Book of Saints by Kristen Joy Emack
July 6 – August 21, 2026
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We look to young people as sources of renewal, but they’re mirrors also, and reflect where communities succeed and where we fail. Cambridge is changing, and a consequence of development and innovation growth is that existing digital, educational, medical, immigration related and other gaps widen.
A saint, by definition, is an ordinary person who lives a courageous and good life, and because of this, is worthy of imitation. Book of Saints is a preservation of culture. It’s a composition, a hymn– a visual archive of portraits, videos and everyday landscapes, venerating the people that live here.
Featured Artist
Kristen Joy Emack is a Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow and a Mass Cultural Council Fellow and a Saint Botolph Fellow. Her work has been exhibited across the US and in France, Finland, Sweden, Milan, Bologna and Belfast. It has been published in Vogue Italia, Nat.Geo, Black + White Magazine, The Horn Book and OATH. She has been a guest speaker at Thayer Academy, Harvard, UVA, BU, Hofstra and Emerson College and her first book, Cousins, was published in Italy in 2023.
