Limited-edition book helps fund program

Artist and poet Helen Salzberg (right) receives the first copy of River of Grass from artist Dorothy Simpson Krause, who is Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) first Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence. FAU’s Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at the Wimberly Library in Boca Raton received 18 copies of Krause’s limited edition portfolio-style book, covered in handmade paper. Proceeds from the $875 book will help finance the program. Paying homage to Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s book The Everglades: River of Grass, each book includes 10 folios of historic and contemporary photos of the Everglades, maps, and documents.