Sacred Sisters and other miracles: a collaboration between Holly Trostle Brigham and Marilyn Nelson

Sacred Sisters: The Making of an Artists’ Book will present a conversation among artists and poets involved in making the artists’ book Sacred Sisters, which celebrates the lives of eight women—artists, musicians, providers, and leaders—who lived their lives in the service of others. The conversation will be hosted by MaryAnn L. Miller, a poet, printmaker, publisher, and longtime contributor to the New Jersey Book Arts Symposium. MaryAnn conceived of the project; Holly Trostle Brigham, an artist whose fabulous paintings illustrate the book, will participate and talk about her inspiration for the work, and Marilyn Nelson, professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, the former poet laureate of Connecticut, and the 2017 winner of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, will participate and read from her Sacred Sisters poems