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Artist Book Collaboration: Nets by Jen Bervin; added stitched work by Beverly Nelson: Alternets

Housed in the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection

Artist Book

Collaboration between Beverly Nelson (stitched work), Jen Bervin (poet), and William Shakespeare (sonnets). Stitched with thread, penciled-in quotes and stitched on photographs of my father. Stitched work = 721 hours while listening continuously to Donovan’s “Wear Your Love Like Heaven”.

The book is housed for viewing at Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection,

Contact:

Anne Dorothee (Doro) Boehme Special Collections Librarian Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection

37 S. Wabash Avenue

Suite 508

312.899-5098 aboehme@saic.edu