the saddest thing is that i have had to use words. - madeline gins

i am a word/artist.

2023

dear friend books / wise women fish here / featured in the new york times, new york magazine, vogue etc

2022

master of library & information science / graduated with distinction / pratt institute

an interview with Olena Rybka for Guernica / publishing books in a time of war and working to preserve the Ukrainian language

2021

love @ first line / a site-specific public artwork (in conversation)

accessibility in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums / a collaborative libguide

poetry_chef / a machine learning poetic experiment

2020

digital projects fellow (-2021) / anthropology section, new york academy of sciences

you matter / a commission for art+action in support of the 2020 census / in partnership with sfpl

marlon / a typeface inspired by the artwork of marlon mullen, a non-verbal painter of words

2019

poet-in-residence / paradise, california / in memorium of the 86 lives lost

artist-in-residence / lavamaex

ybca 100 honoree

2018

you are loved / an intervention in partnership with lavamaex

if i were the president / 120 youth across america say what they would change as president

participant / the mountain school of arts

2017

the compliment project / a response to the 2016 election that struck a chord, covered by the new york times & re-imagined for chronicle books

before

continue the thread / mailed handwritten quotes to a thousand strangers who shared their stories with me

product manager / instructables

trustee scholar / university of southern california


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a polaroid of yellow flowers sprouting from the burnt earth of paradise, spring 2019