Special Event
1275 Minnesota St / Atrium
Sat. Dec 13 1:00PM to 2:30PM
12/13/2025 1:00pm 12/13/2025 2:30pm One Messy Year Book Launch + Conversation with Carissa Potter 

One Messy Year Book Launch + Conversation with Carissa Potter 


Join us for a talk about independent publishing, personal essay writing & keeping a regular writing practice going, plus readings from Thibault's new collection of essays, One Messy Year: A Year of Essays About Art-Making, Creative Agency, and Coming Out

 

About One Messy Year
In May 2023, author Thibault THIBAULT– then Sarah– began a weekly newsletter called Art Date to write about burn-out, art-making, and finding more creative agency and connection in the sprawling isolation of Los Angeles. 

What resulted was a wild year filled with rejections, wins, media attention, a digital detox, and the beginning of a multi-year process of coming out as trans.


One Messy Year is the first in a series of essay compilations archiving the Art Date writings. This comprehensive collection from May 2023–May 2024 includes work that has previously gone unpublished.

 

Book Pre-Order

1275 Minnesota St America/New_York public

One Messy Year Book Launch + Conversation with Carissa Potter 

One Messy Year Book Launch + Conversation with Carissa Potter 


Join us for a talk about independent publishing, personal essay writing & keeping a regular writing practice going, plus readings from Thibault's new collection of essays, One Messy Year: A Year of Essays About Art-Making, Creative Agency, and Coming Out

 

About One Messy Year
In May 2023, author Thibault THIBAULT– then Sarah– began a weekly newsletter called Art Date to write about burn-out, art-making, and finding more creative agency and connection in the sprawling isolation of Los Angeles. 

What resulted was a wild year filled with rejections, wins, media attention, a digital detox, and the beginning of a multi-year process of coming out as trans.


One Messy Year is the first in a series of essay compilations archiving the Art Date writings. This comprehensive collection from May 2023–May 2024 includes work that has previously gone unpublished.

 

Book Pre-Order