Michelle Dunn Marsh & Annu Palakunnathu Matthew | Minor Matters Publishing

It is an honor to have Minor Matters publisher Michelle Dunn Marsh and artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew in the Griffin Zoom Room for a conversation about creativity and the art of collaboration to produce Matthew’s book, The Answers Take Time.

Join us online June 15th at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific for a conversation between Ms. Dunn Marsh and Ms. Matthew. This event is FREE to Griffin Museum members. $10 for Non Members. Interested in Membership and its benefits? See more about what the Griffin offers here.

Minor Matters published The Answers Take Time, a mid-career survey of Annu Palakunnathu Matthew. This publication elucidates the progression of a conceptual, installation-driven artist who uses photography, collage, digital animation, parody, and ephemera to explore performative and deep-rooted personal elements of cultural identities. From her highly-publicized series “Indian from India” to the lesser-seen “Bollywood Satirized,” the book reveals within her work consistent themes of malleability, identity, and memory.

About Michelle Dunn Marsh –

Michelle Dunn Marsh (b. 1973, Seattle) is the co-founder of Minor Matters Books. Since 1994 she has professionally engaged with the artform of photography through the creation of over one hundred publications, curation and placement of exhibitions, and development of numerous public programs. She has held leadership positions with Aperture Foundation (New York), Chronicle Books (San Francisco), and Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle), and consulted with the estate of legendary music photographer Jim Marshall, among other professional roles. She was a tenured professor in graphic design, and has lectured internationally on photography and visual book publishing. She holds a master’s degree in publishing from Pace University, and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College.

About Annu Palakunnathu Matthew –

ANNU PALAKUNNATHU MATTHEW (b. 1964, Stourport-on-Severn, United Kingdom; lives in Rhode Island) has had solo exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, the Newport Art Museum, and Nuit Blanche, Toronto. Her work has also been exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Newark Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 

She has been featured in international festivals including the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India, 2018, the Fotofest Biennial, Houston, Texas, 2018, and the 2009 Guangzhou Photo Biennial, China. She is a recipient of the John Guttman Fellowship, two Fullbright fellowships, and grants from the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts, among others. She has been selected for the prestigious Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Yaddo, and MacDowell residencies. 

Matthew is a Professor of Art at the University of Rhode Island; she is represented by sepiaEYE, New York.