• Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book / Clarissa Sligh
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Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book / Clarissa Sligh

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FA.B88.2355
8 x 8 in
2016
Clarissa Sligh
Perfect bound softcover. Four-color offset lithography. Illustrated paper wrappers with flaps. Housed in foldout die-cut box with gold foil origami crane inserted into cover slot. 108 pages including covers. Edition of 1000.

"Book, cover and case designed by Susan Rhew Design, Inc. and printed by Blue Ridge Printing, both of Asheville, NC. Binding by BindTech, Nashville, TN. Book papers are McCoy Silk White 100lb text and 110lb cover stock. Endpapers and text inserts are 80lb Text CTI Aspire Petallics Gold Ore. Case stock is 98lbs Cover Aspire Petallics Gold Ore. Franklin Gothic font family used throughout..."-colophon

Excerpt from the foreword: "I am a black woman. I am an artist. For many years I have been creating work to bring issues of social justice into the public discourse. This book evolved from a project for which I folded origami cranes from pages of white supremacist books for the exhibition, Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate. It was organized by the Montana Human Rights Network and the Holter Art Museum in Helena, Montana and opened in 2008.
"In Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book, I was trying to look at what it was like for me to turn the hateful words of the white supremacist books into a beautiful art object. That exploration helped me understand more fully the many levels of oppression and violence at the intersections of race, gender, class and sexual orientation. Why do we keep each other from being who we really are? How can we begin to talk about what separates us?
"In our roles, as voyeur and as participant, we make daily decisions about who gets to have rights and who is marginalized in our society. I ask us to question our perceptions about history, reality, identity and voice. Do we have the courage to live differently?"

Donated in memory of Bill Stewart of Vamp & Tramp Booksellers by Deirdre Lawrence.