Title: Tikilluarit
Description: 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.

Roni Gross is a book artist who trained first as a musician, and then as a choreographer. She is interested in the theatre of the book, its pacing, the music of language, and the resonance of colour. She has been issuing multiples for 24 years under the imprint Zitouna, and limited edition letterpress printed books which are collaborations with the sculptor Peter Schell under the press name Z'roah. Roni Gross co-published The Vandercook Book, with Barbara Henry, in honour of the 100th anniversary of the Vandercook press and a show of its contents traveled the country. She currently teaches at The Center for Book Arts and has done workshops at Penland, Pratt, and The New School. Her work is in the collections of The New York Public Library, The Library of Congress, Harvard, and many other public and private collections.
Subjects: Violence, Pictorial works, Booksellers and bookselling, Bombings, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Protest movements, Books and reading in art, Intellectual life, Social conditions, Censorship, Terrorism in art, In art, War and civilization, Vehicle bombs, Visual literature, Specimens, Language and languages in art, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, New York (State), New City
People: Roni Gross (1955-), Peter Schell, Biruta Auna
Time periods: 21st century