Mark Fonstad answers visitor questions about the exhibit he curated of his mother’s work.
AMBER ARNOLD photos, STATE JOURNAL
Karen Wynn Fonstad first encountered The Lord of the Rings in the late 1960s and was caught up in the richness and depth of the story and fantasy world it contained.
In a sunlight-dappled room in UW-Madison’s Science Hall, between historical maps from around the planet, rests a world unlike the others: the fantasy land of Middle-earth.
Stella Acosta-Hawkins, 10, left, and Ben Hawkins, of Madison, said they were amazed at the tools Fonstad used and what the exhibit said about the artistic process.
The exhibit contained descriptions of Fonstad's life and her work creating atlases for other fantasy lands, including The Dragonriders of Pern and Dungeons and Dragons.
Stella Acosta-Hawkins, 10, left, and Ben Hawkins, of Madison, said they were amazed at the tools Fonstad used and what the exhibit said about the artistic process.
The exhibit contained descriptions of Fonstad's life and her work creating atlases for other fantasy lands, including The Dragonriders of Pern and Dungeons and Dragons.
Karen Wynn Fonstad first encountered The Lord of the Rings in the late 1960s and was caught up in the richness and depth of the story and fantasy world it contained.
