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A Sampling of past Book Arts Events from 2006

Happy New Year!!

the Book Arts Guild and University of Washington Libraries present

SHOW YOUR STUFF & ANNUAL MEETING


Come view, present and discuss your work and the work of other Book Arts Guild members

Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:00-9:00pm
Maps/Special Collections Classroom, Suzzallo Library Basement, Room B69

The BAG book year begins with an event to which members can bring past and current projects to discuss successes and challenges. We are again marrying our annual meeting and the opportunity for members to provide an informal look at creative work. This gathering is intended as a chance to see what other members are doing, get advice on problems, and hear about projects underway. This program is flexible-- just bring examples of your work. To give everyone a chance to present to the group, we would like you to limit your comments about your work to 10 minutes or less. Don't be shy. The evening will be a success ONLY if YOU bring something to share. Work by members which is already held in the Book Arts Collection can be shown so you can discuss work without having to cart it in to themeeting. Call or email Sandra Kroupa ahead of time if you want something specific from the Collection to be available for the evening: 206-543-1929, or skroupa at u.washington.edu.



Sandra Kroupa invites the Book Arts Guild
to come see whats new in the
Book Arts Collection!

Thursday, February 16, 2006 7-9pm
Maps/Special Collections Classroom,
Suzzallo Basement Room B69,
University of Washington Libraries

The week of Valentines Day seems an apt time to welcome Book Arts Guild members to a special evening event celebrating the book form we all love. We'll look at new pieces in the Collection but Sandra may not be able to refrain from bringing a few older favorites. The purpose of these periodic special events is to give BAG members a chance to see work you may not have seen before. Many items will be able to be handled. Some pieces will be presented by Sandra who will then allow supervised handling.

Paste Paper:
with Pam Bakke

Thursday, March 2, 2006 7:00pm
Maps/Special Collections Classroom B69
Suzzallo Library Basement, University of Washington Libraries

Please join us for Pam's discussion about her own science and evolution as a paste paper artist.

Pam will share her first paste paper exposure experiences: which came first, the paper or the book? She will talk about materials, including corn starch, wallpaper paste and methyl cellulose, trial and error periods with paper, paints and pigments, finding and creating your own tools, and the significance of layering. She will discuss the benefits of a beginners mind set, and acknowledge with gratitude those artists and teachers who have influenced her work. "I have humbly attended Western Washington University, The Oregon College of Arts and Crafts and worked in my home studio for the past 14 years. I will discuss my particular pathology, environmental evolution and genetic predisposition to behavior." There will be time for questions, some answers, and, of course, the portfolios of her work.

the Book Arts Guild & University of Washington Libraries
invite you to


a slide lecture by ABIGAIL RORER

Thursday April 13, 2006, 7 p.m.
Maps/Special Collections Classroom B69
Suzzallo Library Basement, University of Washington Libraries

Abigail Rorer, of Petersham, Massachusetts, is primarily a wood engraver and fine press book publisher. She is the proprietor of The Lone Oak Press, founded in 1989 to publish limited edition books with her engravings and etchings. Three books have been published to date, with the latest title being Of Woodland Pools, Spring-holes & Ditches: Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau Wherein he Observes and Reflects Upon the Nature of Life and Vernal Pools. Yes, it all fits on the title page.

Ms. Rorer attended the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA in Printmaking. For many years she illustrated trade books with her pen & ink drawings, most of the books having nature as their theme. These included, along with over 30 other books, Thoreau's Faith in a Seed (Island Press) * winner of the American Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Award for best nature book of 1993 and Wild Fruits (W.W. Norton), Aldo Leopolds For the Health of the Land (Island Press), Fred Bosworth's Last of the Curlews (Counterpoint), Roger Swains Groundwork (Houghton-Mifflin) and Saving Graces (Little Brown & Co), and Vincent Dethier's Crickets & Katydids: Concerts and Solos (Harvard University Press) *winner of the John Burroughs award for best nature book of 1992.

In 1999, Ms. Rorer was asked if she would be interested in being the second artist in the Barbarian Press (Mission, BC) Endgrain Editions series on contemporary wood engravers. Saying yes to this extraordinary request prompted Abigail to purchase a Vandercook #4 letterpress and devote all her time, from this point forward, exclusively to wood engraving. She had been engraving for years, having been taught the basics by Barry Moser while walking down a street. Engraving, however, was not her main medium as was etching and pen & ink drawings. But wood engraving is now her sole medium, having opened up so many doors and opportunities, and there is no looking back. She is an elected member of the British Society of Wood Engravers, has worked with a number of other fine press printers, has traveled to lecture and promote her work and is wondering why she didnt concentrate on engraving 20 years earlier.

Liminal Spaces:
Book Arts and Photography
a presentation by
Tony White

Thursday June 8, 2006
7:00-9:00 PM

Tony White is a working artist and an Art & Architecture Librarian & Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Tony will trace his journey from his undergraduate work at Whitman College & Evergreen State College to his MFA work at the Art Institute of Chicago. In the Seattle area, Tony worked at Ink on Paper, Elizabeth Tapper's studio, Stone Press, Pilchuck, and the Pratt Fine Art Center on Capitol Hill. While he was at the Art Institute of Chicago, he joined the Chicago Hand Bookbinders and got involved at the Columbia Center for Book and Paper. During school he worked at the Joan Flasch Artist's Books Collection for two years. Tony also began taking weekend workshops with Book Conservator, letterpress printer, and design binder, Barbara Korbel. She encouraged him to begin volunteering in the book conservation studio at the Art Institute of Chicago. This conservation work led to a job as a book and paper conservation technician for the Northeast Document Conservation Center and the National Park Service on the Frederick Law Olmsted Plans and Drawings stabilization project and later work in the Yale University conservation lab.

Tony then went to library school in Indiana and now works at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where, in addition to his Art & Architecture position he is Interim Director of Reader Services. He teaches a graduate course in Art Librarianship in the School of Information and Library Science, and recently taught an Artist's Books studio course in the Department of Fine Arts, also at Pratt Institute. In 2005 he curated an exhibition "Production Not Reproduction: A History of Offset Printed Artist's Books" at Yale University. He has been exhibiting and selling his artist's books since 1992 and his photographic works since 1996. The University of Washington Book Arts Collection has over 15 pieces of his work of which his “canned & pickled” altered book piece remains a student favorite.

The Artist’s Books and Collaborations of

Macy Chadwick

Thursday, August 17, 2006 7-9 pm
Maps/Special Collections Classroom
Suzzallo Library, Room B69
University of Washington Campus
co-sponsored by the Book Arts Guild
and the University of Washington Libraries

"As a book artist, I integrate hand-printed pages of my own poetry and text with imaginative structures to create objects that go beyond the traditional codex form. With innovative bindings such as pop-up structures or accordion formats that extend out for display, my work can be read both as a narrative visual sequence and as a sculptural object."

Macy Chadwick is a book artist and printmaker and the proprietress of In Cahoots Press in Berkeley, California. She received her MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and worked for three years as Studio Assistant to Julie Chen. Macy currently teaches at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco and at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Macy’s books are featured in several prominent collections and she exhibits her work nationally.

Paper & Light
with Helen Hiebert

Friday September 15, 2006 7:00 p.m.
Art Building, Room 317
University of Washington, Seattle


This slide lecture will highlight the work of artists who work with paper in combination with light, producing unique works of art and papers. The artists shown create artworks ranging from works of paper and sculpture to lamps, room dividers, lanterns, and books. Various techniques which lend themselves to working with light will be featured including watermarking, unique structures, pulp painting, layering, and the manipulation of wet sheets of paper.

Helen Hiebert is the proprietor of Enlightened Papers. She explores the interaction of paper and light by piercing, cutting, layering, weaving, and watermarking handmade papers to produce creative yet functional works of art. Hiebert has written several books on the subjects of paper and light and papermaking: Paper Illuminated (15 projects for making handcrafted luminaria, lanterns, screens, lampshades and window treatments), Papermaking with Plants and The Papermakers Companion.

Hiebert learned to make paper at Dieu Donne Papermill, a professional hand papermill located in New York City, where she worked for six years. Her commissioned works and production lamps have been featured in House & Garden, Country Living, Oregon Home and Architectural Record magazines. Her products are available for purchase online, or at a variety of shops around the country, including the American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA; Kobo Shop & Gallery, Seattle, WA; Oblation Papers & Press, Portland, OR, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR; and New Seasons Market, Portland, OR. She teaches and lectures about papermaking and lamp making throughout the country and maintains her studio in Portland, OR.

Sculptural Books
History and Inspiration
by Daniel Essig
Monday, October 2, 2006 7- 9 p.m.
Maps/Special Collections Classroom
Suzzallo Library, Room B69
University of Washington Campus
co-sponsored by the Book Arts Guild and the University of Washington Libraries

“For me, the books themselves are journals — visual records of my life and work. I am interested in traces of the past — ancient binding styles, altered books, distressed finishes, and found objects. I’ve developed my style of bookmaking by learning from mentors and absorbing the influence of treasured objects from other cultures and other times.”

Daniel Essig works out of studios located at Grovewood Gallery and Cyclone Enterprises in Asheville, NC. Daniel regularly teaches at Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont Craft School, and John C. Campbell Folk School. His work has appeared in exhibits around the country , has been featured in books by Keith Smith and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, and can been seen in American Craft, American Style, Craft Reports and FIBERARTS magazines.

TEACHING LETTERPRESS PRINTING

AROUND PUGET SOUND

Thursday November 8, 2006 7-9 p.m.
Maps/Special Collections Classroom, Suzzallo Library Room B89 University of Washington

The first panel discussion in a series covering the different aspects of book and paper arts.

Panel Participants:
Elsi Vassdal Ellis
Jules Remedios Faye
Lisa Hasegawa
Carl Montford
Bonnie Thompson Norman
Jessica Spring
Chris Stern
Jenny Wilkson

This group consists of letterpress printers who are also instructors around Puget Sound. The panelists will discuss their involvement in printing, their approach to teaching letterpress classes and what types of instruction they offer. There will also be a table display of printed samples by the panelists and project samples of their students' work. Jill Vartenigian will act as moderator for the evening.

Co-sponsored by the Book Arts Guild and the University of Washington Libraries

 

 


 

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