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  In Between

  Frida Baranek, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  42 pages ; 28 cm + 16 portfolios (samples ; 28 cm). 1 box, 16 portfolios. Title from title page of text booklet. Housed in a cloth-covered drop-spine portfolio box (30 x 24 x 5 cm) with paper label on spine Portfolio contains a text booklet (42 pages) plus 16 specimens of handmade paper in individual white paper folders with letterpress identifying each artist. Text booklet contains artists' statements and biographical information. Contents: Amalia Avilés-Lugo -- Anna Hendrick Karpatkin Benjamin -- Hannah O'Hare Bennett -- Jenna Bonistalli -- Elena Bordacconi -- Lesa Hepburn -- Julie L. Johnson -- Danae Lagoy -- Tom Leech -- Stephanie Lerma -- Roberto Mannino -- Jill Odegaard -- Sariah Park -- Claire Reynes -- Jamie Monosson Scherzer -- Kazumi Seki Hand Papermaking's lucky thirteenth themed portfolio of handmade paper was by design meant to inspire broad interpretation. The hope was that the final papers in the portfolio would be thought-provoking and visually compelling art works that formally or conceptually suggested the liminal, the undefined, the unextreme, the marginal, the middling. In the end, our challenge attracted a diverse group of 16 artists from Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and all corners of the United States whose collective 16 paper works, chosen by curator Frida Baranek, are an intriguing record of the creative spirit of these decidedly "in between" times. To represent the "in between" in paper, some artists worked with layers, building meaningful works of art with unusual juxtapositions and surprising manipulations between multiple couches or applications of pulp. Other artists embedded various fibers or objects, such as delicate weavings of thread, directly and impractically into the paper. Still others made abstract works that challenged the very notion of what paper is. On the whole, the papers in In Between are as strangely beautiful as they are beautifully strange. "This portfolio was printed by Curtis 1000 of Fridley, Minnesota, on Lynx paper in Garamond types. The Canson wrappers were letterpress printed by Steve Miller. BookLab II made the boxes."--Colophon. "The edition is limited to one hundred and twenty-five and two Hand Papermaking archive proofs."--Colophon. Library has copy no. 23.

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  This is an Emergency! : A Reproductive Rights + Gender Justice Portfolio

  Meredith Stern, Judy Kashoff, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 portfolio : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 47 cm. Colophon page title. This portfolio contains a hand sewn 'zine' with text by Meredith Stern and Judy Kashoff, a colophon page, and a collection of 17 prints. Horizonal and vertical red bands surround the colophon, text, and 17 prints. "Seventeen artists created a print for this project. Third Termite Press in Pittsburgh printed the colophon and Ladyfingers Letterpress printed the covers. The participants are: several members of the Justseeds Cooperative including: Melanie Cervantes, Thea Gahr, Bec Young, Favianna Rodriguez, Mary Tremonte, Molly Fair, and myself (Meredith Stern). Also participating are: Ian Cozzens of Secret Door Projects, Kristina Brown, Delia Kovac, Emmy Bright, Lois Harada, Erin Rosenthal, Katrina Silander Clark, Arley Rose Torsone, Sam Merritt, and Olivia Horvath."--[see website listed below]. "There is also a written portion of this project which takes the form of a small hand sewn 'zine'. The zine includes interviews with: Judy Kashoff, Gina Glantz, Peg Johnston, Heather Booth, Ken Rinker, Virginia Reath, Elizabeth Esris, and Judith Arcana. Also included is a comic by Susan Simensky Bietila, which was originally printed in World War 3 Illustrated. There are a wide variety of experiences and stories that are untold, and this is an attempt to share some of them. The stories involve people's personal stories as well as their experiences working for equality through political and grassroots movement work. This aspect of the project has an inter-generational component; people in their 20's and 30's interviewed their mentors/elders. Women, feminists, gay, and queer identified people are largely absent from most historical texts and this project will tell some of our stories."--http://www.abortioncarenetwork.org/news/this-is-an-emergency Limited edition of 125 copies. Library has copy no. 13. Gift of Meredith Stern. Includes Press Release.

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  Papermaking at Hayle Mill

  Maureen Green, Ellen Dorn Levitt, Claire Van Vliet, C. Andrew Miller-Brown, and Audrey Holden

  65 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, samples, 1 folded map. "Includes a book, Papermaking at Hayle Mill, 1808-1987 by Maureen Green; a map, The Loose Valley, 1856 with the mills on Loose Stream; Mill photographs; Sample papers; and 12 proof sheets for the book; all issued in a box. Printed in black, red, and blue. Contents printed inside the box: Hayle Mill book -- Loose Valley map -- Mill photographs -- Sample papers. ""Printed on Finale, the last paper made at Hayle Mill. ... The portrait of Samuel Green was prepared and printed on Epson Archival paper by Ellen Dorn Levitt who also scanned the watermarks and maps preparing them, with Claire Van Vliet, for platemaking. Much of the letterpress printing used polymer plates from Boxcar Press ... and was printed by Andrew Miller-Brown. ... the photographs were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levitt from old prints in the Hayle Mill Archive and cleaned up in Photoshop. They were printed by Emily Corrow on a Xerox Docucolor 240 copier in Hammermill 100lb archival cover copy paper""--Colophon of book. Exposed stitch binding. Two color fabric covering on clamshell box, title printed on paper, mounted on box spine. Gift of the Museum on behalf of the original donor, Ruth Fine. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021. "

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  Five Poems

  Toni Morrison, Peter Rutledge Koch, Kara Walker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [26] pages : illus. " ... published in a signed edition of 399 numbered and 26 lettered copies. The book was designed by Peter Rutledge Koch, and printed letterpress from digital imaging and photo-polymer plates at Peter Koch, Printers in Berkeley, California ... cover papers are Fabriano Ingres. Binding and housing by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio in Austin, Texas.""--Colophon. CONTENTS: Eve remembering -- The perfect ease of grain -- Someone leans near -- It comes unadorned -- I am not seaworthy. In slipcase, paper sides with linen fabric top and bottom, mounted paper title label. Cover is decorated paper with linen spine with mounted paper label. Library has copy no. 182. Signed by the author, artist, and printer. Kara Walker, RISD Alumna. Bookplate in recognition of Joan Ress Reeves for continued support of the College Annual Fund. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021. "

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  The Prophetic Book = Ksiega Proroctw

  Craig Raine, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 46 unnumbered pages. Title page illustrated and printed on a double page spread. " ... translated into Polish by Jerzy Jarniewicz. 11 black and white linocuts by Krzysztof Wawrzyniak ... Limited edition of 100 copies numbered 1-100 ... All copies signed by the poet, the translator and the graphic-artist."--Colophon. Text in Polish and English. Cover has letterpress design/illustration on cover. Housed in five-part folded case. Printed text on lining paper mounted inside the case covers.