Book & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - September 26, 2021
Hello everyone,
I am seriously considering taking a virtual 8-week workshop with Guy Begbie in the UK even though it will be happening at 2am in my time zone. I am a night owl but that straddles the line between night owl and very early riser (which Bill is and I definitely am not). Guy has been a teacher on my "want to study with" bucket list but I, as always, need more information so I can make an informed decision. Besides how much sleep am I willing to give up especially now that the crows have claimed the roof above the master bedroom as their own as they mess with the resident squirrel. I have been waking up to strident squirrel chitterings and the lookout crow's garrulous warning caws. Not sure what the "war" is about but it may have to do with the nuts that Bill has been putting out on the concrete block "fence" between us and the park.
However something happened that may scuttle the plan for an 8-week Guy Begbie workshop. A jury summons for me showed up in our mailbox and after letting out an anguished, "Noooooooooooo!" I have decided if they call me in I will bring along things to make or fold! I may have to take Guy's workshop at another time - hopefully next year?
Be well, curious 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; Bits & bobs about paper/books/tips/trips; Upcoming classes; Teaching & Residency opportunities; 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 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
There is no difference between In-person1 (blue entries) and In-person2 (red entries), just a way to visually separate in-person workshops; ditto with Online1 (orange entries) and Online2 (light teal entries) are also visual separations for online workshop; 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
You can do a search (look for magnifying glass on your screen) by state, town, instructor name, time zone, keyword, etc. If it is the calendar you can search on that word. 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
Monthly view is best viewed using a larger monitor with desktop or laptop. To change view look for the 3 bars (≡) in upper right corner of screen and click on appropriate view to the left of it
If using a cell phone or you wish to view upcoming workshops change view to List or Agenda view using button with the down arrow (v)in upper right corner of screen and select either "One month" or "Three months"
The calendar is updated at least once a week (unless the wifi is spotty while traveling) 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
====================Things to see or do if you happen to be in the area (* new additions or reschedules)
* Midcoast Maine Book Arts & Michael Good Gallery (321 Commercial St., Rockport, Maine) - Structure and Narrative exhibit - now until Sep 30, 2021
* Bedford Public Library, Bedford, New Hampshire - Book as Art by Ania Gilmore - now until Sep 30, 2021
The Decatur Arts Alliance (DAA), Decatur, GA - The Book as Art v. 9.0: Muse - Nine: a number both sacred and profane - exhibit date: now until Oct 1, 2021 - also online
Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery, San Diego, CA - Fiber and Book Arts Exhibition - now until Oct 1, 2021
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN - SOLASTALGIA: Book Art and the Climate Crisis - view virtually from now until Oct 17, 2021. Re-opening schedule
* 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
* 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). Artist talk with Laura Russell at form & concept on Oct 9, 2021 at 2pm (MT). Winners for awards will also be announce during this talk
* The Japanese Paper Place - Resilience and Renewal online exhibition - now until Oct 31, 2021
* Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 40th anniversary - Reflecting Back to the Future - now until Nov 14, 2021
The Movable Book Society - 2021 Denver Conference - Sep 30 - Oct 3, 2021 - In-person or virtual attendance
Movable Book Society - "Movable Medley" in conjuction with MBS's Denver conference - Exhibit dates: Sep 30 - Nov 7, 2021
* Bay Area Book Artists - Virtual Book Arts Jam 2021 (information on this page will be updated before the start of the Jam) - Oct 1 - 31, 2021
* Small House Gallery, UK - online exhibition line_space_form by A. Rosemary Watson - Oct 1 - Oct 31, 2021
* 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 - Oct 1 - Dec 11, 2021. Artist talk - Oct 5, 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 - Oct 1 - Dec 11, 2021
* Vermont Craft Council - Vermont Open Studio Weekend - copy of studio guide here - Oct 2 - 3, 2021 (if you are headed there do check out Elissa Campbell of Blue Roof Designs)
Art Walk San Diego - Little Italy Summer Series and Annual Shows - Oct 2 & 3
The Santa Fe Studio Tour - new dates: Oct 9 - 10, 2021 and Oct 16 - 17, 2021
* University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA - Collins Memorial Library - Science Stories: A Collaboration of Book Artists and Scientists - Oct 15, 2021 to Jan 15, 2022
Northwoods Book Arts Guild - Books As Art 3 - NBG members will present a wide spectrum of handcrafted book forms - Fairbanks Arts Association - Nov 5 - 27, 2021
====================Call for artists/entries/proposals/submissions (* new additions)
* Do you want to list your artists' books, library, archive, courses, gallery, bookshop, services, etc.? Send your information to the attached listings form for the new Artist’s Book Yearbook 2022 - 2023. Deadline is Sep 30, 2021. And it is free!
* Call for submission by Abecedarian Artists’ Books - Lettered & Bound - prospectus here - submissions accepted: Oct 1 - 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 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
====================Bits & bobs about paper/books/tips/trips/etc.
The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center presents Book Arts in Venice a travel study program to Italy with the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, and Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione in Cornuda (Treviso) - Jun 14 - 25, 2021
Elissa Campbell's first online bookbinding course "Find Closure 101" will be coming mid-October 2021 and enrollment will be open until the end of the month
San Diego Book Arts invited its members, and those of six other book arts organizations [Bay Area Book Artists (BABA), North Redwoods Book Arts Guild (NORBAG), Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA), PaperWorks, Santa Fe Book Arts Group (SFBAG) and New England Book Artists (NEBA)], to come together to CELEBRATE “WHERE YOU LIVE” through a hand-crafted USPS-compliant postcard exchange and freestyle bookmaking project. Thus "Wish You Were Here": a collaborative project between book artists–coast to coast was born. Virtual gallery here.
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s (BIMA) - Artist's Books Unshelved: City Sidewalks; What's Your Typeface; full play list here
The ULTIMATE Place of Book Arts Interest Map - created by the museum manager at The International Printing Museum - if you have any good additions they would love to add even more places - please email: Madeline Helland <madeline@printmuseum.org>
Byopia Press features instructions for a new artists’ book non-adhesive structure that combines a pocket (modular accordion) book with Hedi Kyle’s Panorama (formerly Panel) Book. Here is Part Two
Collage tips and tricks: restickable glue stick
Interrupt doomscrolling with Zen Gardens Meditative Patterns by Yuki Kawae. Here is one of his videos.
I don't know about you but I thoroughly enjoy reading physical books - maybe it is the smell of the paper and the ink - maybe it is the act of turning the page and the accompanying rustle and I especially loved "reading" dictionary as a teenager. Here is a dictionary carved into a staircase and why maybe you should use a dictionary in the age of internet searches.
The Alcuin Society 2021 Lecture Series present a series of virtual lectures - these are hosted on Zoom and are free, open to the public, and requires registration - upcoming topics of interest: Alanna Simenson & Frances Hunter – A conversation on bookbinding; Markus Fahrner – Books: Design and More; etc
Les Bicknell - the things that dreams are made of and other works
If you missed Reclamation: Artists’ Books on the Environment at San Francisco Center for the Book and San Francisco Public Library here is a virtual tour at both SFCB and San Francisco Public Library’s Jewett Gallery
I really enjoyed this bookbinding guide for beginners by Rajiv Surendra - very approachable and funny - he also has a marbling video featured on the Talas website (marbling supplies).
Paula Krieg flexagon (the one she taught at MoMath, NY) and the graphic page she created for this structure. Cathryn Miller of Byopia Press was inspired by Paula Krieg's flexagon to come up with her own flexagon
Flat-Style Australian Reverse Piano Hinge binding - video1 or video2 or instructions
The History of Movable Paper in One Massive, 9,000-Book Collection - video and article
The Printing Museum, Upper Hutt, New Zealand - the link to their digital version of another 48-page Omnibus edition of their newsletter, Type High
Matthew Shlian on the Future of Paper Engineering or Saving the World with Folding and more videos and where to get his book, Unfolding
Flags of the World popup book
Had the chance to watch Yoojin Kim - master paper engineer & designer - on an Atlas Obscura experience where she talked about her process and hedgehogs , and showed samples of her work- found a video on her work
Some of us continue to work from home and I still spend a good amount of time at the desk I used when I worked from home. I may have to set up my desk ergonomically now that I have seen this video
The Morgan Conservatory has a number of videos showcasing papermaking, bookbinding & letterpress
Creating a specific size paper shadowbox - how to calculate the initial size of paper needed - video and written instructions
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Upcoming classes in the calendar. Use the List or Agenda view (see About the calendar above) to view a complete list of workshops and meetings going forward a month or 3 months. Workshops found since the last newsletter show a ** in the event title of the workshop. Please check for registration close dates, if the workshop is full/closed/sold out or if it is virtual or in-person.
Video recorded for NPBAF discussing the calendar - https://youtu.be/irY0-gMK2V8
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)
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
OMA Artist Alliance is looking for artists to teach in-person classes/workshops in June. Email Julie Weaverling at jweaverling@frontporch.net with your teaching ideas. Include as many details as possible. Facilitated by Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
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
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Residency Opportunities
Residencies in many different mediums. See if one of these fit you.
In Cahoots residency - next deadline is Oct 1, 2021 for Jun - Dec 2022 residencies (to be updated when information is available)
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY - Ora Schneider Regional Residency Grant - month-long residency for artists residing in Greene, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, and Orange counties - Deadline: Oct 15, 2021
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
====================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.