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Common Threads<\/a> is one volume of an ongoing series of canvas notebooks filled with hand-embroidered text recording coincidences the artist encounters.<\/p>\n Family Tree<\/strong> Ghost Diary<\/strong> Ghost Diary<\/a> uses the most fragile material that the students encountered. The text, essentially a memoir based on an 1807 letter of Lt. Col. Jonathon Rhea, is printed on glass panels that are bound together with black metal. Vintage negatives complement the text.<\/p>\n In War 1940-<\/strong> Mars<\/strong> Not Paper<\/strong> Occupy Your Wallet<\/strong> Ordinary Discovery<\/strong> This spring, Erika White’s ARTS 196 class, Making Artist Books, includes four sessions in Silver Special Collections. During the first session, librarian Prudence Doherty introduced students to a selection of artists’ books. During the second session, students explored accordion book … Continue reading ![\"Image](\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/uvmsc-specialcollections\/files\/2023\/03\/common.jpg\")
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\nJulie Chen, Flying Fish Press<\/p>\n<\/a>Family Tree<\/a> uses 16 maple blocks with images and text on all six sides to explore family history and relationships. The blocks can be arranged to show a single image with text, or they can be rearranged to change the story.<\/p>\n
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\nKaren Boldner, Drew Cameron<\/p>\n<\/a>The pages of In War 1940-<\/a> are made of paper shredded from military uniforms that were donated by veterans or their families. Each page uses uniforms from a separate conflict, from Afghanistan in the front, to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq-Desert Storm, Vietnam, Korea, World War II in the back.<\/p>\n
\nDaniel Kelm<\/p>\n<\/a>Mars<\/a> includes an accordion book, two pamphlets and three metal objects. A Civil War canister ball, a chrome steel ball bearing, and an iron-nickel meteorite represent what Kelm sees as the three faces of Mars: Military Mars, Scientific Mars, and Celestial Mars. Students spent time transforming the hinged accordion panel into a dodecahedron with stainless steel pins.<\/p>\n
\nPeter Thomas<\/p>\n<\/a>Not Paper<\/a> includes samples of seven paper-like materials (amate, birchbark, papyrus, parchment, tapa, tyvek, and wasp nest) accompanied by information about each material.<\/p>\n
\nEmily Artinian<\/p>\n<\/a>Occupy Your Wallet<\/a> includes 25 plastic credit card blanks printed on one side with photos of Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, Chicago and Delaware. On the reverse side, along with a magnetic strip, there is a record of the location, the date, events of the day and the weather.<\/p>\n
\nNicole Eiland<\/p>\n<\/a>In Ordinary Discovery<\/a>, Nicole Eiland invites the viewer to look closely at slices of ordinary fruits and vegetables, alternating palladium print photographs with sheets of yam, kiwi and parsnip pressed flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"