Artist Talk: Faythe Levine

Artist Talk: Tuesday, October 6, 4:45-5:45pm, Upper Monty Commons 

Faythe Levine has been in service to the arts for over twenty years, advocating for creative connections between community, personal independence, and empowerment. She has worked extensively as an organizer, artist and curator in traditional and DIY spaces. Her practice revolves around question asking, deep research, storytelling, and reimagining archives. Her most recent book, As Ever, Miriam (2024) and related exhibition, Time Is Running Out (2025-26), are the result of eight years of research exploring the 50-year intertwined professional and personal lives of historical figures Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink. She wrote and directed Sign Painters (2013) and Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft, and Design (2009) are both feature-length documentaries that toured internationally with accompanying books published by Princeton Architectural Press. Her current book-in-progress is focused on the history of Seattle based Black Cat Cafe, a collectively run vegetarian cafe in operation between 1993-1998. Her work is in various institutional, private and museum collections. Levine is based in the Hudson Valley in New York where during the week, she works at the full-time Special Collections and Public Engagement Manager at Women's Studio Workshop, where she manages, oversees, and increases public visibility of the organizational collection and archives.