Friday, May 29
7-9pm

Q-Underground, Q.arma Bu ilding
1224 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis
(basement)

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of Home Stead, a photobook culminating five years of my photography and research. I welcome you to celebrate with me at the book release party on Friday, May 29. Books will be available for purchase at the event or preorder is available here. Check out the special edition print option, too!
Home Stead engages contemporary expressions of whiteness and colonialism in the Midwest. Raised in a fifth-generation German-Irish immigrant farming family in southwestern Minnesota — on the traditional lands of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ and Yankton Nations—I situate my practice within the layered histories of homesteading, land seizure, and U.S. expansionism. Using my familial history and homestead as a focal point, I examine ways American exceptionalism, manifest destiny, and whiteness remain embedded in Midwestern cultural narratives.

This book by Sarah Sampedro includes original photography spanning five years, historic documents from the late 19th Century, material from Sampedro's family archive, hand-made reproductions of historic artifacts, and essays by Tia-Simone Gardner and Dr. Kate Beane.
92 pgs
10"x12"
Full color
Foil stamped, cloth-bound hardcover
Designed by Sarah Sampedro and Justin Allen of Make-Do Books, printed by Conveyor Studio, New Jersey.
*This project was made possible by the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Home Stead book launch party

Exhibition: Witness