In Her Own Right

Part personal manifesto, part historical excavation, In Her Own Right explores the inner lives and artistic legacies of women across time. With lyric precision and radical intimacy, author Chelsea Madeline invites readers to reconsider what it means to live a creative life as a woman today.

Moving between past and present, the book challenges the stories we’ve been told about art, genius, and who gets to claim visibility. Designed with intention and care, it feels as much like an artifact as it does a book—a quiet offering of reclamation. 

collaborators: Blue Sky Press — Kim Agnew, Alex Cohen, Jillian Hanson, and Chris Schreiber

Bossladies Magazine

A magazine celebrating women in business, art, and the place the two intersect. Our issues featured the cities of LA, New York, and San Francisco. We shared the stories of more than a hundred women including Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge, Cathy Bailey of Heath Ceramics, Helene Henderson of Malibu Farm, designer Rebecca Atwood, and artist Windy Chien.

collaborators: Kadie Smith, Grace and Alice Yoon, Marisa Vitale, Michelle Mishina, Shona McCarthy, Jenna Gundersen, Hayley Huotari, Brandi Welles, Alli Koch, Megan Lester, RedCar Media, Alissa Bell, Carly Kuhn, Kristen Mancinelli, Jen Peters, Kelsey Wisdom, Kate Villa, Bree McCool, Eileen Rosete, Francesca Fuges, Kendra and Cierra Djokovich, Kofa Boyah

Camille Becerra, Issue 04, photographed by Grey & Elle

 
Paola Mathe feature Bossladies Magazine by Grey & Elle

Paola Mathé, Issue 04, photographed by Grey & Elle

part of the magazine team, Chelsea, Marisa, Grace, and Alice
— shot in Santa Monica by Bree McCool

worksesh at Palihouse, photographed by Grey & Elle

Worksesh / Circle

A weekly gathering of entrepreneurs, artists, and visionaries. We held circle to reflect on our lives and work and to share those reflections with one another. More than seven hundred women across a dozen of cities were part of circle over the course of six years.

collaborators: Chelsea Madeline, Grace and Alice Yoon, Sara Weinreb, Margaret Coblentz, Elysa Rose-Coster, Kadie Smith, Jamie Shah, Valerie Howard, Baily Hancock, Kim Agnew, Devin O’Neil, Ace Hotel, Parachute Home, Palihouse, WMN Space, General Assembly, Robey Hotel, Gwen Dittmar, Zoe Kasiske.

photograph by Grey & Elle

Workweek

A retreat held in a mountaintop home in Malibu with speakers including Shilpa Shah of Cuyana, the founder of Jeni’s Ice Cream, and Meredith Long, the former publisher of TIME.

collaborators: Peter Madeline, Grace and Alice Yoon, Kofa Boyah and Chad Mann, Shona McCarthy, Marisa Vitale, Fred Randall, Jessica Comingore, Bree McCool, Baily Hancock, Jenny Long, Evan Vidar, Cuyana, The Class by Taryn Toomey, Matte Black, Meredith Long, Jeni’s Ice Cream.

Fireside Chat Series

A monthly, live interview series with creative entrepreneurs including: the founders of Sugar Paper, Joy Cho, the interior designer Sarah Sherman Samuel, the creator of Hedley & Bennett, and the sisters behind Block Shop Textiles. Hosted to create moments of inspiration within the entrepreneurial community in Los Angeles.

collaborators: Marisa Vitale, Peter Madeline, Grace and Alice Yoon, Parachute Home, Shona McCarthy, Unique Space, Paper Planes Wine, General Assembly, PlatformLA, Reel Rad Films

photograph by Tim Hennessy

Paper Airplanes

A newspaper of art and poetry that emerged in the early days of Covid’s quarantine, preserved in a limited edition newspaper.

collaborators: Kim Agnew, Alex Cohen, Lisa and Tim Hennessy, Jillian Hanson, Jessica Runck, Grace and Alice Yoon, Jackie Freed, Chris Schreiber, Stephen Morrison, Naomi Hudson-Knapp, Stephanie Leah, Lindsay Lebel, Elysa Rose Coster, Shona McCarthy, Sarah Fontaine, Molly Prentiss, Yan Palmer, Melissa Thomas-Croteau, Stella Hennessy, Finn Hennessy, Baily Hancock, Elizabeth Sheeler, Annie Hauser, Marisa Vitale, Carrie Gifford, Devin O’Neil, Dionne Lewis, Newspaper Club

photograph by Tim Hennessy

Love Calendar

A letterpressed ritual preserving everyday glimpses of love.

collaborators: Chelsea and Peter Madeline, Alex Cohen, Blue Sky Black Sheep, Lisa and Tim Hennessy, Alissa Bell

photograph by Grey & Elle

New Mothers Writing Group

A writing group held for new mothers creating a container of intimacy and community as we navigated postpartum and the earliest days of motherhood.

collaborators: Kim Agnew & Jillian Hanson of Blue Sky Black Sheep