Books & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - July 2025
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- Do you have any books to donate to the Chicago Books to Women in Prison (please go to the website to see what kinds of books or help they need)? Or you could help them fund the postage for sending these book out, give them some time, donate funds or pick up some CBWP merch
- Volunteer needed: proofreader - as FOBA prepares participant handbooks, catalogs, and website updates, they will need someone with clear eyes for that final look - this position will work primarily with Christy Turner, their Graphics Chair - they anticipate this reaching the 50-hour mark - at 50 hours, the volunteer earns early conference registration - to apply (or ask questions), please email Jeri Oswalt
- Save the date - Helen Hiebert's book, Weaving With Paper will be coming soon - Dec 16, 2025 | Helen is also planning a 2nd annual Taos Paper Retreat at the Mabel Dodge Luhan (Taos, NM), which will be held July 20-24, 2026 - express interest here | The Paper Year, an online membership community, will open again to new members Oct 1 - 10, 2025 - to hold your spot
- The Perseids meteors are already flying and the peak will be Aug 11 - 12, 2025 - find a dark sky place - best viewing after midnight - closest to me would be Joshua Tree National Park and Anza Borrego State Park - both are about 3 hours away as the cars drive.
- If you wish to take more advanced bookbinding courses check out the workshops being offered by Ah Haa School for the Arts and American Academy of Bookbinding, both in Telluride, CO
- Update on the future plans for Wells Book Arts Center - more information is available here - page for frequently asked questions about this agreement - this webpage will be updated as information evolves
- After 25 years, Volcano Arts (Volcano, CA, is east of Sacramento, CA) is riding into off the sunset - doors will be closed 12/31/25, or until stock runs out - shop here
- Another sad note of passing: Patricia Grass, who ran Green Heron Book Arts in Forest Grove, Oregon (where FOBA was held before moving to Monmouth, OR), passed away on July 10, 2025 - announcement here
Me ke aloha nui - Jade
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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 | Workshop Calendar | Resource List | Housekeeping
Things To Do In The Area
Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK - World Book Night 2025 - Tell the Trees (Listen to the Trees) - now until Jul 30, 2025 - a video with a selection of images if you missed this
Camden Library (Camden, ME) - Midcoast Maine Book Arts group, Come Summer - now until Jul 31, 2025**
New York Public Library (5th Ave & 42nd St, NY) - Dynamic Duos: The Art of Working in Pairs - now until Aug 2, 2025
DunoonMOCA (Dunoon, UK) - Enfolded Journeys - now until Aug 2, 2025 - view the online shop and exhibit HERE
Warburg Institute (Woburn Square, London, UK) - Art and The Book - now until Aug 2, 2025
Coochiemudlo Island Art Trail + Open Studio (off Victoria Pt, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia) - more information - Aug 2 - 3, 2025
PSBA 2025 14th Annual Members' Exhibit - Field Work: Collins Library - University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington - now until Aug 3, 2025; Daniel J. Evans Library - The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington - Sep 29 - Dec 12, 2025
Minnesota Center for Book Arts Main Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) - Studiomates: Creating in Shared Space and New Heirloom - now until Aug 3, 2025
Guild of Book Workers - Night Circus exhibition - locations: Cary Graphic Arts Collections (Rochester, NY) from now until Aug 8, 2025; Old Capital Museum, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) from Sep 1 - Oct 17, 2025; Baylor Libraries, Baylor University (Waco TX) from Nov 10, 2025 - Jan 2026
OPEN SET exhibit - University of Denver Anderson Academic Commons - now until Aug 10, 2025
State Library of NSW (Sydney, NSW, Australia) - Paper Universe: The book as art - Aug 11, 2025 - May 3, 2026
Kirkby Gallery the Kirkby Centre (Kirkby, Knowsley L32 8XY, UK): Letting in the Light, An Exhibition of Artists’ Books at Kirkby Gallery - now until Aug 16, 2025
Gallery Central (Perth, West Australia, Australia) - Between the Sheets: Artists’ Books Exhibition 2025 - Aug 14 - Sep 19, 2025
Rochester Public Library (Rochester, NY) - 14th annual international juried exhibition The Art of the Book & Paper - will be on display Aug 18 - Nov 15, 2025 - 2024 winners can be viewed at the previously mentioned link
American Bookbinders Museum: HBC53: Annual Members’ Exhibition - now until Aug 23, 2025
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck (Gloucester, MA): Boundless: The Art of the Book - now until Aug 24, 2025 and online
Center for Book Arts (CBA), New York, NY - The Space Between Words: Other Ways of Reading - now until Aug 31, 2025
Bower Ashton Library (UWE Bristol, UK) - Art Crossing Borders with Artists’ Books: Bristol welcoming Brazil - now until Sep 2, 2025
Mark Twain Library (Redding, CT): Building Books 3 New England Book Artists' Members Exhibition - now until Sep 2, 2025
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA), 4th floor - Ruth Asawa: Retrospective - now until Sep 2, 2025
University of Michigan Library, Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor (Ann Arbor, MI) - Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color - now until Sep 4, 2025
Art on Paper New York (Pier 36, Downtown Manhattan, New York, 10002) - Sep 4 - 7, 2025
Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking (Atlanta, GA) - Legacies in Paper with works from Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong, & Helen Hiebert - Sep 4, 2025 - Jan 30, 2026 - virtual artist talk Oct 15, 2025; Paper & Architecture - Mar 2, 2026 - July 10, 2026; The Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition - Aug 3, 2026 - Jan 15, 2027
Anchorage Museum - 2025 Alaska Triennial - now until Sep 7, 2025
New England Quilt Museum (Lowell, MA) - Susan Gaylord’s Spirit Books - Sep 9 - Dec 27, 2025
Printed Matter is pleased to announce the 2025 NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 from Sep 11 – 14, 2025, with an opening night preview on Thursday, Sep 11, 2025 from 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Association of Book Crafts (ABC) - BIND25, Auckland, New Zealand - Sep 12 - 14, 2025 - supporting events - workshops
Visit Singapore Pavilion The Dream Sphere at Expo 2025 Osaka, Japan - now until Oct 13, 2025
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (Bainbridge Island, WA)) - Back to Nature - now until Sep 21, 2025
San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB, San Francisco, CA) - Mourning and Melancholy: Artists’ Books From the Arab World and Its Diaspora - now until Sep 21, 2025
A Kinetic Paper Mobile Retreat (Toronto, Canada) with Paula Hartmann - Where Paper Comes to Life - Sep 22 - 26, 2025
National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC) - A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making - now until Sep 28, 2025
Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach, CA) - The California Effect (information forthcoming): New Books from the California Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers - Oct 3, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026
A Japanese stationery expo is coming to Los Angeles - Los Angeles Union Station - Oct 11 - 12, 2-25
Central Library (330 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101): Feminist Image Group (FIG) exhibition, In the Land of… - now until Oct 12, 2025
Expo 2025 Osaka - theme for the expo is Designing Future Society for Our Lives - now until Oct 13, 2025
The Michigan Association of Calligraphers presents Heart of the Hands , a Calligraphy, Bookbinding & Journaling Retreat with Anne Elser in Almont, MI - Oct 23 - 26, 2025
Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Paper Made II - currently not on the exhibitions page - on view Nov 8, 2025 - Feb 1, 2026 - juried selections will be featured in the fall 2025 issue of Fiber Art Now
Senate House Library, University of London (London, UK) - Introducing Spineless Wonders - publications that are stapled, sewn, folded or a single sheet - now until Nov 15, 2025
Jaffe Book Arts Gallery, Florida Atlantic University's Wimberly Library (Boca Raton, FL) - Stardust: 25 Years of the Jaffe Collection - now until Jan 6, 2026
Moody Memorial Library (Baylor University, Waco, TX) - Narrative Threads (information not currently on website) - Feb 9 - Apr 6, 2026
Book Arts and Culture tour in India led by Radha Pandey - Feb 16 - Mar 2, 2026 (tour is full but there is a waitlist)
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
Note: On going calls below are listed in alphabetical order
Call for Artists: The Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) Shop is seeking new artists interested in selling their work - on-going
Call for teachers: Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center, Maui, HI, is looking for Youth Teaching Artists - more information - to apply for this position, please send a resume and sample art projects to: Michaela McGuire, Youth Programs Coordinator, michaela@huinoeau.com - on going
Call for workshop proposals: Frederick Book Arts Center is settling into their new space and looking for teachers - if you have experience teaching bookbinding, letterpress, printmaking, photography or other skills related to book arts and are interested in working with us we are interested in hearing from you - please email: charlottemaulerhayes@fredbookartscenter.org - on going
Call for teachers: Pacific Ocean Paperfolders monthly virtual meeting - on going - contact Joel Stern
Call for Workshop Teachers: PaperWorks 2025-2026 Season - half day, full day and multiple day classes, in person or via Zoom - download proposal form and send completed form to education@paperworks.info - on going
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
Call for workshop proposals: The Santa Fe Book Arts Group Program Committee extends an invitation to submit proposals for workshops in the coming months - more information - on going
Call for workshops: Morgan Conservatory -apply by Jul 30, 2025 - proposal form
Call for residency: Applications to the MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Residency XVII are now open - deadline: July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM CT - more information - virtual information session on Tuesday, July 1st, 6-7 pm CT here
Call for workshops: Philadelphia Center for the Book - Submissions will be accepted until Aug 1, 2025 - proposal application
Call for Residency: Minessota Center for Book Arts - The Boundless Residency - due by Aug 15, 2025 - provides artists living outside of Minnesota the opportunity to create innovative new work at MCBA
Call for workshop proposals: Kalamazoo Book Arts Center - details - for winter/spring deadline is Oct 1, 2025
Call for entry: Printed Page V - more information - deadline: Oct 8, 2025 - on view in Denver, Colorado, during Spring 2026
Call for submission: Narrative Threads - more information - deadline: Nov 10, 2025 - on view at Moody Memorial Library on the Baylor University campus in Waco, TX, from Feb 9 - Apr 6, 2026
Bits & Bobs About Paper/ Books/ Tips/ Trips
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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 - will start up again in late September 2025
What to look for when proofreading
Kit Davey's online tutorial for flying wings automata
Is this a cut layered agamograph? Here are more amazing ones
So I was lucky enough to be involved in an inspiring zine group some years back (thank you, Laurie - the only person I know who can encourage me to join projects) and came across this on the Byopia Press blog in Other Book Arts News - the community aspect of zines (and a zine to download and print) and Beyond Mini Zines: A Zine Size Guide - explore guides on zine making at Cal Poly Humboldt, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and Santa Clara University
A Hedi Kyle exhibit - check out the touch table - you were able to play with her creations - enjoy!
An article about Hedi Kyle by Alastair Johnston about her contributions and background - a lovely read
I forgot to include this video on Yuka Petz's installation at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, The Reality You Were Part of Wasn't the Reality You Knew from October 2024
I do appreciate a never ending flexagon/card
I love you this much card - based on the twist and popup card base
I love visiting the Getty Center as much for the art as the architecture, fossils, gardens and people watching (and the many different languages), maybe even more so
Creation of a floral backdrop for the release of a papercut-inspired wedding collection by Helen Rodrigues Bridal for Oscar de la Renta in Australia
Sometimes I forget how to sew a 5-hole pamphlet stitch despite knowing how to sew a 3-hole version
Origami pegasus from one sheet of paper
Definitely want to go to the Shibori Museum in Kyoto - and if you are already there maybe attend a retreat for The Art of Japanese Tsutsumi & Tradition in November 2025
Matt Shlian - It all starts with a fold
Being messy has its perks
Explaining Smyth sewn binding - Smyth sewn hand binding tutorial
I was chatting with a friend who is attending a clamshell box making workshop and I wondered how I could remember what cuts to make for the fabric/paper turn-ins (always got them confused) - found a tool from iBookBinding and a couple of videos from a bookbinder/box maker that made sense: covering outside and inside - and covering and lining a box with one sheet of paper
One of my favorite origami artist & tessellator - D. Hinklay - mini green triangles - and, yes, I have no idea what he looks like!
If you missed the exhibition of Artist Books by NBG Members at Bear Gallery in Fairbanks, AK, here is a video slide show for some of the work
Ana Oosting - Breaking Waves in Museum Beelden aan Zee - structures made out of paper
You can be Mayor of Hell for an hour or a day
Spot the mice in Nicolas Codron's popup book
Tutorial for a self closing tato or masu
Unique format, unique challenges: pop-up and movable books at State Library Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Rediscovering Barbara Muriello - forgot how happy her art and work make me
Pop-up rainbow DIY tutorial with template download
What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf? My books are sorted by category but maybe I should alphabetize within those loose categories?
See what happens when you start internet rabbit hole diving - you find a way to make your own paper sundial - find your latitude here
Not paper or book related but humorous - surprised dandelions and frustrated erasers come to life in delightful illustrations by Sean Charmatz
The heck with back-garden offices I want these for my studio
Book nooks - small doors to imaginary spaces
Breathtaking photographs - superb imagery from the Sony World Photography Awards (not sure which year)
A creative way to protect your loose papers
My new favorite paper factory in Japan - Awagami
In my last musings I mentioned a binturong - a creature that smelled like buttered popcorn - here is what they look like - of course, we love the Bizarre Beasts channel on YouTube
Thinking of entering Paper on Skin in 2026 - ideas this time around - questions about materials - logistics concerns - email them - videos from past years
Paper engineering extraordinaire
Not just for kids - these would make for some fun pages in a tell-all book - popup lips
Puget Sound Book Artists 2025 annual exhibition panel discussion
How to enable DO NOT TRACK in your web browser (most major browsers)
Musings and Meanderings
We decided not to go Malaysia and Singapore this summer. All my devices are now conspiring to tempt me with food videos from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. I know my phone has been listening and it ripples out to the devices I use the most. One of these videos brought back memories from my "little kid time" in Malaysia - it showed up in my YouTube feed about a treat called "ba chang", a cooked meat filling enclosed in uncooked glutinous rice, folded carefully into a soft pyramid-like shape using bamboo leaves, tied to secure the filling and steamed. This was a huge treat as it happened only once a year with my grandmother and aunts prepping and cooking all day. This video made me want to head to Singapore immediately but it will have to wait for when we get there next year. Luckily it is a year round treat now and I was able to figure out where all the stores that sell ba chang are thanks to the clues in the video and looking on Google maps. They have been added to my list of places to visit when we are in Singapore next. Can I add geo-explorer to my resume? Here is more information about the ba chang if you'd like to read about it.
This seems like a good segue to talk about my Peranakan ancestry from what I remember as a kid. I was born into a family with mom, dad and two (2) older twin brothers (yes, they did twin things - stories for another musing, perhaps -see twin confusion in my January 2025 musings). I didn't realize it at the time but I did not have a normal childhood. We wove through the threads of family, blood and adopted (albeit unofficially - hanai ohana as they call it in Hawai'i), with different races (Chinese, Malay and Indian) and religions (Catholic, Islam and Hindu). I grew up not eating beef or pork so that all members of the family could sit down at the same table to eat as we celebrated each others festivals. I hope to re-capture some of that when we head to Malaysia to celebrate Chinese New Year there in February 2026. Having access to all the many cuisines was just part of everyday life and we used different ways, fork & spoon, knife & fork, chopsticks or fingers, to transport all that delicious food to our mouths.
My parents navigated code-switching where they spoke Hokkien (Chinese dialect) so the kids would not understand them but eventually we did, and spoke English, Malay or Cantonese - another Chinese dialect (depending on who they spoke to or where they were) or the pidgin that was a mix of all four languages (sometime a little Tamil got thrown in for good measure) that we spoke around the family. We left all that behind when I was 19 and I learned how to navigate the new adventure that was America. Then school, work and life happened and here I am crafting this ever evolving newsletter and picking up a few more languages along the way. I'd always wished that I had Hawaiian blood but it turns out I have do have some Polynesian blood from the overland Polynesian migration prong (there was also the ocean migration prong more people are familiar with) from my Malay ancestry. Think maybe that is why most Hawaiians think I'm local when we are over there? Living on O'ahu and am having a holoholo (vacation/walkabout) on the the other islands. I am a wee bit pleased about that as I do adore those islands. Here is more information about the Peranakan culture if you liked a slightly deeper dive.
July was a quiet month what with forgotten workshops and workshops that were entirely too early (zooming from the UK!), picking up coffee from a friend of a friend, wearing ear plugs surrounded by 4th of July celebrations (that brought back yet another memory of fireworks and Chinese New Year where my first puppy and I were hiding in my parents armoire to get away from the noise) and unlocking a painfully stiff shoulder. Then the 3rd week cruised in and we found out that the attic needed new insulation after a termite inspection. Not surprising really since the house is 26 years old and nothing has been replaced up there except for the heating unit when we upgraded our air-conditioning system. They don't call it HVAC for nothing.
Then the kitchen flooded and the floor of the dining & living room and lower kitchen cabinets got soaked. The people the insurance company sent over assured us that we wouldn't need to pack anything and that the furniture could even be moved to storage. When did they start offering that? I was feeling terribly stressed about moving and packing everything up! All that was making me hot flash every time I thought about it. An amazing crew of ladies packed up the downstairs and moved everything into the garage. Usually we can park both cars in the garage but now they are both outside in our driveway when there is no work being done or parked in a neighbor's driveway and looking for a precious parking spot when work is being done. They put up plastic along the staircase so that the upstairs would not be affected by any dust and a zipper was installed so we could easily head downstairs if we needed to. These ladies also did the demo (removal) of the floors and cabinets!
I packed away some of the decorative stuff that seemed precious to me before. I now question why I have them as I packed asking myself if I would miss any of it if they were gone. Cleared out half the travel ceramics souvenirs (all items made by my eponym were, of course, kept) and almost all the shells, flotsam & jetsam that I have brought back from our beachcombing travels. I suspect I will be getting rid of my sea glass collection soon. Will also be getting rid of some of the smaller fishing floats as well. There are way too many. There will be more clearing out when the downstairs is ready to be lived in again. Appropriately I saw this Lenora Yerkes thumbnail for her workshop at Pyramid Atlantic that said, "I won't say that this change is hard. Inside I'm screaming!" The level of noise being generated was excruciating despite having our bedroom door closed. Ear plugs will be a must for any future repairs. However I am very grateful for the level of help we received! We are now awaiting the folks to come in to show us the samples they have for the floor and whether or not the lower kitchen cabinets need to be replaced. Not the way I would have wanted to get new kitchen cabinets, maybe, but I do appreciate a soft drawer close which we do not have. Sigh!
I heard a raptor fledgling keening for food in the park as I was waiting for the contractors to show up. There was also a trio of crows eating and I wonder if the fledgling was waiting to be fed?!? I went to the window to see if I could locate it but, alas, I could not see him based on his calls - too many echos from the surrounding buildings. Then that reminded me that I hadn't heard the owl in a while and it made me a skosh sad.
Perhaps after the work is done downstairs we could go to the desert and watch the Perseids fly and stay at the San Francisco airport to watch the planes fly!
See you in August!
Resource List
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- Organizations where I gather my workshop information
- Teaching opportunities (needs to be updated)
- 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 might buy)
- Central place for artist residencies - all mediums
- MFA programs in the US (updated annually around early December) - due dates, points of contacts, programs offered and admission requirements
Workshop Calendar
- Link to the calendar
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- There is no difference between the colors you see, just a way to visually separate workshops but the more subdued colors are online workshops
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