Cantor Art Gallery "Sacred Spaces" Exhibition Catalog Wins 2003 Leab Award

The College of the Holy Cross was recently selected as the winner of the 2003 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards competition for the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery and the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Mass.) exhibit catalog, Sacred Spaces: Building and Remembering Sites of Worship in the Nineteenth Century.

Sacred Spaces was chosen from among eight entries in division two, the "moderately expensive" category of printed catalogs, for "its thorough examination of a somewhat neglected topic using a wide variety of special collections materials." A certificate will be presented to the College by the Rare Books and Manuscripts section of the American Library Association (ALA) at their annual meeting in Toronto, Canada this summer.

A fully illustrated exhibition catalog, featuring student research as well as that of scholars in the field, Sacred Spaces was created in conjunction with the spring 2002 Cantor Art Gallery exhibition of the same name. Sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society and Holy Cross, the exhibition included 50 works on paper and 20 three-dimensional objects including vestments, liturgical vessels, books and church furniture.

Curated by Holy Cross professor Virginia Raguin and visiting lecturer Mary Ann Powers, the exhibit also included diagrams of pews, architect's plans, fund-raising prints, stained glass, an Episcopal Communion plate, a Congregational alms dish, a Jewish prayer book and Torah pointer, popular song covers, and grand commemorative prints of the cathedrals of Boston, New York and Cologne, France, all of which were depicted in the exhibition catalog.

Copies of the catalog may be purchased for $15 at the Holy Cross Bookstore and the Cantor Art Gallery. To order a copy through the mail, please send a check for $18 (postage is included) to the Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, Mass., 01610.

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