Susanna Dakin’s book An Artist for President, The Nation is the artwork, We are the Artists was published in November 2011 by Hyphen Media. Dakin has been a sculptor, performance artist, writer, educator and once-upon-a-time publisher of artists’ books, art magazines and a community newspaper. She has exhibited and taught sculpture and drawing, and has done some unique durational performances, including her year-long campaign as “An Artist for President” in 1983-84, which is the subject of the book. Besides again campaigning around the country to promote the book, in 2012 Dakin hopes to complete a novel and book of poems that have been on the back burner, and do some drawing and sculpture.
Susanna Dakin is a founder of 18th Street Arts Center and a long time artist and social activist.
To purchase her book, go to http://www.hyphenpublishing.com/publications.html or
http://www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/an-artist-for-president/18686393
