Fertile Ground: Artists Respond to a Collective Geography

Fertile Ground: Artists Respond to a Collective Geography

Book artists

Baltimore (Md.)

In Spring 2016, Decker Library invited students from MICA's Book Arts courses to create an artist book based on materials from the library's collections. This exhibition Fertile Ground: Artists Respond to a Collective Geography results from that collaboration.

The students were challenged to select and respond to something from the library collections, to create a book art project that made sense in terms of their artistic practice and the requirements of the particular course in which they were enrolled, and to compose an artist statement about their work. All had the opportunity to have their work curated into this exhibition in MICA's Pinkard Gallery with visiting curator Cynthia Nourse Thompson '92 from the University of the Arts.

Faculty partners and their courses were Isabel Lederman (Artists' Books: Visual Poetry and Artists' Publications), Gail Deery (History of Paper Structure), and Stephanie Garmey (Mixed Media Book).

Fertile Ground: Artists Respond to a Collective Geography is partially funded by the Gladys Brooks Foundation, and is presented in conjunction with Book Arts Baltimore. Book Arts Baltimore is an informal partnership among several Baltimore-area institutions supporting a common goal: celebrating artists' books and book arts through exhibitions, courses, and programs offered in 2015-2017.

Kathy Cowan, Decker Library

Cynthia Nourse Thompson ‘92, University of the Arts.

Artists’ Books: Visual Poetry and Artists’ Publications, Isabel Lederman

PR 340 History of Paper Structure, Gail Deery

GFA 305 Mixed Media Books, Stephanie Garmey

2017-27-01

Photograph by Decker Library. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For digital surrogates utilize the rights statement provided by DIU.

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