Publications
Since its publication in Others: A Magazine of the New Verse in 1917, and later in the 1923 publication of Harmonium, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens has captivated readers with its sparse and elegant style. I was among those enchanted by the poem. I designed the original illustrations as black “paper cuts” mounted on white paper, and the images were reduced to simplified elements of shape and space. The result is a delightful visual echo of Stevens’s modernistic writing.
Folio (Candy Law, editor) is a collection of contemporary artwork created by members of the Detroit Society of Women Painters & Sculptors. Included is a cross-section of the artwork being produced today by the vibrant art community in metropolitan Detroit. Founded in 1903, the Society is the oldest organized art group in Michigan and the second oldest women’s art organization in the country.
The Art of Sleeping Bear Dunes (2013, edited by Linda Young, essays by Jerry Dennis and Kathleen Stocking) features stunning contemporary images of the Sleeping Bear landscape and includes a historic section highlighting artworks from 1882 to the mid-1970s.
Roadside Memorials (designed and edited by Marianne Letasi) features charcoal drawings of roadside memorials from the “Stilled Lives in the Landscape” series and colored pencil drawings from the “Grave Moments: Mount Carmel Cemetery” series.
