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Announcement, Lines: New Writing Series at the Detroit Institute of Arts

This is a Announcement. It was designed by Edward Fella. It is dated 1986 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is offset lithograph on off-white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Edward Fella. It is credited Gift of Edward Fella.

Its dimensions are

42.9 x 26.0 cm (16.9 x 10.25 in. )

It is signed

Signature imprinted in blue, recto, lower right corner, sideways: DESIGN: EDWARD FELLA

It is inscribed

Recto: Imprinted in blue and brown at various angles: JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1986 LINES presents:/ New Writing at The Detroit Institute of Arts/ OPEN FIELD SERIES/ Sunday/January 26 Nubia KAI Detroit/ author of...[lists presenters with short biographical information, date, time]... Admission $3.00; brown, diagonally across center, running upward: The Open Field Series is made possible by a grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan For Information call LINES: 833-1858; blue, across upper right quadrant, running upward, sideways: POETRY ON THE RADIO both on WDET FM 102; in brown across upper right edge, running upward, diagonally: "Dimension"/ Sundays/ 11:00p.m. to 1:00a.m./ "City Arts Review"/ Fridays/ 12:00 midnight to 3:00a.m.; blue and brown across lower left quadrant, running upward, sideways: HAPPY NEW YEAR from LINES: 1986; blue, diagonally across lower left quadrant, running upward: "all day the rain tossed my boat against the shore/ but ecstasy was a mirror/ with a narrow frame/ I could pass through like a door/ arrive at some new place"-- Lewis Warsh Verso: Imprinted in blue at various angles across upper right quadrant, upside down: 26/ Sunday/ January reading/ NUBIA KAI/ 12/ Wednesday/ February reading/ JUAN CORONEL/ 16/ Sunday/ February reading/ THOM JUREK/ 27/ Thursday/ February readings/ MICHAEL PALMER & DIANE WARD; across upper left quadrant, running downward, sideways: JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1986 : New Writing at The Detroit Institute of Arts; across lower left quadrant, running downward, sideways: LINES; across lower left quadrant: THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS 5200 Woodward Avenue/ Detroit, Michigan 48202; across lower right quadrant: Non-Profit Organization/ U.S. Postage/ PAID/ Founders Society/ Detroit Institute of Arts

Cite this object as

Announcement, Lines: New Writing Series at the Detroit Institute of Arts; Designed by Edward Fella (American, b. 1938); USA; offset lithograph on off-white paper; 42.9 x 26.0 cm (16.9 x 10.25 in. ); Gift of Edward Fella; 1995-42-43

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