In 2016 for the Rutgers 250th Celebration, Tara Maharjan began creating coloring pages to highlight materials located in Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives. These pages can be used as a stress busting activity as well as a hands-on engaging experience with a scholarly resource. To download these pages to color at home during COVID-19 visit the following LINK. Want to learn more about Special Collections & University Archives Coloring Pages? Contact Tara Maharjan, Processing Archivist at tara.maharjan@rutgers.edu.
In the images above you see two sample coloring pages as well as the cover of Naked Ladies, Naked Ladies, Naked Ladies, a coloring book created in 1984 by Lynda Barry. In 2019, Barry was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a prestigious award for creative work. The purpose of the MacArthur Fellows Program is to enable recipients to exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society. A hard copy of this coloring book can also be found in the Rutgers Art Library Special Collections.
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