The Written Image: A Radical Alteration, Women’s Studio Workshop
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts features artists books with innovative designs that honor familial pasts and document history.
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The Written Image: Painting Through Depression
Novelist and graphic designer Peter Mendelsund describes embracing imperfection through the creative practice of painting, including using his nondominant hand, smearing the paint with a trowel, and flipping the canvas.
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The Written Image: The Unsent Letter Mailbox
Inspired by the possibility of providing complete strangers an opportunity for creativity and catharsis, the Unsent Letter Mailbox started as an interactive urban art project and has now grown into a salon reading series.
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The Written Image: Ephemeral Altars
Flower Conroy’s elaborate three-dimensional installations, fashioned from found and crafted objects, masterfully evoke the spirit of each book the artist chooses and carefully communicate her reverence for literature.
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The Written Image: Ghost(ed) Notes
Christine Sun Kim’s art practice uniquely melds different mediums with ASL to address her experience as a Deaf individual in a hearing-centric world, prompting viewers to reflect on accessibility and ableist exclusion.
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The Written Image: Typewriter Art
U.K.-based artist James Cook uses a typewriter to create architectural and portraiture artworks consisting of thousands of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, encouraging viewers to look beyond their first impressions.
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The Written Image: BiblioQuilts
Inspired by traditional and contemporary quilt patterns, artist Larry Clifford crafts each of his BiblioQuilts from hardcover books rescued from libraries, basements, and attics.
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The Written Image: Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House Library Books
Twenty tiny books, including poetry collections, short tales, plays, and other works, were added this year to the miniature library collection in Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House to celebrate the royal dollhouse’s centennial anniversary.
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The Written Image: Native Narrative Art
A new exhibit opening in June at the National Museum of the American Indian considers the important role that visual and material storytelling plays in chronicling the histories of Great Plains Native nations.
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The Written Image: The Backyard Bird Chronicles
A testament to best-selling novelist Amy Tan’s obsession with birds, The Backyard Bird Chronicles spotlights hundreds of excerpts of illustrations and prose from Tan’s observations over the years.
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