Maggie Mastrandrea featured in UMD Libraries' newsletter for exhibition

"Fuji: Mountain as Metaphor in Postwar Japan" highlighted in UMD Libraries yearly magazine

For a few weeks in late January and early February this year, visitors to the Maryland Reading Room at Hornbake Library were treated to an engaging exhibition, "Fuji: Mountain as Metaphor in Postwar Japan." Curated by Motoko Lezec, Coordinator of the Prange Collection, an immense and invaluable treasure of postwar Japanese cultural publications and ephemera in the Special Collections of the University of Maryland Libraries, the exhibition utilized numerous prints and artifacts from the Prange Collection to tell a story of the role of Mount Fuji as an icon of particular power in postwar Japan. This exhibition would not have been possible without the pioneering research and work of Maggie Mastrandrea, who worked closely with Lezec to realize the exhibition concept. Indeed, Maggie focused on the use of Mount Fuji as a motif and symbol by a number of artists in postwar Japan in her recently completed thesis. Read more about the exhibition and Maggie's great work here.