Can care be enacted through art?

Inside a cathedral, staff members from a nursing home work with an artist to perform a poetic text about caregiving, loss, and taking the time to feel one’s feelings. In the months leading up to the performance, the artist navigates her twenties—and art and life converge in unexpected ways.

Weaving between oral history and poetic prose, author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff has created a stirring work of hybrid nonfiction that takes us behind the scenes of artmaking and caregiving. Melding curiosity, humility, playfulness, and self-deprecation, Stages is an inquiry into the work it takes to sustain a meaningful life.

Designed by Omnivore, Inc.

Published by Thick Press, 2020

Softcover, 126 pages, b&w, 4.75 × 7.5 inches

ISBN: 978-1-73-206662-5