Clark Library Exhibit Space
Hatcher Library South, Second Floor, Room 260J
University of Michigan Library
913 S. University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
ULM Clark Library Exhibition Space/Hatcher Library: This exhibit in the Clark Library rotunda focuses on handmade decorative patterned papers when exploring books stored at the library's Buhr Offsite Shelving Facility. Decorative paper, noticed when walking through the stack's aisles or surprising you when you casually flip through a book, can really catch your eye. But because the Buhr stacks are closed from browsing, the density and dimensionality of its nearly 3 million books are reduced to title searches on a screen.
As a response to these reflections, artist and library staff member Stephanie Osorio shares her handbound unopenable book-objects as symbolic stand-ins for forgotten books at Buhr — the books that don’t get a chance to be noticed. Along with the book-objects are the carved woodblocks that made prints to decorate them. Some books from Buhr that inspired this project with their original decorated patterned papers will also be on display.
Free and open to the public
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Muted Volumes: Book-Objects, Patterned Papers, and the Closed Stacks of Buhr
