Visual Art Exhibition: Sarah Bryant

February 11–March 31, 2027

Sarah Bryant is HPL’s 2027 Southern Voices Artist. This exhibition includes an artist talk on February 18th that begins at 5:30 pm in The Library Theatre and is followed by the reception.

Sarah Bryant produces artist books and prints under the name Big Jump Press. Her work can be found in dozens of collections, including The Yale Arts Library, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, and The Darling Bio-medical Library at UCLA. She is currently an Assistant Professor for the MFA Book Arts Program in the School of Library and Information Studies at The University of Alabama.

The exhibition will include works from Small Patches of Land, an artist book project and collaboration between Sarah Bryant and Katie Baldwin. 

The book explores a pair of intertwining narratives from two women-owned farms in Alabama, connected by the act of saving seeds. Jean Mills and her partner Carol Eichelberger founded the first community-supported agriculture program in Alabama in the mid-90s, and Margaret Ann Snow founded Snow’s Bend, an organic farm in Tuscaloosa, in 2004. Soon after Jean and Carol started their farm, they were given heirloom collard seeds by a neighbor. This is how seeds move: from hand to hand. Jean and Carol grew out the seeds, eventually offering Alabama Blue Collards as a crop and making the seeds available through The Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Thirty years later, Margaret Ann Snow ordered those same collard seeds from the same catalog when she herself decided that she wanted to shepherd a crop from seed to seed.

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