Re-Drawn: Pictures, Plots & Portrayals from Special Collections, MFA Exhibition Spring 2024

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Title: Re-Drawn: Pictures, Plots & Portrayals from Special Collections, MFA Exhibition Spring 2024
Description: The Re-Drawn exhibition was the culmination of a class focusing on the planning and development of exhibitions and public engagement in special collections. Students participating in the class conducted research with materials from the Dowd Illustration Research Archive, Rare Books, and other collections. The students organized individual physical exhibitions and populated a digital exhibit to document the installation. The purpose of the exhibit was to gain an understanding of practical and theoretical issues related to studying and displaying collections.

The items in this set were selected by the students for their individual exhibit sections and are a sample of the research conducted throughout the year.

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Masks / creator, Sijia Song.

Two volumes bound dos-à-dos; a full-color illustration forms the shared back cover. Laid in a fold-out paper portfolio.
Mary had a Little Lamb from The Tall Book of Mother Goose, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky

The tall book of Mother Goose / pictured by Feodor Rojankovsky.
Mary had a Little Lamb from Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

Mother Goose nursery rhymes / pictured by Mabel Lucie Atwell ; edited by Edric Vredenburg
Man in Orbit

Tear sheet
Lungs and Heart Keep Juggling O2 and CO2

Tear sheet
Long night

Printed in black and red on rectos only; includes 1 cutout and a 'hidden' leaf affixed at the fore-edge to the preceding leaf.
Like things go away / Alyson Provax

"In winter 2023 Alyson printed the letterpress originals in Portland, OR with 14 pt Garamond from the Dale Guild Foundry on her Chandler and Price Pilot Old Style. The letterpress covers were printed back in Portland by Alyson using 24pt Garamond English Italic and 8pt Univers Light Roman from M & H Type. Once shipped back to Oakland, the books were finished and bound in spring 2023 by Zach using a Singer Series 7-11, with final edition of 200"
LIFE magazine cover

Magazine cover
Keep These Off the USA
Katie K. "Republican Posters"
Katie K. "New York Magazine"
Katie K. "Mother Jones"
Katie K. "Man on Road"
Katie K. "Good Life"
Katie K. "Collage Binder"
Katie K. "CBS Sketchbook"
Jack and Jill from Mother Goose, or, The old nursery rhymes illustrated by Kate Greenaway

Mother Goose, or, The old nursery rhymes / illustrated by Kate Greenaway ; engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
Jack and Jill from A Treasury of Stories, Jingles and Rhymes illustrated by Maud Humphrey

A treasury of stories, jingles and rhymes : short stories ; fairy tales ; Mother Goose jingles / with one hundred and forty vignette illustrations in half-tone
Interior spread from Little "Red Riding Hood"

A pop-up book rendition of the classic story as recorded by the Brother's Grimm
Interior illustration from The Fire-Bird

Russian folktale collection illustrated by Igor Yershov and Ksenia Yershova. In this story, "The Firebird," a hero must accomplish impossible tasks and befriend animals in order to rescue a tzarina.