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<\/a>A page spread in Bees<\/em>, by Stephanie Wolff.<\/p><\/div>\n Our current exhibit, “Along the Banks of My River,” displays books and textile pieces by Vermont artist Stephanie Wolff<\/a> that are connected to weather, history and language and based on a series of journals kept by Anna Blackwood Howell during the nineteenth century. We purchased three of the pieces in the exhibit, including Bees<\/em> (pictured above), Fishing Time at Fancy Hill<\/em> and The River 1833<\/em>. We also acquired the production archives for a number of Gefn Press books.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Found Shadows <\/em>(shown below), Vermont artist Rebecca Boardman incorporates black and white photographs of shadows that she collected in her home. She puts them on display in a gallery-like structure. Text on the panel on the left side of the structure reads, “Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke.” Text on the right panel reads: “Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. Conrad Hall.”<\/p>\n Found Shadows, by Rebecca Boardman<\/p><\/div>\n Visit Silver Special Collections<\/a> in Billings 201 to explore the artists’ book collection.<\/p>\n Submitted by Prudence Doherty, Public Services Librarian<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Silver Special Collections continues to add new artists’ books for use by students, faculty and community members. In this post, we highlight a sample of our recent acquisitions. Our current exhibit, “Along the Banks of My River,” displays books and … Continue reading
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\n<\/a><\/a>We expanded our collection of books from\u00a0 Susan Johanknecht’s Gefn Press with nine works made between 2014<\/span>\u00a0and 2025. Johanknecht established Gefn Press in 1977, the same year that she graduated from the University of Vermont. The additions include her latest book, Fugal<\/em>, produced in collaboration with Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press and Andrew Miller-Brown at Plowboy Press. The artist explains the creation process,\u00a0 “Fugal<\/em> was written in response to descriptions and listenings to Bach fugues. Procedures used in the composition of the fugue were applied to build a poem which speaks to its musical source yet becomes an autonomous text.” The cover presents an image of Bach’s last known musical score.<\/p>\n<\/a>Two of the recent acquisitions use photographs in very different ways. David Sokosh’s Things That Look Like the Moon (but are not the moon)\u00a0<\/em>explores perception versus reality. He presents 16 photographs of round objects that look like the moon, but are not, such as a ball of string, a melon and the modern version of a nineteenth-century valentine made from shells shown at right. A short explanation accompanies each photograph. The book is cyanotype-printed, creating a unique set of blue moons.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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