Books & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - April 2024
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- If you are in the Los Angeles area between now and Oct 6, 2024, check out the Ed Ruscha exhibit, Now Then, being held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
- If you have been missing attending Zhen Xian Bao classes (you know who you are!;)), there is a mini one by Rosemary Rae on June 15, 2024 (please see calendar) with PaperWorks Tucson
- By the way I have to shut down being public on Instagram - I have started to block folks who look like romance scammers (barely any posts but following lots of people) in my followers list which is a bit of a pain and a little unnerving after the fact - if you wish to see what little I have going on in Instagram would you go ahead and follow @madamepelehandmaiden?
Me ke aloha nui - Jade
Unfolding paper explorer, information conduit & facilitator, foodie, unorthodox traveler, astronomy enthusiast, somewhat grudgingly tech savvy
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Book & Paper Arts Calendar | Book & Paper Arts Newsletter
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Things to do in the area | Call for artists/ entries/ proposals/ submissions | Bits & bobs about paper/ books/ tips/ trips | Musings and Meanderings | Resource List | About the calendar | Housekeeping
Printed Matter, Inc. - NY Art Book Fair 2024, New York, NY - Apr 25 - 28, 2024
Center for Book Art NY and The Grolier Club - Artists’ Books As Expanded Literacy - keynote by Claudia de la Torre on Apr 29, 2024 (register here)
MAKE Southwest, Paper Artist Collective and GF Smith - PULP - now until Apr 30, 2024
World Forestry Center, Portland OR: Suze Wolff's State of the Forest - now until Apr 30, 2024
Center for Book Arts (New York, NY) - Exposition littéraire autour de Mallarmé - now until May 1, 2024
Center for Book Arts (New York, NY) - Hello Thank You Come In: 50th Anniversary Members Exhibition - now until May 1, 2024
Marches Book Arts Group as part of the Marches Makers Festival 2024
Kington, Herefordshire, UK - Telling Book Art Stories - May 4 - May 6, 2024
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA - PULP: Book & Paper Arts - now until May 5, 2024
Printed Mater and The Grolier Club - 2024 Contemporary Artists Books Conference virtual sessions on May 9 - May 10, 2024
Grolier Club, New York, USA - Language, Decipherment, and Translation – from Then to Now - now until May 11, 2024
Washington Hall, Seattle, WA - Seattle Art Book Fair - Volunteer - May 11 - May 12, 2024
Boblio Arts Print and Book Fair, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada - May 17 - 18, 2024
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild Ottawa Valley Chapter at Carleton University, Macodrum Library - Save The Date - Ottawa Book Arts Show - May 25, 2024 - vendor information and location
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN - The Next Chapter - now until May 25, 2024
Susan Gaylord had a post on Instagram showing the pieces to be exhibited at The Brush Art Gallery in Lowell, MA - The Book As Sculpture retrospective exhibit - now until May 25, 2024 - if you cannot make the exhibit in person NEBA has a Show & Tell YouTube video from Apr 14, 2024
Minnesota Center for Book Arts main gallery - Shift-lab: Ten Years of Collaboration - now until Jun 1, 2024
San Francisco East Bay Art Open Studio - Jun 1 - 2, 2024
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC - Pulp & Bind: Paper & Book in Southern Appalachia - now until Jun 2, 2024
San Francisco East Bay Art Open Studio - Jun 8 - 9, 2024
Minnow Arts, Santa Cruz, CA - Jody Alexander solo exhibit Aqua Lab: in Search of the Third Thing (not yet on Minnow Arts website) - May 3 - Jun 9, 2024 - opening reception May 3 from 5:00pm - 8:30pm - closing reception Jun 7 from 5:00pm - 8:30pm - artist available from 2:00pm - 4:00pm on May 4, May 5, Jun 8 and Jun 9
2024 Paper/Print/Book tour of Northern Italy - led by Lynn Sures, Artist, and Giorgio Pellegrini, Fmr. Director of the Museum of Paper and Watermark - register here - Jun 3 - 14, 2024
Book Arts in Venice with Kalamazoo Book Arts Center - Jun 4 – Jun 15, 2024
Princeton University Library, NJ, USA - Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond - check link for guided tours - now until Jun 13, 2024
Betty Feves Memorial Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, OR - Local Color - now until Jun 13, 2024
San Francisco Center for the Book - Remember Me: American Carved Stone Books from the Ian Berke Collection - now until Jun 23, 2024
The University of Texas at Austin, Blanton Museum of Art - Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper](https://blantonmuseum.org/exhibition/anni-albers/)) - now until Jun 30, 2024*
Charles Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA - The Art of the Book - now until Jul 15, 2024
The Met Fifth Avenue, New York, NY - Thomas J. Watson Library - Emulating Books: Book Objects from the Lynn and Bruce Heckman Gift - now until Jul 16, 2024
The Gallery at Penn College, College Ave., Williamsport, PA - Books Undone 2: The Art of Altered Books - May 30 - Jul 21, 2024
Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA) - Allied Craftsmen: Hands On Design - Mar 30 - Aug 18, 2024
Visual Arts Gallery, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ - PaperWorks Member Show Perception - now until Sep 6, 2024
ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station - Mandell Weiss Gallery, San Diego, CA - Women Work Together Art Duets by Feminist Image Group (FIG) - May 3 - Sep 6, 2024
Hiromi Paper, Culver City, CA - 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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN - now until Oct 6, 2024
University of Denver, Denver, CO - Anderson Academic Commons - Pulp to Pages information forthcoming - Aug 1 – Nov 30, 2024
Puget Sound Book Artists 13th Annual Members' Exhibition 2024 - Puget Sound Collins Memorial Library from Jun 4, 2024 – Aug 1, 2024 and at The Evergreen State College (TESC) from Sep 29 – Dec 20 2024
Tucson Museum of Art - Arizona Biennial 2024 - Oct 19, 2024 - Feb 9, 2025
Call for artists/ entries/ proposals/ submissions
Websites for calls for entries for all mediums and online juried shows:
- Call for entries management and jury system entrythingy.com
- Find calls https://www.callforentry.org/
- Colossal (international platform for contemporary art and visual expression that explores a vast range of creative disciplines) opportunities
Calling Arizona Artists: Arizona Biennial 2024 - deadline: May 3, 2024 -- on view Tucson Museum of Art - Oct 19, 2024 - Feb 9, 2025
Call For Submission: Pulp to Pages - deadline: Jun 15, 2024 - on view at Anderson Academic Commons, University of Denver, Denver, CO - Aug 1 – Nov 30, 2024
Call for exhibitors: Tropic Bound - Feb 6 - 9, 2025 - application details - deadline: Jul 31, 2024
Call for Submissions: Printed Matter, New York - Decolonisation, Resistance & Solidarity - is actively soliciting artists’ books, zines, and print ephemera that engage with ideas of decolonisation, resistance, and interconnected solidarity around the world - accepted submissions will be distributed online and in-store - this is an open, rolling call - there is no deadline for submissions - to view a selection of titles that speak to these themes - their submission guidelines
Bits & Bobs about paper/ books/ tips/ trips
Note: If you want to inspect a hyperlink to see where it may take you, mouse over the link and in the lower left corner of your screen the status bar will show you where the hyperlink would take you. On smartphones or tablets long press on the link and a window will appear with that information
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 - latest: Trigger Report
The best way to lose the "very" from your vocabulary is by going to this website
Ever needed a pocket for your pages? Here is an altered book artist who makes pockets out of pages
Beautifully imagined intersection of origami and dance
For her podcast, Helen Hiebert interviewed Claire Van Vliet
How to make your smartphone last longer
Simple flower popup card and if you haven't already tried this one a 7 flower popup card
These art pieces in the unnoticed nook and crannies of Amsterdam brought a smile to my face
Too adorable - this reminds me of my childhood when I sent my paper doll around to everyone so they could draw her dresses with the tabs on the shoulders - some folks were truly designers - I wonder if they knew it? Create a Tiny Washi Wardrobe Session 2 with Claudine Crangle at The Japanese Paper Place on June 1, 2024
Historical influences on Hedi Kyle's work
I have been following this YouTuber and find his popups fascinating
Taking photos of your art work with Brenda Gallaher (PSBA)
Cool box by Byopia Press made from 3 strips of paper
How to answer the question, "Describe yourself in 3 words"
It looks like Germany has their version of an Art-o-Mat called a Kunstautomat - their website show the locations of these vending machine. I was finally able to get to the White Sands Hotel in Honolulu, HI and picked up 3 packs. Will load pictures to Instagram when I open them after we start house and cat - sitting
I was lucky enough to attend another talk on Susan Joy Share's Passion for Book Action - I also ran across a satisfying blast from the past where Susan shared her 16 compartment Zhen Xian Bao
Various origami photo/pictures frames: version 1; version 2; version 3; version 4; version 5 is more a photo stand than frame
If you don't have a topping for your gift try these out: version 1; version 2; and they are subtly different
Monumental Paper Installations by Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen Bring Vibrant but where would I put one of these?
I have completed 4 out of the 5 legs on the trip I am currently on (more in Musings and Meanderings) and was struck by how creative some airlines were with their safety videos - I was already familiar with Hawaiian and Singapore airlines but found others: Singapore Airline; Hawaiian Airlines; Air New Zealand; Vietnam Airlines; JAL; Air India
The special design that makes library books practically indestructible
Great extension to a Froebel unit - a lovely "flower tile" from one sheet of paper - but I stop folding at the 6:11 mark, and may go as far as the 8:15 mark, but put my own spin on it - I use this as a base to layer the paper medallions I use on card fronts. The 4th side to be folded in always throws me but do persevere - the results are lovely especially with a double sided paper and layered with picture frame version 4 above
Super faux leather technique with Nik the Booksmith
The taiko performance of beating kozo in the paper lab at UW-Madison
Here are 2 amazing artists I have found and follow on Instagram that embody generosity, talent, creativity and art : Madhura Gupta and Yoriko Abecyan
As I write this month's musings we are on the 4th and final leg of our, you guessed it, Hawaiian trip. This trip was not without its drama. We were supposed to have visited all 4 major islands but had to cancel Kauai due to the flooding they experienced after getting over 11" of rain overnight! We could get a car but no guarantee of a room as just about all hotels had massive water issues with their ground floor rooms. Bill also left his phone and phone holder in the rental car we turned in at Honolulu airport. "Where's my phone?", he asked at the gate. "Darn! I forgot to grab the phone holder", I thought. After patting himself down and looking through his backpack we hustled back to the car rental building. We split up and I had him go to the counter while I went to the car return area. I was never more out of breath as I approached the young lady who checked us out. When I blurted out that my husband had left his phone in the rental car and the car licence plate she pulled out his phone and phone holder from behind her stand. I was so happy that I hugged her and thanked her profusely. I rushed back to the counter and found him waiting outside telling his story to a couple of people. We rushed back to the terminal to find out that the flight was delayed! After we reached the Big Island, I found out that my water bottle had leaked on one of the straps of my backup but that ended up keeping me cool! Once we got to our lodging I found out my after shower powder (not sure what else to call it as it is not talcum powder!) had exploded in one of my bags! At least everything now smelled really nice after I dusted everything off.
We got the deal of a lifetime to stay on the Big Island in our 1st week of the trip as a certain organization tried to sell their timeshare. But our house sitting was not happening until 2 weeks later hence let's visit the other islands. While on the Big Island that 1st week I made it a point to plan small beach hikes all along the west coast for after breakfast. Our very first beach was a doozy. Technically you needed a high clearance vehicle to traverse the "road" and we were in a compact car. We figured out the best approach was for me to get out of the car and guide Bill and anyone else behind him. To prevent the car from dropping too much into any big dips I hauled lava rocks and built or shored up up the slopes as needed. I was hot and dusty by the time we got to the beach and we hadn't even started our hike. I was able to wash my hands and discovered several cuts on my fingers but weirdly not where there was contact with the rocks. That beach we ended up at was breathtaking and worth every minute of the 45 minutes it took to crawl and bump along on that almost 2 mile drive. We did the same thing on the way out. I got out to guide and build and shore up any big dips. I say dips but some of them were drops of almost 12" (about 30 cm) - not good for the under carriage of a sedan and luckily I turned out to be a good road builder and no scrapes for the car. Phew! Weirdly enough the aforementioned cuts on my fingers - no longer there when we got back to the main highway! We continued our beach hikes that week and met some cool people and even cooler dogs, found new restaurants but also went back to our favorites (to re-establish ties with our favorite people there).
Maui was next and I'd always wanted to stay in Kula located on the lower flanks of Haleakala. We hadn't been back to Maui in over 8 years and we had a good time getting to know the island again. Again lots of new places to discover and pleased to know our favorites had survived the pandemic and the fire. The fire affected the entire island even though it was concentrated in the town of Lahaina AND Kula! No one reported on the Kula fire on mainland USA but we could see the burnt trees in the backyard and 2 houses up the street had burnt down (a total of 19 homes were destroyed in Kula). Our hosts reported that they had to evacuate after the police knocked on their door that night not knowing if they would come back to a still standing house. We continued our beach hikes when we could but the beaches were now a little further away. We were also trying to get to the summit of Haleakala (our first time) and was unsuccessful due to the weather until our last full day there. I was delighted that I could see Maunakea and Mauna Loa from the summit (a little over 10,000 feet or over 3,000m) as we are usually on the Big Island looking at Haleakala. The cinder cones on the summit were otherworldly. They exhibited more colors than I thought possible and that cinder cone field looked like a water color. And those silver swords that can live to be over 100 years old and die once they have bloomed - they really do look metal in the sunlight. Maybe a few pictures will be posted on Instagram (IG) after this newsletter goes out. As mentioned at the beginning of this newsletter I will need to move my account from public back to private. I use IG to look for exhibits, workshops and discovers paper and book artists. However if you wish to check who I follow and what little I have posted so far my handle is @madamepelehandmaiden.
O'ahu was next and other than the quiet beaches on the west side and meeting our hanai ohana (adopted family) it felt like we were back in LA - noisy, crowded, traffic. Oh! And the milk tea with boba (tapioca balls) was especially tasty and refreshing (a rare treat for us even when back on the mainland). We did continue to meet wonderful people and the only dog we saw was out swimming with his family happily ensconced in his flotation device. I successfully got 3 pieces of art from the Art-O-Mat located at the White Sands Hotel lobby. I was hoping to check out the Art-O-Mat at the Honolulu Museum of Art but, alas, it was closed. Picture will be forthcoming on IG. The hotel we were at was attached to an outdoor mail so we took walks around it every evening after dinner, dodging the little train that went around the entire mall, enjoying the kids running around in the one shaded patch of "green" space and reflexively ducking when the fighter planes went over as we were right under their flight path. Boy, were they loud! I couldn't wait to get off O'ahu and then that little bit of drama at the airport mentioned above happened. Luckily it all worked out and we were sipping POG (pineapple, orange and guava) on the plane on the 48 minute flight from Honolulu to Kona.
So here we are now, back on the Big Island again, with the both of us breathing a sigh of relief and Bill saying, "I feel so much more at home here", as we made our way to a town we'd never stayed in before, Holualoa. Another out of the way place located on the flanks of yet another active volcano, Mauna Loa. Did I mention that Haleakala is also an active volcano that erupted about 500 years ago? Mauna Loa erupted last December! Once again we continued our adventure of getting to beaches we'd never been to before. And since we do not normally stay on this side of the island, other than our favorite pizza place, Costco (for gas), getting grilled abalone and visiting our favorite rainbow eucalyptus tree, everything else was new to us. I even stayed away from my favorite art supply store by Costco! Gasp! We did find a grey sand beach - Ho'okena - again another adventure in getting there on a curvy single lane road. So beaches that I have been to in different colors: white, gold (or maybe you would call it tan), black, purple, red, green and grey. So what is left? Pink, orange and rainbow, perhaps? Are there blue beaches?
Now a pause to allow my Chromebook to recharge ....
Ok! Finally finished packing and double checking that we did not leave anything behind. I kept finding things to put away and bits to be taken out to the trash. I think I bought too much coffee, cookies, water color cards, etc. We drove up to the Waimea region and had lunch with some new friends at a restaurant they had not been to before. It was a wonderful conversation giving us insight into what people in their late 20s - early 30s are going through especially here in Hawai'i. We also tried to catch our favorite bakery before they closed but they were sold out before 2pm on a Saturday. I will have to be patient and wait until Tuesday when they open again. In the meantime we are settling in and getting any special instructions about the house, cats and plants. It felt a little rushed on the other 2 islands even though I wasn't too crazy about O'ahu. By the time we figured our way around it was time to leave. Note to self - if at all possible stay for more than a week at any one place?
See you next month!
Resource List (maintained in my Dropbox account - close popup to view document). Documents are saved in Word format (.docx). If you do not have Microsoft Word you can use Microsoft 365 to save a copy
- Organizations where I gather my workshop information
- Teaching opportunities
- On-demand workshops with pre-recorded videos and/or kits
- 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)
- Central place for artist residencies - all mediums Pyramid Atlantic now offers a paid internship opportunity for college or post-college artists
- MFA programs in the US (updated annually in early December) - due dates, points of contacts, programs offered and admission requirements
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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The calendar is updated as I come across information 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 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:
- Video from NEBA mixer
- Video from PSBA meeting
- Video for calendar discussion with Sara Siggelkow NPBAF Education Manager - the 6-minute mark is where the discussion of the calendar begins
- 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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