Artist-run, women-run space located in Inman Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

“The

experimental feminine

is all that is

not business as usual

and vice versa.” - Jennifer Armbrust, sister.is

Instagram: @makespaceforpractice

1307 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139


At Practice Space we don’t just have a studio and a shop, we also have a library.

These books are the heart of it:

The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel De Certeau

Art as Experience, John Dewey

Walden Two, BF Skinner

People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

Bowling Alone and Better Together, Robert Putnam

The Nature and Aesthetics of Design / The Nature and Art of Workmanship, David Pye

Design for Ecological Democracy, Randolph Hester

Women in Clothes, Sheila Heti et al.

The Age of Homespun, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Practice, Dan Bell

 

Women of Influence (whom we call patron saintesses)

Virginia Woolf, Agnes Martin, Charlotte Salomon, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Anni Albers, Mfk Fisher, Julia Child, Marguerite Wildenhain, Corita Kent, Ray Eames, Ursula K LeGuin, Martha Graham, Georgia O’Keeffe, Rebecca Solnit, Martha Graham, Julia Morgan, Hilma af Klint