Preface:  The Shape and Color of Research 

The Shape and Color of Research Project has gone a long way toward raising an awareness of the relationships between art and research, and it is my hope that this exhibit, as a digitalized version of the project, will serve to continue this process beyond the project�s original audience. At the very least, I hope that this catalog will clearly demonstrate that art, as a creative product, is a presentation of the synthesis of information filtered through the imagination of the individual artist. Art, as a human artifact, is a re-creation of the understandable and the imagined. Understanding and imagination are achieved through scrutiny and reflection�this is the shape and color of research.

Max Yela, 
Head, Special Collections,
Golda Meir Library, 
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Mitkus, Book of Sacred Trees

Irene Mitkus,
Book of Sacred Trees

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