Amarie Gipson and Janice Bond are native Houstonians who are also some first-class book hoarders.
Gipson has been building her book collection since the 12th grade, while Bond says she’s lived and traveled with her collection for a long time. But both these ladies have put their collections on display in two different spaces.
Last month, Gipson opened The Reading Room, a reference library and cultural incubator that’s currently over at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s CAMHLAB in POST Houston, scheduled to run through Sunday, Dec. 3. Gipson got the idea for a reading space before COVID turned us into shut-ins, initially launching the Room as an online reference site earlier this year. Before the opening, Gipson held a pop-up preview in March at Sanman Studios, where Bond joined her for a public discussion. “I wanted to create a space where I could be surrounded by art books—not just any art books, but books by Black artists for and about Black artists,” Gipson said.
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