Biography

Clifton Meador combines writing, photography, printmaking, and design to make narrative works that explore culture, history, and place. His work is in many major collections, including the Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Yale Art of the Book collection. His work has been supported by grants from the Rubin Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Soros Foundation for Open Society, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is the Interim Chair of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago.

Themed Panel

Publishing Network: A Collaborative Proposal
This themed panel will explore issues related to the development of artists’ publishing networks. The panel members will present two related, collaborative projects, explore a series of case studies and then conclude with a directed discussion session focusing on the question: what should an artist’s publishing network constitute? The anticipated outcome from this panel will be to form a network of interested participants in a future artists’ publishing network.
The two projects that we will present are: Artists’ Publishing: An Investigation into Digital Media as a means to Integrate Dissemination into the Creative Cycle, which seeks to identify ways in which artists can gain more creative control of the relationship between their production and its interaction with the viewer/audience; and Expanded Artists’ Books: Envisioning the Future of the Book, that aims to widen the audience for the artist’s book while encouraging the creation of new work by artists in other media. 

This panel will be a foundational information gathering session for the next step in creating a partnership between educational, cultural, economic institutions and individuals. We seek to identify the gaps in our current system of artist-based networks and pinpoint key issues and potential partners in developing a pertinent and sustainable network dedicated to promoting artists’ publishing. We will be actively soliciting participation in the next phase of grant support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which offers a funding program for Partnership Grants: these are multi-institutional, multi-year projects that provide the opportunity for national and international partnering on key issues.