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Crossing the Line: The Passport Reimagined Catalog

$24.00

Exhibition catalog.

Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined is a traveling exhibition built around ideas and ideals of identity, belonging, and freedom of movement. Twelve artists were commissioned by the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection to take inspiration from the passport and other travel documents to create an artist book. Another sixteen artists’ books were curated from the collection to bring additional perspectives, taking us around the world, into the past and into the future, offering an incisive look at the promises and limitations of the passport, often reflecting the power of possession and the nationality or group that has conferred belonging. 

The catalog is a companion piece to the traveling exhibition which will be at five locations across the United States. Each location will have its own version of the catalog available with a location “stamped” on the inside title page, inspired by a traditional passport.

Published by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) and the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection

11.5” x 9.75”

*This item is discount-eligible. MCBA members receive a 10% discount on this item.

Exhibition catalog.

Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined is a traveling exhibition built around ideas and ideals of identity, belonging, and freedom of movement. Twelve artists were commissioned by the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection to take inspiration from the passport and other travel documents to create an artist book. Another sixteen artists’ books were curated from the collection to bring additional perspectives, taking us around the world, into the past and into the future, offering an incisive look at the promises and limitations of the passport, often reflecting the power of possession and the nationality or group that has conferred belonging. 

The catalog is a companion piece to the traveling exhibition which will be at five locations across the United States. Each location will have its own version of the catalog available with a location “stamped” on the inside title page, inspired by a traditional passport.

Published by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) and the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection

11.5” x 9.75”

*This item is discount-eligible. MCBA members receive a 10% discount on this item.

Megan N. Liberty is an arts writer, editor, and archivist based in Brooklyn who writes about artists’ books, ephemera, archives, and other multidisciplinary meetings of text and image. She is the Art Books section editor at the Brooklyn Rail and co-founder of the Book Art Review. Her writing appears regularly on Hyperallergic and in ArtReview, and has also been published in Artforum.com, Art in America, Frieze, NY Review of Books Daily, LA Review of Books, White Review,Art in Print, and elsewhere. She has led and participated in public conversations on artists’ books and publishing with the Brooklyn Rail, Contemporary Artist Book Conference, Hill Art Foundation, and Miriam Gallery, and teaches workshops for early career artists on the practical and conceptual importance of self-archiving. She was a 2019-20 AICA/USA and Creative Capital/The Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writing Workshop participant, and has an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and a BA in English from Dickinson College, PA.