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The Book of Awe

The Book of Awe
Heaven's Garage

Heaven's Garage
Maiden USA

Maiden USA

Publications

    • The Book of Awe, Artists Book of photography and wander lore, funded in part by an Individual Artists Grant administered by Roxbury Arts Group for NYSCA/Delaware County Council for the Arts, 2024.

    • "Some Trees I Have Known" Maintenance of the Species (forthcoming, 2025)

    • “Ovary Actions and the Female Body Politic”: Essay and photography. Afterimage (University of California Press, June 2019)

    • “Digital Mindfulness: Slow Media in a Fast Media Landscape,” Garrison Institute, June 2018.

    • “Scrolling Across the Borders” Lumina Journal: Borders and Boundaries, 2017. (print)

    • “Piano Roll Project” (exhibition catalogue, 2017)

    • Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008.

    • “Supernatural Girls” chapter in Text Messaging, ed. John Alberti, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

    • “Storytelling the GIF Economy”, Publishing Perspectives, May 2013.

    • “Kicking it on Kickstarter”, Women’s Media Center, January 2012.

    • “A Good Virus: Social Media Storytelling”, Women’s Media Center, November 2010.

    • “Transmedia Remix”, Afterimage, October 2010.

    • “Teens Going on Reel”, Afterimage, Winter 2010.

    • “All About Eve’s Epic Women.”, Afterimage, July 2007.

    • “Supernatural Girls”, Afterimage, April 2006.

    • “Grrls Make Movies”, Afterimage, December 2005.

    • “Maiden USA: Representations of Teenage Girls in 90s Media", Afterimage, 1999

    • “F(ore)mothers", Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists, New York: Creative Time, 1995

Pine Cone Skirt in Greenwood Cemetery, photo ©Kathleen Sweeney, 2020

Kathleen Sweeney on Substack

Awe is a song we hear, listening to owls, vireos and larks, remembering that birds taught human beings to sing.

Wonder becomes curiosity, a recovered knowing we knew in childhood. A slowed down opportunity for amazement.

From the Book of Awe Project