April 21, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM

Join “In this place where the guest rests” curator Jacqueline Mabey for a free, public reading group that will explore the text-based work of exhibiting artist Tanya Lukin Linklater. This casual group will meet at the Franklin Street Works’ cozy cafe on April 21 from 3:30 – 5:00 pm to discuss Linklater’s work and form a deeper understanding of “Slow Scrape” (2013-16), three text banners that are on view as part of our current group exhibition, “In this place where the guest rests.”  Snacks, beer, wine, coffee and more will be available for sale at the cafe. Please RSVP HERE.

Jacqueline Mabey’s work is shaped by studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, McGill University and The University of British Columbia and by multifarious professional experience in commercial galleries, museums and artist studios. Mabey is a co-founder of Art+Feminism, an international, activist curatorial platform based out of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, with satellites at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Tate, London; Banff Center for the Arts; MAXXI, Rome; Archives nationales de France, Paris; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; MoCA Detroit, amongst many others. They have curated the work of artists including Yael Bartana, Hannah Black, Kate Gilmore, Brendan Fernandes, Ken Gonzales-Day, Jen Liu, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Jumana Manna, Divya Mehra, Lorraine O’Grady, and Addie Wagenknecht, and spoken about their work at venues such as Cornell University, The New School, Printed Matter, and Columbia University. They were named a Leading Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine and a Badass Woman by Buzzfeed. Mabey works independently under the honorific, failed projects. They were born in New Jersey, raised in Nova Scotia, and currently live with a small dog by a large park in Brooklyn. Click here to learn more about Mabey’s work.