Book & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - October 22, 2021
Hello everyone,
I have made a small addition to each calendar entry description just under "Schedule:" area going forward. A time zone converter has been added to check the time of the workshop happening in another part of the world or US. You can add that city, your town, change the date and time and voila! The correct time and date for when the workshop will be happening where you are. So Guy Begbie (UK) added an additional online bookbinding workshop starting Nov 4 - Dec 1 at a more reasonable time for those of us in the US!
During one of the many times I updated the draft of this newsletter it started to rain and thunder (not the scary, sharp crackly bursts but the growly kind). It got dark after lunch and finally started to rain 4 hours later. I love that smell when the rain first hits the ground - petrichor. It doesn't rain a lot in California and when it does I look forward to taking a nap or falling asleep to the sound of falling rain. It has also been lovely this month to see Venus, Saturn and Jupiter in the night skies after dinner with friends or merely peering out the bedroom window to figure what flying vehicle going by is sounding like a cross between a helicopter and a train in the sky with a huge distance between the navigation and landing lights. So if you see someone in a car next to you looking up it might be me. I continue to take my sustenance looking out the window: bedroom or car!
Be well, curious and creative!
Me ke aloha nui - Jade
Unfolding paper artist, information disseminator, foodie, unorthodox traveler, astronomy enthusiast, somewhat grudgingly tech savvy
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Sections below: Things to see or do if you happen to be in the area; Call for artists/ entries/ proposals/ submissions; Bits & bobs about paper/ books/ tips/ trips; About the calendar and how to look for upcoming classes; Teaching & Residency opportunities; Resource list; Housekeeping
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Things to see or do if you happen to be in the area (* new additions or reschedules and sorted by end dates)
* West Yorkshire Print Workshop (Mirfield, UK) - Tessellate by Saba Rifat - now until Oct 30, 2021 - also with free drop-in activities on Saturday, Oct 30, 2021 11am -2pm (British Summer Time) at their Unit 2 Popup Galleryat the Piazza Shopping Centre in Huddersfield - if unable to attend get your kits here
Santa Fe Book Arts Group and Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop - Paper Dolls: Evolution & Articulation - now until Oct 30, 2021 - Fridays & Saturdays 10am to 6pm (MT)
Street Road Artists Space, Cochranville, PA - Summer Library - A temporary extension of the library will move into Street Road’s primary exhibition space for four months - open Saturdays 11am - 3pm - now until Oct 31, 2021
The Japanese Paper Place - Resilience and Renewal online exhibition - now until Oct 31, 2021
Bay Area Book Artists - Virtual Book Arts Jam 2021 - book arts galleries, classes and tutorials, and artist studio tours - now until Oct 31, 2021
Small House Gallery, UK - online exhibition line_space_form by A. Rosemary Watson - now until Oct 31, 2021
* Toronto International Art Book Fair - Metro Toronto Convention Centre - Oct 29 - Oct 31, 2021 - tickets must be purchased in advance
* Movable Book Society - "Movable Medley" in conjuction with their conference and held at Art Students League of Denver - Exhibit dates: now until Nov 7, 2021 - online catalog here
* Portland Book Festival - virtual: Nov 8 - Nov 12, 2021 and in person: Nov 13, 2021. Tickets here
* Sheffield Print Fair (Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK) - Nov 13, 2021 from 10am - 4pm (GMT) - celebration of all things print - screen-print, intaglio, linocut, wood engraving, collagraph, digital, woodcut and more
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 40th anniversary - Reflecting Back to the Future - now until Nov 14, 2021
* Tacoma Public Library (Moore Branch) - Carletta Carrington Wilson's series, "book of the bound" - now until Nov 19, 2021. Artist talk was on Oct 16, 2021 and if you missed the talk a recording is available on the library's YouTube channel
23 Sandy and form & concept (Santa Fe, NM) - UNSEEN "When imperceptible phenomena burst into view, revolutionary change may follow" - Exhibit at form & concept - now until Nov 20, 2021 - full exhibition catalog online. Watch Erin and Jordan's Instagram live chat about UNSEEN and get a peek at the show here (you may have to create an account on instagram to view the chat)
* New York City's Garment District - part of Transformations, commissioned by The Garment District Alliance - series of 7 powder-coated steel origami sculptures by Hacer - If you’re in Manhattan, stop by the plazas between 36th and 39th streets to see the bold animals in person - now until Nov 23, 2021
* Northwoods Book Arts Guild - Books As Art 3 - NBG members will present a wide spectrum of handcrafted book forms - Fairbanks Arts Association - exhibit: Nov 5 - Nov 27, 2021
* Craft in America Center (Los Angeles, CA) - Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration - focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects - now until Dec 4, 2021. If you can't make it there is a virtual gallery in the link above as well as a curatorial walk through video
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY - What the Butterfly Dragon Taught Me exhibit with Colette Fu - ongoing series of photo-based pop-up books about the ethnicities of China - now until Dec 11, 2021
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY - Impracticum: Mining Books on Color with JULM Studios - investigation of color in the physical and digital realms through scientific, aesthetic, conceptual, and spiritual methodologies - now until Dec 11, 2021
* North Bennet Street School - Save the date for their Virtual Open House - Dec 13 - Dec 17, 2021 - register here
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA - Collins Memorial Library - Science Stories: A Collaboration of Book Artists and Scientists - now until Jan 14, 2022
* Bainbridge Island Museum of Art - Sherry Grover Gallery - Root Bound by Catherine Alice Michaelis - now until Feb 20, 2022
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Call for artists/entries/proposals/submissions (* new additions)
* Pocosin Spring residency - provides up to three emerging artists with studio space, time, and facilities to pursue their artistic goals. Artists apply in their primary studio area, and the program includes access to all of our studios: metalsmithing, clay, wood, and the Smith Digital Fabrication Studio. Residents are expected to be working in their studios for the majority of their time here - application deadline: Nov 1, 2021 - more information
* Articulations (Toronto, Canada) - in celebration of their upcoming 10th birthday - sign up here - submission deadline: Nov 9, 2021
* Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA) - Teeny Tiny Art Mart - submit artwork in almost any media for inclusion in OMA’s Teeny Tiny Art Mart measuring exactly 5" x 5" and no more than 1.5" deep - submission deadline: 5pm (PT) Nov 18, 2021 - art work on display: Dec 2 - 4, 2021 - virtual sales: Dec 5 - 20, 2021
* Call for submission by Abecedarian Artists’ Books - Lettered & Bound - online submission form, prospectus and request for prospectus here - submission deadline: Dec 6, 2021 - on view in Feb (Dayton Memorial Library, Regis University, Denver, CO) & Mar (Tallyn's Reach Public Library, Aurora, CO), 2022
* Call for proposals - open to printmakers or curators - Frogman's Print Workshops - they are looking to host additional exhibitions in conjunction with their 2022 workshops - more information here - deadline: Dec 15, 2021
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Bits & bobs about paper/books/tips/trips/etc.
Back in the April 2021 newsletter I mentioned Elbel Libro Bookbinding calling for an expanding slipcase design. They received 22 submissions from around the world. The jury consisting of Benjamin Elbel, Nadine Werner and Marja Wilgenkamp (only 3 of my favorite bookbinders in Europe!) selected a winner on October 9. Here is your chance to vote on your favorite slipcase from the top 10 (videos included) as the public favorite and is due by Oct 30, 2021. I voted and hope you do, too!
Elissa Campbell will be launching her Finding Closure 101 online class where she will be teaching 5 closures. Enrollment opens Oct 21, 2021 (please see calendar). In the meantime she is offering one of her lecture for free - why templates and jigs are awesome! To access video lecture sign up for this email list here (different from the one where you get her blog posts)
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s (BIMA) - Artist's Books Unshelved: Body Chronology; As the World Turns; full play list here
Very cool book (blow book) by Julie Chen and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder - Telling Time artists talk with Jaffe Center for Book Arts
Came across makepopupcards.com through Helen Hiebert's Sunday newsletter where you can have your own store with no fees, get paid for your work with greater visibility, control and freedom and the focus is on you
Maria Dern: The Art of Handmade Books - a video from her show at Bolinas Museum in late 2020
Ingenious way to fold square paper into thirds if you don't have a ruler handy (no more feeling of dread having to fold thirds)
John Neal Books maintains a list of continuously updated online calligraphy classes
Not exactly paper related but I would love to have this as a coffee table! I did try to talk Bill into getting it - should've tried harder! LOL!
Origami knight made from one sheet of paper with video - 68 square cm rice paper (almost 27 square inches) + 41 hours = 18 cm suite of armor - the pauldron area (shoulders) with the beautiful layering would be a fashion designer's dream
I am a sucker for anything miniature so check out these baskets made out of invasive plant species
Miniscule paper cranes emulating leaves in a bonsai tree
ABC3D popup book by Marion Bataille
Paper folding project – DIY desktop polyhedron pots to keep your desktop tidy (alas, there is no hope for my desk). Paula Krieg also has a video on making these polyhedrals
Want to make a simpler book-related magic trick? Instructions for a magic wallet here, or a 'hidden page' book here
An atrium in Boston to to have a meditative moment with a kinectic sculpture
Do you have multiple notebooks all over? Are you always having to start a new notebook because you can't find the one with all your good notes and diagrams? Want to corral all your notes, drawings and thoughts? Check out these smart notebooks
Two more paper engineering projects from the Santa Fe Book Arts Group's October meeting
An artist who has taken quilling to a grander level
Another artist taking 3D paper sculptures to another level
Here is Jane LaFazio's latest journal - I am not usually into pink but when I am it is because I have run across pale pink peonies, like in Jane's journal, which I just adore - also loved the 2 little accordion books she placed in the journal with more flowers for a delightful surprise
Want to transform a paper bag into a pumpkin?
Another interesting way to create design with embroidery that can hold it's shape through this process of using water soluble fabric
Attending Book Arts meetings are dangerous when you learn about new and different kinds of paper you can use for making book and other things paper related. Found out about tea filter paper which can take a fold and be used as backing for making your own bookcloth; deli paper (look for these at Smart & Final, Costco and Amazon) not only for sandwiches but to add a level of transparency/translucence to your text on your pages; unpasted wallpaper lining paper (look in Home Depot or Amazon) that is good for folding and holds up well for misting color on it.
Always love a useful, beautiful and ingenious Hedi Kyle structure (I featured this fold in the April newsletter but it is Hedi!) - found 3 videos to help you fold her Diagonal Pocket Fold that have hints and tips to help with the folding: Kat Kirby, Nancy Akerly and Karen Thomas. If you have her book, Art of the Fold, it is on page 116
Variation on a blizzard fold by Hedi Kyle called a blizzard pocket (page 88 in Art of the Fold) folded by Peter Baumgartner which he called a leporello
Interested in reading a good story for a video? STAY AWAKE is the newest Vimeo Channel series from the Jaffe Center for Book Arts premiering later this fall. Here is the concept page for the series. To get your story on the air would you write to John Cutrone at at jcutrone@fau.edu?
One of my favorite tools is a bonefolder (I even have a tiny 2" version I carry in my purse) and have several in different materials and shapes - here is a short guide by Rachel Hazell to using this satisfyingly versatile tool, bringing a tactile pleasure to your fingertips
I had the opportunity to attend a virtual workshop (about writing as decoration) with Jean Kropper and found a video on her demonstrating meditative drawing
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About the calendar and how to look for upcoming workshops
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 or press each entry or at the top of the entry when opened will be in the time zone of the listing organization. If it is a virtual/online workshop the times for other time zones will also be listed in the Description area along with a time converter
There is no difference between In-person1 (blue entries) and In-person2 (red entries) or Online1 (orange entries) and Online2 (light teal entries), just a way to visually separate workshops; purple entries are for festivals or conferences; yellow are public online meetings from various book arts guilds and museums; anything with ** are newly found workshops, meetings, presentations, etc. since the last newsletter was sent out
To change views in the calendar: on laptop/PC/tablet locate the 3 bar button [≡] upper right corner and select .. Day .. Week .. Month .. Agenda, List - on cellphone locate 3 bar button and select the down arrow button to the left of it and make your selection as above
To move backwards or forwards in time in the calendar: on 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 - on cellphone locate the ">>" button and to the right of that will be the single left & right facing arrow
Look for magnifying glass on your screen to do a Search by state, town, instructor name, time zone, keyword, etc. If one class is sold out search for a keyword from that class to see if another is available, for example, "masu" or "Sheehy". Do use the organizations workshop calendar listed in each calendar entry to see other disciplines are being offered
The calendar is updated about once a week (unless the wifi is spotty while traveling or am having fatigue issues) and you have 24x7 access to it
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 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
Video recorded for NPBAF discussing the calendar - https://youtu.be/irY0-gMK2V8 (the 6-minute mark is where the discussion of the calendar begins)
If you would like a Zoom session to show 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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Teaching Opportunities (organization name in alphabetical order)
* Philadelphia Center for the Book (PCB) and the Art Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia (FLP) are looking for artists to give virtual book or paper workshops. These workshops will be held over Zoom, with the dates to scheduled - call for proposal information - deadline: Nov 19, 2021
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
Come teach at Creative Arts Workshop (CAW) - Creative Arts Workshop is accepting expressions of interest for teaching artists for in-person and online classes and workshops across eight disciplines: Book Arts, Drawing + Painting, Fiber, Photography, Pottery, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Young People - Interested? Email Astrid Bernard: registrar@creativeartsworkshop.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!
Call for Online Instructors: The Japanese Paper Place is looking for skilled artists/instructors to teach online workshops using our paper. Instructors do not need to be in Canada, and we will gladly consider workshops offered in your first language! For more information, or to send a proposal, please email washi@japanesepaperplace.com with Online Workshop Proposal in the subject line.
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.
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Residency Opportunities
Residencies in many different mediums. See if one of these fit you
* Minnesota Center for Book Arts - Remote Education Interns (2 available) - runs from January through April 2022 - position description and application - due: Nov 15, 2021 11:59pm (CT)
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY - Studio Residency Grant - six- to eight-week residency for artists to create new work - 1-2 years after application, September through June - Deadline: Nov 15, 2021
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY - Art-in-Ed Artist’s Book Residency Grant - residency awarded to two artists to create a new artist’s book and teach young people in WSW’s studios - Deadline: Nov 15, 2021
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY - Legacy Studio Residency Grant - residency offered to an outstanding artist who wants to work in any of our studio disciplines - Deadline: Nov 15, 2021
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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)
A list of my favorite paper places, both online and brick & mortar locations - Word or PDF - is maintained in my Dropbox account (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)
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.
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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Housekeeping:
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, I guarantee that I do not use your information for purposes outside of sharing this workshop calendar and special announcements. I will never share any of your personal information, including your address, contact information, or otherwise, with anyone. Should you wish to continue to receive my updates, no further action is required. If you no longer wish to receive this, you may unsubscribe here and send the email that is generated. I do not get any compensation from any of the organizations listed in this calendar.