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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Exhibition Healing, Teaching… at H-L through October

Story posted October 03, 2008

Hawthorne-Longfellow Library is recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month with the exhibition Healing, Teaching… featuring artists' books by two Maine women whose works are informed by their own breast cancer diagnoses.

Martha Hall, a resident of Orr's Island, Maine, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989. Hall turned to art as a way to confront and understand the emotional issues brought on by the disease. In the process, she created more than 100 artists' books before her death late in 2003.

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Tattoo, Martha Hall (2002). Photo by Dennis Griggs, courtesy Bowdoin College Library

Allison Cooke Brown, a friend and artistic collaborator of Martha Hall, makes artists' books that reflect her own struggles with breast cancer. Also a sculptor and fiber artist, she makes her home in Yarmouth, Maine.

Artists' books are artwork in book form, in which the artist appropriates reading, book structure and book-making techniques as means of artistic expression.

The George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives has a collection of more than 200 artists' books in its book arts collection.

Healing, Teaching... is on exhibit on the first floor of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library throughout the month of October.


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