AL-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Catalog of a traveling exhibition, AL-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, July – September 2013. Co-curated by Sarah Bodman and Beau Beausoleil, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here assembled artists’ responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad that occurred in March 5, 2007, by a bomb explosion. The Center for Book Arts presented the exhibition, in collaboration with Alwan for the Arts, Columbia University Libraries, International Print Center New York, and Poets House. This major traveling exhibition featured approximately 250 artists’ books and 50 broadside (prints) by artists from around the world and toured to five venues 11/07/13 – 05/10/13. Participating artists include: Amber Ablett, Helen Allsebrook, Laurie Alpert, Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck, Holly Anderson, Lorie Lee Andrews, Peter Annand with Brigid Annand, and Henri Van Noordenburg, Alex Appella, Karen Apps, We Are Learning Arabic Various Artists, Nina Ardery, Maureen Astley-Mullen, Lynne Avadenka, Frans Baake, Tania Baban with Jim Natal, Mavina Baker, Nancy Bardos, Aileen Basis, Lucy Baxandall, Beau Beausoleil and Andrea Hassiba, Guy Begbie, Marget Bellafiore, John Bently, Derek Michael Besant, Victoria Bianchetti, Allison Bianco and Lara Henderson, Laura Blacklow, Tia Blassingame, Mare Blocker with Katrina Roberts, Sarah Bodman, AMA Bolton, Amaranth Borsuk, Bound To Be Good Book Group, Amy Bouse, Kristine Bouyoucos, Susan Bovington, Ara Bowen, Janet Bradley, Denise Brady with Alise Alousi, Tara Bryan, Sarah Bryant, Ginger Burrell, Angie Butler and Natalie Mcgrorty, Jennifer Caine, Loretta Cappanera, Catherine Cartwright, Roseann Cazares, Julie Chen, Karen Chew, Rosemarie Chiarlone with Susan Weiner, Michelle Cioccoloni, Edidja Ciricaite, Sas Colby, Margaret Coooter, Anna Corbett, Antonietta Covino-Beehre, Deborah Cowder, Anna Cox and Kerri Cushman Cox, Crafty Crafts Group, Maureen Cummins and Tona Wilson, John Cutrane and Paula Marie Gourley, Lyn Dales, Ken Daley and Nikki Webb, Luz Darriba, Laura Davidson, Mike Day, Jan De Waard, Bryson Bean-Gauthier, Cathy Deforest, among others.
Copyright Rosemarie Chiarlone
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