This workshop takes the The Stove Works library as a site of inquiry and exploration. The Library has inherited a portion of the Brooklyn Art Library’s Sketchbook Project, the largest artist sketchbook collection in the world closing in 2023, as well as its own Stove Works Sketchbook Collection.
In this workshop we will collectively look at a selection of sketchbooks pulled from the stacks for inspiration and discussion. Through a series of exercises we will extrapolate, reinterpret, and reconstruct the material to create new works that will culminate in a collective sketchbook.
Alicia Riccio is an artist working across video, performance, sound, and print. Their practice fragments, rearranges, and interpolates language towards an expanded exploration of care, loss, and queerness. Riccio’s work has been exhibited internationally at Hauser & Wirth, New York; Elizabeth Foundation For the Arts, New York; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Engaru Metro Plaza, Hokkaido; Heroes Gallery, New York; Rinomina, Paris; Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan; New Art Center, Newton. Riccio was a 2021-2022 participant of The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, 2024 Artist in Residence at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and will be attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2026. They are a 2024 recipient of the Sachs Innovation Grant and Halpern-Rogath Independent Travel Award. Riccio received a MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.