For Immediate Release Contact: JoAnne Wilcox

March 26, 2012 203-901-3808

Email: joshmoejo@gmail.com
Website: joannewilcoxphotography.com

Mitchell Branch Library

37 Harrison Street, Westville Village, New Haven CT

"Call to Everyone"
A Cell Phone Art Show
April 2 - 30, 2012

Westville Village, New Haven, CT—“Call to Everyone” is an exhibition of over 350

discarded library catalog cards that have been re-purposed as canvases for cell
phone photos. Participants from all over Connecticut, along with more than 20 cities
around the U.S. and from 10 countries have printed their photos on discarded
catalog cards and due date cards from local libraries and sent them to Mitchell
Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in Westville Village, New Haven CT for
the exhibit. The show opens Monday April 2 with a reception from 6 to 8pm at the
Mitchell Branch Library in Westville Village at 37 Harrison Street New Haven, CT.

Says JoAnne Wilcox, curator of the exhibit, “I envisioned a collection of photos as far
away as technology could reach. The result is an exhibition that blends cell phone
photos printed on obsolete card catalog and due date cards from public libraries.”
Photos from all over the world will be presented in old card catalog drawers.

The "call" went out in January for submissions. Participants were encouraged to
visit their local libraries and ask for old catalog and due date cards on which they
would mesh their cell phone images with the catalog descriptions and random
notations left behind. Says Wilcox, “People suddenly saw the cards as more than
descriptions of books and journals, they became inspiration for their own messages,
for bits of landscape and frozen moments of their lives that they had stored in their
phone’s camera.”

Sharon Lovett-Graff, Branch Manager of Mitchell Library says “ JoAnne Wilcox's cell
phone photography project has been the buzz around the New Haven Free Public
Library, not only for library customers but for the staff as well. The idea of reusing
old library card catalog and date due cards for printing out photographs is a great
way to express share her passion for libraries, their history and photography.

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Lovett-Graff continues “Cell phone photographs have been arriving at our library
both hand-delivered and by snail-mail again symbolizing the past and the present
being brought together. And photographs printed on these cards also fits into the
upcoming Earth Day holiday in April, as a way to reuse and recycle!”

About JoAnne Wilcox

JoAnne Wilcox is a professional photographer and mother of three living in New
Haven CT. Wilcox has said she virtually raised her three children at the local library,
which is also the source of a network of friends. Her husband, Matt Wilcox, who is
the librarian for Yale’s School of Public Health, represents yet another tie to library
culture. Wilcox’s own work can be see on her website
joannewilcoxphotography.com .

About Mitchell Branch Library

37 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515, (203) 946-8117
Mitchell Branch Library is located on 37 Harrison Street. The parking lot is next to
library building.
Hours: Mon 12-8 | Tue Closed | Wed 10-6 | Thu 10-6 | Fri Closed | Sat 12-5 | Sun
Closed

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