Join Alex Arzt and Tim Devin for a conversation about their respective artistic practices, particularly three-volume artist books they each have in the exhibition “Recruiting for Utopia: Print and the Imagination" at Fruitlands Museum. Alex Arzt is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and gardener based in Oakland, CA. Her publication, The Positions and Situations Project is a series of 100 letter correspondences between the artist and people who placed classified ads that were called “positions and situations” in 1970s back-to-the-land magazines. Tim Devin is a community maker, researcher, and librarian based in Cambridge, MA. His Mapping Utopia series provides glimpses into counterculture in 1970s the Boston area, based on his research into countercultural directories and magazines. Devin has led walking tours through Cambridge and Somerville related to this history. Each project focuses on community through studying how people in the 1970s envisioned it.

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