Join us for the Opening Reception of The Book As Art v.13: Mixed Messages! This will be your first chance to see the incredible works of this year's exhibition. We'll have refreshments and announce the award winners. This exhibition will be installed in the Fourth Floor Gallery of Decatur Library. The reception is free and open to the public. Registration is requested (not required).

About the Exhibition:

The Book As Art v.13: Mixed Messages is the thirteenth edition of an art show celebrating books: objects that, in an increasingly digital world, stubbornly survive.

The objects in this exhibition should interpret the concept of the book and invite the viewer to look beyond the printed page to where ideas, words, and symbols are transformed and transfigured. Artists are challenged to embrace the dualities and paradoxes of communication—to celebrate the static and the shifting, the familiar and the foreign, the clear and the cryptic.

The Book As Art series seeks to showcase beautifully made volumes, sculptural and conceptual interpretations, and one-of-a-kind approaches to the book format.