PRACTICAL
COPYRIGHT ISSUES : QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A
PRESENTATION FOR BOOK ARTISTS BY
JANE
HELLMANN, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEY
TUESDAY,
February 23, 1999, 7:00 PM
Special Collections, Allen Library South Wing, Basement,
UW CAMPUS
There
are many different aspects of copyright facing the
book artist today. When you make a postcard using
the text of a famous 20th Century person, you must
consider copyright. If you want to protect your own
artwork, you must understand copyright. If you have
ever had a question about copyright, now is the time
to ask it. This presentation will be of interest to
anyone who is thinking about putting their artwork
on a website, reprinting a favorite poem or using
a classic painting as part of a collage. Jane Hellmann,
an intellectual property attorney specializing in
trademarks and copyright, will share her expertise
with Guild members on an informal question and answer
basis. As an attorney, Jane wants to assist Guild
members in understanding the complexities of copyright
but this presentation won't provide in-depth legal
advice.
Collecting
on the Other Coast: The Artists' Book Collection at
Rhode
Island School of Design.
Lecture by Laurie Whitehill Chong. April 1, 1999,
Thursday 7:00 PM.
Special Collections, Basement, South Wing, Allen Library.
Laurie
has been the Rhode Island School of Design, Readers'
Services
Librarian since 1989 and has a BFA from RISD,
Established
in 1877, RISD in Providence, RI is an art and design
school offering 22 undergraduate and 15 graduate degrees
in the fine arts, design and applied arts, and architecture.
RISD's enrollment is approximately 2000 full time
students.
This
evening will be an opportunity to hear how another
institution collects and to have Laurie talk about
some of her favorite books using examples from the
University of Washington's Book Arts Collection. These
and other books from the Book Arts Collection will
be available for handling after the presentation.
the Book Arts Guild and University of Washington Libraries
present
a
lecture by Katherine Venturelli,
Between Two Covers, Construction and Content
Thursday,
April 22, 1999 7:00 pm
Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220, UW Campus
An
artist and printmaker since the late 1960's, Katherine
Venturelli
currently focuses on artists' books which use personal,
cultural and
spiritual symbols. She works in intaglio and monoprints
at her Sutter
Creek California studio, often in sculptural accordion
bindings.
Katherine also creates books with etched copper pages
hinged with leather.
She will be showing some slides of her work but also
intends to bring a
number of books which you will be able to handle using
gloves. This is a
wonderful opportunity to see these bookworks in person.
The Book Arts Guild &
The University of Washington School of Art Printmaking
Division
are pleased to present a workshop
****Book
of Fun & Games**** with Julie Chen
SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY**** MAY 15 & 16, 1999
9:00AM - 4:00PM
This workshop will have each participant construct
a book complete
with contents and five moveable mechanisms. The artist
describes the
workshop as a "very full weekend, but loads of
fun." Those who saw
Julie's lecture last year will know that she uses
moveable elements,
popups and interesting structures in her own work.
Julie has been
publishing letterpress printed limited edition artists'
books under the
Flying Fish Press imprint for the past ten years.
Works at the press have
decidedly 3-D personalities as well more intimate
facets that draw the
reader into interior worlds within the book form.
Julie also teaches book
arts at Mills College & does workshops & other
teaching across the United
States.
The cost of the workshop will be $125.00 for BAG members
and
$150.00 for non-BAG members and will include all supplies.
The workshop
will be limited to 10 participants. As always, sign
up is first come,
first served with those beyond the one-day mail of
Seattle getting some
leeway on the realities of mail delivery. Also BAG
members get priority
for this workshop as for all others (PLEASE have paid
1999 dues). Those
who get into the workshop will get a confirmation
letter and tools
required list. If you haven't heard from BAG in two
weeks MAXIMUM after
your workshop form goes in, call Sandra.
The class will be held Saturday and Sunday (5/15-5/16/99)
on the
University of Washington campus, in the Art Building,
Room 110, 9:00 AM to
4:00 PM.
the Book Arts Guild and University of Washington Libraries
present
THE
BOOKWORKS OF KAREN KUNC
a
lecture MONDAY June 21, 1999 7:00 pm
Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220
University of Washington Campus, Seattle
Artist Karen Kunc, also variously known as Blue Heron
Press , has been
making unique bookworks and limited editioned artists
books for over 15
years. Kunc lives and works in Nebraska where she
is a Professor of Art
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received
her MFA from Ohio
State University in 1977 and her BFA from the University
of
Nebraska-Lincoln in 1975. Kunc is best known for her
large scale,
elaborately colored, abstract woodcut prints, and
has a parallel diversion
in her ongoing investigation of the expressive possibilities
of the 3-D
book form. Her books incorporate vital, richly hued
shapes with timeless
textural language, leading to a sense of intimacy
and detail, with the
tactile resonance of wood, paper and impression.
Kunc's
works are represented in many public and private collections,
including: the Museum of Modern Art (NY); the Library
of Congress; the
National Museum of American Art; Walker Art Center;
Allen Library of the
University of Washington; the New York Public Library;
the National Art
Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Recent exhibitions
include: solo shows at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha,
and the Museum of
Art, University of Iowa; Off the Shelf: Books by Artists,
Tempe Art
Center, Tempe, Arizona; Books and Bookishness, DePaul
University, Chicago,
Illinois; Art of the Book '93, Canadian Bookbinders
and Book Artists
Guild, Ontario Craft Council Craft Gallery, Toronto,
Canada. Kunc
received a Fulbright Scholar Award in 1966, an Artists'
Book Production
Grant, Women's Studio Workshop, 1998-99 and a Library
Fellows commission
for an artists book, National Museum of Women in the
Arts, Washington DC,
1995-96.
WEST COAST PAPER COMPANY
&
THE BOOK ARTS GUILD
INVITE
MEMBERS TO A SPECIAL VISIT TO THE BILL THORNILEY COLLECTION
SEPTEMBER 22, 1999
WEDNESDAY
7:00-9:00 PM
Noted
Seattle printer Bill Thorniley, The Pastime Printer,
was also famous
for his large and diverse type collection. Few such
collections stay
intact and there are fewer still in the Northwest
which are accessible to
those interested in typography, typographic history
and the history of
printing. Luckily a number of years ago this collection
was acquired by
the West Coast Paper Company both to preserve the
Collection and keep it
together, and to provide financial assistance to Bill
Thorniley in his
later years. The Book Arts Guild visited the Thorniley
Collection at West
Coast Paper Company in its old location in South Seattle
a number of years
ago, guest of the Company and of John DeNure, long
the curator of the
Collection. Subsequently the Company's headquarters
has moved to Kent and
new quarters have been constructed for the Collection.
We are pleased to
be invited to visit the new facility and to find our
friend John DeNure
and his partner Jane Le Cuyer still at the helm of
this wonderful
Collection. The Thorniley Collection has been joined
by new type, presses
and some historic bookbinding equipment as well. A
tour of the Collection
and light refreshment will be provided. We thank John
for the marvelously
complete directions which are herewith provided.
the
Book Arts Guild and University of Washington Libraries
present
Sue
Ann Robinson Looks at Artists' Books
a
lecture Thursday October 7, 1999 at 7:00 PM
Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220
University of Washington Campus, Seattle
Sue Ann Robinson creates one-of-a-kind and small edition
artists' books
with an imaginative mix of photography, offset printing
and
embellishments. Internationally known for her bookworks
as well as her
sculptural and conceptual work, she lectures, teaches
and does workshops.
Sue Ann has visited Seattle in the past and gave a
presentation on her
work for the BOOK ARTS GUILD with great response.
October's lecture will
bring us up-to-date with her new work as well as introduce
us to some of
her favorite artists in the field. Sue Ann will bring
slides, a video and
actual example books.
Sue
Ann is artist-in-residence at the Long Beach Museum
of Art in
California as well as Director of Education and Outreach
there. She has
an extensive list of exhibitions, commissioned work
and awards including
the Library Fellows Book Award from the National Museum
of Women in the
Arts in Washington DC and the Smithsonian's Science
and the Artists' Book
exhibition. Her work is contained in private and public
collections
around the United States and in England. Notable is
her artists' book,
Chisholm Hours, a traditional Book of Hours with cowboy
themes. Each copy
of the book has a unique binding with additions of
three-dimensional
objects and other various embellishments. A copy is
in The Book Arts
Collection at the University of Washington Libraries.
The
Book Arts Guild &
The University of Washington Libraries
are pleased to present a workshop with
Sue
Ann Robinson
THINKING
OUTSIDE THE BOX, or,
VIEW FROM OUTSIDE THE FRAME, and,
STAYING OUTSIDE THE LINES:
STRATEGIES FOR GENERATING ORIGINAL CONTENT IN INNOVATIVE
FORM
SATURDAY****
OCTOBER 9, 1999
10:00AM - 4:00PM
This workshop will address (1) breaking out of the
rut, (2) strategies for generating original content,
(3) charting your inspirational sources (who or what's
your muse?), (4) ways of integrating content and structure,
(5) which comes first? Structure or Content?, (6)
finding your own original voice. "I do believe
we all have some appointed work to do, which no one
else can do so well; which is our work;and that first
we must find out what we are sent into the world to
do, and define it and make it clear to ourselves,
(that's the hard part) and then forget ourselves in
our work, and our work
in the end we ought to strive to bring about."
Letters of Elizabeth Gaskell, February 1850, J. A.
V. Chapple, Ed. (1967) The workshop will include a
variety of strategies to integrate elements and thereby
create meaning, by considering (a) text & image,
(b) content & structure; scale & shape, (c)
page & cover: inner & outer parts (d)
reconsidering materials: choice of medium and its
support, (e) forward & back; pacing & sequence.
Participants will engage in a variety of writing and
designing activities to jump start creative solutions
to the book format as a fine art medium. Participants
will look at sources of original content and will
have the opportunity to see examples of artists' books
which thoroughly meld the structure and content in
imaginative ways. At the end of the workshop, participants
will have resource lists and some methods for use
in their own studios.
