CANCELLED: Book talk and signing, with CAA Member Astrid Reischwitz

Book Talk and Signing, with CAA Member Astrid Reischwitz

Spin club stories:  A Visual Journey Through Tradition, Memory, and Identity
Thursday, November 2 (6:15-8:15pm) in-person at CAA @ Canal

Fees:

Event only: $10 CAA Member; $15 General Admission
Admission with book purchase: $64 CAA Member; $69 General Admission
Admission with Deluxe Print Edition plus book purchase: $335 CAA Member; $340 General Admission

Join CAA for a book talk and signing of Spin club stories: A Visual Journey Through Tradition, Memory, and Identity with CAA Member, Astrid Reischwitz. Refreshments will be provided.

About | In Spin Club Stories, Astrid Reischwitz explores personal and cultural memory influenced by her upbringing in a small farming village in Northern Germany. She uses keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and embroidered fabric from the village to build a world of memory, identity, and home. The Boston-based artist takes cues from the old tradition of spin clubs in her village, where village women met to spin wool and create needlework—and share stories while they worked. She transforms this tradition of storytelling into a visual journey. Her own embroidered designs are partial representations of her ancestral linens, emphasizing the fragmentary nature of recollection. By following the stitches in these fabrics, she follows a path through the lives of her ancestors and converses with the past.

For more information about the different editions of Spin Stories click here.

Astrid Reischwitz |  Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist whose work explores storytelling from a personal perspective. Her projects include intimate views of private spaces, and reflections on her own history and values. Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, she builds a visual world of memory, identity, place, and home. Her current work incorporates embroidery and examines personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany. Reischwitz has exhibited at national and international museums and galleries including the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Newport Art Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, Danforth Art Museum, Photographic Resource Center, The Center for Fine Art Photography (CO), Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Center for Photographic Art (CA), FotoNostrum in Barcelona, Berlin Blue Art Gallery, Dina Mitrani Gallery and Gallery Kayafas. 

She has received multiple awards, including the 2020 Griffin Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Multimedia Award at the 2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards. Her series “Spin Club Tapestry” was selected as a Juror’s Pick at the 2021 LensCulture Art Photography Awards and is the Series Winner at the 2021 Siena International Photo Awards. She is a four-time Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 photographer and is a Mass Cultural Council 2021 Artist Fellowship Finalist in Photography. Her first monograph, “Spin Club Stories”, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022. It was shortlisted for the 2022 Lucie Photo Book Prize and received “Silver” at the 2022 Budapest International Foto Awards and at PX3 2023. In 2022, the European TV channel ARTE showcased her work for “Spin Club Stories” in a segment of their television show TWIST. Reischwitz is a graduate of the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, with a PhD in Chemistry. After moving to the US, she fell in love with photography and began her journey to explore life through the creation of art. She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Massachusetts.