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Reimagining Illumination: A Celebratory Exhibit for Reading Days
On Friday, May 1, we invite you to celebrate the culmination of Reimagining Illumination with an open, drop-in exhibition! Under the gentle illumination of electric candles, we'll display manuscripts and artist's books from Penn's collections, along with creations made by workshop attendees over the course of the year. Everyone is welcome!
Hosted by: SIMS and Kislak Center
Reimagining Illumination is a series of workshops designed to interrogate and expand the concept of illumination (i.e., the use of light) in books and manuscripts.
How can we use light to make our books beautiful, interesting, fun, or informative? Through a series of workshops, scheduled over the 2025-2026 academic year, we investigated this question. Over the course of the year we looked at books from the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, and we made some of our own.
On Friday, May 1, we invite you to celebrate the culmination of Reimagining Illumination with an open, drop-in exhibition! Under the gentle illumination of electric candles, we'll display manuscripts and artist's books from Penn's collections, along with creations made by workshop attendees over the course of the year. Everyone is welcome! Drop in any time between 4:00 and 5:30pm.
Reimagining Illumination is sponsored by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and will be held in the Vitale II Lab for Digital Humanities & Book History (Van Pelt Library 623)