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Roy Staab: Suspended in Time
Paperback | 16 pages, 19 x 28 cm | ISBN 978-0-932282-20-0

Suspended in Time surveys artist Roy Staab’s previous environmental installations through photographs. The images capture the variety of his artistic expressions: constructions of willow, reed, and bamboo levitate over land or water; footprints spiral through mud or snow; and images of circles, stars, and calligraphic lines trace the artist’s eloquent interventions in the natural world. With essays by Susan Barnett, this catalogue was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum and features Shadow Dance, the first sculpture to be commissioned for the grounds of the Villa Terrace. 

Nature in Three Parts: Beyond Baskets
Exhibition brochure | trifold, 19 x 13 cm

​Curated by artist Roy Staab, this exhibition centers around baskets selected from the collection of Jan Serr and John Shannon. Exhibited at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI, the exhibition demonstrates a dialogue between the baskets and the work of Roy Staab. This trifold features works by Joe Hogan, Ueno Masao, Francina and Neil Prince, Hiroi Yasushi, and Jiro Yonezawa. The exhibition also includes works by Polly Adams Sutton, Deborah Smith, and Leslie Wilcox.

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About Face | Jan Serr
​Hardcover & Paperback | 85 pages, 22 x 26 cm |
ISBN 978-0-932282-10-1

 Primarily known as a landscape painter, Wisconsin artist Jan Serr began as a figurative painter and has consistently returned to the human figure for inspiration and renewal. Her works include self-portraits and portraits of family, friends, and strangers. About Face | Jan Serr was published by UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts and Caledonia Press in 2011 in conjunction with a one-person exhibition of Serr's figurative work. The publication illustrates four decades of paintings and prints with essays by Miriam Siedel and Lee Ann Garrison. 

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JoAnna Poehlmann: Now and Then
Paperback | 72 pages, 20 x 23 cm | ISBN 978-0-932282-14-9

​For more than 60 years, JoAnna Poehlmann has observed and recorded the natural world with scientific accuracy and humor while paying homage to the artists who have preceded her. With essays by Barbara Brown Lee, Barbara Manger, and John Shannon, the simply elegant layout by Kate Hawley and beautiful photographs by Robb Quinn allow Poehlmann's art and ideas to dominate each page. From intimate drawings and collages to travel troves, artist’s books, and homages, Poehlmann's keen observations, disciplined craft, and visual humor reveal her to be a thoroughly modern old master.

Judgment of Midas
​Libretto for the Opera
​Paperback | 53 pages, 23 x 15 cm | ISBN 978-0-932282-00-2

Judgment of Midas is a contemporary opera composed by Kamran Ince, with a story and libretto by Miriam Seidel. In addition to the libretto, Seidel has written a Preface, touching on the history of the commission by Dr. Crawford H. Greenewalt Jr. (former field director of the Sardis excavations), and the collaboration between the composer and librettist, with a synopsis of the story, all with a goal of helping the audience understand and appreciate this new exotic world opera. 

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Smoke & Mirrors: India Photographs
Hardcover & Paperback | 168 pages, 27 x 27 cm | ISBN 978-0-932282-13-2

Known for her paintings, prints, and drawings, Jan Serr has made photographs throughout her career, using a wide range of cameras from a 4”x 5” sheet-loaded Toyo to a
400 mm Nikon single-lens reflex. Smoke & Mirrors is a book of painterly photographs. These 109 new photographs, made by Serr in India, illustrate her concern for color and composition with no regard for traditional photography or painting. With over three thousands images, she selected individual photographs, matched pairs, and sequenced portfolios that eventually made a book. Introduction by Nishant Batsha.  Smoke & Mirrors: India Photographs is published simultaneously with Then & Now: China Photographs. 

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Then & Now: China Photographs
Hardcover & Paperback | 144 pages, 27 x 27 cm | ISBN 978-0-932282-01-9

These one hundred new photographs, made by Jan Serr in China, illustrate her concern for color and composition. She is as confident behind a camera as she is in front of a canvas or a lithographic stone.  Known for her paintings, prints, and drawings, Serr has made photographs throughout her career. “I needed to be fast, safe, and inconspicuous, whether I was working on Nanjing Road, on the Bund in Shanghai, or off a pagoda’s balcony in the countryside. My circumstances determined the type of equipment I used and the style of image I made,” says the artist. Serr worked on every aspect of the book—image, composition, typography, paper, and binding. Then & Now is a portfolio of photographs where the book itself is a primary form of art. Published in conjunction with exhibition at The Warehouse museum [thewarehousemke.org]