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An Exquisite Future
"An Exquisite Future was created in the Fall of 2014 by Master's Degree candidates [Susanne Allen, Sarah Matthews, Amy Nichols, Sarah Denslow, Krista Sharp, Julie Sheah] in the Art and the Book Program, Marginalia Press, at the Corcoran School of the…
Think Hatch
The return / by Liz Canfield ; designed by Karla Mickens -- Folding your hands and count without them / by Danielle Shutt ; designed by Kelly Gasque -- Princess Theatre / by Angela Lenhman-Rios ; designed by Rachel Gropper -- Oh, why not! / by Tim…
Multiple Voices : multiple histories : reimagining the Civil War
You are loosed from your mooring / by Catherine MacDonald and Ellen Carlson -- Visiting Civil War battlefields / by Melissa Johnson and James Gillette -- Waiting room / by Rich Murphey and Emily Smith -- Colonial enterprises / by Liz Canfield and…
[The Box Book]
[Box 1]. Jail box / by Liz Canfield and Alex Fulton -- A nerve / by Danielle Shutt and Lynn Nguyen -- Puss in box / by Melissa Johnson and Tim West -- Confident A.M. / by Danielle Shutt and Kathryn Stern -- The diner shrieking evil / by Nicholas…
Letters
An artists' book bound accordion-fold format. Features full-color digital printing and hand-stamping, with at least one page devoted to each letter of the English alphabet. Issued in a manila cardstock envelope with a tack enclosure on one side, and…
Sky and Earth: Variable Landscape
The influence of place has played a large role in the work of artist Claire Van Vliet, who moved to rural Vermont in 1966 and founded Janus Press. Here, Van Vliet allows viewers to create their own “landscape” by combining unbound die–cut colored…
Tags: 2015 Exhibits, Artists' Books, Treasure Room
Daily Bread
http://www.perkolatorpress.com/
Amy Pirkle is a book artist and letterpress printer in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who established the Perkolator Press in 2005. Relationships, time, and memory are common themes in her works. In a celebration of southern…
Amy Pirkle is a book artist and letterpress printer in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who established the Perkolator Press in 2005. Relationships, time, and memory are common themes in her works. In a celebration of southern…
Tags: 2015 Exhibits, Artists' Books, Treasure Room
The Quilts of Gee's Bend
Carolyn Shattuck created this book in the form of a rotating ring flexagon--a movable construction of six hinged tetrahedrons. The twenty-four surfaces of the flexagon bear reproductions of quilt designs. The artist honors the African American women…
Tags: 2015 Exhibits, Artists' Books, Treasure Room
Not Paper
Over the centuries, a variety of materials have been used to create books and documents. Here, artists Peter and Donna Thomas examine some of the types of paper-like materials that have been used, including amate (Mexican bark paper), birch bark,…
Tags: 2015 Exhibits, Artists' Books, Treasure Room
Long Story Short : home is where the heart is
http://www.spaceheat.com/
An artist's book with some foldout pages.
"Comforting images from the 50's and 60's are super-magnified to reveal a strange universe of dots and patterns. Verbal cliches are juxtaposed in an unsettling manner. A life…
An artist's book with some foldout pages.
"Comforting images from the 50's and 60's are super-magnified to reveal a strange universe of dots and patterns. Verbal cliches are juxtaposed in an unsettling manner. A life…