BOOK
ARTS SHOW & TELL and
Business Meeting
Thursday, January
29, 2004, 7PM
Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives
Allen Library Basement
Yes,
its time again! This will be a wonderful opportunity
to share your work and the work of other BAG members.
The BAG Board often gets requests for an opportunity
for members to bring their past and current projects
to discuss successes, challenges, strategies, and
failures.
This
gathering is a chance to see what other bookmakers
are doing, get advice on problems, alert others of
possible pitfalls, and hear about projects underway.
This program is very flexible. You need not present
anything formal; you can just bring examples of your
work. The works need not be books and may reflect
the broad range of creative work you are involved
in. Dont be shy. The evening will be a success ONLY
if YOU bring something to share.
BOOK ARTS
GUILD ANNUAL MEETING FOR 2004
The
official “Annual” meeting for The Book
Arts Guild will be held prior to the Show & Tell..
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.
MY
"ILLUSTRIOUS" CAREER
a lecture by SANDY JACKSON
Tuesday, February 24, 2004,
7:00-9:00 pm
Special Collections, Allen Library South Basement,
UW campus, Seattle
Sandy
Jackson has a long history as an artist in many media,
including photography, artists' books, paper engineering
and sculpture, artistamps, handmade lace and MORE.
Currently Sandy is the creative inspiration behind
SAR - Some Assembly Required, her business designing
and selling rubber stamp sets and precut paper kits
for artists and craftspeople to fabricate some of
Sandy's fabulous 3-dimensional creations. Her recent
projects have been the hit of many BAG meetings for
those lucky enough to have her show them in the discussion
period after another artist's lecture. Now is the
chance for BAG members to hear about Sandy's wonderful
career and see what her amazing mind comes up with.
She will bring examples to handle.
Witness
- Witness:
Convergence
of Ideas--Divergence of Form
a lecture by Elsi
Vassdal Ellis
Tuesday March 30, 2004 7:00
pm
Special Collections
Allen Library South Basement
University of Washington
This
lecture will be an overview of how current research
on identity and conflict as expressed through war
and genocide was transformed into Elsi's books "Icarus"
and "Questions for a Terrorist". Both titles
are included in the Guild of Bookworkers traveling
exhibit "In Flight", on display at the UW
Libraries from March 22 through May 7, 2004. Retrospective
work by Elsi Vassdal Ellis will also be shown.
ELSI
VASSDAL ELLIS has an extensive career as a book artist
starting with her first book in 1983. She is proprietor
of the EVE Press, executing book editions from the
written word to designing, illustrating, printing
letterpress, and binding. The Book Arts Collection
has more than 55 books from EVE Press: the most complete
set anywhere. Elsi's innovative designsand bindings
make her work splendid teaching examples; the content
of her social and political work is compelling. Elsi
is also a professor at Western Washington University,
where she teaches design production, book arts, and
graphics design history. and bindings make her work
splendid teaching examples; the content of her social
and political work is compelling. Elsi is also a professor
at Western Washington University, where she teaches
design production, book arts, and graphics design
history.
a lecture by Lillian
Dabney
Tuesday,
May 4, 2004 7:00 p.m.
Special Collections, Allen Library South Basement
University of Washington Libraries
Lillian
Dabney is a calligrapher and binder who creates one
of a kind artist's books featuring exquisite hand
lettering. Themes in her work range from the personal
and contemplative to direct commentary on social justice.
Her book "Bessie Coleman/Born to Dream",
on display in the Guild of Bookworkers "In Flight"
exhibit, celebrates the first African American to
receive a pilot's license in 1921, in France, after
refusal to US flight schools. Lillian will discuss
this and other of her works.
Lillian
has studied calligraphy and bookbinding since the
early 1990s. She has pursued training through the
Guild of Bookworkers, as well as private studies with
individual craftspeople. She has taught bookmaking
classes, and is active in professional groups including
the Guild of Bookworkers, Society of Calligraphy and
Handwriting, and the Book Arts Guild. Lillian has
exhibited throughout the Northwest, as well as in
national juried shows.
In
Flight
a traveling show on display
March 22 - May 7, 2004
Suzzallo Library Exhibition Room 102
and
Special Collections Lobby,
Allen Library South Basement
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARIES
Less
than three years after Orville & Wilbur Wright
made their first successful flight in 1903, the Guild
of Book Workers was founded in New York City. After
witnessing a century of aviation progress, the Guild
joined the centennial celebrations by selecting the
theme, IN FLIGHT, for its 2003-2005 Triennial Exhibition.
The
term in flight has multiple meanings in our language
and, as an exhibition theme, it has inspired a broad
interpretation, not limited to aeronautics or aviation
history. The beauty of flight in nature is explored,
as well as whimsical flights of fancy and fantasy;
or by contrast, the definition of flight as fleeing
from danger and escape.
The
fifty-four works featured in this juried exhibition,
made by GBW members, represent a diverse range of
the book related arts, including fine leather binding,
box work, letterpress printing, calligraphy, broadside
posters, and, most popular in this exhibition, the
creation of artists books.
The
Inner Library: Meditation, Contemplation and the Making
of the Lindisfarne Gospels
Dr.
Michelle P. Brown
Wednesday,
May 12, 2004 7:00 pm
Kane Hall, Room 210
University of Washington
co-sponsored by the Information School, the Textual
Studies Program, and
the UW Libraries
What
can a book made on a remote tidal island off of the
north-eastern coast of England, some 1280 years ago,
have to tell us about our world, our societies and
the pressures and pleasures that confront us today?
The Lindisfarne Gospels, one of the world's most elaborate
artworks and symbols of faith, is best known for its
labyrinthine Celtic and Anglo-Saxon ornament and as
a landmark in the transmission of the
Christian Gospels, in Latin and also as the earliest
example to their translation into the English language.
What is less obvious is that it formed an heroic act
of meditation, prayer and patience on the part of
one individual, its maker, on behalf of everybody
and everything. It was both a sanctuary from and a
means of recommitting to the world. The 'Holy Island'
on which it was made, governed by the rhythm of the
tides and the forces of nature, was also the power-house
of a radical social agenda, a political lobby for
justice and a sustaining and transforming faith. It
was a place where humankind's place in a bigger picture
could be explored and expressed, as part of an ecumen
which stretched from the wild western coast of Ireland
to the deserts of Palestine, Syria and Egypt. The
Lindisfarne Gospels continues to tell its story and
engages us in dialogue
still.
Dr.
Michelle P. Brown is Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts
at the British Library. She has lectured widely and
appeared in the media talking about medieval manuscripts
and history and has recently curated the acclaimed
British Library exhibition 'Painted Labyrinth: the
World of the Lindisfarne Gospels'. She is the author
of a number of books, including: The Lindisfarne Gospels:
Society, Spirituality and the Scribe; Anglo-Saxon
Manuscripts; The British Library Guide to Writing
and Scripts; Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts:
A Guide to Technical Terms; A Guide to Western Historical
Scripts from Antiquity to 1600; The British Library
Historical Source-book for Scribes; The Book of Cerne:
Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England;
and of the video 'The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels'.
You
are invited to a special program in conjunction with
Persistent Print:
an exhibition of broadsides
Special Collections Lobby, Allen Library South Basement
University of Washington Libraries
May 21-June 20, 2004
exhibition curated by Deanna Gauthier
Come to this special
event for the Book Arts Guild
hosted by Sandra Kroupa and Deanna Gauthier
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
7-9 p.m.
Special Collections, Allen Library South Basement
As well as the broadsides
on exhibit in the Special Collections Lobby, you will
have a chance to see a wide selection from the over
1,200 broadsides in the Book Arts Collection gathered
for this event. Sandra will give a brief overview
of the broadside tradition and talk about the Book
Arts Collection’s focus on broadsides.
BAG members who have
created their own broadsides are encouraged to bring
them to show!
Books
and Dreams
with Genie Shenk
Thursday
July 22, 2004 7:00 p.m.
Special Collections
Allen Library South Basement
University of Washington
Please
join us for a slide lecture by Genie Shenk, artist
and teacher from San Diego. The presentation features
artists' books, book-related installations, and two
decades of visual dreamlogs. Closely related to assemblage
and collage, the works are the product of an artistic
exploration of the personal, focusing on psychological
and physical artifacts of everday life.
Genie
Shenk teaches Book Arts at San Diego Mesa College,
where she is co-director of a student letterpress
facility. She is a long-time California resident and
founding member of San Diego Book Arts. Though initially
a fiber artist, her interests in paper, collage and
text coalesced in a focus on Book Arts after she received
an MFA from UCLA. Her work has been publicized frequently
and shown widely in the United States and abroad.
Her books are included in numerous collections, including
those of the University of Washington, the National
Museum of Women in the Arts, the Getty Research Library,
and the University of California, San Diego.
Design Matters
Recent work from
Fellows and Licentiates
of Designer Bookbinders
an illustrated lecture
by Dominic Riley
Friday, September 10, 2004
7:00 pm
University of Washington Art Building, Room 317
This slide show and talk will be the first chance
in the US to see some of the latest work coming out
of this renowned British society, which is devoted
to promoting excellence in bookbinding design. It
will serve as an interesting update on the
activities of the artists whose bindings last toured
America in their travelling exhibition in 2000. It
will also be an opportunity to see for the first time
the work of their newest members.
Featured artists include: Susan
Allix, Glenn Bartley, Andrew Brown, Lester Capon,
Jeff Clements, Stephen Conway, Paul Delrue, Eri Funazaki,
Flora Ginn, Jenni Grey, Peter Jones, Jeannette Koch,
Bernard Middleton, Pamela Richmond, Dominic Riley,
Lori Sauer, David Sellars, Faith Shannon, Philip Smith
and Julian Thomas.
Dominic Riley learned bookbinding
at age 16 from Benedictine monks and at the London
College of Printing. He spent the last 10 years in
San Francisco teaching, lecturing and restoring rare
books. He now has a bindery with Michael Burke in
England’s Lake District and serves as vice chairman
of the Society of Bookbinders.
the Book Arts Guild
& University of Washington School of Art Department
of Printmaking present
Pastepapers Old and
New
taught by Dominic Riley
September 11 & 12, 2004 9am-5pm
University of Washington Art Building
$100 BAG members;
$125 non-members
supplies will be provided
Explore the joys of
making your own historical decorated papers, then
experiment with contemporary designs and inventive
techniques.
Although used on books
as early as the sixteenth century, pastepapers were
made popular in the mid 1700s by the Moravian Sisters
of Herrnhut, in Saxony. Recent study of these papers
has sparked a revival of interest in them, and in
this workshop Dominic will introduce you to the methods,
materials and patterns used on the original pastepapers.
We will begin by mixing
the colors using natural earth pigments, and making
the few simple tools used by the Sisters. We will
then reproduce each of their original designs using
the same colors, patterns, freehand brush strokes
and tooling.
Day two of the class
will bring us up to date with a wide range of inventive
techniques for making modern pastepapers. Dominic
will show you how to make combs, stamps, rollers and
other mark-making tools used in pastepaper design,
and show a range of techniques he uses to create many
different effects, from the simple pulled papers,
to the highly regular striped patterns.
This class will be
a fun weekend of making historical and new pattern
pastepapers, for both advanced paper decorators and
beginners.
Dominic Riley learned
bookbinding at age 16 from Benedictine monks and at
the London College of Printing. He spent the last
10 years in San Francisco teaching, lecturing and
restoring rare books. He now has a bindery with Michael
Burke in England's Lake District and serves as vice
chairman of the Society of Bookbinders.
You
are invited to a Closing Night Reception:
Art
of the Book: an Art Books Press exhibition
Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:00 pm
Art
Books Press
4703 Ballard Avenue NW, Seattle
206 285 2665
The
Art of the Book consists of 18 artists exploring the
meaning of the book as art. From traditional techniques
like letterpress, offset printing, to constructions,
sculpture and zines, this exhibition raises the question,
"What defines a book as art?"
The
following Book Arts Guild members, who have books
in the show, will be present to talk briefly about
their work and for you to meet:
Kimber
Fisher Dave Hornor Don Myhre Laura Russell Fruma Shrensel
the Book Arts Guild and University
of Washington Libraries present
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
RED CHARMING
A
lecture by EMILY K. LARNED
Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 7:00-9:00 PM
NEW Special Collections classroom, Allen Library,
North Wing, Basement, UW
CAMPUS, Seattle
Emily
K. Larned received her BA with High Honors from Wesleyan
University, and apprenticed with letterpress printer
& publisher Robin Price in Middletown, CT. She
is the Vice President of Booklyn, a not-for-profit
artist alliance based in Brooklyn, NY, where she also
lives and works. Her artist books are in over forty
public collections, and have been in many group exhibitions,
including in 2004 "Open House: Working in Brooklyn"
at the Brooklyn Museum and "Making Meaning"
at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her debut solo show,
"Retrospective Red Charming," is currently
up through December 10 at the Parsons School of Design
Library in New York City. Red Charming is the production
label for all her projects, which focus on the representation
of the world by the arts and sciences and seek to
show the strangeness of everything we assume to be
ordinary. Emily will be talking about her own work
and is bringing books to handle. She will also talk
about Booklyn and give BAG an introduction to this
fine artists' cooperative.
the
Book Arts Guild and University of Washington Libraries
present
A Holiday Paper Ornament
Show & Tell
Monday, November 22, 2004,
7-9 pm
Maps/Special Collections Classroom
Allen Library North Basement
Begin the holiday season with
an informal gathering to share and learn to make
paper ornaments. The event will use BAG's popular
show & tell format. Members are invited to bring
any examples of (traditional or not) holiday decorations,
keepsakes, boxes, etc. that they have made. Please
share pieces whose construction can be easily demonstrated,
and if possible, please bring extra copies of instructions
to share with others.
