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​As Ever, Miriam

7.5 x 5 inches | 129 pp | b&w illustrations

Perfect bound, softcover with gold foil stamp and a double gatefold pull-out timeline

First edition, 2024; OK Stamp Press [sold out]

Second edition, 2025; Combos Press Buy Online

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Wholesale Inquiries: clare@combospress.com

For Media or Press Inquiries contact the author​

Researched, transcribed, collected, and introduced by Faythe Levine, this book centers on the relationship and lives of Charlotte Russell Partridge (1882-1975) and Miriam Frink (1892-1978). Based on extensive archival and secondary research involving books, magazines, newspapers, and interviews, Levine brings readers into the work of connecting archival traces to tell stories about past lives. The book presents a collection of epistolary sign-offs from Frink’s letters to Partridge across the decades of their working and personal relationships. Levine takes time to provide extensive footnotes that bring context to these brief but rich archival excerpts. She includes reflections on quotidian details, vernacular translations, historical references, photographs, and information about the pair’s contributions to the arts and

art education in Milwaukee, WI, and beyond in the early to mid-20th century.

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For those interested in the subjects, the related exhibition Time is Running Out has an additional limited booklet (edition 100, Risograph printed, staple bound, softcover, 6.5 x 4.5 inches, 40pp. Published by Lynden Sculpture Garden Inc.). The publication includes four essays, which, are expanded research around Partridge and Frink's lives. It is available for purchase online or you can read each essay in five parts via The Thumb Tack, Levine's Substack; 1.The Introduction, 2.The Fox Point Studio, 3.The Sketchbook, 4.The Metal Object, and 5.The Protégé

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​​EVENTS​

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PAST EVENTS​

  • November 18, 4 pm: Fact, Fiction & Storytelling in the Archive, UWM, Golda Meir Library, 3rd floor, East Wing, Milwaukee, WI.

  • November 17, 6 pm: As Ever, Miriam reading & conversation at A Room of One’s Own in Madison, WI.

  • November 15, 2-5 pm, 2025: Opening event for Time is Running Out, curated by Levine, will open at the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI. Gallery talk at 3 pm. The exhibition will run through March 2026.

  • November 11, 11-12:30: Queer Investigation & Storytelling in the Archive: MIAD Foremothers Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink, lecture at Milwaukee School of Art & Design, WI. (open to students and alumni)

  • October 17, 2025: Keynote: Queer Investigation & Storytelling in the Archive, Midwest Queer Trans Zine Conference, Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

  • July 21, 2025: Guest lecturer at Maine College of Art and Design, Portland, ME. 

  • July 12, 2025: Author talk and book signing, Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, NY.

  • January 18, 2024: Small Print mini book fair at Working Loose. Blue Hill, ME.

  • November 13, 2024: Author talk and book signing. Hudson Area Library, Hudson, NY. 

  • October 12, 2024: Book release party at Cactus Club. Milwaukee, WI. 

  • October 3, 2024, Concordia Art Publishers Conversation with publisher maya rae Oppenheimer, co-director of Ok Stamp Press.​​

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EXTRACT

“Partridge and Frink haven’t been entirely forgotten nor erased like so many others, but there is still a lack of visibility and understanding about their personal dynamics and professional impact... While doing my research, I found nearly every component in their papers compelling: more often than not, a single document prompted an entirely new string of questions… Since I initially thought I would write a version of their biographies or possibly a historical narrative, I was looking through as much content as possible. Over time, I realized that, for my mental health and to pull something shareable out of my research, it was necessary to create a smaller framework for myself. I flipped my vision from the macro to the micro.”  Faythe Levine, Introduction: A Habit of Curiosity​

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Image captions: [TOP] As Ever, Miriam held in hand promotional image, 2024. Copies of Time is Running Out, 2025. [MIDDLE] Composite of archival images courtesy of the Charlotte Russell Partridge and Miriam Frink Papers, 1862-1980, Housed at the University of Wisconsin Libraries' Archives Department. (BOTTOM) As Ever, Miriam book interior promotional images, 2024.

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