Matt Brown recently gave an invited talk at the “Protestantism and the Materiality of Texts” symposium, held at Princeton University April 20-22, 2017. The event was sponsored the Mellon Fellowships in Critical Bibliography. Matt also published a review of Matthew Rubery’s The Untold Story of...
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Lisa Miles (MFA ’17) has received a Fulbright Arts Research grant to study papermaking in Indonesia. With this grant, Miles will study daluang beaten bark papermaking, natural plant dyes, and printmaking. Based at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Bandung, Java, she will travel to urban and...
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Artists are invited to participate in an exhibit drawing upon ‘handy’ books held in University of Iowa Special Collections as inspiration for new works of book art. The curators will choose a book for each participant to work with and respond to.* Our theme is handiness: books that engage not...
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The University of Iowa Center for the Book, in collaboration with Alexandra Soteriou and a variety of supporting organizations, is proud to announce the launch of a new website on Indo-Islamic papermaking. This resource constitutes the most substantial photographic record of Indo-Islamic hand...
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An exhibit of works that engage not just the eye, but also the hands—through folds, flaps, tabs, slices, pop-ups, embossing, decay, wear, mutilation, feel—mind and hand linked by the book.
August 20 – September 15,
University of Iowa Center for the Book Merker Gallery
North...
2:00–3:15 Distributed Cognition in Ancient Science
Courtney Roby, Cornell University
Room 2032 Main Library
3:30–4:45 Art, Science, and the Mind in the Moveable Book Response and Roundtable Discussion
Courtney Roby, Susan W. Cook, University of...
An exhibit of works that engage not just the eye, but also the hands—through folds, flaps, tabs, slices, pop-ups, embossing, decay, wear, mutilation, feel—mind and hand linked by the book.
August 20 – September 15,
University of Iowa Center for the Book Merker Gallery
North...
Spring 2017 graduating students currently have their MFA thesis work on display in the KK Merker Gallery.
Works by Ruth Bryant, Ian Huebert and Lisa Miles.
The show will be up from April 24th to May 15th.
Come celebrate with us at the reception on Friday, May 5th from 4:00-6:...
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