KELLEY BELL
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, VISUAL ARTS - GRAPHIC DESIGN, UMBC
AND 
MELISSA PENLEY CORMIER 
NATURAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES MANAGER OF RESEARCH GRAPHICS, UMBC

The Yonder Cabinet, 2020
Mixed media

Bell and Penley Cormier's Yonder Cabinet is a budding artist community bound by a love of reading and imagination, neatly housed in an antique library card catalog. Once an aide to navigate to books in a library, it now houses dioramas by artists manifesting their favorite literary places. 

Drawer artists left to right::
(scroll down to see overview image)

Beth Yashnyk
Inspired by Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Kelley Bell
Inspired by Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Melissa Penley Cormier
Inspired by The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Jim Doran
Inspired by Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Jenny O’Grady
Inspired by Watership Down by Richard Adams

Visit theyondercabinet.com to see close-up images and hear the artists read a short excerpt from the books that inspired them.