Jody Williams: Circumstantial Evidence

Jody Williams: Circumstantial Evidence

An exhibition of books and boxes at Augsburg College's Christensen gallery

Something of a peek into the artist’s archives, this exhibition will present new books and boxes along with older works that have rarely been exhibited.

Artist Statement
My artist’s books and boxes broadly address the relationship between information, communication and containers. I was introduced to books through printmaking and papermaking; my interest in boxes as art forms began with my undergraduate study in metalsmithing. Aside from my editioned books, which are usually housed in boxes, I also create “not empty” boxes with specimens and artifacts that document specific moments in specific places. With all of my work, form and content are inseparable, and each element or word is carefully considered in relation to the whole.

Artist Bio Jody Williams publishes artist’s books under the name Flying Paper Press. She has taught workshops and presented lectures at museums and colleges across the United States and in Europe. Her work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Minnesota Historical Society, and numerous other museums, universities, and libraries. Honors include Jerome Foundation fellowships, grants and awards from the Minnesota Craft Council, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 2008, Jody Williams received the inaugural Minnesota Book Artist Award from the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, and she was awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant in 2013.

Note: This show will run concurrently with J.M.Culver: Where Back When at Augsburg's Gage Family gallery.


Image Credit: Cistellula Numero Quinta, bookbinder's board, covered with Japanese kozo and digitally printed Sakamoto papers, drawing, cast bronze and actual specimens, Open dimensions: 4" x 6 ½" x 1”, 2015


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