Poor Farm Press is the publishing imprint for the Poor Farm. Copies available by contacting Michellegrabner@gmail.com or at Milwaukee's Woodland Pattern Book Center and the Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI http://www.thegreengallery.biz/shop
Sky Hopinka (2021) is designed by Nate Pyper and includes contributions by Almudena Escobar López, Sky Hopinka, Jackie Wang, Julie Niemi, Lindsay Nixon, Carl Bogner, John Riepenhoff, Michelle Grabner, and an interview between Sky Hopinka and Michael Rakowitz.
Sonja Thomsen's new artist book You Will Find It Where It Is: A Reader, she claims the peripheral as the locus of attention. Thomsen’s multifaceted practice choreographs light in space, photography and sculpture. Working in abstraction while pointedly engaged with questions of equity, Sonja Thomsen intercepts the timelines of three women—nineteenth-century writer, Margaret Fuller; twentieth-century photographer, Lucia Moholy; and twenty-first century conceptual artist, Maria Nordman. You Will Find It Where It Is, A Reader, envelops the reader in Thomsen's visual research and footnotes on collective histories of various artists, designers, writers, and scientists, and presents wonder as a radical way to imagine a post-patriarchal future.
OTHER POOR FARM PUBLICATIONS
MOTHERNISM: co-published with Green Lantern Press. By Lise Haller Baggesen. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. At the intersection of feminism, science fiction, and disco, MOTHERNISM aims to locate the mother-shaped hole in contemporary art discourse.
Tracking the Thrill: Gretchen Bender: A catalog with essays and interviews by Stuart Argabright, Amber Denker, Michelle Grabner, Tim Griffin, Carla Hanzal, Robert Longo, Peter Nagy, Lane Relyea, David Robbins, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Philip Vanderhyden.
ON PTG: Published in conjunction with the College Art Associations annual conference that featured the panel On Painting. Papers will be reproduced by: Rebecca Morris, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Sabina Ott, Peter Halley, Thomas Lawson and others.
All Over the Map: An exhibition catalog documenting All Over the Map, a festschrift exhibition celebrating the work and professional achievements of the art historian Moira Roth at the Poor Farm in 2010. The catalogue is edited by Annika Marie, an art historian and the curator of All Over the Map.
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Original Jokes about The Suburban and the Poor Farm by Artists Who have Exhibited There: An exhibition catalog to a project at Yale School of Art in Fall 2012.
Can I Come Over to Your House: A sprawling 1,200 page review of the first ten years of exhibitions and programming at The Suburban. Essays by Michael Newman and Michelle Grabner. Designed by JNL Graphic Design.
Forthcoming: Wisconsin, What a Joke: The Indignity of the Cheesehead State is an artist publication. Wisconsin, traditionally a progressive pioneer, is now a riotous partisan fighting ground. Believing in the power and inherent truth of the joke, the publication is a collection of insights, critiques, and observations on the State's troubling identity.