Caught In A Daydream Of Impulse And Disillusion

Catalog for the Solo Exhibition, Timothy Gaewsky: Caught in a Daydream of Impulse and Disillusion at Library House Gallery, Grand Rapids, Ohio, Oct. 15 - Dec. 3, 2011. Catalog essay by Ammon Allred and poems by Andrew Field.

Catalogue for the solo exhibition, 'Timothy Gaewsky: Castles in the Air' at Art on Madison, Lakewood, OH, February 2, 2018 - March 2, 2018. Essay by Michelle Epps and poems by Aubrey Crosby and Andrew Field.

Launch Pad Cooperative is an artist-run contemporary art gallery that was established in 2012, by Timothy Gaewsky, with the intent to facilitate a network for emerging artists who wish to enrich the community of Toledo and beyond. This catalog features the work of the eight members of Launch Pad Cooperative, 2012 - 2013. Core Members include: Timothy Gaewsky, Crystal Gale Phelps, Kimberly Adams, Julia LaBay, and Ian Welch. Associate Members are Tinola Mayfield-Guerrero, Hannah Lehmann, and David Short.

"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can’t escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago’s North Shore, a multiracial mom joins an ultraprogressive challenge to the town’s liberal status quo. In Compton, California, whose suburban roots are now barely recognizable, undocumented Hispanic parents place their gifted son’s future in the hands of educators at a remarkable elementary school. And outside Pittsburgh, a Black mother moves to the same street where author Benjamin Herold grew up, then confronts the destructive legacy left behind by white families like his. Disillusioned braids these human stories together with penetrating local and national history to reveal a vicious cycle undermining the dreams upon which American suburbia was built. For generations, upwardly mobile white families have extracted opportunity from the nation’s heavily subsidized suburbs, then moved on before the bills for maintenance and repair came due, leaving the mostly Black and Brown families who followed to clean up the ensuing mess. But now, sweeping demographic shifts and the dawning realization that endless expansion is no longer feasible are disrupting this pattern, forcing everyday families to confront a truth their communities were designed to avoid: The suburban lifestyle dream is a Ponzi scheme whose unraveling threatens us all. How do we come to terms with this troubled history? How do we build a future in which all children can thrive? Drawing upon his decorated career as an education journalist, Herold explores these pressing debates with expertise and perspective. Then, alongside Bethany Smith—the mother from his old neighborhood, who contributes a powerful epilogue to the book—he offers a hopeful path toward renewal. The result is nothing short of a journalistic masterpiece.

A haunting psychological thriller, The Last Dream Before Dawn is a chilling tale of a man who has it all—until his past catches up with him. A haunting psychological thriller, The Last Dream Before Dawn is a chilling tale of a man who has it all—until his past catches up with him. Roland is a powerful, handsome attorney who has everything a young man could desire. On the fast track to greatness and one of the most eligible bachelors in New York City, he seems untouchable. But a strange chance encounter with a mysterious prophet turns Roland’s life upside down. After the seer predicts the end of the world, a string of random violent acts seizes the city, and Roland is accused of crimes he did not commit. To prove his innocence, he must separate himself from the incriminating shadow of his father, a man executed for a vicious crime when Roland was a child. Evocative and suspenseful, The Last Dream Before Dawn is guaranteed to send your mind reeling and your pulse racing.

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book • A CBC Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 • A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book for 2020 “Combining his poetic sensibilities and storytelling skills with a documentarian’s eye, [Heighton] has created a wrenching narrative.”—2020 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY-—a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a town deserted by the tourists that had been its lifeblood, Heighton-—alongside the exhausted locals and under-equipped international aid workers—-found himself thrown into emergency roles for which he was woefully unqualified. From the brief reprieves of volunteer-refugee soccer matches to the riots of Camp Moria, Reaching Mithymna is a firsthand account of the crisis and an engaged exploration of the borders that divide us and the ties that bind.