TEACHING
Artist Residencies + Alternative Teaching
Lynn Book has been an artist in residence in a range of educational settings and organizations including, Hong Kong Institute for Education in 2015, Artstays, an international contemporary art festival in Ptuj, Slovenia in 2010-11, Sarah Lawrence College in 2010 and 2013, The Kitchen Summer Institute in New York from 1999-2005, the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago 1994-2007, and summer residencies with Transart Institute, 2004-16 in Berlin and Austria. Her investigations into body, imagination, voice and public action guide these engagements that may by turns involve writing and voice experimentation, physical encounters with environments and activation of architectural and urban lives and histories towards communal futuring of people, place and potential.
Book founded Voicelab, an educational and cultural center in New York in 1999 through which she produced emerging and established artists developing innovative approaches to voice in original performance works. She also taught and coached individuals in private practice through Voicelab until 2005 and continues to teach her ‘voicing bodies’’ pedagogy in various settings around the world.
She has presented at universities and museums that include Harvard, Museum of Modern Art, Northwestern, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, York University, UK, Pennsylvania State University and University of North Carolina Greensboro, etc, where she has delivered artist talks, participated in conference panels and taught labs and/or workshops and often performed her own work.
Academic Teaching + Engagement
From 2005 - 2022, Book has been teaching interdisciplinary creativity to undergraduates in a liberal arts college at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in the US. As former Director for the Program for Creativity and Innovation there, she developed innovative curricula, hybrid events and international symposia including “Creativity: Worlds in the Making”, “Women, Entrepreneurship, Food and Place”, and IF Labs, a maker festival. She edited (with David Phillips) and published “Creativity and Entrepreneurship: Changing Currents in Education and Public Life”, derived from her practice-led research in ‘critical creativity’ and investment in radically enlivening liberal arts education through what she has termed, ‘collaborative culture projects’. In May, 2022, Book will step away from Wake Forest to focus on her art practice and projects.
Book has been a core faculty associate with Transart Institute since its inception in 2004 as one of the first ‘low-residency’ MFA programs in the world, now with a focus on global PhD candidates in creative practices, accredited by John Moores Liverpool University in the UK. At Transart, she has been involved in deeply investigative and co-evolved structures, in-person residencies in Berlin and Austria, workshops, and online publications and festivals.
Foundational to her development as an ‘artist who teaches’, Lynn Book received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1985. She was immediately invited to co-develop (and eventually direct) a leading edge “4-Dimensional Design” program, as well as new experimental body and voice oriented Performance courses (1985- 95). She also served as a graduate advisor there.
Book has also been a faculty affiliate with Columbia College, Chicago, Sarah Lawrence College, NY, as well as a graduate advisor, DePaul University, Chicago and New York University, NY.