Join one of the Art History graduate student curators of The Art of the Book exhibition for a gallery talk focusing on highlights of the exhibition. Learn more about the process of creating this collaborative exhibition of items from Temple's Special Collections Research Center.
A key question at the heart of this exhibition is, what constitutes a book? The 40 diverse examples featured in this show challenge our preconceived notions and expand our definitions of this type of object. Melding illustration, painting, object-making, calligraphy, and storytelling, the objects featured in The Art of the Book transmit a robust sense of time, place, and identity.
Curated by graduate students from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture: Daniel Cappello (MFA Sculpture), MeiLi Carling (MFA GAID), Ivy D’Agostino (MA Art History), Bradford L. Davis (MFA Ceramics), Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (PhD Art History), Emma P. Holter (PhD Art History), Robin Morris (MA Art History), Mike Ray (MFA GAID), Ha Tran (MFA GAID), and Rachel Vorsanger (PhD Art History), with Dr. Joseph Kopta (Assistant Professor of Instruction, Art History) and Kimberly Tully (Curator of Rare Books, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries).
The Art of the Book: Treasures from the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries is a collaboration between the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and Temple University Libraries. The exhibition is free and open to the public. It is supported by Temple University Libraries, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University’s General Activity Fund (GAF), the Jackson Fund for Byzantine Art, the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT), the Art History Department, and two anonymous donors.