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A reception from 5:00-6:00 p.m. in the museum’s lower gallery.<\/strong><\/p>\n Claire Van Vliet is an artist working mainly in lithography and paper pulp paintings.\u00a0 She is also a book artisan, illustrator, and typographer, and, in 1955, founded the Janus Press, which publishes collaborative works by contemporary writers, papermakers, printmakers, and artists.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the co-creators of Janus Press books are authors, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Seamus Heaney,\u00a0 Ted Hughes, and John le Carr\u00e9; artists, Ruth Fine, Susan Johanknecht and Jerome Kaplan; and papermakers, Katie MacGregor and Bernie Vinzani. \u00a0\u00a0 In 1989, Van Vliet was honored with a \u201cgenius grant\u201d from the MacArthur Foundation for her work as a teacher and artist.\u00a0 Several of her prints are featured in the Literary<\/i> exhibition<\/a> on view in the museum through March 23.\u00a0 The Bates College Museum of Art serves as a major repository of Van Vliet’s prints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A reception from 5:00-6:00 p.m. in the museum’s lower gallery. Claire Van…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":10170,"template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_bates_event_start":"2018-01-29 18:00:00","_bates_event_end":"2018-01-29 20:30:00","_bates_event_allDay":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"event-tag":[],"class_list":["post-10165","bates_events","type-bates_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"start":"2018-01-29T18:00:00","end":"2018-01-29T20:30:00","location":{"rendered":"Olin Arts Center<\/span>, 104<\/span>
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