Babe in the Woods, or The Art of Getting Lost

A one-on-one conversation with Julie Heffernan NA and Alexi Worth NA to celebrate the release of Heffernan’s debut graphic novel. “A stunning four-color graphic work of autofiction about a young mother who, lost overnight on a hike with her infant son, experiences an extraordinary journey of memory, remorse, and rebirth that offers her a new way of seeing for anyone who feels lost in the world.” Babe in the Woods, or The Art of Getting Lost (September 2024) is published by Algonquin Press, a division of Hatchett.

RESERVATIONS: Admission is free but reservations are required.

ACCESSIBILITY: This venue is fully accessible to wheelchairs. To request a free ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning service, email your request at least three weeks in advance of the event to [email protected].

About the Speakers

Julie Heffernan NA is a contemporary American painter known for her Baroque-inspired fantasy portraits and landscapes. Influenced by allegories, politics, and literature, Heffernan’s work explores a sensual fantasy realm where plants and animals coexist in harmony within a lush, plentiful atmosphere. Heffernan was raised in Northern California, received her BFA in Printmaking and Painting from UC Santa Cruz, and earned a MFA at Yale School of Art. She is a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University and Co-founder of the journal Painters on Paintings. She is a 2017 Fellow of the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; was awarded the Meridian Scholar Artist-In-Residence Fellowship from the University of Tampa in Florida; and was the featured artist for the 2017 MacDowell Colony. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and a Fulbright-Hays grant to Berlin. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Alexi Worth NA was born and raised in New York City, and attended Yale University (BA 1986) and Boston University (MFA 1993). Worth has taught at various BFA and MFA programs, including the University of Pennsylvania and the Yale School of Art. In addition to his painting, Worth has written about art for The New Yorker, Artforum, T Magazine, Art in America, ARTnews, Slate, and other magazines. He has written catalog texts for artists such as Martha Armstrong, Carroll Dunham, David Humphrey, James Hyde, Susan Jennings, Jackie Saccoccio, George Nick, Jim Nutt, and Philip Pearlstein. Worth has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. He is currently represented by DC Moore Gallery, and lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, the architect Erika Belsey, and their two boys.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

National Academy of Design, 519 West 26th Street, New York, United States