Creative Practice Reading Group: Art Work, by Sally Mann

What does it mean to make art, write, and build a creative life—not only in its most luminous moments, but through the daily rituals, doubts, experiments, and persistence that sustain it?

The Creative Practice Reading Group is a new event series that brings readers together to explore nonfiction books about the lived experience of creative work. Together, we’ll read closely and think deeply about how creative lives are formed, tested, and renewed over time.

Our inaugural selection is Art Work: On the Creative Life, by acclaimed photographer and writer Sally Mann. This illustrated memoir is a spellbinding mix of vivid stories, practical (and sometimes impractical) advice, and hard-won insights into the creative path. Mann explores the challenges and transcendent pleasures of creative work—how we persist, how we doubt, how we learn to see, and why we continue.

Each session is guided by a moderator and centers on lively, generous conversation. Participants are invited to reflect, share, and learn together—building a collective understanding of the peaks and valleys of making work and sustaining a creative life.

Launched by Anthem Books, the Creative Practice Reading Group series offers a welcoming space for artists, writers, and art lovers to talk honestly about how creative work actually happens—in all its complexity, discipline, and beauty.

Date and Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, February 21, 2026.

Location: CORE Creative Placemaking at the Morris Museum (Second floor), 6 Normandy Heights Rd., Morristown, NJ.

Tickets: $20 (including refreshments). Space is limited.

by Sally Mann, at Anthem Books.

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