Detail View: Artists' Book Collection: What's Happening with Momma?

Title: 
What's Happening with Momma?
Creator: 
Sligh, Clarissa T.
Description: 
A bookwork, consisting of one cardboard sheet accordion folded to form various views of a house, with a poem printed on accordion folded cards which unfold to form a stairway in front of the picture on each page. Clarissa Sligh's What's Happening with Momma? is narrated from the point of view of a young boy in the South sitting outside a house on the stairs listening to distressing sounds his mother is making inside the house. Edition of 150 copies.
Subject: 
Dwellings
Subject: 
Motherhood
Subject: 
Mothers
Subject: 
Photography
Subject: 
Poetry
Publisher: 
Women's Studio Workshop
Date: 
1988
Language: 
English
Type: 
Still Image
Extent: 
7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Format/Medium: 
Artists' books
Format/Medium: 
Accordion fold books
Format/Medium: 
Letterpress printing
Format/Medium: 
Photographs
Format/Medium: 
Shaped books
Source: 
What's Happening with Momma?, in Artists' Books Collection at SCAD Library, Atlanta, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Relation: 
Catalog record: https://library.scad.edu/record=b1244638
Rights: 
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier: 
b12446385
Identifier: 
i11701043
SCAD Location: 
SCAD Library (Atlanta)