The April 2019 issue of DOLLS features48 four-color pages. This issue includes our annual look at dollmakers’ new designs for the year, a new Meadow Dolls BJD available exclusively from DOLLS, a history of black paper dolls, and more.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

8 Mae Day!: Meadow Dolls partner with DOLLS on an exclusive 16-inch BJD

12 What’s New in 2019: These creations will be the talk of the town this year!
By Stephanie Finnegan

26 Open House: Artist’s own creations are at home with prized antique dolls
By Linda Ellen Brown-Trinckes

31 Elusive Prizes: African-American paper dolls in popular culture
By Karen B. Kurtz, Photos by Mark A. Kurtz

Departments

6 Editor’s Letter
25 Portraits
36 Antique Q&A
38 Curious Collector
40 Doll Scene
43 Event Calendar
43 Classifieds
43 Advertiser Index
44 Paper Doll
46 Bookshelf