Shhh!: 20 Artists on Changes in Culture & Democracy, Pasadena Hastings Branch Library
Includes my handmade book, Concepts in Science: A Beginning Vocabulary for the Science of a Mid-Life Crisis
Woody O’ Toole Untitled 44”x 16”x10
PRESS RELEASE
“Shhh!”
September 9-September 30, 2018
Opening September 9th, 1:30-4:30 PM
All of our political, social and cultural institutions are under pressure to change, to be replaced, or to disappear. Libraries are no exception. Budgets are being cut. Hi-tech corporations would like to privatize them. Hard cover books are slowly but surely being replaced with ebooks.
Librarians, once the secular high priests and priestesses who treated books as sacred, have been demoted and forced to throw books in their dumpsters.
For the month of September on display at the Pasadena Hastings Branch Library, the JJU collective has curated over 30 artists, some internationally known, who will explore the consequences of books as being obsolete, reduced to base material, no different than clay.
Merrill Feitell 
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