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Book Talk and Signing, with CAA Member Elizabeth Clark Libert
Wednesday, June 21 (12:00-2:00pm) in-person at CAA @ Canal
Event only: $10 CAA Member; $15 General Admission
Admission with book purchase: $55 CAA Member; $60 General Admission
Online registration closes on June 20 at 5:00pm
Join CAA for a book talk and signing of Boy Crazy with CAA Member, Elizabeth Clark Libert! Refreshments will be provided.
About Boy Crazy | “My sons are beautiful creatures, but I worry they might become monsters one day.”
I recognized this fear while sifting through snapshots of my sons. A swell of nausea hit as the face of a boy I was traumatized by in college flashed before my eyes, through my children’s faces. Their similarities in appearance and style aligned in my vision. To my horror, I realized my sons could become just like him.
Boy Crazy is the creative result of confronting painful sexual experiences from my adolescence and breaking generational trauma in an effort to become a better mother for my two sons. Through an interdisciplinary collection of new and archival photographs, diaristic text, digital collage, emails and interviews, I share a story that connects three generations and brings attention to questions regarding loss of innocence, sexual assault, and personal agency.
The experience of making this work has granted catharsis, forgiveness, and awareness. Ultimately, it planted the seeds of a fledgling confidence as a female, artist, and mother. I hope that it can help others with the same, as well as contribute to modern conversations about sexual trauma and practices for a more empathetic world.
Elizabeth Clark Libert | Elizabeth Clark Libert creates photo-based projects that examine themes both autobiographical and psychoanalytical in nature. Focused on subjects close to home, Libert reconsiders stages of life through a variety of visual and contextual approaches. The artwork is vulnerable, revealing introspective and extrospective observations of relationships and cultural influences from her immediate world.
Libert received a BA in Fine Art from Amherst College and an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally at museums, galleries, and non-profit institutions, and is in both private and public collections, including the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Images from her MFA thesis project received the Photo District News Student Award in 2010 and the Magenta Foundation Emerging Artist Award in 2011. Print and online publications that have featured Libert’s work include T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New Yorker’s Photo Booth column, Mockingbird, and Lenscratch. Libert serves on the boards of the Griffin Museum of Photography and several local philanthropic committees in the Boston area, where she lives with her family.
Her first book, Boy Crazy, was published in 2023 by Workshop Arts.
Images courtesy of Elizabeth Clark Libert