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 writing, drawing, and somatic exercises we will contemplate how information gets carried and translated through materials, language, and the body. The workshop will conclude with a collective sketchbook that will be reproduced so each participant can take one home with them.

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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 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; and The Distillery, Boston. Riccio was a 2021-2022 participant of The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in NYC, 2023 Artist in Residence at the Maruseppu Artist Residency and Studio in Hokkaido, and a 2024 Artist in Residence at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta. They are a 2024 recipient of the Sachs Innovation Grant and Halpern-Rogath Independent Travel Award. Riccio received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and MFA with a Certificate in College and University Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania. They recently taught in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Pennsylvania and are currently based in Brooklyn, NY.