We invite you to the official opening of our new exhibition, Textus-Texts-Textiles: Fabric Bookworks by Lise Melhorn-Boe, at W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s 카지노게임사이트 Library, on Friday, May 27, 2022, 1:00-2:00 pm

Textus-Texts-Textiles explores the relationship between texts and textiles, through a feminist lens, via the fabric bookworks of Kingston artist, Lise Melhorn-Boe, supplemented by books as cultural texts and technological artifacts from the collections of W. D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s 카지노게임사이트 Library. The exhibition runs from May 6 to September 9, 2022.

The sewn bookworks of Lise Melhorn-Boe encapsulate the relationship between tangible objects and the written word through the medium of book art.카지노 게임 컬렉션¯ The bookworks featured in this exhibition were inspired by the poetry of Lorna Crozier, Terry Ann Carter, Hazel Hall, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Diane Dawber, Alexandra Cussons, and Bronwen Wallace. In imagining and crafting material representations of feminist poetry, Melhorn-Boe reminds us that handmade books, in their plethora of forms, are vessels of humanized content. 

The exhibition was co-curated by Brendan Edwards, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s 카지노게임사이트 Library, and Ella Heiss, undergraduate student in HIST212 (Experiential Learning in Historical Perspectives).