Faythe Levine

Faythe Levine has been in service to the arts for over twenty years, advocating for creativity to be used as a vehicle to build community, personal independence, and empowerment. Motivated by reimagining archives and collections through a queer feminist lens, her creative labor intersects with curatorial projects, consulting, writing, documentary film, and community events. Her core belief is that visual culture is a conduit for radical change and generative dialogue. She strives to perpetuate momentum toward a liberatory future with space for collaboration, transparency, and complexity.

 

Levine recently published her fourth book, As Ever, Miriam (2024), which explores the expansive lives of Charlotte Partridge (1882–1975) and Miriam Frink (1892–1978) through extensive archival research spanning many years. A related exhibition and publication, Time Is Running Out, opened at the Lynden Sculpture Garden gallery in November 2025. She is currently in the  research phase for a new book about the Black Cat Cafe, a collectively run restaurant open in Seattle during the1990s.

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During the week, Levine is the special collections and public engagement manager at Women's Studio Workshop, a feminist organization founded in 1974 in Rosendale, NY. Her position oversees and enhances the public visibility of the publishing imprint, archives, special collections, and on-site exhibitions, focusing on WSW’s work as a hub for radical thought, for modeling economic viability for print, book culture, and storytelling.

 

In 2021, Levine left her position as director of the Arts/Industry program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, where she was responsible for developing and administering the residency hosted at Kohler Co., as well as curating related exhibitions and projects at the Arts Center and Art Preserve in Sheboygan, WI.

 

Additional significant curatorial work includes Can't Take My Eyes Off You; Speedwell Contemporary, 2022; Ruffles, Repair & Ritual; at the Wedding Cake House with the support of the Warhol Foundation, 2019; and For Hire: Contemporary Sign Painting in America, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 2017. Further back, Levine was the gallerist of two non-traditional spaces, Sky High (2010–2014) and Paper Boat (2005–2009), that focused on collaborations with emerging artists and makers. Additionally, she founded and operated Wisconsin’s premier maker fair, Art vs. Craft (2005–2015). 

Other well-known projects are Sign Painters (2013) and Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft, and Design (2009). Both are feature-length documentaries with accompanying books published by Princeton Architectural Press and were toured extensively. Some highlights include programming the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Bar Dykes (2015), published by Pegacorn Press, can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art Special Collections, Joseph C. Sloane Art Library of the UNC-Chapel Hill’s University Libraries, Colby College Libraries, and the Pratt Institute Library. 

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After years of bouncing between various cities and towns in the United States, Levine landed in the Hudson Valley where she lives on the ancestral land of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people, who, due to forced removal, reside in Northeast Wisconsin as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.​

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