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SUMMARY:Soft Touch: Textiles and Tactility in Bookmaking exhibit
LOCATION:Alden Library 2nd floor\, 30 Park Place\, Athens\, Ohio 45701
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit\, visible when the 2nd floor of Alden Library is 
 open\, challenges us to rethink how we understand “the book” to be a bloc
 k of printed pages bound into a hard cover. Variations in the material us
 ed to bind books\, ranging from silk and linen to hand embroidery\, have 
 softened and personalized the experience of a book in hand throughout his
 tory.\n\nLooking to contemporary artists’ books\, including some created 
 by Ohio University students\, we find that they can be made of almost any
  textile-based\, inspired\, or adjacent material\, and that they may not 
 function as we expect a book to function. Perhaps there is no beginning o
 r end\, no front or back cover\, or no obvious opening at all! When it co
 mes to books like these\, the materiality may invite us in as much as\, o
 r more than\, the content.\n\nThis exhibit was curated to compliment the 
 Sept. 23rd event\, Coded Threads: Translating Shakespeare Into Material F
 orm\, a talk by book artist\, printmaker\, and writer Suzanne Coley.\n\nF
 or more information contact Miriam Intrator intrator@ohio.edu.\n\nhttp://
 next-to-u.app/events/76a73800-11aa-47df-9a44-2db262cffb2c
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/76a73800-11aa-47df-9a44-2db262cffb2c
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