Katie Garth and Tracy Honn – Quarantine Public Library

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College’s 112th Annual Exhibition
Back to Front: Artists’ Books by Women

The Quarantine Public Library (QPL) is a collaborative project by Katie Garth and Tracy Honn. This repository of one-page books made by artists is published online for anyone to freely download, print and assemble—to keep or give away. The QPL titles transform from a printed piece of paper into a book through folding.

Martha Chiplis, curator of the 112th Annual exhibition, Back to Front: Artists’ Books by Women chose 100 titles by women in the QPL to be displayed at the museum as part of the exhibition.

Randolph College students and other members of our community can participate in the creation and installation of the 112th Annual Exhibition through the process of assembling the QPL books.

We hope that the QPL display will expand during the run of the Annual exhibition, and that our students will have a major role in all aspects of it. During the exhibition, people are invited to add to the QPL installation by leaving their own books in the format of the QPL one-page books. Copies of the one-page book template are available at the museum or you can download:

Download one-page book template for printing: PaginationGuide_QPL

Folding Tutorial: https://www.quarantinepubliclibrary.com/tutorial

BIOGRAPHY – Katie Garth
Katie Garth is a print-based artist in Philadelphia. Her interdisciplinary work explores tedium as a coping mechanism for uncertainty, and often reflects her interests in language and independent publication.

Garth received her MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has exhibited internationally, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post and PRINT. Garth co-founded Quarantine Public Library with Tracy Honn in 2020. She is Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at several Philadelphia-area universities.

BIOGRAPHY – Tracy Honn
Tracy Honn is a printing history educator, curator, and printer living in Madison Wisconsin. She is senior artist emerita from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directed the Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of letterpress printing. She serves on Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum’s executive board of directors.