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Image credit: Jennifer Tobias. Hosmer, 2021, from Working With The Hands: Applied Arts Training in New York City, 1800–2020.
Image credit: Jennifer Tobias. Evalyn, 2021, from Working With The Hands: Applied Arts Training in New York City, 1800–2020.
Jennifer Tobias. Konrad, 2021, from Working With The Hands: Applied Arts Training in New York City, 1800–2020.


Join us on the BGC Instagram for a tour of our Library Artists in Residence NYC studio spaces! See where they create their art, find out what inspires them, and get an update on their projects–LIVE!

Join BGC Library Artists-in-Residence, Jennifer Tobias, for an intimate studio visit! Despite COVID-19 this year’s artists have been in residence with BGC since October. Come see what they have been working on in advance of their virtual exhibition opening in May.
BGC’s Library AIR program invites artists whose work is grounded in research to use the library collection as an incubator for new work utilizing the library reference staff as thought partners in their process.
Jennifer Tobias is a scholar and illustrator. She holds a PhD in Art History from the City University of New York, an MLS from Rutgers, and a BFA from Cooper Union. She provided reader services at the Museum of Modern Art and Parsons School of Design libraries. Her illustrations are included in Health Design Thinking and Design is Storytelling, both by Ellen Lupton. She and Lupton are currently developing Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Subversive, Non-Binary Field Guide for Graphic Design, forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press.
This event will be held via Instagram Live, there is no registration required. Each tour will air live on our Instagram profile and will be followed by a Q&A session. Questions will be asked live, but you can pre-submit questions here. For instructions on how to access this event, click here.
Other presentations in this series:

Harley Ngai Greco Instagram Live Studio Visit
April 16, 2021
2 pm