Covid: Book of Days, 2022
Conceived and directed by Harriet Bart
Produced by Paul Nylander at Four Tree Press
Giclee and letterpress print on paper
Boxed deigned by Jody Williams and executed by Campbell-Logan Bindery.
Folio titles excerpted from Emily Dickinson.
Covid: Book of Days is based on mixed-media drawings and collages created in response to the events of March through May, 2020. On March 13, Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, closed the State in response to the deadly spread of Covid-19. Bart went to her studio that day, collected a small box of art materials, a stack of precut paper and went home. There she created a workspace 18 x 18”, the size of Emily Dickinson’s desk. From March 13 thru May, she created more than 50 mixed media drawings and collages, some of which comprise Covid: Book of Days.
Exhibition:
Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy / January 25 - July 21, 2023 / Christian Petersen Art Museum, Iowa State University