Autumn 2009 Exhibition Schedule
Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books
September 18 – October 30, 2009
Gould Library, Carleton College
The traveling exhibition, Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books, features more than 140 handmade artists' books. The books encompass an astonishing variety of ideas, images, and techniques, but are distinguished by their unusual scale: each of the books is tiny, designed to just fit into the palm of the hand. The project involves not only artists from all over the United States, but also from Korea, Japan, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Spain, India, Pakistan, Canada, Mauritius, Argentina, and the United Kingdom. Fred Hagstrom, professor of art at Carleton College, is among the artists taking part in the exhibition.
Hui-Chu Ying, Associate Professor at the Myers School of Art, University of Akron, spearheaded the MIMB project in conjunction with the Southern Graphics Council's 2009 conference at Columbia College in Chicago, the site of the MIMB project's inaugural exhibition. During their exhibition tour, the books will travel to 46 institutions worldwide. We extend especial thanks to Fred Hagstrom for helping to bring the exhibition to Carleton College.
For more information on MIMB, please visit the exhibition website, http://mimb.org/.
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Art Meets Text
[Broadsides Exhibition]
Gould Library Special Collections, Carleton College
A broadside is a single leaf of paper with text and imagery printed on one side. A historical predecessor of the newspaper and print advertisements, broadsides evolved as an ideal space for interplay between text and image. The broadsides on display here are drawn from Gould Library Special Collections. They incorporate an assortment of printing techniques and types of texts, including poetry, excerpts from novels, and even entomological identifications.
The publishers represented in this exhibition include the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts (MCBA), an important regional center for the book arts,and Midnight Paper Sales, a fine press. Established in 1983, the MCBA is dedicated to the book as a as a capsule for artistic intrigue and experimentation, provides studio space for professional book artists and holds workshops on papermaking, bookmaking, and printmaking. Midnight Paper Sales publishes limited edition books that are visually stunning, including The Coriolis Effect, The Intruder, and Turkish Pears in August, all of which are housed in Gould Library Special Collections.
For more information about printmaking, the book arts, and broadsides, please visit Midnight Paper Sales at www.midnightpapersales.com and the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts at www.mnbookarts.org.
Cinema and Media Studies: Spring Trip 2009
October 28, 2009
Carleton College
John Schott lead a trip to New York City, Rome, and Prague, in the Spring of 2009. The students in this program compiled books of photography that documented their experience in these cities. The camera lens reveals much about the intricacies of these cities, but also of the photographers themselves, as the photos range from the very intimate portrait to the broad cityscape.
