Books & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - January 2024
Hello everyone,
- For a better newsletter experience please click on this link to read the latest information. Sometimes I may add time sensitive information to the newsletter after the email is sent out. Read a newsletter in the archive
- I am honored and delighted to be included again in Helen Hiebert's 100 Papery Picks 2023 - please see the Bits and Bobs section below for a link to past lists.
- Sometimes it feels like we are working in a vacuum - here is a chance to join a community where the artist's questions and concerns lead the feedback - please see calendar entries for Feb 6 and Mar 6
- San Diego Book Arts has 2 Sol Rébora workshops: Link Structure In Paper for Accordion Book (Feb 16 - 17) and Link In 1 Structure in Paper (Feb 19 - 21). I'll be there for the 1st one - hope to see you there for an adventure in paper and creativity - check out their workshop page for other offerings (hello! Kit Davey!)
- Registration has opened for the following to help you plan the rest of your year: Book Arts Summer Institute 2024 at Wells College; American Academy of Bookbinding 2024; Penland School of Craft; Paper and Book Intensive 2024; Snow Farm, The New England Craft Program 2024; Women’s Studio Workshop Summer Art Institute 2024 ; Newport Paper and Book Arts Festival (NPBAF) 2024 opens on Jan 27, 2024
Me ke aloha nui - Jade
Unfolding paper explorer, information conduit & facilitator, foodie, unorthodox traveler, astronomy enthusiast, somewhat grudgingly tech savvy
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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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Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA - Open Book Tours - Every Third Wednesday: 11:00am - register here
University of Washington, Miller Library & Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA) - Nature and the Book: An Exhibition of the Puget Sound Book Artists - now until Jan 30, 2024
Kala Art Institute & Gallery, Berkeley, CA - The Embodied Press: queer abstraction and the artist’s book - now until 9 Feb 2024
Gallery 224, University of the Arts (333 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106) - Books As Life: Philadelphia Center for the Book Member Exhibition Reception - Jan 23 - Feb 24, 2024 (information not yet on website)
2023 Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale - now until Feb 27, 2024 - more information on the Paper Art Biennale - video
The Eye Gallery (117-1132 College Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) [yes, there is a gallery at this optometry] - Cathryn Miller - Forty Days - now until Feb 29, 2024
Peters Valley School of Craft travel program is offering travel to Mexico for Craft, Culture & Cuisine - Feb 28 - Mar 8, 2024
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK - Scottish Landscape Awards - now until 3 Mar 2024
The Chicago OrigamiUSA Convention 2024 (COcon) returns Mar 8 - Mar 10, 2024 - registration open
Higgins Gallery, Cape Cod Community College - Cape Bound: New England Book Artists Member Exhibition - Feb 13 - Mar 18, 2024
Santa Fe Community College’s Visual Arts Gallery (6401 Richards Avenue, Santa Fe, NM) and Santa Fe Book Arts Group - Celebration of the Book - now until Mar 22, 2024 - if you can't make the exhibit click here to view the artwork
Maine Media Workshops + College - An English Odyssey: Oxford, England Book & Print Intensive - Mar 16 - 23, 2024
San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) - A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making - now Mar 31, 2024
The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts and The Book Arts Roundtable - Booked 18: See/Ing exhibit - now until - Mar 31, 2024
Spark Gallery in Denver’s Art District - Printed Page IV will be on view from Mar 28 – Apr 21, 2024
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 - Feb 1 - Apr 30, 2024
Center for Book Arts (New York, NY) - Exposition littéraire autour de Mallarmé - Jan 18 - May 1, 2024
Center for Book Arts (New York, NY) - Hello Thank You Come In: 50th Anniversary Members Exhibition - Jan 18 - May 1, 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 - information coming early 2024
The Fabriano Paper/Print/Book Tour of Northern Italy led by Lynn Sures - Jun 3 - 14, 2024. Details and registration
Book Arts in Venice with Kalamazoo Book Arts Center - Jun 4 – Jun 15, 2024
The Gallery at Penn College, College Ave., Williamsport, PA - Books Undone 2: The Art of Altered Books - May 30 - Jul 21, 2024 (more information upcoming)
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
Hot Bed Press is offering The Complete Book Artist 2024 - 30 weeks of bookbinding courses from Mar 6 - Dec 11, 2024 - but you need to be in Salford between Leeds and Liverpool, UK - call them about the workshop at +44 161 743 3111 - let me know and I will forward the email to you
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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
Call for Entries - Kalamazoo Book Arts Center - The Illustrated Accordion 2024 - deadline Monday, Jan 22, 2024 - more information
Call for Submission: Abecedarian Gallery - Printed Page IV - deadline: Feb 12, 2024
Call for entries: Sebastopol Center for the Arts - PULP: Book & Paper Arts International Juried Exhibition (including Book Arts of any medium, not just paper) - deadline Feb 23, 2024 - prospectus and application
Call for entries: Books Undone 2: The Art of Altered Books - deadline: Feb 29, 2024 - application
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
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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
John Neal Books - upcoming online calligraphy classes
Heleb Hiebert's 100 Papery Picks 2023 came out on Dec 31, 2023 - here is the list for: 2022 and 2021. Guess who made the list? Guess who will have more internet rabbit holes to explore? Woo hoo!
My friend, Yol A., made an amazing advent calendar using the explosion box or gift box punch board (use video) from WRMK - here are more advent calendar ideas to get you ready for this year
Sometimes you just have to watch nature in action to bring a sense of serenity: inside a monarch butterfly sanctuary; live moon jelly cam at Monterey Aquarium
Byopia Press's alternate to stab binding - every second page spread opens flat
Artists’ Books DC is a research tool that points you to different collections of artists’ books in the Washington DC area. Are there any other lists like this for other places out there? I know there are artists books at the Getty Research Institute and you can make an appointment to see them but not sure if they have a list; University of Washington Suzzallo and Allen Libraries - ditto aout the list; and I know there are more organizations out there with their collections
Have you seen these notepads and calendars? I may have mentioned them in previous newsletter a few years back. Such a treat that they reveal a slow surprise as you tear away the pages!
More self closing envelopes - some old, some new and love the colors even though I am not a pink girl (only occasionally)
I usually have a tough time getting my head tuned into curved folding and so was fascinated by Reconstructing David Huffman's Legacy in Curved-Crease Folding - now where do I get a spring-loaded ball burnisher
How to find your parked car with Google Maps - more google map tips in a YouTube video
Calming breath work - I was watching this late one night and doing the breath work from this video at the 7:15 mark and was surprised that it relaxed me enough to the point I got sleepy - this worked better for me than the Seals box breathing method - a pictorial to help visualize it
A quick video showing how to add a small booklet for notes or a weekly calendar on your pages or laptop
A Japanese Heart Sutra vocal live looping remix by Yogetsu Akasaka, a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk - I was excited and a little confused at the unknown of this when I first started hearing this but loved everything he looped and put in the mix - will definitely listen to more chants this way to calm and control the breath and maybe even dance a little
A mini album from 1 sheet of paper that looks like it could translate to a book or zine!
I was trying to figure out how to connect 2 Shrigley pages and I ran across a Byopia Press blog talking about just that. Now I just need to figure how to create these 2 pages with a single sheet of paper
I used to buy calendars all the time but noticed I was not turning the pages in as timely a manner as I should. If you still do physical calendars here is one you can use
If you needed closures for a book or a box try one of these from Nik the Booksmith
Making a non-adhesive slip case - no need for measurements as everything is "measured" against your book or 3D rectangular object.
I had some friends in Brazil go through a brutal 30-hour power and water outage due to a massive storm. That made me look up powerful portable travel chargers and found these
We are always looking for faces even where there are none. This phenomenom is called pareidolia. Here are a bunch of buildings doing just that - the one that is giving side eye (penultimate picture) makes me chuckle!
Definitely adding this hotel to my bucket list for aurora travels once the eruption is over
Fabric, dance and origami Venn diagram intersection
I love it when I come across a little free library wherever I am (have also come across a little free art gallery) but the ultimate bucket list one - Antartica! Here is a link to find the ones in your area, on your travels or start one of your own
If you have documents, spreadsheets or slides created on software you no longer have access to, try these online substitutions suggested on these videos
Origami Connect is back this winter/spring for 9 sessions! Origami Connect is a fun way to fill your cold winter days. Registration is open for all classes. First class starts on Chinese New Year, Feb 10, 2024
Susan Gaylord's Word-A-Day journal
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I don't know how most people start the 1st day of the new year but mine started with a M3.9 earthquake about 10 miles south of where I am and 7 miles deep below the busy shipping lanes of the Port of Los Angeles. I live in California so they tend to occur regularly but you still wonder whether to stay or bolt. The smallest one I have ever felt was about a M2.7 almost indistinguishable from a heavy truck going by but it felt ... different. The weirdest one I ever felt was last year when we were standing in a parking lot and saying our goodbyes (you know the ones that take longer than the meal) and one rolled through that I felt through the soles of my Oofos sandals. I never did check on the USGS website for the magnitude or if there was even one but what else could make me feel light headed and nauseated at the same time. I felt a really big one, a M6.9, was back in 2018 when we were having lunch in Hilo. We were seated on stools and we hula'd on them while the waves rolled through for what seemed like an e-t-e-r-n-a-l minute. I had half a mind of bolting out the door but nothing was falling off shelves so I watched what everyone else was doing. Then a year later an even bigger earthquake, a M7.1, hit a town about 170 miles NE of where we live and by the time we felt it the waves had dissipated some but was still quite the bronco ride.
I write about the earth shaking and noticed that I'm kinda sorta shaking things up a little. I am not crazy about cinnamon but give me a good cinnamon bun and I am in heaven. With the current coffee I am drinking there was nothing to indicate that anything was missing. I vaguely remember getting the slightest whiff of cinnamon as I opened the latest bag of coffee and I thought I had read somewhere that cinnamon made coffee taste sweet. When I added a smidge of cinnamon to my coffee there was an unexpected heightened awareness of how the coffee tasted. Even though the coffee got cold the last sip was still a delight! Oh, yes! I am that odd duck that drinks coffee ultra slow and loves the differences in taste as the coffee went from hot to cold. Other things I have added to my flat white or cappuccino: grated dark chocolate, grated chocolate orange (yes, the one you hit on a hard surface to smash it into segments), cardamom, extra foamed milk, etc. I hope to come up with more unusual additions, maybe cayenne pepper? Lemon, lime or orange zest? Sage? I know that vanilla ice cream is always a good addition!
Another thing I am shaking up a little and that is so unlike me is my prepping some of my handmade cards ahead of time so they can be sent out on the spur of the moment as opposed to waiting for practically the last minute. My excuse was that I create my hand made cards based on the creative flash I would get when I thought about or spoke with that person. I was inspired by a gift exchange I participated in last holiday season where I made a number of medallions that I layered on top of other medallions and then placed on glittery cardstock (still folding as I find and explore new medallions). I was also inspired by a zine I produced for a project that ended up being a 20-edition zine and was constructed assembly style. Each of the zines also had a medallion on the cover.
My desk was overflowing with medallions (others may refer to them as tessellations, tiles, quilts, coasters, etc.) of all colors each folded from one piece of paper. They have been corralled into zip lock bogs which I will happily empty so that I can see all of them when putting together a Jade-made card. I am having too much fun deciding whether to layer one on top of another or letting them stand alone in their folded serenity. I had no idea when I learned these structures that they would capture my attention, heart and fingers. I am always amazed that I can fold these origami structures but then I have had some amazing teachers guiding me and providing notes and pictures. And lots and lots of backing up the video! It has been fun to match them up to cardstock bases and envelopes (have tools will make matching envelopes) and the people I will eventually send them to.
What are you going to shake up this year? It could be a little wiggle. Let me know!
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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)
- 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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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
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