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BOOK
ARTS GUILD ANNUAL MEETING FOR 2001
The official “Annual”
meeting for The Book Arts Guild will be
held prior to the lecture by Joseph Newland,
Tuesday January 23, 2001 at 7:00 PM. At
this brief meeting we will nominate and
elect a slate of Board members, give a treasurer’s
and membership secretary’s report
and conduct any business brought up by the
members. If you have any issues you would
like to discuss, questions you would like
to ask the Board, or suggestions you would
like to make, this is a good opportunity.
We encourage your input. Joseph’s
presentation will begin directly after the
business meeting.
Note that the meeting
will be held in the Manuscripts, Special
Collections, University Archives Division,
Allen Library, South Wing, Basement, UW
CAMPUS, Seattle
the Book Arts
Guild and University of Washington Libraries
present
The Art of the Offset
Art Book
a lecture by Joseph N. Newland, producer
and editor of art books
Tuesday January 23,
2001 at 7:00 PM
Manuscripts, Special Collections, University
Archives Division, Allen Library
South Wing, Basement, UW CAMPUS, Seattle
Japanese Bamboo Baskets:
Masterworks of Form and Texture from the
Collection of Lloyd Cotsen is an unusual
example of book arts produced by commercial
offset lithography. Commissioned by a bibliophile
and noted collector of children's illustrated
books as a tribute to one of his favorite
art forms, the volume was named by the American
Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the
best 50 Books of 1999. Joseph Newland led
a team of collaborators from Japan and North
America to produce this extraordinary combination
of art history, photography, design, typography,
color separation, multicolor lithography,
and hand- and machine binding. Joseph will
discuss it and select other examples of
the art of the reproductive art book.
Joseph N. Newland
has been producing art books since 1979,
mostly for museums and mostly on 20th-century
American or Asian art. He first came to
Seattle on the way to becoming a Japanese
art historian but was waylaid by the art
(not slides!) in museums and the joy of
making books. He has done so at the Henry
Art Gallery, LA County Museum of Art and
Asia Society Galleries in New York. Since
1996 Joseph has been an independent book
producer and editor in Seattle. Japanese
Bamboo Baskets is one of 60 publications
he has overseen from start to finish, give
or take a few, and given a few breaks for
coffee or China black tea.
Program for
March 2001 [actual date???]
THE TRADITION OF THE BOOK ARTS, a presentation
with historical examples by Sandra Kroupa,
Book Arts Librarian, Manuscripts, Special
Collections, University Archives Division,
University of Washington Libraries.
Come and discover
the rich resources of the University of
Washington Libraries in an evening designed
to introduce or reacquaint you with the
historic tradition of the book arts. Many
of the members of the Book Arts Guild may
not know that as well as over 6,000 20th
Century book arts examples, the Manuscripts,
Special Collections, University Archives
Division contains some 5,000 examples of
historical materials of interest to the
modern artist. Included are medieval manuscripts,
early printed books, examples of the work
of major early printers such as Aldus, Baskerville
and Koberger, illustrated books on a wide
variety of topics and significant holdings
of the fine press movement of the turn of
the 20th Century exemplified by the work
of William Morris. This will by your opportunity
to see and handle some of the historic highlights
of the Collection and to connect with the
roots of the modern book arts movement.
WORD/IMAGE:
ARTISTS’ BOOKS IN CONTEXT
a lecture by Joyce
Cutler-Shaw
Photo by Phel Steinmetz Thursday April 26,
2001 at 7:00 PM
Manuscripts, Special Collections, University
Archives Division, Allen Library
South Wing, Basement, UW CAMPUS, Seattle
Joyce Cutler-Shaw
is an artist of intermedia narratives, installations,
public projects and artists’ books.
She has exhibited internationally since
1972. Drawing is at the heart of her multi-layered
works collectively titled The Messenger
Cycle. She considers drawing as a way of
knowing, as a mode of inquiry and as an
act of empathy. A recent series, titled
Body Archaeology, is part of her project,
The Anatomy Lesson, in process since 1990.
It is an investigation of human identity
and the evolving self from birth through
death. To realize this independent project,
Cutler-Shaw was honored to be the first
visual artist, nationally, to have a medical
school residency, as Artist-In-Residence
and Visiting Scholar at the School of Medicine
at the University of California San Diego.
Integral to her body
of work is the Alphabet of Bones, an original
calligraphy inspired by the hollow bones
of birds. Its 26 characters have been digitized
and can be translated into the English alphabet
as well as a symbolic code. It is her own
copyrighted typeface that has been widely
published and honored. Included in her honors
was the award of a publication prize from
the Center for Book Arts in New York City
that published a limited edition of Three
Cages, which was a small triangular book
of unusual folds with images and an original
poetic text in English and The Alphabet
of Bones.
Joyce Cutler-Shaw’s
works are represented in both museum and
library special collections, including drawings
recently purchased by the Albertina Museum
in Vienna, as well as the Museum of Modern
Art, The 42nd Street Library, the Klingspor
Museum in Germany, the Teylers Museum in
The Netherlands, the Herbert Johnson Museum
at Cornell, the National Museum of Women
in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Artists
Books collection of the Athenaeum Music
and Art Library, the Getty Library as well
as the Book Arts Collection of the University
of Washington Libraries.
The Information School and University of Washington
Libraries present
The Lindisfarne Gospels
A lecture by Ewan
Clayton
Wednesday May 30,
2001 7:00 pm
Husky Union Building, Room 106B
University of Washington Campus
For the past twelve
years Ewan Clayton has been visiting the
island of Lindisfarne with groups of calligraphers
to reflect on the island's traditions of
book craft. In this talk, he will look at
the greatest surviving product of the eighth
century scriptorium, a Gospel Book written
by the scribe Eadfrith, and will set this
work in the context of its use within a
community, a perspective informed by his
decade-long collaboration with researchers
at Xerox PARC.
Ewan Clayton grew up near Ditchling, Sussex,
home of Edward Johnston. He trained in calligraphy
at the Roehampton Institute with Ann Camp
and then assisted her in the teaching there.
As well as running his own calligraphy business,
Ewan teaches calligraphy at the Roehampton
Institute and is a visiting Professor in
the School of Arts, Design and Media Studies,
University of Sunderland, England.
the University of Washington Libraries present
The 59th Annual
WESTERN BOOKS Exhibition
JUNE 20-JULY 6, 2001
Manuscripts, Special
Collections, University Archives Division,
Allen Library
South Wing, Basement, UW CAMPUS, Seattle
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the Book Arts Guild and the University of
Washington Libraries will host
an informal presentation
by
Catherine Michaelis,
May Day Press Vashon Island, Washington
and
Bonnie Thompson Norman
The Windowpane Press
Seattle, Washington
who each have work
in the exhibition.
Thursday June 21,
2001 at 7:00 PM
Manuscripts, Special Collections, University
Archives Division, Allen Library
For more information
contact Sandra Kroupa 206-543-1929, skroupa@u.washington.edu
after June 18.
the
University of Washington Libraries presents
?OUT-OF-THE-WOOD?
an exhibition of
work by the WOOD ENGRAVERS NETWORK
JULY 10-AUGUST 3,
2001 wood engraving by Carl Montford
The Wood Engravers
Network is an international organization
of some 200 artists. Occasionally members
contribute their latest engraving in a limited
edition of 200 to a collaborative bundle
then sent out to all participants. The wood
engraving prints currently on display are
part of the bundles created in the last
9 years. The WEN organization archives all
of their work at Princeton University. Each
year the group holds a week-long workshop,
usually on the East Coast. This year the
workshop is in Seattle, July 9-13, hosted
by Carl Montford, wood engraver and member
of the Book Arts Guild Board.
Manuscripts, Special
Collections, University Archives Division,
Allen Library
South Wing, Basement Lobby, University of
Washington, Seattle Campus
the Book Arts
Guild and University of Washington Libraries
present
?ENDGRAIN AGAIN:
A PRINTER'S ILLUSTRATED COMMENTARY?
A lecture by Jan
Elsted of Barbarian Press, Mission, British
Columbia
Tuesday, July 10,
2001, 7:00 PM at Manuscripts, Special Collections,
University Archives Division
Jan and Crispin Elsted
have been letterpress printers since 1977
with a special interest in wood engraving.
In 1995 they produced Endgrain: Contemporary
Wood Engraving in North America, which was
greeted with considerable acclaim, and is
now widely sought after. This has spawned
a projected series of books called Endgrain
Editions, each showing selected work of
a single engraver, printed from the original
blocks, with an introduction and a catalogue
of major works. The first of these, on Canadian
engraver Gerard Brender à Brandis,
appeared in 2000. Their latest effort features
Abigail Rorer from the Lone Oak Press in
Massachusetts, a WEN member. Jan, Crispin
and Abigail will be in attendance. For more
information on Barbarian Press, check out
their great website at http://www.barbarianpress.com/
This is the first joint meeting of the Book
Arts Guild and the Wood Engravers Network.
From 7:00-7:30 there will be a short social
period for BAG and WEN members to meet,
the presentation will begin at 7:30 with
refreshments following.
Leaves of Grass, Leaves of Glass:
What can Walt Whitman tell us about the Web?
A lecture sponsored
by the Textual Studies Program, the Department
of English, the Information School,
& the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for
the Humanities
by
David M. Levy
The Information School
Tuesday, November
27, 2001, 7:00 PM
at the Faculty Club, Downstairs Conference
Room
Well before the World
Wide Web came into existence, books had
begun to migrate from paper to digital form.
Today, many of the classic works of literature
are freely available for downloading and
printing. No one, however, is quite sure
whether people will want to read extensively
online, how the online reading experience
will differ from earlier, paper-based practices,
or why we should care. It may be too early
for definitive answers to such questions,
but it isn't too early, I believe, to reflect
on our own experience.
In this talk, I will
explore one particular work, Walt Whitman's
"Leaves of Grass," which began
its life as a printed book and can now be
found on the Web. Through textual analysis,
historical understanding, and personal introspection,
I will examine one particular print copy
of "Leaves of Grass" (my childhood
copy, in fact) and will compare it with
the online edition in the Bartleby Library.
In the process, I will touch on various
questions raised by the movement to digital
formats: To what extent can form be divorced
from content? What is the place of materiality
in an increasingly digital world? And more
specifically, does it matter whether we
read "Leaves of Grass" online
or as a traditional book?
David Levy is a professor
in the Information School of the University
of Washington. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford
University in computer science (1979) and
a Diploma in calligraphy and bookbinding
from the Roehampton Institute, London (1982).
For fifteen years (until December, 1999),
he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC). His book, "Scrolling
Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the
Digital Age," has just been published.
THE
BOOK ARTS GUILD, DEPARTMENT OF PRINTMAKING
OF THE SCHOOL OF ART & THE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIES
Present a lecture
by
Julie Chen
Interpreting Vision: A closer look at the
creative process
Friday, November
30, 2001, 7:00 PM ****Art Building, Room
317, University of Washington
NOTE NEW LOCATION
FOR THIS LECTURE ONLY
Julie Chen will show
slides, and talk candidly about the process
of how limited edition artists' books get
designed and produced at Flying Fish Press.
Slides will include images of both finished
work as well as working models and printed
sheets from various stages of development
for several recent book projects. Chen will
discuss her own creative process in bringing
a work from start to finish, as well as
detailing tricks and stratagems that can
by applied by other artists working in the
field.
Julie has been publishing
letterpress printed limited edition artists'
books under the Flying Fish Press imprint
since 1987. Her work is considered some
of the most innovative and imaginative in
the field and uses image, theme and structure
in equal proportions. Julie is a fine craftsman
as well as an artist and her work shows
a level of attention to detail seldom seen
in modern work. Julie also teaches book
arts at Mills College & does workshops
& other teaching across the United States.
She is in Seattle to do a workshop for BAG
on December 1-2.
The Book Arts Guild & The University of
Washington School of Art Printmaking Division
are pleased to present a workshop
DEVELOPING YOUR BOOKBRAIN:
STRATEGIES FOR BOOK ARTISTS
with Julie Chen
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY,
DECEMBER 1 & 2, 2001, 9:00AM - 4:00PM
At the heart of every
artists’ book is the merging of concept,
materials, structure, and content. This
two-day intensive workshop will offer you
the opportunity to expand your range and
vision as a book artist, with a focus on
developing strategies for turning your ideas
into real books. Students will be guided
through the process of creating an artists’
book from start to finish through a series
of exercises and assignments that will include
model making, text writing, and image making.
Students will come away from this workshop
with at least one comprehensive model for
an artists’ book as well as many exciting
and usable ideas for future projects. The
ideas and practices presented in this course
can be equally valuable and accessible to
the beginner as well as to the experienced
book artist.
Julie has been publishing letterpress printed
limited edition artists' books under the
Flying Fish Press imprint for the past dozen
years. Her work is notable for blending
all the elements this workshop will focus
on. Julie also teaches book arts at Mills
College & does workshops & other
teaching across the United States. She is
one of the best teachers in the field and
her other BAG workshops have been a great
hit.
The cost of the workshop will be $120.00
for BAG members and $150.00 for non-BAG
members and will include all supplies. The
workshop will be limited to 15 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. Those
who get into the workshop will get a confirmation
letter that will tell you the building room
number and anything else you may need to
know.
The class will be held Saturday and Sunday
(12/1-12/2/01) on the University of Washington
campus, in the Art Building, ROOM TO BE
ANNOUNCED, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
** Julie will be giving a lecture Friday,
November 30, 2001 at 7:00 PM, Art Building,
Room to be announced. A separate announcement
will be sent out in November.
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