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A fabric book by Claire Davies \u201925, CDP \u201926, and Beverly Peterson \u201926.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text & Image, taught jointly by English and Creative Writing Professor Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez and Visual and Performing Arts Professor Jan Johnson, asks students to work across writing, sewing, printing, drawing, and animation \u2014 often for the first time. Students built individual accordion books, then paired up to research and embroider fiber books, spending a full day at the American Antiquarian Society to ground their work in archival research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The course\u2019s final project brings the whole class together to make a cameraless experimental film, divided into production, text and sound, and installation teams. \u201cThe energy created through these intellectual collisions was very exciting to witness,\u201d says Gutmann-Gonzalez. Many students had never threaded a needle before the course began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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