"Bags of America" By WFU Art Professor Leigh Ann Hallberg Special Collections & Archives, 625 ZSR Library

"Bags of America” is a large, handmade, artist’s book containing a suite of twelve drawings of cereal bag liners. Professor Hallberg created it as an extension of a series of smaller drawings of the same subject and in response to John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” and the heft of his double-elephant folio work.

Although “Bags of America” shares Audubon’s interest in careful observation, its subject--the detritus of our everyday lives, has a beauty of its own, but will also remind visitors of the impact of the consumer-celebrity culture in which we all participate.