild at Third Place Books in Seward Park, Seattle, WA
In-person
Alice Rothchild, author of Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, visited Third Place Books for a book reading of We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. Her work is a collection of writing from We Are Not Numbers, a program that supports young writers in Gaza where Alice Rothchild is a mentor.
More about the event here.
January 27, 2026 – Sonya Pritzker at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers in Tuscaloosa, AL
In-person
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers held a talk and book signing for Sonya Pritzker’s Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule.
More details about the event here.
January 26, 2026 – Robert Shetterly presents Americans Who Tell the Truth project at the University of New England in Portland, ME
In-person, and online via livestream
As part of UNE’s Center for Global Humanities Lecture/Seminar Series, Robert Shetterly, author of the Americans Who Tell the Truth series, will demonstrate the capacity of art as both medium and message, in a talk framed around the inspiring stories of portrait subjects whose courage, perseverance, and love of justice, light a way forward.
The event was held at the Innovation Hall at the Portland Campus for the Health Services followed by a reception and presentation.
More details about the event here.
January 19, 2026 – Robert Shetterly presents at Reversing Falls Sanctuary Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration in Brooksville, ME
In-person, and online via livestream
Robert Shetterly presented six portraits from his Americans Who Tell The Truth project and explored how these figure exemplify Martin Luther King, Jr.’s teachings of love, justice and nonviolence. These portraits include William Barber II, Cesar Chavez, Deqa Dhalac, John Lewis, Aldo Leopold and Kathy Kelly.
More details about the event can be found here.
Ended January 18, 2026: Lily Yeh’s “Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated” exhibition at The Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, DC
In-Person
Christina Ayson-Plank and Ricky Gomez co-curated an exhibition focused on The Emanuel Project and the Graterford Prison Project. It featured letters, photographs, exhibition flyers, scrapbooks and other primary source documents from the collections of Emanuel Martinez and Lily Yeh, author of Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms and co-author of Healing from Genocide in Rwanda: Rugerero Survivors Village, an Artist Book.
Held at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery of The Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the exhibition is free to view. More information about the exhibit here.
January 14, 2026 – Margaret Randall at the Benedetti Foundation in Montevideo, Uruguay
Online via livestream
The Benedetti Foundation hosted a reading by and discussion with activist and poet Margaret Randall, who authored the introduction to Witness, The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti as well as the recently published Letters from the Edge.
More details about the event here.
December 2025
December 22, 2025 – Judy Karofsky at local Lechayim luncheon, sponsored by Madison Jewish Social Services, Madison, WI
In-person
Judy Karofsky discussed her book DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice at her local Lechayim luncheon at the Beth Israel Center.
More details can be found here.
December 10, 2025 – Judy Karofsky at the District 11 book club at Sequoya Library, Madison, WI
In-person
Led by District 11 representative, Adler Bill Tishler, the District 11 Book Club holds various open forums on books relevant to today’s issues. Judy Karofsky was invited to speak about her book DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice at the Sequoya Library.
More information about the event here.
December 8, 2025 – Keith Knight speaks at Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco, CA
In-person
Cartoonist Keith Knight, illustrator of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, returned to Artists’ Television Access to talk about the pasts of ATA, 90s San Francisco, and the Bay Area Zine Wars and Comix scene.
The event was held at 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA.
December 7, 2025 – Keith Knight speaks at Howard Zinn Book Festival panel in San Francisco, CA
In-person
Cartoonist Keith Knight, illustrator of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, was a panelist at the Howard Zinn Book Fair 2025. His panel entitled “Cartooning for the Cause: A History of Bad Cartoonists Making Good Trouble” touched on “the history of cartoonists speaking truth to power” alongside fellow cartoonist Fred Noland.
The panel was held at Mission Campus, City College of San Francisco.
More about the panel here. More about the Howard Zinn Book Fair here.
November 2025
Through November 30, 2025: Sabra Moore in Realms of Seduction I group exhibit at the INHABIT Galerie, Corrales, NM
In-Person
INHABIT Galerie, a recent artistic space that opened in New Mexico, will exhibit the sculpted work of Sabra Moore, author of Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City, 1970-1992, alongside other pieces by Bill Jehle and Petra Gupta-Valentova.
Learn more about the gallery and its hours here.
Through November 30, 2025: Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth – Outdoor Installation at Paul Smith’s College VIC, Paul Smiths, NY
In-Person
Hosted by the John Brown Lives! Organization and previously exhibited at the John Brown Farm, an outdoor installation of portrait replicas from Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth series, are being moved to Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive College (VIC). The portraits include abolitionist John Brown, Congressman John Lewis, #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke (all featured in Portraits of Racial Justice), as well as anti-war activist Rachel Corrie (subject in Portraits of Peacemakers) and environmentalist Bill McKibben (subject and essay contributor to Portraits of Earth Justice).
Learn more about the VIC and its hours here.
November 17, 2025 – Judy Karofsky’s DisElderly Conduct discussion and book signing at The Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Chicago, IL
In-person
Judy Karofsky will discuss her book DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice at The Seminary Co-op Bookstores, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
The event will be held from 4:00-5:00PM CT. More information of the event can be found here.
November 17, 2025 – An Evening with Alice Rothchild at Tikkun v’Or Reform Temple
In person, also online via Zoom
Author Alice Rothchild, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, be talking about her work, and her book.
The address to the temple is 2550 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca NY 14850
The event will start at 7PM ET. Registration is required for in-person attendance or you can find the Zoom link here.
November 17, 2025 – Alice Rothchild speaks at online meditation, Opening Our Hearts to Peace
Online
Author Alice Rothchild, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, be speaking online during a morning meditation session, Opening Our Hearts to Peace, discussing medical work for social justice and peace.
Time and link to join the event TBA.
Through November 17, 2025: Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth – Environmental Justice Truth Tellers Exhibit at Parkersburg, WV
In-Person
South Parkersburg Library will exhibit 10 portraits focused on environmental justice figures by Robert Shetterly, author of Portraits of Earth Justice. The exhibit is free and open to the public during the library’s regular business hours.
Learn more about the library and its hours here.
November 16, 2025 – Alice Rothchild at Dorothy Cotton Institute Dinner/Reception, Ithaca, NY
In-person
Author Alice Rothchild, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, will be honored at a dinner/reception at the Dorothy Cotton Institute.
The event be held at CAP ArtSpace, 110 N. Tioga Street (Ithaca Commons, Tompkins Center for History and Culture), time TBA.
November 14, 2025 – Inspired and Outraged, Reading and Book-signing with Alice Rothchild at Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY
In-person
Author Alice Rothchild will be holding a reading and book signing event for her memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, at Buffalo Street Books.
The event will start at 5:30PM ET. More information of the event can be found here.
November 7, 2025 – Lucy Lippard in Conversation with Suzanne Lacy, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
In-person
Lucy R. Lippard, author of Stuff: Instead of a Memoir, will be joined by Suzanne Lacy, an LA-based artist and pioneer of socially engaged public performance art. They will speak about their friendship and shared history at the front lines of engagement with social themes and urban issues.
The event will be held at the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, starting at 5:30PM-7:30PM.
More information of the event can be found here. Register for the free event here.
November 6–7, 2025 – Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth at NJEA Convention, Atlantic City Center, Atlantic City, NJ
In-person
Twenty-four of Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth portraits will be displayed at the “Resilience and Reflection Row,” an immersive space on the convention’s Exhibit Floor. Copies of Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth books will also be available for purchase.
More information of the convention can be found here.
November 5, 2025 – Robin Wall Kimmerer to speak at the Furman Humanities Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Greenville, SC
In-person
Delivering the inaugural address for the Furman Humanities Center Distinguished Lecture Series, Robin Wall Kimmerer (essay contributor to Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Earth Justice) will hold a brief Q&A session followed by a book signing.
The event is free, open to the public, and will be held at the McAlister Auditorium on the Furman University campus, starting at 6:45PM ET.
More information of the event can be found here.
November 1, 2025 – Merideth Taylor at the One Maryland, One Book Emancipation Day Descendants Panel, Hollywood, MD
Online via Zoom
The One Maryland One Book initiative has chosen this year’s book Kin: Rooted in Hope, by Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford which uses poetry to tell the story of how the authors uncovered their family history. As part of the event, Merideth Taylor, will be facilitating a panel conversation with Sotterly descendents focusing on the theme of preservation through nontraditional means — through poetry; events like Day of Unity, sharing research; becoming board members; and work like Kin and Making a Way Out of No Way.
The event is being held at Historic Sotterly, Hollywood, MD from 9:00AM-5:00pm ET. More about the event here.
October 2025
October 29, 2025 – Launch of “The Intercessor” by Arlene Goldbard, in conversation with Rabbi Diane Elliot
Online via Zoom
Arlene Goldbard, author of New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development and In the Camp of Angels of Freedom, is launching her new book, “The Intercessor” and is celebrating on Zoom with Rabbi Diane Elliot. Diane will ask Arlene some questions, followed by a reading of some excerpts of the book along with a Q&A with the audience.
The launch starts at 5:30PM ET. Attendance must be registered here. Doing so will award you with a discount link to buy the book at 20% off!
October 24-25: Louise Dunlap presents at the Cultural Healing Convocation
Online via Zoom
Described as “a gathering for reckoning, reclaiming, reimagining,” Root System’s Cultural Healing Convocation features “voices of cultural healing,” including Louise Dunlap, author of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind.
Her session “When They Cry, Their Eyes Are Open” discusses how facing grief can heal the colonizer mind.
The event will be held virtually via Zoom on both October 24 and 25, from 10AM-6PM ET. Learn more and register for the event here.
October 18: Merideth Taylor at “Preserving Our Past: A 75th Anniversary Oral History & Memorabilia Collection Event,” Lexington Park Library, Lexington Park, MD
In-Person
As part of Lexington Park Library’s Preserving Our Past series, Merideth Taylor, author of Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love and Resistance, will be commenting on the process and value of oral history.
Held from 10:00-11:30 AM ET, walk-ins are welcome. More information about the event can be found here.
October 10: Letters From the Edge: A Reading with Poet Activist Margaret Randall at the Starr Library, Rhinebeck, NY
In-Person
Join Margaret Randall as she reads and discusses her books Letters from The Edge: Outrider Conversations and its follow-up, More Letters from the Edge at the Starr Library.
The event will be held from 6-7PM ET. Learn more about the event and order copies of the books here.
October 9: Barbara Benish’s ArtMill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia book launch event at the Czech Center in New York, NY
In-Person
Mark your calendars to celebrate the New York launch of ArtMilI— artist Barbara Benish’s story of the formation of a unique ecologically regenerative arts residency center in rural Czechia. Her memoir takes us from post-totalitarian Czechoslovakia through the collaborative creation of an arts and sustainability hub that is still thriving today.
The event will run from 7:00-9:00 PM ET on Thursday, October 9th in the Bohemian National Hall at the Czech Center, located at 321 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021.
Find more information about the event here, and reserve tickets here.
October 8: Margaret Randall discusses her Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations series at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
In-Person
Join Margaret Randall for a reading and discussion of her books Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations and its follow-up More Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations at hosted by CUNY Graduate Center!
The event will run from 6:30PM-8PM ET on Wednesday, October 8th in the Martin E. Segal Theatre located at 365 5th Ave, NY.
Find more information about the event here.
October 7: Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth at The South Orange Performing Arts Center, South Orange, NJ
In-Person
Experience truth, art and dialogue at the opening reception for Robert Shetterly‘s Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits to be exhibited by SOPAC. It includes a preview of five portraits of truth-telling individuals, and will be followed by a panel moderated by Dr. Bryan Crable, Founding Dean of SHU’s College of Human Development, Culture and Media.
The opening reception will be held on Tuesday, October 7th from 6:00PM-8:00PM at SOPAC’s The Herb + Milly Iris Gallery. The exhibition will run until October 31st, 2025.
Read more about the event here.
October 7: A conversation with author Margaret Randall and Susan Sherman at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
In-Person
Join author Margaret Randall and Susan Sherman at Bowery Poetry Club for a conversation with founder Bob Holman. There are sure to be surprising stories for us, as these venerable poets talk about their longtime commitment to resistance, their collaborations, and their personal letters in Randall’s new Outrider Conversations book series.
The event will begin at 7PM ET on Tuesday, October 7th, with doors opening at 6:30PM. The Bowery Poetry Club is located at 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012.
Find more information about the event and purchase tickets here.
October 4: Conversations that Change the World, In Conversation with Muriel Fox & Debbie Millman, Nyack Center, Nyack, NY
In-Person
Join co-founder of the National Organization for Women, and author of The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life, Muriel Fox and designer, writer and artist Debbie Millman for a community-centered discussion focusing on feminism and believing women.
Find more information about the event and purchase tickets here.
October 3-5: Jan Cohen-Cruz and New Village Press at the Imagining America Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico
In-Person
Imagining America’s 25th annual conference is titled “Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds that We Want.” New Village Press will have a table where you can purchase our books. Also, Jan Cohen-Cruz, author of Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, by Those Who Lived It, will also be giving a presentation.
Find more information about the conference here.
October 2: Merideth Taylor on Making a Way Out of No Way at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD
In-Person
Join author, photographer and SMCM emerita professor of theatre and dance, Merideth Taylor as she talks about her book Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love and Resistance.
The event runs from 4:30-6:00PM EST and is followed by a reception. More information on the event can be found here.