History of a People is on view in Who is America at 250? Artists' Books on the State of Democracy at the Boston Athenaeum Monday, March 30 through Saturday May 16.
An opening event is scheduled Monday, April 6 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM ET. The event is free, but is ticketed. Tickets can be reserved here.
Regularly, the exhibition is free to Athenaeum members, and will be open to the public, with paid first-floor admission, from during regular Athenaeum hours, Monday-Thursday 9 am – 8 pm, and Friday and Saturday 9 am – 5 pm.
Who Is America at 250?—a traveling exhibition organized by the San Francisco Center for the Book—showcases the imaginative ways in which contemporary artists’ books employ the physical forms of the handmade book to foster thoughtful engagement with questions evoked by this moment in America’s history as a country.