Welcome to The Thumb Tack.1 My space to share more about things I’m doing, thinking about, and traveling towards, a virtual bulletin board —a spot for the mishmash of things to be saved, discovered, and passed along.
The Thumb Tack is a space to place my discoveries and puzzle-solving. Reflecting, then circling back, connecting dots and new beginnings. For unraveling. For untangling. For my memory. For no rules.
The Thumb Tack came from an archive discovery. The anthropomorphized illustrated character of the Thumb Tack is the voice of Palette Scrapings, a series of newsletters published from 1927 to 1931 (The Charlottee Partridge and Miriam Frink Papers, UW-Milwaukee Special Collections, box 28, folder 8) by the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, WI. The quippy newsletter captured the happenings of students and faculty, including exhibitions, performances, fundraisers, marriages, and plain gossip, with the occasional school-related update. The faithful Thumb Tack signs off each newsletter with a unique illustration, and I’ve co-opted a few into the design of this newsletter.
