"Amercian artist Karen Kunc explores inventive colour abstractions of the natural and human-fashioned world, creating visual impact and ideas of strange beauty. Kunc is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has taught workshops around the world and served as a visiting artist to over 100 institutions. Recognitions include: the 2007 Southern Graphics International Printmaker Emeritus Award; Fulbright Scholar Award to Finland; prizes in the Triennale Majdanek, Poland; 5th Sapporo Biennale; 2nd Bangkok Triennale"--Statement from the Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.

This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.