As Ever, Miriam

As Ever, Miriam by Faythe Levine centers on the relationship and lives of Charlotte Russell Partridge (1882-1975) and Miriam Frink (1892-1978), who co-founded and ran the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and lived together for over 50 years. This book presents a collection of epistolary sign-offs from Frink’s letters to Partridge across the decades of their working and personal relationships, exploring how one says goodbye over 50 years. 

Featuring a thorough introduction by the author, a 10-inch long foldout timeline, and robust footnotes sprinkled with fun facts that bring context to the brief archival excerpts, Levine contextualizes the relationship between the two and their contributions to the arts in Milwaukee and beyond. 

Levine’s text suits a methodical reader as well as a casual browser. Notable, however, is her introduction that positions her personal and kindred relationship to the lives she encounters through her letter-based research. Levine is currently based in upstate New York but spent twenty years living and working in Wisconsin. She has a career engaging with archives and collections through a queer, feminist lens that spans decades. As Ever, Miriam would interest readers connected to art education, queer archival methods, twentieth-century history, and anything related to correspondence and biography.

OK Stamp Press published the first edition (300) of As Ever, Miriam, using a unique radical non-monetary mutual aid model. With the support of Combos Press, the second edition will be accessible to a larger audience and now available for wholesale for the first time.

For wholesale orders, contact clare@combospress.com.

For press opportunities, contact faythelevine@gmail.com

Perfect bound, softcover, with gatefold pull-out
7.5x5”
129 pages
2nd edition published by Combos Press, 2025
1st edition published by OK Stamp Press, 2024 [sold out]

Author: Faythe Levine
Designer: M. Wright
Editor: maya rae oppenheimer