In partnership with Safe Harbors' Ann Street Gallery, Golden Hour Books is pleased to offer titles from the Gallery's Curated Reading Lists to accompany each exhibition--books chosen by featured artists and cultural workers to inform and lend context to their work and the Gallery's exhibitions. Read more about their current exhibition (on view through Aug. 29):
OPEN READING ROOM
Curated Reading List 011
by Shanti Grumbine
Ann Street Gallery Exhibiting Artist, June 20– August 29, 2026
Curated Reading List 011 has been commissioned to coincide with the exhibition Catching Fire: resilient alchemies in a burning world at Ann Street Gallery June 20– August 29, 2026, and is written by exhibiting artist Shanti Grumbine.
Shanti Grumbine is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist exploring cultural value systems. She has been an artist in
residence at the Millay Colony, Ucross, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, Saltonstall Foundation, Wave Hill Winter Workspace
Residency, Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), Women’s Studio Workshop, the
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, BRIC Workspace, Interlude Artist Residency, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program.
Fellowships and grants include the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant, River Valley Arts Collective Money and Materials Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist
Grant, Taking Care Fund, A.I.R Gallery Fellowship, and the LABA Fellowship at the 14th Street Y. Select exhibition venues
include The Bronx Museum, Dorsky Gallery, Dorsky Museum, Love Apple Art Space, Magnan-Metz Gallery, Fridman Gallery,
Planthouse Gallery, PS 122, Smack Mellon, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Roundabouts Now, Ruthann, and IPCNY. Shanti received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. http://shantigrumbine.com/@shantigrumbine
Titles
• The Inferno, Dante Alighieri (Translated by John Ciardi), Signet Classics
• The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels, Clarice Lispector, Penguin Classics
• Labyrinths ("The Circular Ruins" and "The God's Script"), Jorge Luis Borges, New Directions
• Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Rainer Maria Rilke (Translated by Anita Barrows and
Joanna Macy), Riverhead Books
• Republic ("The Allegory of the Cave"), Plato (Translated by Christopher Rowe), Penguin Classics
• The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, Elaine Scarry, Oxford University Press
