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Book Signing Holiday Event

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The 3rd Annual Lowcountry Women Authors Holiday Book Signing is
Sunday, November 22, 2009.

Mary Edna Fraser
will be signing books with over 50 women authors for the Center For Women from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. The signing will be located in Mt. Pleasant Towne Centre, 1600 Palmetto Grande Drive, (old Tweeter space near Bed, Bath, and Beyond) $10 at the door will support the Center For Women. Visit the Center For Women calendar for more information and get your Christmas books.

A Celebration of the World’s Barrier Islands
by Orrin H. Pilkey with original batiks 
by Mary Edna Fraser
Columbia University Press

I have been committed to working with Dr. Orrin Pilkey since our first meeting in 1993.  Our mutual concerns culminated with Columbia University Press publishing A Celebration of the World’s Barrier Islands with favorable reviews worldwide. This collaboration has given us 12 exhibitions and numerous lectures in major art museums and universities including Duke University Museum of Art “A Celebration of Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand.” The National Academy of Sciences, The National Science FoundationNational Geographic and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum featured this work. Our current book and exhibition project is Our Expanding Oceans exploring elements of global change.

“Delicate renderings of the islands by artist Mary Edna Fraser look like vivid aerial-view paintings but are actually batik prints of the coasts, counterbalancing Pilkey’s careful study of the ‘restless ribbons of sand.” –New Yorker

“Pilkey provides an informative guide to the wheres and wherefores of barrier islands — from the vacation meccas off the east coast of North America, to the exotic carbonate archipelagos of Mozambique, to the ice-battered slivers of tundra that line the Arctic Ocean. Aerial and satellite photographs illustrate each geological peculiarity that the text brings into focus, but the most remarkable images in the book are the batiks created by Mary Edna Fraser.” –Natural History

“Pilkey’s and Fraser’s collaboration produces an emotional response to the beauty of our planet, one which proves that science and art can together deepen understanding.”
-Linda Kaun, Fiberarts Magazine


Other Books Featuring Mary Edna Fraser’s Work

What the Water Gives Me
by Marjory Wentworth and Mary Edna Fraser

“The rich poetry of Marjory Wentworth reflects the soul of the Lowcountry and is the perfect companion to the astounding images of Mary Edna Fraser.”
Dorothea Benton Frank, novelist

“Marjory Wentworth and Mary Edna Fraser are making a quiet plea through their art…expressing their love of nature, concern for the environment, and curiosity about where the natural and spiritual world meet.”
-Aida Rogers, The Chicago Tribune

“The batiks amount to visual poetry, and the afterimages linger in the mind like well-loved lines and phrases.” -Hank Burchard, The Washington Post

The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
by Katherine Harmon

Excerpt about Mary Edna Fraser in The Map as Art, pages 92 – 93:
“Batik artist Fraser took part in an unusual artistic/ scientific collaboration to draw attention to the complexity and fragility of barrier islands around the world. With Orrin H. Pilkey, a geologist at Duke University, she created the 2003 book A Celebration of the World’s Barrier Islands. Before beginning each of the batiks that illustrate the book, Fraser hiked the terrain of the islands, viewed their waterways by boat and air, made on-site watercolor studies, and consulted satellite and space shuttle imagery.”

“Edited by Katharine Harmon, the new collection, The Map as Art from Princeton Architectural Press brings together 360 visions of experimental cartography. It is wonderfully inspiring.”
The Morning News

“The Map as Art, a new book edited by Katharine Harmon from Princeton Architectural Press, richly surveys today’s artistic landscape and its relation to the map. For anyone whose ever gotten lost in the pages of a AAA road map or daydreamed of faraway places while spinning a globe, The Map as Art offers ample opportunity for fascination. Over 250 pages of visually engaging, thought-provoking works are rife with relevance.” –Brian Fichtner, Cool Hunting

Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots
by Carolyn Russo

Batik for Artists and Quilters
by Eloise Piper
Batik for Artists and Quilters introduces the reader to the marvelous possibilities of this ancient art.  Both beginners and experienced batik artists will benefit from Eloise Piper’s expert instruction. Gorgeous photographs throughout the book as well as in the gallery sections, feature works by the best contemporary batik artists from around the world. Check out Mary Edna Fraser’s work on the Title Page, page 90, and page 117.

Forest Patches in Tropical Landscapes
edited  by John Schelhas and Russell Greenberg
While tropical forests are being cleared at an alarming rate, the clearing is rarely complete and is often not permanent. A considerable amount of tropical forest exists as remnants that have significant value both for the conservation of biological diversity and for meeting the needs of local people. This volume brings together world-renowned scientists and conservationists to address the biological and socio-economic value of forest remnants and to examine practical efforts to conserve those remnants.

Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing
by Gail W. Stuart Mary Edna Fraser batik graces the cover of the textbook Psychiatric Nursing
for the 8th and 9th edition!

North Carolina: Living in our World
by NC State University
Mary Edna Fraser’s batik Core Banks is featured in the Geography & the Arts section of the 4th grade text book, North Carolina: Living in Our World, (page 247)

Innovation by Design
by The Heinz Center
Another one of  Mary Edna Fraser’s beautiful batiks becomes the front cover of The Heinz Center’s Innovation by Design. The Heinz Center is a non-profit institution dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy.


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