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Heynen wrote a fictitious poem about an old mare and an older barn. In the poem, the adults fail to see the value in the barn and want to destroy it, while the boys wish to save it. The book is constructed with handmade paper, handset letters, and a…

A portfolio of 12 folded leaves in a handmade black linen box. Each leaf contains stamps that are not official but represent parts of history that are glossed over, such as the United States’ use of Agent Orange and the bombing of Hanoi, Vietnam in…

A double-sided accordion structure with mixed media linoleum cut images and polymer plate printed text. Interior Landscape responds to The Journals of Sylvia Plath with Harris’s own experience of balancing motherhood and artistry. Sylvia Plath was an…

Bart made this book during her residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Studio VAS. Bart uses pictures and words to trace the presence and absence of 46 artists who were in the studio between 2004-2010.

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A double-sided accordion with four pop-ups. The book is bound in color copies of vintage papers with page edges that resemble lace. Tie One On! traces the history of the apron from a solely functional clothing item to a fashion piece. Copy 12/20

This book is bound as a pamphlet and printed using lithography. The book dissects the Dick and Jane textbooks that were popular in the 1940s and 50s. Those textbooks made white upper-middle-class suburbanites seem like the “typical” American family.…

Letterpress printed in Park Ave Script lead type in the Welle Book Arts Studio at the College of Saint Benedict. Handbound in a Coptic stitch dos-a-dos format (both covers serve as front covers). One mat board cover includes pieces of handmade paper,…

A two-part story using near-identical labyrinths made from the same mold and white cotton pulp. Simple words are embedded to represent the pulse of action. Centering, Inward focuses on dense language culminating in the center, whereas Outward, Return…

The Water Department contains nineteen personal memories that involve tears, both happy and sad. Seventeen containers have handbound accordion-style short stories, and three display text on a single circle. The photographs were printed on an inkjet…