Title: The Tower
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.

"Theresa Easton is an artist based in the North East of England, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Easton studied Fine Art, specialising in Printmaking at the University of East London, and completed an MA in Glass at Sunderland University in 2007. Heritage interpretation plays an important part in Theresa Easton's practice. Easton is interested in exploring cultural and historical episodes using contemporary printmaking processes and artist's books. Easton is drawn to working with alternative materials to paper and traditional bookbinding styles thereby pushing the boundaries of printmaking"--A blog at WordPress.com website (viewed June 23, 2015).
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, Babel, Tower of, in art, Material culture in art, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, England, Newcastle upon Tyne
People: Theresa Easton
Time periods: 21st century