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Publication Date
12-1-2023
Description
Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.
Keywords
artists' books, Baker & Whitehill
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Student Status
Graduate student
Year of Graduation
2025
Major
Illustration
Faculty / Course
Susan Doyle, Jean Blackburn, ILLUS-501G-01
Materials + Techniques
Graphite and pen illustrations scanned and riso printed, ribbon, heavy weight colored paper
Student Narrative
This book encapsulates the last four years of my life from the moment I left California at 18 to the moment I crossed the state line out of Colorado and into Nebraska. With 47 drawings, 88 pages and 62 feet in length, the story follows my experience with sexual assault and the four chronic illnesses that followed, the claustrophobia of avoiding a rapist and the joy of finally leaving. For anyone struggling with PTSD or residual impacts from any kind of trauma, this book is for you. I make this work in hopes of it reaching people who need it, I know it would have benefited me when I was a freshman in college.
Photo Credit
Miles Tong 2025 FAV
Recommended Citation
Curtis, Maren; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Heaven Is a Corn Field in Nebraska" (2023). 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024. 12.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest10th2024/12