The Heavy Lifting project includes a book exhibit, experimental film, poetry readings, and talk. At its center is the artists’ book, HEAVY LIFTING, the outcome of a 4-year collaboration between poet Theresa Whitehill and artist Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press. 

HEAVY LIFTING addresses the artist’s personal loss due to fire in 2020, as well as the many relentless crises that have unfolded in recent years, and considers what might lie beyond these times. Theresa Whitehill’s poems tread a tenuous path at the boundaries between personal and collective reckonings with work that portrays alternating grief, tenderness, defiance, and outrage.