This year, the five-day event-held between February 4 and 8-found institutions as diverse as the University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections, the National Library of Russia, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design digitizing selections from their collections.Īmongst the more recognizable offerings are a trio of illustrations from the British Library featuring the aforementioned Wonderland tea party, Aubrey Beardsley’s decadent Art Nouveau rendering of a scene from Oscar Wilde’s Saloméand an Arthur Rackham sketch of Cinderella arriving at the fabled fairytale ball.Īnother 2019 highlight is a series of dime novel drawings from Northern Illinois University’s Founder’s Memorial Library. As Artsy reports, the campaign aims to “promote creativity and to disseminate lesser-known artworks.” The popular initiative, launched by the New York Academy of Medicine Library in 2016, encourages museums, libraries, universities, medical schools and botanical gardens to delve into their collections and transform prints, illustrations and drawings into downloadable black-and-white coloring pages. Thanks to the latest edition of the annual #ColorOurCollections campaign, you can scribble your way through both, as well as a myriad of other scenes culled from the archives of 113 cultural institutions across the globe.
Ever wanted to add your own bursts of color to the tea party in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Or perhaps you’d rather lend your pen to a drawing of a gruesome 18th-century arm amputation.
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