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  • 2025
    AI: More Than Human
    Frost Museum of Science
    Miami, Florida (exhibition)

    “The Female Forme,” acquired by the New York Public Library, Dorot Collection

    “The Solutions to Brian’s Problems,” acquired by Baylor University Special Collections

    Just Letters (Ankerson, Avadenka, Awend, Fritton, Knutsen, Kitching and Wolske)
    Olson Gallery, Bethel University
    St. Paul, Minnesota (exhibition)

    On Press: Ankerson, Avadenka, Isakson-Dado and Molloy
    Ferndale Public Library
    Ferndale, Michigan (exhibition)

    Between Memory and the Archive/Jewish Print Culture, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (terminated by DOGE April 5, 2025)

    Printed and Bound: Contemporary Book Artists and the Press, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
    Two Rivers, Wisconsin (exhibition)

    Stardust: 25 Years of the Jaffe Collection,
    Florida Atlantic University Libraries
    Boca Raton, Florida (exhibition)

    New Impressions 2024
    S-R Gallery, Signal-Return
    Detroit, Michigan (exhibition)

    2024
    Elements of an Ephemeral Archive

    S-R Gallery, Signal-Return
    Detroit (solo exhibition)

    Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books
    Center for Book Arts, NYC (exhibition)

    Cup of Sugar/PASC + Signal-Return
    The Lantern, Detroit (exhibition)

    Living Under Water:
    The Work of Andi Arnovitz, Lynne Avadenka, Meydad Eliyahu, Ken Goldman, Leora Wise

    The Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, Detroit (exhibition)

    Representation
    Hilberry Gateway Gallery
    Detroit, Michigan (exhibition)

    New Impressions 2024
    Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum (exhibition)
    Two Rivers, Wisconsin

    Of the Making of Many Books There Is No End
    The Flint Institute of Arts (lecture)

    Visiting Artist
    Modern Languages & Literatures
    Case Western Reserve University
    Cleveland, Ohio

    “Books Like Sapphires/From the Library of Congress
    Judaica Collection
    ,” by Ann Brener, Brandeis University Press
    (work included)

    “A Doctrine of Handy-Works, or Another Story of Printing Told in Twelve Brief Pages,” “By A Thread” and “Plum Colored Regret”
    works acquired by Northwestern University Library

    “The House Is in the Book: Collaboration in Isolation” and “By A Thread”
    acquired by Stanford University Library

    “The Uncommon Perspective of M.E.J. Colter”
    acquired by UNC Chapel Hill Library

    HBI Research Award
    Limited edition project,
    in collaboration with Andi Arnovitz

    (L)inking Letters
    Open Book Gallery
    Minneapolis (exhibition)

    Threading
    The Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art
    Jerusalem (exhibition)

    Hello Thank You Come In
    50th Anniversary Members Exhibition

    Center for Book Arts
    New York

    Old Type, New Ways:
    Works from the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum

    Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (exhibition)

  • Between Memory and the Archive: Jewish Print Culture

    Of the Making of Many Books There is No End (Flint Institute of Arts lecture)

    Breathing Mud: The Legend of the Golem

    Hebrew Typecasting Pilot Program at Bixler Letterfoundry: Recap!

    Printing in My Studio

    Lynne Avadenka Visits the Cary Collection

    Working With Hebrew Type

    Artist’s Books Unshelved: Immortal Stories

    Quarantine Public Library

    Studio Stories 2020

    Living Under Water

    Signal Return

    Kresge Artist Fellowship 

    Vamp and Tramp Booksellers

  • Lewis, Barbara (Detroit Jewish News, April 30, 2025) New Art Project Reimagines Biblical Women With Feminist Flash Cards

    Heller, Steven (The Daily Heller, February 19, 2025), Hebrew Letters Made in Wood for Today

    2024 Spring Issue, American Craft magazine, Telling the Story

    Klemkow, Hannah, (Plume, Issue 4, Fall 2023) Process: Lynne Avadenka

    Lewis, Bobbie (Detroit Jewish News, June 20, 2023) Artist Lynne Avadenka Explores the Beauty and History of Hebrew Type

    Sharp, Sarah Rose (Hyperallergic, February 27, 2023) Radicalizing the Hebrew Letter

    Heller, Steven (The Daily Heller, January 5, 2023) Artist Celebrates Heritage of Jewish Women as Typographers and Printers

    Friedman, Dan (The Forward, December 9, 2022) The Art of Lynne Avadenka Celebrates Women Who Worked With (And Against) Type)

    Letts, K.A. (Detroit Art Review, May 16, 2022) Many Voices: The Fine Art of Craft

    Cornago, Raquel (Radio Sefarad, December 9, 2021) “La Casa está en el Libro”

    Chessler, Suzanne (Detroit Jewish News, November 11, 2021), Six Feet Apart

    Musleah, Rahel (Hadassah Magazine, January/February 2020) Connecting the Dots Between Judaism and Environmentalism

    Hodges, Michael (The Detroit News, November 19, 2019), Small, Elegant Lynne Avadenka Show Shines

    Beck, Mordecai (The Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2019) The Jerusalem Biennale: The Incredible Breadth of Art

    Letts, K.A. (Rust Belt Arts, November, 21, 2019) Paperworks at Charach Gallery

    Smulevich, Adam (Pagine Ebraiche, November 2019) Ambiente, l'esempio ebraico

    Davis, Barry (The Jerusalem Post, October 20, 2019), The Concept of Living Under Water is Pretty Simple

    Micol De Pas, (Joi Magazine, November 19, 2018), Global Warming, Il Lavor di cinque artisti

    RIA (Italian Public Television, November, 2018) Artisti du Acqua (Artists on the Water)

    Jenna Weisman Joselit (The Forward, June 11, 2016), Lynne Avadenka’s Triumph of the Imagination

    Rebecca Miller (Boxcar Press, February 15, 2016), Printing in the Mitten: An Interview with Lynne Avadenka

    Sarah Rose Sharp (Hyperallergic, February 22, 2016) Books That Break With Traditional Bindings

    Sarah Rose Sharp (Essay'd, February 2, 2015), Essay'd

    Jonathan Goodman (The Brooklyn Rail, September 8, 2015) Type As Image

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