WET HOT SUMMER! love meg

Hello from the depths of New Orleans summer!
Welcome to my very occasional artist newsletter. Upcoming news includes the release of my new book WET Volume 2, an artist talk and some great shows. Please enjoy and stay in touch!
Love, Meg
ps there’s a summer horoscope at the very end…

WET 2 BOOK RELEASE!

After 900+ hours of printing on the etching press, an incredible two month publishing residency at Women’s Studio Workshop, and years of making wet plate collodion tintypes with so many incredible friends, strangers, colleagues and collaborators, I am thrilled to announce the officIal release of my photogravure artist book: WET volume 2! Come to CPW in Kinston New York and see these beauties in person; hear me talk about the process of tintype and photogravure, and celebrate!

“WET volume 2” is a photographic love letter to a radical queer roadside, a hand made labor of love in the format of a photo magazine with multiple fold outs and centerfolds.
WET 2 was shot on wet plate collodion tintype plates, primarily in Louisiana and the gulf south, and printed on the etching press by Meg in Rosendale, New York, using the historic intaglio process of photogravure.
Edition of 50, Published by Women's Studio Workshop in 2026

WET 2 BOOK RELEASE EVENTS

ARTIST TALK & BOOK RELEASE
August 6th
at The Center for Photography Woodstock,
25 Dederick st, Kingston NY
doors at 5:30, talk at 6

ARTIST TALK
CPW BOOK & ZINE FAIR
Sunday August 9th
at The Center for Photography Woodstock,
25 Dederick st, Kingston NY
Presentation 2:15-2:45pm

NEW ORLEANS RELEASE PARTY

sometime in late fall,
details coming soon….!

Back Cover of WET #2
featuring Griffin Bharucha

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS:

INCENDIARIES curated by Burn Barrel Press

Mortal Machine Gallery
Friday Sept. 4th
940 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA
Opening Reception 7-10pm

I’m excited to return to Mortal Machine Gallery for a group exhibition curated by Burn Barrel Press (publisher of my first WET book) . Opening Friday night of Southern Decadence

WHITE LINEN NIGHT New Orleans

Contemporary Arts Center
August 2nd
Camp st. New Orleans LA
(mural on St. Joseph street side)

While you are out on White Linen Night stop by and see my mural “Untitled (Louisiana Clinic)” featuring the amazing Brooke (with me above)

THE ART OF PROTEST curated by Generic Art Solutions

Good Children Gallery
Sat August 8th
4037 St. Claude st. New Orleans LA
Opening Reception 6-10pm

Tony came by the studio to borrow a load of posters and banners from protests and parades - including The Revolution is for Lovers. If you know me, you know how much I love the radical history of printmaking, I’m so excited to see the whole installation.

WHERE TO COLLECT MY WORK

ANN CONNELLY FINE ART
Select photogravure prints are newly available through Ann Connelly Fine Art

ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY
Select Photogravure prints are available through Arthur Roger Gallery

BURN BARREL PRESS
WET volume 1 is available through Burn Barrel Press (not many copies left!)

For other collecting desires, contact me for my PDF of available works.

WET HOT SUMMER HOROSCOPE!

LIBRA. On the hottest day take a cold bath with extra ice cubes in the bath and in your cocktail. ARIES your crush brings you to the swimming hole. CAPRICORN Accidentally leave the beach with a stranger’s shoes. TAURUS buy a new slutty swimsuit, put it in your bag, do not return it, wear it to the river, take incredible photos. AQUARIUS get your cast off your injured limb and go straight to a pool and stay in the water for 8 hours straight. SCORPIO Go tubing and bring a short oar to steer so you can deliver cold drinks to your friends. GEMINI Lie in very shallow water with a giant sun hat and an extremely trashy mystery novel. CANCER Eat 2 dozen oysters in one sitting, find a pearl. VIRGO go fishing. catch a fish. eat the fish. save a bone for luck. LEO help a friend move a mattress. why does everyone move in the summer??? Find $100 under the mattress. SAGITTARIUS pull out a beach bag from years ago, find $40 crumpled at then bottom. buy your favorite summer treat. PISCES take an extremely odd summer gig and meet a new life long friend when both of you seriously misunderstand the task at hand. THANK YOU FOR READING I LOVE YOU STAY COOL