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• Photo Booth Tour
• Black History Month Doors
  
• Agnès Varda Forever
• New York Public Library Picture Collection
• Some People Press
• Autobibliography
  
• Book Looking
  
• Hello Pretty City
• Seeking Hazel Hall
  
• The Serenity of Knowing 
• How to Haunt Your Town
  
• Let the City Serve Knowledge
  
• Dream Publishing
• Readers’ View
  
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Acts of  Practice
  

Publications

• See Also: Making Friends in the New York Public Library Picture Collection
  
• I Want Everyone to Know: The Black History Month Doors at Dr. MLK, Jr. Elem. School

Fotoautomatica

• How to Mail a Letter Anywhere in the U.S.

Take Me With You
Practice Log 2000–2023
Hello Pretty City zine
At State and Pearl

Videos
Dear Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda Forever FOREVER Festival 2025 Trailer
Take Me With You
Making a Travel Journal
Delights of My Neighborhood
Send Me a Letter
TEDx Albany: Hello Pretty City, A Love Story
Book Looking at The Pond with Harrell Fletcher

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Acts of PracticeArtist residency, exhibition, public talks + moreUniversity Studies Department, Portland State University, Oregon2023–2024

I was the 2023–2024 artist in residence for the Work of Art Freshman Inquiry (FRINQ) program at Portland State University. My residency began in the fall with an artist talk presented to two classes, totaling around 70 students. I introduced my ongoing project documenting the weekly floral arrangements at Portland’s Central Library, along with my research into the family who endowed them and the library patrons who are impacted by them.

FRINQ professors Sarah Wolf Newlands and Michelle Swinehart integrated aspects of my project into their curriculum. They used The Book of Delights by Ross Gay as a guiding text to help students develop their own practices of noticing and documentation.

At the beginning of winter term, I mounted Repeat Admirer, a solo exhibition in the Office Gallery, a teaching gallery founded by Sarah in 2016 and co-curated by Michelle. The show included ten framed photographs from my library flowers project, a reading room of reference materials, an enlarged map of my walking route to the library, project ephemera, biweekly floral arrangements created by the same designer of the library flowers, and contributions from students that changed throughout the exhibit. I also met with all of the students in small groups in the gallery to discuss the exhibit, explore the reading materials, and talk through how they could create their own weekly practices.

As part of the residency, I arranged a screening of Being in a Place, an experimental film by Luke Fowler about Scottish filmmaker, poet, and doctor Margaret Tait—an artist I discovered through my research. I also led a short workshop on artistic research at the PSU Library and gave an artist talk about my exhibit there called Readers’ View. These engagements supported students as they began identifying and documenting their own delights and creative practices in response to my project and The Book of Delights, with classroom instruction from Sarah and Michelle through assignments, workshops, and activities.

In the spring, we shifted our focus toward public engagement. Working in medium-sized groups, the students and I, along with Michelle and Sarah, co-curated a group photography exhibition, published zines, created a campus-wide poster and sticker campaign, and publicly presented our research and annotated bibliographies during PSU’s Research Week 2024.

©2025Laura Glazer@helloprettycity

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