an imprint of Bridge Books
StepSister Press is a publishing company founded by Annie Heckman in 2007 to promote conversation on emerging art, literature, educational, and critical theory projects. The press has coordinated projects and collaborations with artists and writers around the world, including the annual Fwd: Museums series.
Starting in 2023, StepSister Press will continue as an imprint of Bridge Books.
Museums Are Dead. They fell victim to torch-bearing mobs, looters, and the vociferous contempt of political and religious groups. But perhaps also through insular pedagogies, inequitable practices, and a lack of representation or transparency, museums contributed to their own demise. In our current social climate, it has become critical that we, as students, teachers, employees […]
Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries is a philosophical study of equality as binding principle by art-makers across disciplines, and how they view their work situated across unrestricted spectrums of social and ideological value. As source material for the tropes and themes of Workman’s interactionist and instructional choreographic work, they are intended as a recovery […]