Book & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - June 22, 2023
Hello everyone,
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I am back in California and haven’t noticed a difference in weather - both the Big Island where we were in Waimea and the Los Angeles area are going through the usual June-gloom and when the island left my view on the way back to CA there was still the tiniest smudge of snow left on the summit of Maunakea
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Save the date for CODEX IX 2024 - new location: the HJK Convention Center in Oakland, California - Feb 4 - 7, 2024 - get code to register as an exhibitor here - https://www.codexfoundation.org/codex-2024/registration
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FOBA call for 2024 workshop proposals are due Jul 15, 2023 and also new location: Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
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There are a couple of paper retreats on my radar: Aimee Lee’s summer hanji retreat Jul 24 - 28, 2023, and Helen Hiebert’s Red Cliff paper retreat Aug 21 - 25, 2023
Me ke aloha nui - Jade
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Book & Paper Arts Calendar | Book & Paper Arts Newsletter
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Sections below:
Things to do in the area |
Call for artists/ entries/ proposals/ submissions |
Bits & bobs about paper/ books/ tips/ trips |
Musings and Meanderings |
About the calendar |
Resource List |
Housekeeping
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Paper Connection has opened their new Art Annex at Hope Artiste Village, Unit #109, Pawtucket, RI - join them at their drop-in clinics on Wednesdays
Yerba Buena Art and Makers Market, San Francisco, CA - first Sunday of every month - and if you are a creator they have a free booth for you
Camden public library, Camden, ME - Picker Room Gallery - Three in Book Arts - now until Jun 29, 2023
Paul Shaw Letter Design announcing Legacy of Letters 2023 — Letterpress in Italy - Jun 29 - Jul 12, 2023
The Queensland Bookbinders’ Guild Inc. - Bind23 - a 3 day bookbinding conference in Brisbane, Australia - Jul 7 - Jul 9, 2023
The Newberry, Chicago, IL - Trienens Galleries - Pop-Up Books through the Ages - now until Jul 15, 2023
Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PA (2nd Floor, City Hall NE Corner) - BLUE: Books by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers - now until Jul 15, 2023
The San Francisco Art Book Fair - 6th year at Minnesota Street Project - Jul 14 - Jul 16, 2023
The Newberry, Chicago, IL - Pop-Up Books through the Ages - now until Jul 15, 2023
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA - Collins Memorial Library - 12th Annual Puget Sound Book Artists Members’ Exhibition - Jun 5 - Jul 27, 2023
Minnesota Center for Book Arts Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN - Paper Is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures - now until Aug 12, 2023
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Los Angeles, CA) - Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair - Aug 10 - Aug 13, 2023
WNY Book Arts Center, Buffalo, NY - 15th Annual Book Arts Member Show - July 15 - Aug 19, 2023
The American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco, CA - POETIC JOURNEY/TRAVESÍA POÉTICA - now until Aug 26, 2023
Center for Book Arts, New York - Kumi Korf: A World of Her Own and Visual Volumes: Contemporary Explorations in Book Arts - Jul 14 - Sep 9, 2023
Sandia Heights Artists (Albuquerque, NM) - 20th Annual Studio Tour - Sep 9 - Sep 10, 2023
Book Club of Washington Northern road trip - Mt. Vernon and Anacortes Sep 16, 2023 and an optional overnight stay in Anacortes venturing out to Bellingham on Sep 17, 2023 - note: this is an event for BCW members and guests
Guild of Book Workers annual conference - Standards of Excellence Seminar in Hand Bookbinding - San Francisco, CA - Sep 28 - Sep 30, 2023
2023 Movable Book Society Conference - Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2023
Save the dates for the Vermont Crafts Council Open Studios: Sep 30 & Oct 1, 2023
Queensbury Convention Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada - WinterGreen Craft Market - Oct 13 - Oct 14, 2023
23 Sandy and the Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound - Dreams - at the Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, Washington - on view Aug 20 — Nov 17, 2023
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID - Jacob Hashimoto: The Fractured Giant - now until Jan 21, 2024 - time lapse video of the installation process
Hiromi Paper - 2024 Conservation Washi Tour - Sep 7 - 14, 2024 - $3200/person ($500 deposit required to reserve a spot) - meet and observe Japanese papermakers, and experience the art of washi first hand by visiting various papermaking villages in Japan’s countryside. Tour includes an itinerary of conservation focused papermaking studios, toolmakers, museums, and shops. Transportation, breakfast/dinner and 8-night accommodation included - please note, this is an intensive tour with daily visits to conservation-centric papermakers and is not a conventional sightseeing tour - contact Yuki at yuki@hiromipaper.com for more information - *Participants are responsible for their own round-trip flights - limited spots available
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Call for artists/ entries/ proposals/ submissions
Websites for calls for entries for all mediums and online juried shows:
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Call for entries management and jury system entrythingy.com
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Find calls https://www.callforentry.org/
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Colossal (international platform for contemporary art and visual expression that explores a vast range of creative disciplines) opportunities
Focus On Book Arts (FOBA) call for 2024 workshop proposals - due Jul 15, 2023
Call for proposal: Craft Ontario 2024 Virtual Workshops - opportunity for Craft Ontario members - deadline: Nov 1, 2023 - become a member
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Bits & bobs about paper/ books/ tips/ trips
Sarah Bodman - Book Arts Newsletter - Impact Press at the Centre for Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK - more book arts related events in the UK, EU, EEA and some USA - latest edition and back issues
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s (BIMA) - Artist’s Books Unshelved: full play list here
John Neal Books - upcoming online calligraphy classes
More often than not I work on a chromebook or laptop and here is how to work more ergonomically on your laptop
In this 8 minute video, Adam Savage (from Mythbusters) visits the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco and examines an early 20th century ledger printing machine
I was monitoring a zoom bookbinding class the other day and the question came up as to what those numbers mean on your spool of thread - link to Rachel Hazell explaining it
Just before travelling to our house sitting gig I saw this origami mosaic on IG and was enchanted by it - it kept showing up as more and people were also enchanted by it and a about a week later the creators offered the PDF which I downloaded - view this video to familiarize yourself with the twist fold base - check out the OrigamiManiacs video - the instructions start around the 39 minute mark
Folding a box where you change out the inside for the outside
A very cute popup card on an IG reel - here is a “pausable” version on YouTube
14 Places to See a Transportation Transformation - we have seen the Volkswagon spider in Palm Springs - it was windy that day and Bill lost his hat. There is also a plane up by Portland, OR, that is or used to be an AirBnB and a Boeing 737 that is also a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Miura-ori peats to the max with one of my favorite artists, Ankon Mitra - I rarely comment on IG posts but when I did I suggested that Ankon work with Chihuly glass for a wonderful world of contrast - looking forward to that collab of Hard Curves & Soft Lines (I made that up)
I have never visited Center for Book Arts MY and here is a video about it
A popup card on IG that can be used as an interactive page - version on YouTube
I love the geometrics lines that earth makes with the other planets going around the sun - hidden patterns of the wanderers
I may have done these before but it can’t hurt to repeat this - keyboard shortcuts on IG - or youtube for mac and windows - tell me your favorite one! - mine is [ctrl][z] to undo what I have done especially deletions!
Popup city made out of twist boxes on IG - how to fold on YouTube
The cycle of life as the page is expanded and drawn on
So much paper goodness - magical paper crafts
Ingenious book wrapper/slipcase - could only find this on IG - I’d like to reverse engineer this one!
The Miniature Book Society 2022 juried competition - competition video and catalog on this page plus previous years
More stupendous origami from one sheet of paper - Michelangelo’s David
If you missed The Life Cycle of the Book exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art there is a slideshow in the link
Quick tab book where you can use paper, washi tape, fabric, etc. for the hinging - fun and a cool looking spine as well
All things accordions with Cathryn Miller of Byopia Press from 2021 - I do love a good accordion even though I cannot stop mine from drifting when I do fold one. Sigh!
Make a flag book with Sarah Matthews - a variation where your flags don’t have to be all the same size and recycling materials
Another paper store (thank you, Helen H!) to add to my bucket list when visiting Japan - I have a list that I keep adding to the book I got from Julie Auzillon about shopping for paper in Tokyo and Kyoto
I am ok with a 3-hole pamphlet stitch but seem to have to look up how to do a 5-hole so here are both - also found decorative stitches
Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Papers, 1960s-2000s From the Paper Legacy Collection, Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art is past but here is a virtual tour
Did you know you can take free Hidden San Francisco (Yerba Buena district) walking tours? Click on link for dates and how to RSVP for this adventure
This workshop is past but what a bounty of books pictured
FOLDABILITY - Gosh! More papery goodness - too bad she no longer does zoom workshops - to fold this wall sculpture view this YouTube video and fold Froebel variation 14 -all the different sizes would make for a great book over or fabulous hand made card
If you can’t get enough of Froebel units here are the search results on YouTube
Combination accordion and popup book - lots of room for content and/decorating from your paper stash
My family legend always stated that we had Portuguese blood. Then I took a DNA test and not a drop. And yet you find Portuguese food everywhere - not surprising as they were intrepid explorers in search of spice and gold - Pasteis de nata, anyone?
In case you missed the latest MBS show and tell here is the video to catch you up - made me want to sign up for their conference in September
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So we ended up going to Volcano National Park twice (If you don’t have the National Parks senior pass each entrance ticket is good for a week). The first time was to meet up with friends and pay our respects to Madame Pele. It has become a tradition for us as it was a part of our wedding ceremony where we honored our mothers and Tutu Pele with roses for our moms, Rose and Rosa, and lehua flowers and gin for Pele. The 2nd time was three days later to watch Kilauea as it started to erupt again (we left the house 4 hours after the eruption started) at the Halema’uma’u crater. And both times I was lucky enough to see an owl in flight on the way there or back - they live in burrows in the ground here and are called pueo (like the call they make). That is another thing I love about the Hawaiian language - it is pretty literal - singing bridge, fireworks flower, fountain grass, fish that grunts like a pig when cornered (that national fish - I just call it humu for short), etc. But back to the eruption - you could see signs of the eruption as you got close to the park. Massive white billowy clouds right above it with a slight tinge of pink right above the crater. I thought it was my imagination but even Bill noticed. I suspect the clouds were reflecting the outpouring of lava. The eruption broke through in some areas of the crusted over lava lake and you could see the red and orange lava from several breakthroughs and hear the eruption (a cross between a whoshing and jet engine). The roiling fountains look small but they are about 3 - 5 stories in height! We were over 1 mile away (1.6km) from the closest fountain. We found pictures from 2002 when we were allowed to be within 10 feet of the fingers of a surface outbreak with the lava morphing into alien shapes always finding an easier way to continue flowing but we could still easily outwalk the front edge. I am astounded that I get to see geology in action and have to remind myself that it is liquid rock at 2200°F or 1200°C! A USGS cam caught the onset of the eruption in the early hours of the morning and friends from the mainland were letting us know about it. It also appear to have “paused” as of 6pm HI time on June 19th. There were several ohia trees on the path we were walking as we explored different view points. Not sure who told me this but I remembered that if you gently tap the lehua flower as you hold out your palm beneath it a few drops of its nectar will drop into your palm. It was not too sweet and provided a nice break from the press of people and choppy rotors of unseen helicopters. The ohia tree is the first thing that grows in a new lava field. If you see a lone green plant on a black newly cooled lava field odds are it will be an ohia tree. The flowers on the ohia tree are called lehua. Here is the legend behind that.
Speaking of trees did I mention that I have 3 or 4 favorite trees, some specific others just in general. My most favorite tree is the one just outside my favorite cottage in Mendocino, CA - a eucalyptus that makes the most wonderful silhouette when the sun goes down. My 2nd favorite tree is the rainbow eucalyptus that we found on the Big Island back in October 2022 - it is as colorful as it sounds - even in the poring rain. My next favorite is any monkey pod tree that has a wide spread out canopy - again with the beautiful patterns against a blue sky. And last but not least any bristlecone pine tree that look barely alive growing well over 10,000 feet up in the White Mountains of CA. Their sinewy trunks look almost muscle-like as they adapt to the lack of water, constant wind and cold. Honorable mentions go out to Saguaro cactus (I know not exactly a tree but I do love assigning them characters when I see them) and quaking aspens (the entire grove seem to all rustle when wind dancing). Oh! Birch trees as amazing as well what with their stark black and white trunks. I also love the California valley oak along the rolling hills of coastal Central CA again making wonderful shadows when the sun is over head or low to the horizon. But banyan trees don’t make my favorite list as their hanging roots creep me out a little (too many Malaysian ghost stories LOL!). Dang! My list keeps getting longer but I must add the the ohia tree producing red or yellow flowers as mentioned earlier. It can be tough to tell if the tree is alive as the silvery green trunk and the sometimes the lack of leaves belies that.
I am looking forward to getting to know more trees and continuing to pay my respects to Tutu Pele. Do you have a favorite tree?
See you next month.
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Link to the calendar (If the link to the left is not working copy this URL - https://teamup.com/ksd9e12a80c3878ba5 - and paste to your browser)
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The time listed in each entry will be the listing organization’s time zone - if a virtual/online workshop a time zone converter link will be listed in the description area - if in another country a currency converter will be included as well
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There is no difference between In-person1 (blue entries), In-person2 (red entries), In-person4 (purple entries) and In-person 4 (green entries) or Online1 (orange entries), Online2 (light teal entries), Online3 (light purple entries) and Online4 (blue grey entries), just a way to visually separate workshops; pink entries are for festivals or conferences; yellow are public online meetings from various book arts guilds and museums
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To change views in the calendar: For laptop/PC/tablet locate the 3 bar or hamburger button (≡) upper right corner and select .. Day .. Week .. Month .. List; for smartphones select the 3 bar button and make your selection as above
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To move backwards or forwards in time in the calendar: For laptop/PC/tablet locate “Today” in the upper left corner and click on the single left facing arrow to back one time period (based on what view you have selected) and single right facing arrow to move one time period forward; for cellphone locate the “>>” button and to the right of that will be the single left & right facing arrow
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To search by keyword look for magnifying glass. If one class is sold out search for a unique word from that class to see if another is available, for example, “masu” or “Sheehy”. Do check out that organization’s workshop calendar for other disciplines/mediums being offered
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The calendar is updated as I come across information and you have 24x7 access to it
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You can add any calendar entry to your own personal calendar to help you keep track of meetings and workshops you will be attending. On any interested entry either right click or touch & hold down your finger on the selected entry for a couple of seconds, select Share then select which calendar (Google, iCal, Outlook) you wish to add to. Be sure to update the time to your local time zone
For more information:
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Video from NEBA mixer
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Video from PSBA meeting
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Video for calendar discussion with Sara Siggelkow NPBAF Education Manager - the 6-minute mark is where the discussion of the calendar begins
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Would you like to schedule a zoom session to discuss the ins and outs of the calendar? I would be happy to set one up with you - email me at jsqcentral-workshop@yahoo.com
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Resource List (maintained in my Dropbox account - close popup to view document). Documents are saved in Word format (.docx) but can be opened and saved as a PDF
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Central place for artist residencies - all mediums
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Organizations where I gather my information
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Teaching opportunities
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On-demand workshops with pre-recorded videos and/or kits
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Favorite paper places (I am not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with any of the companies listed. I merely enjoy their products and fantasize about what I can buy)
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MFA programs in the US (updated annually) - due dates, points of contacts, programs offered and admission requirements
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