‘Handwritten Dreams Project’ exhibit closes

June 29, 2018 | Arts, Events, News, UToday, Alumni, Arts and Letters
By Angela Riddel



The UT Department of Art has announced Leslie Adams’ solo exhibition, “The Handwritten Dreams Project,” has closed.

The artist’s reception and accompanying lecture scheduled for Friday, July 6 (rescheduled from June 1), at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Little Theater also has been canceled.

As a result of the continuing air conditioning and ventilation issues in the Center for the Visual Arts on the University’s Toledo Museum of Art Campus, the exhibition, organized and curated by Gallery Director and Assistant Professor Brian Carpenter, was removed recently due to extreme temperature and humidity conditions in the building. An expert in the field of conservation was consulted and recommended that the work be moved to a safer, climate-controlled environment.

According to Barbara WF Miner, professor and chair of the UT Department of Art, “The Handwritten Dreams Project” is a tour de force and the department is committed to working with Adams to find a time and venue to present the interactive exhibition in Toledo.

Adams said, “It was an incredible honor to be invited by my alma mater to exhibit ‘The Handwritten Dreams Project’ at the Center for the Visual Arts. I am disappointed that it cannot happen at this time — particularly as the debate on the teaching of cursive is unfolding in our state legislature. However, I am committed to and look forward to sharing my love of handwriting, drawing, and dreams with my community in the future.”

Adams received a bachelor of fine arts degree from UT in 1989.

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