Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Alex Webb, and Rebecca Norris Webb
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty reading and artist talk with writer Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, and photographers Alex Webb, and Rebecca Norris Webb.
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About Our Speakers
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, living in Cherokee, NC. She is author of Even As We Breathe (UPK, 2020), the first novel published by an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and winner of multiple awards. In addition to fiction contributions, Clapsaddle’s non fiction work appears in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, Salvation South, Bon Appétit, and Travel + Leisure. She is the founder of Confluence: An Indigenous Writers’ Workshop Series, bringing Indigenous authors to the Qualla Boundary to mentor emerging writers.
Alex Webb has published more than fifteen photography books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey book of thirty years of his color photographs. He’s exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has been a Magnum Photos member since 1979, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Vogue, and other publications. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. His most recent books include Dislocations (Aperture, 2023) and the collaborations with Rebecca Norris Webb; Brooklyn: The City Within (Aperture, 2019), exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York; Waves (Radius, 2022), exhibited at the Provincetown Art Association Museum in spring 2024; and their popular Aperture educational book, Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography & the Poetic Image. He’s currently working on his upcoming Aperture book on U.S. cities, coming out fall 2026.
Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often interweaves her text and photographs in her ten books, most notably in her Radius monograph, My Dakota—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—for which a solo exhibition of the work appeared at The Cleveland Museum of Art, among other venues. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Le Monde, and The New York Times Magazine, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. A 2019 NEA grant recipient, her most recent body of work is a hybrid poetry book, A Difficulty Is a Light (Chose Commune, 2024), punctuated by fifteen of her photographs, with an accompanying exhibition at the Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan. Norris Webb is currently working on an ongoing series of photographs in the Dakotas, called Badlands, as well as her upcoming book, Glimmerings, a selection of some thirty years of her lyrical color photographs, which will be released by Radius in Spring 2027.
