"Page of Cloth" Exhibit at Harvard Graduate School of Education

The "Page of Cloth," a multi-canvas piece of art work collectively created by high school students in Gloucester, MA from 1971 to 1988, will be on display at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Monroe C. Gutman Library from Monday, March 3 through Monday, March 17, 1997.

In 1971, students in an American History class in Gloucester wrote their names, poems, and reflections on lessons of history onto a standard plywood board. During the 1970s and 1980s, the piece was expanded as students combined the board with cotton sheets, and filled both sides with myriad sketches and signatures. According to David Wise, the history teacher who witnessed the project's development over two decades, "The page of cloth emerged as a 1980s teen-age social statement, a new kind of book, a different page of history."

Gutman Library is open Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to the public.