Barbara Zucker, sculptor and University of Vermont professor emerita, will talk about her first artist’s book, Animal Sightings, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10 in the Special Collections reading room of Bailey/Howe Library.

Published this year in a limited edition of ten, Animal Sightings is a colorful, abstract visual rendering of Zucker’s three-year odyssey driving back and forth between Vermont, New York and Philadelphia as she took note of all the animals she glimpsed along the roadside. Zucker writes, “Each (brush) stroke is flocked and soft, evoking the wonder of catching sight, albeit briefly, of the marvelous creatures that appear at the edges of our roads and highways, there to greet us in our peripheral vision.”

Selected pages from Animal Sightings were recently featured in the juried exhibition “New Prints 2011/Winter,” which were on display at the International Print Center in New York.

Images from the work are available on Zucker's website (PDF).

Zucker is known primarily as a sculptor. She has also created performance, installation and print editions. Zucker has exhibited nationally and internationally. and her work is in collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, and the Kresge Art Museum, among others.

UVM’s Special Collections is home to a rich collection of artist’s books and includes on of the ten editions of Animal Sightings. An exhibit currently on display in the Bailey/Howe Library features unbound pages from Zucker’s work.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Information: (802) 656-2138, uvmsc@uvm.edu.