Join us for the opening reception of The Art of the Book: Treasures from the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. This exhibition showcases a variety of artworks housed in the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University’s Charles Library. Organized through a curatorial collaboration between graduate students from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, the exhibition examines how the format of the book has been treated across time and geography. The 40 diverse examples featured in this show challenge our preconceived notions and expand our definitions of this type of object. 

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). 

Photography by Tyler School of Art & Architecture MFA Photography students Sophia Dell’Arciprete, Yaqeen Yamani, Natalia Purchiaroni, and William Toney, with Byron Wolfe (Professor and Art Department Chair). 

Graduate Project Manager: Jackie Streker (PhD Art History); Design Assistant: Emily Feyrer (BFA GAID). 

The Art of the Book: Treasures from the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries 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.