Join us on Wednesday, October 1 at 7pm to celebrate the New York launch of Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN (Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought and Dancing Foxes Press, 2025)—the first monograph of the Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard (1945–2020). Featuring unpublished texts and images from Girouard’s personal archives and newly commissioned essays from Andrea Andersson, Jordan Amirkhani, Aruna D’Souza, Anaïs Duplan, Pamela M. Lee, and Lumi Tan, Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN emphasizes her movements between genres and geographies, and the ways in which she invested objecthood with meaning through ritual, performance, role-playing, and community participation from the 1970s until her death.

Andrea Andersson (Founding Director & Chief Curator, Rivers) will be in conversation with publishers Barbara Schroeder and Karen Kelly (Dancing Foxes Press), Jordan Amirkhani, and Lumi Tan to discuss the spirit of collaboration and collage at work in this publication, and the ways in which access to Girouard’s archives shaped the tone and sentiment. Short readings from the book will follow.

Please note that your RSVP does not guarantee entry. Admission is on a first come, first served basis (even for those who have registered) and will be limited to the capacity of the venue. We encourage RSVPs to gauge interest in our programs.

Photo: Alex Marks