Drawing, scanning, layering—Eric Hanson has been busy as the MIA’s Coffee House Press author/illustrator-in-residence in the museum’s Art Research and Reference Library. Check out his presentation at 7 p.m. on June 19th during next week’s Third Thursday and follow all of his musings until then here on MIA Stories or over at CHP In the Stacks.
In the Stacks with Eric Hanson: Appian Way on Endpapers
I layered this drawing of the Appian Way onto the scanned endpapers of a book in my library to give it the feel of a 19th-century sketchbook.
About Eric: His illustrations and writing have appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, New York Times, Rolling Stone, McSweeney’s and The Atlantic. A Book of Ages, published in 2008, is his wittily curated collection of moments in the lives of the famous. He also creates children’s books. He will discuss his MIA residency and present new work inspired by it on Thursday, June 19th at 7pm in the MIA’s Friends Community Room, during Third Thursday: Get Local.