Here You Are is in the Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery collection and is currently on exhibition at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The show is called “AMERICAN STORIES: Artists’ Books from the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.”
Around 2000, The Baxter Library at the Portland School of Art/Maine College of Art digitized the collection and the card catalog was replaced. I was teaching a class in Interdisciplinary Design at the time and my students each took an empty card catalog drawer and composed a sculpture in the drawer and returned it to the library. I joined in and made Wonderland, a book sculpture made with my artist and mother-in-law, Julie Suchecki, an expert miniaturist. Last week, to my delight twenty five years later, it remains casually sprawled out on a table in the new library—the Joanne Waxman Library at the Maine Collage of Art. (Lauri)
After doing a lot of plain weaving, which has yielded some nice napkins and dish towels, we decided to warp and dress a 4-harness “Danish weave for towels” pattern from Worst’s FOOT-POWER LOOM WEAVING (1947 printing). This book was my Mother’s when she studied weaving at Skidmore in the early 1950’s. Warp & weft threads are 3/2 Pearl Cotton. (Peter)
A book/box of drawings of abandoned rock collections found on the street or by the side of the road that don’t necessarily belong to the land they were found on. It feels sometimes ridiculous to make a book of drawings of found ordinary rocks, peoples abandoned collections that at one time meant so much. If it was about the beauty of the land, a moment in time, a keepsake of time and place, I think it’s important and a beautiful opportunity to honor it. (Lauri)
wood, ink, cotton, collage, stone, wood box – 2025
