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Holy Cross was recently selected as the winner of the 2003
Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book
Prices Current Exhibition Awards competition for the
exhibit catalog, Sacred Spaces: Building and Remembering
Sites of Worship in the Nineteenth Century, created by
the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery in association
with the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester.
Sacred Spaces was chosen from among eight entries
in Division Two: the “moderately expensive” category
of printed catalogs—for “its thorough examination
of a somewhat neglected topic using a wide variety of special
collections materials.” A certificate will be presented
to the College by the rare books and manuscripts section
of the American Library Association (ALA) at its annual meeting
in Toronto, Canada, this summer.
A fully illustrated exhibition catalog, featuring research
by students and scholars in the field, Sacred Spaces was
created in conjunction with the spring 2002 Cantor Art Gallery
exhibition of the same name. Sponsored by the American Antiquarian
Society and Holy Cross, the exhibition included 50 works
on paper and 20 three-dimensional objects, including vestments,
liturgical vessels, books and church furniture.
Curated by Holy Cross visual arts Professor Virginia Raguin
and visiting lecturer Mary Ann Powers, the exhibit also included
diagrams of pews, architectural plans, fund-raising prints,
stained glass, an Episcopal Communion plate, a Congregational
alms dish, a Jewish prayer book and Torah pointer, popular
song covers, and grand commemorative prints of the cathedrals
of Boston, New York and Cologne, France, all of which were
depicted in the exhibition catalog.
Copies of the catalog may be purchased for $15 at the Holy
Cross Bookstore and the Cantor Art Gallery. To order a copy
through the mail send a check for $18 (postage is included)
to the Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College
St., Worcester, MA 01610.
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