Wonsook Kim School of Art students enrolled in ART 305/415: Renaissance and Baroque Printmaking spent a semester working with prints from the Milner Library Special Collections Print Teaching Collection. As part of their coursework, each student conducted research on a designated print and the entire class learned about exhibit design and curatorial practice. Their collaborative efforts produced the exhibit Archival Line: Printed Images from 1400 to 1700.
This exhibition highlights books and prints that were produced between 1400 and 1700, during a time of rapid technological and artistic transformation. Organized around themes of travel, information, education, and religion, the objects are explored both as works of art and within the context of changing and expanding modes of communication.
Also on display are original artworks by MFA students in the class, which they created in response to some of the prints in the exhibition.
Digital representations of works in the Print Teaching Collection can be viewed online in the Milner Library Digital Collections and the physical works are available for teaching and research in the Special Collections Reading Room.