Randolph College’s senior studio art capstone exhibition.
The Maier Museum is pleased to be one of four venues in the U.S. invited to host Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined curated by Catherine Alice Michaelis and Cynthia Sears of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Washington state.
The exhibition is built around ideas and ideals of identity, belonging, and freedom of movement. Twelve artists were commissioned by the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection to take inspiration from the passport and other travel documents to create an artist book. In addition, another sixteen artists’ books were curated from the collection to bring additional perspectives. As a whole, these 28 artists’ books take us around the world and into the future, documenting the promises and limitations of the passport, depending much on who has one and what nationality or group has conferred belonging.
Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined originated at BIMA, then travelled to the San Francisco Center for the Book. The Minnesota Center for Book Arts hosts the exhibition before its final destination at the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College where it opens June 29, 2026 and remains on view through October 4, 2026.
Hosting the exhibition was made possible through the generosity of Dana Davidson Redmond ’60 and Randall Johnson Watts ’77.