Book & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - May 21, 2021
Hello everyone,
My husband's computer is getting a little on the old side and is starting to show its age - 6 years (in computer years 24)! It was starting to protest while it is going through Windows updates (shudder!) and so researched looking for a replacement computer for him. I try to get as much bang for our buck by getting as fast or faster CPU, double the RAM, and the same amount or more in hard drive size but in SSD (solid state drive) format. I don't do tech support any more but my PC guy recommends Dell (whether for a desktop or laptop) but honestly go with the brand you are happy with and has the best customer service. I would recommend spending your money on more RAM, computer speed then hard drive.
I had always thought that Shizen paper was Japanese but it is an American brand based in Missouri made in India & Thailand. I first came across these papers at Cost Plus World Markets and at that one art supply place in any small town we visit - such rich, lush and beautiful colors and textures! Here is a link to how they make it and their paper catalog.
As a weird aside I have been learning how to pronounce the name of the town, well, more like a small village with the longest name in Wales (those double "ll"s are quite the tongue displacement) - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and trying to figure out how to use the longest word - pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - in a conversation. There I go collecting words again, like exsanguination, defenestration and kerfuffle. Do you have a favorite word?
Thanks to Jane Carlin from PSBA inviting me to chat about the Book and Paper Arts Workshop calendar and newsletter. I had an amazing time talking about the calendar, newsletter and process and future possibilities of the calendar. Everyone attending was warm and supportive with the nicest things to say (that made me blush). Thank you everyone that have enjoyed this newsletter and the calendar!
Hope you are staying safe, sane, well and creative!
Me ke aloha nui - Jade
Unfolding paper artist, information disseminator, foodie, unorthodox traveler, astronomy enthusiast, grudgingly tech savvy
====================Sections below: About the calendar; Things to see or do if you happen to be in the area; Call for artists/entries/proposals/submissions, teaching opportunities, residencies; Bits & bobs about paper/books/tips/trips; Upcoming classes in the next 30 - 45 days; Resource list; Housekeeping
====================About the calendar
Link to the calendar: https://teamup.com/ksd9e12a80c3878ba5 (If the link is not working copy and paste it to your browser)
The time listed as you mouse over each entry or at the top of the entry when opened will be Pacific Time with the original & other times listed in the Description area
There is no difference between Calendar 1 (blue entries) and 2 (red entries), just a way to visually separate in-person workshops; orange and light teal (also visual separation) entries are online workshops; light green ones are the latest workshops found since the last email update; purple entries are for festivals or conferences; yellow are public online meetings from various book arts guilds and museums
You can do a search (magnifying glass search button in upper right of screen) by state, town, instructor name, time zone, etc. If it is the calendar you can search on it. If one class is sold out search for a keyword to see if another is available, for example, "masu" or "Sheehy". Do use the organizations workshop calendar to see what else is being offered
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Agenda (list view from current day going forward) or List (list view for current week/month going forward)
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Things to see or do if you happen to be in the area (* new additions or reschedules)
American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco - Making Their Mark: Decorating and Finishing - now until May 22, 2021 (?) - an induction to finishing, by hand or machine - series lecture 1 with Brien Beidler (Apr 24, 2021) and lecture 2 with Samuel Feinstein (May 22, 2021)
Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory - National Juried Exhibition - now until May 22, 2021 - virtual gallery and walkthrough
* MarinMOCA - 12th Annual Altered Book Exhibition - now until May 23, 2021 - The exhibition is free and open to the public. Preview and exhibit highlights. Bid on the books!
The Delaware Contemporary - Vessel Invitational: Revisioning the Receptacle - now until May 23, 2021 - opening event and special programming
* OC Great Park Gallery, Irvine - Ink on Paper: A Letterpress Showcase - large-scale exhibition in Orange County, California featuring work from national and international letterpress printers and artists - now until Jun 13, 2021
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Gallery - 13th Annual Illustrated Accordion exhibition - in person limited capacity (Tue - Fri 10am -5pm (ET) and virtual - Exhibit dates: now until Jun 18, 2021 - previous years entries
Center for Book Arts, NY - Interspecies Futures [IF] - now until Jun 26, 2021 - first survey of bookworks by leading international practitioners from the contemporary fields of bio-art and speculative design who have turned to the book as a tool for the proposal of alternative human-nonhuman scenarios
Center for Book Arts, NY - Veiled Taxonomies - now until Jun 26, 2021 - ongoing project about the fractious relationship humans have with the preservation and interpretation of nature
Center for Book Arts, NY - Lights, Tunnels, Passages & Shadows - now until Jun 26, 2021 - examines the transcendent possibilities of peripheral spaces within museums
American Swedish Institute - Papier (watch here) - Bea Szenfeld’s spectacular sculptural paper-fashions with Stina Wirsén’s evocative illustrations - now until July 11, 2021
FOBA is going virtual - July 15 - 19, 2021. More information on the conference!
* Boston Athenaeum - 40 Years: Celebrating the New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers - now until Aug 7, 2021 (in-person) - more about the works on display
Phoenix Art Museum - The Violet Protest Exhibition - now until Sep 5, 2021
Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival is going virtual - Sep 17 - 19, 2021. Look for an email in early July for registration information
* Reclamation: Artist's Books on the Environment - at San Francisco Center for the Book: Jun 4 - Sept 26, 2021; San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch: Jewett Gallery, Lower Level: Jun 19 - Sep 5, 2021
The Movable Book Society - 2021 Denver Conference - Sep 30 - Oct 3, 2021 - In-person or virtual attendance
* The Santa Fe Studio Tour - new dates: Oct 9 - 10, 2021 and Oct 16 - 17, 2021. Artist registration opens Jun 1, 2021. Pre-registration meeting information
Northwoods Book Arts Guild - Books As Art 3 - NBG members will present a wide spectrum of handcrafted book forms - Fairbanks Arts Association
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Call for artists/entries/proposals/submissions; teaching opportunities; residencies (* new additions)
Artist opportunities spreadsheet, other residencies and online juried shows moved down to Resources section
The Book Art Program at Mills College (Oakland, CA) has two adjunct positions available starting in the fall of 2021. They are both part time with benefits. Part-Time Assistant Adjunct Professor of Book Art I. Part-Time Assistant Adjunct Professor of Book Art II
Apply to teach at BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network) - Class and workshop proposals must relate to and fit into one or more of the ten studios at BARN - Please email your class/workshop proposal to Jess Henderson, BARN Program Manager: JessH@BainbridgeBARN.org
Do you want to teach at FBAC (Frederick Book Arts Center)? Do you have an idea for a Summer class? Download & submit this form. They would love to hear from you!
Minnesota Center for Book Arts - If you are a teaching artist, you can propose a virtual workshop here
Would you or anyone else you know like to teach a workshop at Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival? Please send your workshop information to Sara Siggelkow, OCCA VAC Arts Learning Coordinator. Her email: ssiggelkow@coastarts.org
* Why teach with Pocosin Arts? Pocosin is currently accepting applications for instructors who wish to teach with us virtually in ceramics, metal, wood, digital media, writing, mixed media and papercraft. We seek strong educators and craftspeople who are excited about the opportunity to engage with students from all over the globe. We will accept applications on a rolling basis and review applicants monthly.
Pyramid Atlantic Workshop Proposals - accepting applications on a rolling basis - Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: Jul 1 for Winter Workshops, Oct 1 for Spring 2022 Workshops
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology - Calling all instructors! Come teach at Sitka in 2022. Applications due Aug 2, 2021. Apply here
The Studio Door - Proud+ 2021 - Prospectus & application - Deadline: May 31, 2021 - Exhibit: Jul 3 - 30, 2021
* In Cahoot residency - applications now open for Winter and Spring 2022 - deadline: Jun 1, 2021 - next deadline is Oct 1, 2021 for Jun - Dec 2022 residencies
Call for entry: 23 Sandy and form & concept - UNSEEN "When imperceptible phenomena burst into view, revolutionary change may follow" - Full prospectus & more info - Deadline: Jun 3, 2021, midnight (MT) - Exhibit at form & concept Aug 11 - Nov 20, 2021
* Call for entry: The Decatur Arts Alliance (DAA) - The Book as Art v. 9.0: Muse - Nine: a number both sacred and profane - full listing and entry process - deadline: Jun 4, 2021 - exhibit date: Aug 13 – Oct 1, 2021
Call for entry: Focus on Book Arts - FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Project, Where We Live: Where Does Your Heart Reside? - Full prospectus and more info - Deadline: Jun 23, 2021 - Online exhibition: Jul 15- Aug 30, 2021 - Challenge book projects will be featured during a virtual roundtable at the FOBA 2021 Virtual Conference July 15-17, 2021 (free admission to the event)
* Jaffe Center for Book Arts - Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence Program - deadline: Jul 6, 2021 - residency has been retooled this year to offer flexibility in residency: you could be our next Salzberg Resident without leaving your home studio (wherever it may be)
Call for submission: Movable Book Society - "Movable Medley" (in conjuction with MBS's Denver conference) - Deadline: July 12, 2021 - Exhibit dates: Sep 30 - Nov 7, 2021 at Art Students League of Denver
Call for stories for a time capsule: Brooklyn Art Library - We are collecting stories from our community across the globe about how they are. What they are doing, what’s on their minds. This will be a time capsule of stories. Stories of hope and fear. Stories of survival. Stories of endless boredom. - Deadline: Aug 31, 2021
Call for research competition: Bookbinding Out of the Box (Elbel Libro Bookbinding) - "The Expanding Slipcase" - To design a slipcase capable of expanding and contracting in the width - Deadline: Oct 1, 2021
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Bits & bobs about paper/books/tips/trips/etc.
Just found out about an amazing project between scientists and book artists ( had seen the tip of the iceberg with Suze Woolf's virtual art exhibit presented by Puget Sound Book Artists mentioned in the September 2020 newsletter) called Science Stories: A Collaboration of Book Artists and Scientists. Science Stories is a unique project that brings together Pacific Northwest scientists and book artists with the end result being the creation of engaging and unique artists’ books that offer new ways to interpret science and to tell a story
One of my favorite teachers at SFCB is Jennie Hinchcliff (I may need a refresher on the crossed structure binding!) and since the beginning of the year has been producing a podcast called Senders Receive which highlights mail artists and postal moderns. Listen to their stories at the usual podcast places, as well as online. Jennie also has a flickr photo pool called SF's Correspondence Co-op where you can photos of incoming/outgoing mail art and correspondence
I often wished I had names that had more than one syllable (my first, middle and last name are all one only). But imagine having this guy's name - possible the longest in the world?
Learn more about North Bennet Street School (NBSS) "In the Making", new public programs series where we connect with a range of new voices, fields, and perspectives and view a full list of participants, at the series homepage here
I have not included workshops from California Rare Book School (a continuing education program dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by professionals working in all aspects of the rare book community, and for students interested in entering the field). If you are interested here is the link to their 2021 course schedule (all virtual)
One of my favorite go to interactive and sculptural handmade cards - a flower pop-up card. Here is another
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s (BIMA) - Artist's Books Unshelved:
"One World" - featuring works by artists Kathy Ross: Toast & Jam, Peter Ward: Caravan of Despair, and Ginger Burrell: Biosphere
"Spirit of Place" - featuring works by artists Karen Stahlecker, Margaret Prentice, and John Risseeuw
Feeling stressed? Try breathing through your left nostril using this method
Another way to do an exquisite corpse structure - origami style - https://youtu.be/PzK7J_aVs1c
Would you like to print your own dot grid paper? Try http://gridzzly.com/ andhttps://www.printablepaper.net/, both of which allow you to print the paper you want for your textblocks at home
Have always been fascinated by Daniel Kelm and his experimentations with book structures, bindings and other things. Here is a show & tell and workshop tour.
DB UK Bookbinding Competition online exhibition is now available for viewing
Vintage Page Designs interviewed Nancy Akerly who passionate about everything paper (a kindred spirit!) - https://youtu.be/qWpR1SAqOCM
Would this make a great tiny studio? Check out this little tiny home ... I meant studio
If you are looking for prompts for creating, Editions Studio (are you book enough) and Brooklyn Art Library (sketch prompt - sign up for one or follow their instagram) have them and could probably be stretch out to making books, drawing, writing, calligraphy, etc.
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Upcoming classes in the next 30 - 45 days in the calendar. If the links below are not working go directly to the calendar by using this link. Use the List or Agenda view (see About the calendar above) to see a complete list of workshops and meetings going forward from current day (I may have missed an entry or two ;)). Please check for registration close dates.
- May 22, 23: The Quartet Box with Nancy Akerly
- May 22: The Flag Book with Karen Hanmer
- May 22: The Movable Book Society Show-and-Tell (Zoom meeting)
- May 22: How to Make a Mini Portfolio with Pockets and Stitched Binding with Kit Davey
- May 23: Concertina Album Structure with Margo Klass- May 23: Cityscapes: Turning Your Photo into a Papercut with Rosa Leff
- May 24: Long and Link Stitch with Sarah Nicholls - May 24: Make a Geodesic Book with Kit Davey- May 24: Taking Your Product to Market Post-Pandemic: A Business Workshop with Stuart Walton
- May 25: Popbox: The Popbox Turtles with Shawn Sheehy- May 25, Jun 1, 8: Printmaking Without a Press Intermediate with Curt Labitzke
- May 26: Capturing Your Photo or Video for Online Class Sharing with Nanz Aalund
- May 27: Coptic Notebook with Beth Sheehan
- May 27, Jun 3: Block Books with Marja Wilgenkamp- May 27: Daemen College Speaker Series: Marketing Skills for Artists- May 27: Paper Box Set with Susan Joy Share- May 27: Practicing with Zoom Screen Share with Nanz Aalund- May 28, Jun 4: Introduction to Electroforming and Working with Wire Mesh with Dennis Nahabetian
- Jun 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Jul 6: Preservation Enclosures with Andrew Huot - Jun 1, 8, 15: Print, Fold, Cut! Three Playful Techniques for Bookmaking with Rachel Church- Jun 2, 9: Origami Fireworks Modular with Kathleen Sheridan
- Jun 3, 10: Creating A Narrative Photo/Art Book That Is Unique! with Tim Soter
- Jun 4, 5, 6: Bookmaking: Collage as Content with Margo Klass- Jun 4, 11: Creative Conversations: Letterpress: It's Not As Scary As It Looks with Ellie Mathews- Jun 4, 5, 6: Roll-Up : Pop-Up Books (Level 2) with Shawn Sheehy- Jun 5: The Art of Nature Printing with Rebecca Chamlee- Jun 5: Embroidery Sampler: a Paper Stitch Fest! with Erin Sweeney
- Jun 5: Folded Fan Sculptural Artists’ Book: A Vehicle for Imagination, Experimentation and Play with Debra Disman- Jun 5, 6: The Bilevel Treasure Box with Nancy Akerly
- Jun 5, 12: Paint & Print - Zine Edition with Sarah Matthews
- Jun 7, 8: The Phabulous Photo Album with Elissa Campbell
- Jun 8, 10, 15, 17: Cross Structure Binding with Erin Fletcher - Jun 8: Paper Case Binding with Sarah Nicholls- Jun 8: Soft Cover Drum Leaf with Beth Sheehan
- Jun 9: Altering the Page with Maria G. Pisano - Jun 9: San Diego Book Arts May Meeting
- Jun 10: Tunnel Books with Stephanie Wolff
- Jun 12: Sewn Boards Binding with Karen Hanmer - Jun 12: How to Make a Beaded Spine Booklet with Kit Davey
- Jun 13: Cased-In Sewn Binding with Ashley Thayer
- Jun 14, 21, 28, Jul 5: Artist Books: From Idea to Execution with Elizabeth Castaldo- Jun 14, 17: Paired Station Coptic with Scott McCarney
- Jun 15, 22: Fan Accordion Garden with Bhavna Mehta
- Jun 16, 23, 30, Jul 7, 14, 21: Hard Cover Books with Andrew Huot- Jun 16, 23: Color as the Main Character with Roni Goss- Jun 16, 23, 30: Generative Measures: Research & Writing for Artist’s Books with Ellen Sheffield- Jun 16: Paper Case Series: Sewn Boards binding with sewn-in wrapper with Karen Hanmer
- Jun 17: Papercutting on Stage: Kamishibai and Paper Theaters with Béatrice Coron- Jun 17: More Unusual Accordions with Stephanie Wolff- Jun 17: Keck Observatory Astronomy Talks - Decoding the Contents of Distant Galaxies (Zoom meeting)
- Jun 18, 25: Intricate Paper Sculpture with Michael Velliquette
- Jun 19: The Hinged Box with Nancy Akerly- Jun 19, 26, Jul 10, 17: Thinking 3D: Sewn, Folded, Built with Erin Sweeney
- Jun 21,22, 23, 24: Paper Voodoo: The Magic of Transforming Japanese Paper with Konnyaku- Jun 21, 28: Pasta Machine Printing with Bettina Pauly- Jun 22: Wearable Paper Cuts with Béatrice Coron- Jun 22: Moving Circles: Volvelles with Stephanie Wolff- Jun 22, 24, 29, Jul 1: Variations on Single Signature Bindings with Erin Fletcher- Jun 22, 29: Pasta Machine Printing with Bettina Pauly
- Jun 24: Glue-stick / Duck Tape / Staples with Scott McCarney- Jun 24: Woven Accordion Window Book with Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder- Jun 26: The Jacob's Ladder with Karen Hanmer
- Jun 27: Paper Bojagi with Steph Rue
- Jun 29: Box Building: Clamshell Boxes with Erin Maurelli
- Jun 30: Make Your Own Botanical Papercut with Béatrice Coron- Jun 30, Jul 7: Book Basics with Free Software with with Mirko Velimirovic & Faride Mereb
- Jul 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22: Caught in a Blizzard with Karen Hardy- Jul 6, 13, 20, 27: Box Building: Drawers & Dividers with Erin Maurelli
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Resources
A list of organizations from where I gather my information - Word document or PDF document - is maintained in my Dropbox account. This list is always being updated as I find or am told about new organizations and instructors (you do not need to create an account to access this information)
Centralized area for hundreds of opportunities for artists - mostly residencies, some grant funding & galleries compiled by one person to encourage community. International, but with a US-lens. Assembled and maintained by Everest Pipkin - from US so it leans that way. You can also help by sending opportunities to add - see how to in spreadsheet.
Residencies in many different mediums. See if one of these fit you.
Online juried shows - https://www.onlinejuriedshows.com/preDefault.aspx
Current art calls for entry list - all over US: https://www.entrythingy.com/forartists_calls (you will need to create an account to access the information)
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