Join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and Archives and the Main Library Gallery for a chance to interact with historic books and the materials that make them. From parchment and papyrus samples to real medieval manuscripts, learn more about these types of items and how to handle them during this pop-up event. Drop in any time between 1-3 p.m. at Group Area D in the Main Library's Learning Commons.
After spending some time with historic materials at this event, stop over to...
Join artist, innovator, designer and UIowa alum Suzanne Tick for two insightful conversations about her work.
What Now?
Wednesday, March 20 | 6 p.m. |E125 Visual Arts Building
What Now? will feature the ever-changing discussion of evolution, connectivity with the world around us, and what is relevant for the time as we move forward as creatives in a post-Covid world.
Making Materials Matter
Thursday, March 21 | 6:30 p.m. |240 Art Building West
Making Materials Matteris a visual journey...
This lecture looks at the continuing life and uses of some very old books in and outside of the Making the Book, Past and Present exhibition. Starting from one of the biggest in both scale and edition size, the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle, which was printed from hundreds of woodcut blocks, to others containing mystical puzzles or movable parts, no two copies of a pre-modern book were ever the same. This look at annotating, collecting, and censoring them, as well as keeping things in them will show...