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Can't make it to our booth at the Seattle Art Fair this weekend?

Pick up a copy of our first title, Nancy Holt Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings through Idea Books, Amsterdam online at https://www.ideabooks.nl/9780999605509-nancy-holt-stone-enclosure-rock-rings!

Nancy Holt - Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings - ISBN 9780999605509 - Bruna Press - B. L. Miller; K. Swenson; K. Lee Podesva e.a. This book offers an in-depth look at a single artwork by the American artist Nancy Holt (1938–2014). ‘Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings’ was completed in 1…

Honored to have Lummi writer and Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest contribute to Nancy Holt Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings with their work “Traversing the Loops.”

Priest recalls their first encounter with Holt’s “loops” and the lasting ripples this “spiral of time” has perpetuated since—pulling passerby into its orbit for decades.

Share this spiral with us at our book launch tomorrow 🌀 Event and book purchasing details at brunapress.org

Image: Nancy Holt, Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings, 1977-1978, stonemasonry of schist stone; outer ring: h. 10 ft. x diam. 40 ft. (3 x 12.2 m), inner ring: diam. 20 ft. (6 m); Western Washington University, Bellingham. Courtesy of Holt/Smithson Foundation.

"Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system." Check out this important research project from High Country News:

www.landgrabu.org This feature is the result of a comprehensive investigation, one that reveals how land taken from tribal nations was turned into seed money for higher education in the United States.