Exhibition Venues and Dates
Several artworks by Robert Schultz are being shown in museums and galleries around the U.S. Here’s a listing of current shows, as of August 28, 2020.Read more
Presenting War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Renewal
Published May 2019 in partnership with the Taubman Museum of Art and 92 subscribers, War Memoranda grows out of the long and ongoing collaboration between Binh Danh and Robert Schultz.Read more
War Memoranda book helps mark Whitman’s 200th
Binh Danh and Robert Schultz to present at Whitman birthplace during first annual Walt Whitman International Festival, August 8-10.Read more
War Memoranda at Oxford University
Robert Schultz offered perspectives on war and memory at Oxford University, drawing upon the War Memoranda exhibition and Walt Whitman’s life and writing.Read more
A Video on the Making of Artist’s book Face to Face
A video on the making of Robert Schultz’s artist’s book Face to Face was produced by Kevin McFadden of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Virginia Arts of the Book Center. Watch the video on virginiahumanities.com.Read more
Exhibition: Artist’s Proof Editions in the UVA Rotunda
UVA’s Rare Book School has told the story of Katherine McNamara’s groundbreaking work in an innovative exhibition mounted in the historic dome room of Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda. Filling glass-front cabinets, the exhibition tells McNamara’s story “through the eyes and voice of the editor herself—with her recollections and personal documents telling the story she lived. McNamara…Read more
Featured on LensCulture—War Memoranda: chlorophyll prints
LensCulture, based in Amsterdam, is an international website devoted to contemporary photography. Recently its online magazine ran a feature on Robert Schultz’s War Memoranda leafprint portraits, including 15 images.Read more
Roanoke College Biennial Exhibitions, 2015 & 2017, features chlorophyll prints of Emily Dickinson, Rachel Carson by Robert Schultz
In 2015 curator Margot Norton selected “Emily Pentacostal” for the biennial, and in 2017 co-curators Beth Rudin DeWoody and Joanna Leonhardt Cassulo chose a portrait of environmentalist Rachel Carson made in a tulip leaf. Because tulip leaves become semi-translucent in the chlorophyll print process, the Rachel Carson leaf and others have been mounted in float…Read more
War Memoranda at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
The War Memoranda word & art exhibition traveled to the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester August 20 – October 16, 2016. It was originally curated by The Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia, and was exhibited there February-May 2015.Read more
“Iconic Memory” at Chroma Projects
Deborah McLeod of Chroma Projects in Charlottesville, Virginia curated a group exhibition of works by John Grant, Anne Savedge, Binh Danh and Robert Schultz. Works by Danh and Schultz reprised their eight-year collaboration and showed new artist’s books, leafprints, and sculptural pieces incorporating chlorophyll prints. The show ran June 3-25, 2016. Since then Chroma Projects has moved to a new space on historic downtown Charlottesville, Virginia’s pedestrian mall.Read more
Ancestral Altars and chlorophyll prints at Barrister Books
An exhibition organized by Artist’s Book Editions at Barristers Books, Staunton, Virginia included cast chlorophyll prints, artist’s books, and limited edition books by Robert Schultz. The small exhibition, June 19 – August 1, 2015, was occasioned by APE’s publication of Ancestral Altars by Robert Schultz and I Went Into the Large Space by Lyndia Terre.…Read more
“Out from the Oak” video by Marc Neys
Video artist Marc Neys has produced a video rendering of a passage out of Robert Schultz’s poem, “When the Magnitude of the Possible Dawned.” The video, a product of the Poetry Storehouse initiative, can be found below. Neys discusses the video and his creative process on his site, Swoon.Read more
American Wars, American Words
Robert Schultz chaired a panel at the American Literature Association’s annual convention in Boston, Spring 2015, that examined American writers’ responses to war. He was invited to do so by Ethan Knight, the panel organizer, because one of the papers treated War Memoranda, the word & image collaboration between Schultz and artist Binh Danh. Dr.…Read more
Tom Liljenquist visits War Memoranda exhibition
Tom Liljenquist, donor of the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War portraits (Library of Congress), visited the “War Memoranda” exhibition at the Taubman Museum. Mr. Liljenquist also had loaned a group of Civil War ambrotypes and tintypes to accompany the leafprints made from images in his collection.Read more
Ancestor’s face discovered in War Memoranda leafprint
The Library of Congress updated its catalog when a previously unidentified Confederate soldier was identified by a descendant in a leafprint included in the “War Memoranda” exhibition, Roanoke, Virginia. Read the full article at The Roanoke Times.Read more