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[identification of item], Willie Marlowe Artwork, SPEC.RARE.0168, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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Processed by: SCDA staff; Finding aid written by: Regina Bouley Sweeten, 2016 January; Courtney Bishop, 2017 October.
Willie Marlowe was born in 1943 in Whiteville, North Carolina. She earned her Bachelor of Science from East Carolina University in 1965, and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Idaho in 1969. As of 2017, Marlowe is a Professor Emerita at The Sage Colleges in New York, where she had previously taught painting, drawing, and the international studies programs from 1977-2008, and had sabbaticals in 1986 and 2005. Marlowe became a member of the International Union of Mail Artists (IUOMA) in 2012. Marlowe has participated in various artist residencies and many art shows in the United States and abroad.
The Willie Marlowe Artwork contains individual sheets of prints, some of which are signed by her. Sheets are composed of individual works done within a thematic series which are separated by perforation to model postage stamps. Art is done with either paint or digitally.