ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

This gift to the Sackners for the millennium is a small wooden box stamped "Fragile 2000." It contains a golden egg nested in fine, spicey straw, with a red patch of silk. The loose sheet is printed with a poem " Be joyful - though you - have considered - all the facts." This work by Bart is a metaphor for the fragility of the future and its bright hope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This gift to the Sackners for the millennium is a small wooden box stamped "Fragile 2000." It contains a golden egg nested in fine, spicey straw, with a red patch of silk. The loose sheet is printed with a poem " Be joyful - though you - have considered - all the facts." This work by Bart is a metaphor for the fragility of the future and its bright hope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bag that is printed "black dirt" contains contains the same. The bag that is printed "gold seed" contains yellow corn kernels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This Christmas gift from Bart consists of instructions on how to mount the given objects that are stored in a red silk bag onto a printed paper base creating a constructivistic minataure landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibition featured mixed-media installation by five Minnesota artists who use the book as a means for creative investigation, viz. book as container, a mirror for contemporary values, historical signifier, discrete object and evidence of the human experience. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.