National Geographic interviews Island Press artist Erika Blumenfeld

National Geographic published a feature article on Erika Blumenfeld, the Spring 2021 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist. During her residency, Blumenfeld, who has also collaborated with NASA, worked with a collection of 19th-century astronomical glass plates marked with notations by “women computers,” who had been hired by Harvard to interpret the plates’ data. Blumenfeld says that the resulting edition of six gold leaf prints, called Tracing Luminaries, “returns their marks to the stars.”

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