Books & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - June 2024
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- The Guild of Book Workers offers scholarships to attend the Standards of Excellence in Hand Bookbinding seminar. Scholarships are available for both students and regular members. Non-members may apply, but are required to become a member prior to attending the Seminar - to apply please visit: https://guildofbookworkers.org/standards-excellence-2024 - applications are due by Jul 15, 2024 - please direct questions to Todd Pattison at vicepresident@guildofbookworkers.org
- Will you be in Telluride, CO, this summer (early June to early September)? Here are AH HAA's offerings for bookbinding workshops
- I noticed a paper bojagi class with Steph Rue on July 13, 2024, in Culver City at Hiromi Paper, but it had sold out within 4 hours - I did call to ask about the possibility of them adding another class since it sold out so quickly (nothing in the works) - but I did get on the waitlist
- I met a pre-K to 1st grade teacher at a graduation party recently was pleased to be able to introduce her to Paula Krieg's website, Playful Bookbinding and Paper Works, to make learning more fun through art and origami
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 | Resource List | About the calendar | Housekeeping
Things to do in the area
The University of Texas at Austin, Blanton Museum of Art - Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper - now until Jun 30, 2024
UWE, Bristol’s city campus, UK - Bristol Artist’s Book Event - Jun 29 - Jun 30, 2024
Northwoods Book Arts Guild and Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum - Contemporary Meets Vintage - An Exhibit of Artist Books inspired by the Museum Collection - now until July 6, 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
Not about books but if you are in Southern California and love lavender there is a Lavender Festival from now until July 21, 2024 in Beaumont, CA - about 1.5 hours east of Los Angeles
The Gallery at Penn College, College Ave., Williamsport, PA - Books Undone 2: The Art of Altered Books - now until Jul 21, 2024
Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation, Cleveland, OH - Liminal Spaces: Art and the Environment - now until Jul 27, 2024
Puget Sound Book Artists 13th Annual Members' Exhibition 2024 Time Travel - A Creative Journey Through Time - Puget Sound Collins Memorial Library - now until Aug 1, 2024 and then at The Evergreen State College (TESC) from Sep 29 – Dec 20 2024
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN - For/Word: New Work by MCBA’s Artist Collective - now until Aug 3, 2024
London Centre for Book Arts, London, UK - Spinorama An Exhibition of Interesting Spines - now until Aug 17, 2024*
Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA) - Allied Craftsmen: Hands On Design - now until Aug 18, 2024
The Royal Academy, London, UK - Summer Exhibition 2024 - now until Aug 18, 2024
The Hand Bookbinders of California Annual Members' Exhibition, San Francisco, CA - HBC52 - now until Aug 18, 2024
North Bennet St. School, Boston, MA - 2024 Exhibition: Then & Now - now until Aug 19, 2024
Visual Arts Gallery, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ - PaperWorks Member Show Perception - now until Sep 6, 2024
ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station, San Diego, CA - Mandell Weiss Gallery - Women Work Together Art Duets by Feminist Image Group (FIG) - now until 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
Old Arsenal of the Spanish Navy and the Gallery of the ICP Headquarters, San Juan, Puerto Rico - Bajo pressure / Under Pressure from the project Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico: América Latina y el Caribe - now until Sep 15, 2024. You can watch one of the artists Leonor Decourt's video on the artist’s book, Play The Game
San Diego Design Week 2024 - Sep 18 - 25, 2024
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN - now until Oct 6, 2024
Bay Area Book Artists (BABA), Redwood City, CA - Book Arts Bazaar - Oct 19, 2024
Origami in the Garden - Cerrillos, NM - now until Nov 1, 2024; Fort Collins, CO - now until Nov 3, 2024; Orlando, FL - Jan - Sep 2025; Punta Gorda, FL - Oct 2025 - Apr 2026; take a peek into the garden with this video
Rochester Central Public Library, Rochester, NY - The Art of Book & Paper - Aug 20 - Nov 20, 2024
University of Denver, Denver, CO - Anderson Academic Commons - Pulp to Pages information forthcoming - Sep 1 – Nov 30, 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
Call for exhibitors: Tropic Bound - Feb 6 - 9, 2025 - application details - deadline: Jul 31, 2024
Call for application (artist development program): The MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Mentorship - now until Aug 4, 2024*
Call for residency: Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence - information - due Aug 5, 2024
Call for workshop proposals from Sitka Center for Art and Ecology for 2025 season - submit a proposal - more information - deadline: Sep 5, 2024
Call for article submissions for Guild of Book Workers Journal 2025 issue, volume 54 - submission guidelines here - due Mar 1, 2025
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 guidelinesTop
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: Overlapping Time and Flow and Spin
Byopia Press' cyanometer and cloud colorimeter and a book by Author/artist Kim Tillyer on Beginner's Guide to Cyanotype
I am always misplacing my color wheels, a regular sized one for home and a small one for travel (I am currently missing both!) - here is a page on pinterest and a more in-depth explanation on Sarah Renae Clark's website
Adventures in Bookbinding: Ethiopian Two-Needle Binding
Well! Now I know what to do with all those Trader Joe brown paper bags I have been collecting - make a brown paper bag book
There are supernovas and kilo novas but I just heard about a recurring nova (which I will be keeping an eye on)
Carol Dubosch presents an overview of her calligraphic artist's books
Fine art collages from magazine and book pages as her palette
Magic picture frame with Matthew Reinhart
How to recover missing contacts on your iPhone
Andrew Huot showing how to determine grain direction on paper and board
How to uncurl rice paper roll with Yasutomo Art & origami and flatten watercolor paper (not sure if it will work with other papers)
Tiny art fair where major artists present at miniature scale and more miniature compact dioramas
I usually carry a subset of tools (duplicates collected over the years) from my "studio" when traveling for workshops. I am always on the lookout for bags and containers to carry these item compactly and securely. I was disappointed with some cable organizing travel bags from Amazon then was looking at videos fro JetPens (my favorite online stationery store) and figured out that pencil cases are also good for carrying just about anything else (1) Video - pencil cases aren't just for pens and/or pencils (2) Cases and bags to use every day (3) Long pencil cases (hello blackwing pencils and Tombow brush pens!)
I found a thrift craft store in Pasadena, CA - they will start accepting donations again on July 5th - called Remainders - you can make a day of it by also visiting Paper Source, Blick, Vroman's (great independent book store), eat at some really good restaurants and snack at some delightful bakeries - what a delightful way to spend a day. A video, their address with parking down a narrow alley in the back or park on street) and sign up for their newsletter
As we head into the summer and maybe traveling more here are a few tips on how to check a bag at the airport to avoid lost luggage
Just found out you can pre-register for a reader identification card for the Library of Congress, pick it up when there with ID and see all the artists books you wish! Hmm ... road trip to DC?!?
Peter Baumgartner's variation to a masu box
Two of Susan Joy Share's pieces, “Slipping Away” and “Sleeping Ladies” were recently acquired by the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (woo hoo!) - a Watson Library showcase of recent acquisitions just opened and “Slipping Away” is on display (check with Mindy Dubansky on FB to see if still on display) or call the library - organized by Jared Ash, Holly Phillips, and Julie Le. If you missed the recent acquisitions display access to her pieces in the Watson Library Online Catalog is here
Another cool use of post-it notes to guide your gluing or positioning of ephemera - blog entry and video tutorial of the twist corner tri-fold card
5 free Adobe Acrobat alternatives - pdf editors
Kimono box from Yoriko-san on Instagram - the tutorial is on a loop on the next 3 pages
Amy Feigley-Lee plays with perception in vintage wallpaper sculptures
Origami roll up box by Paper Kawaii
Pippa Dyrlaga worked with paptic paper, an alternative to plastic packaging that is made of sustainable wood fiber - more pictures at Heron Arts
Self closing origami box with lid
A nice, easy, gusseted envelope - satisfying to fold
The Book's Undoing: Dieter Roth's Artist's Books with CU Boulder Libraries
Fun fold card idea for any occasion
Ruben Zahra’s children’s opera, Saltice, where the costumes and production pieces made out of paper
I just learned how to create an interactive card for graduation but I changed the proportions so that I could make it out of one sheet of cardstock - here is another one sheet cardstock a twist and pop fun fold card - I may have the template on how to create a waterfall card out of one sheet of cardstock as well but I would have to look for that!
I found a cool interactive structure, Opposite waterfalls with one pull tab, with a paper engineer that I follow on YouTube called PaperPaul - thought it looked familiar and found that 2 other paper artists I follow have similar structures: Srushti Patil and Tanu Creative - here is a video to do just a regular waterfall and a reverse waterfall - here is a triple waterfall if you'd like to try it
A couple of videos that made me smile: one of my favorite birds, the woodcock and watching a fish drive
A new favorite tool for box making when told about it during a ZXB catch-up meeting (thank you, Jean W) - magnetic corner clamps from iBookBinding
Information for institutional collections of artists’ books and publications as well as dealers, booksellers, galleries, and distros that handle artists’ books - the goal for this collaborative and public, open-access document is to provide artists with the best contact information and collections/booksellers to approach when promoting and sharing their works, and to share information about the different collections and booksellers - the hope is that this helps you to connect with the artists and work most appropriate for your collection or business - organized by Alicia Bailey, Anna Bernhard, Aaron Cohick, Leah Mackin, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Sarah Nicholls, and Levi Sherman - please note that this is for retailers/dealers that sell the work of multiple artists/publishers, not individual artists or publishers that sell only their own work - as soon as either of those forms are submitted the info will appear on the public list linked above
- To update an existing listing, you may edit the form directly using this link to the public list: (be mindful that you are editing a shared document, and only make changes to your own entry)
- To add a new listing to the document, you may do so with the links below: COLLECTIONS should use this form; RETAILERS should use this form
Musings and Meanderings
It feels like I have not been very creative of late but I have been assured that my creativity has been channeled into other areas of creativity of having adventures, de-stashing and re-organizing my studio, and making templates for some new interactive cards I just learned. Things breaking on me have continued. Remember the TV from last month? Well, that one was due but this next victim, the docking station, was relatively new. This docking station allowed me to plug in all peripherals (external monitor, keyboard and mouse bluetooth dongles, external speaker, external hard drive for backups, webcam, laptop cooling pad and charging cables) I use with my laptop and disconnect my laptop from the docking station by unplugging just one cable. Unfortunately it was the connection to the monitor that stopped working and I do love doing my research for the newsletter and adventures on all that screen space. I discovered that they now have docking stations the size of large USB hubs so about the size of a small Toblerone bar. The one that stopped functioning had the same footprint as my laptop and was about an inch thick. I suspect the port overheated as it was unusually warm. Plugging the cable back into the laptop allowed me to use the monitor again. This has also led me down the garden path of how I would like to re-organize my desk even though I should be pleased that I can even see the top of my desk, well, the front half of my desk. So more spring cleaning to come. I just have the toughest time throwing out or donating stuff. If anybody would like any or all Uppercase magazines I have, issues 51 - 55, and 58, let me know and I will send them to you for the cost of postage.
Bill took me up the Central Coast of California for a mid-week celebratory trip in early June driving up leisurely on a Tuesday afternoon (in between rush hours). Our hotel was in Pismo Beach and we ventured as far north as Morro Bay and as far south as Los Alamitos. That first night after our amazing seafood dinner we took a stroll to the pier and back to the restaurant. The next day we strolled the Morro Bay State Park Boardwalk, working off a delicious breakfast, and admired Morro Rock from a different perspective (without the Mutual Water Co. stacks in the way). We only saw one small float of sea otters and saw evidence of the seagulls resourcefully using the boardwalk to open bivalves by dropping them. We then drove past breathtaking ocean vistas with big waves showing rooster tails as we headed to a bluff trail in Montaña de Oro State Park being careful to avoid the poison ivy growing along the very windy trail. That was a pretty long hike for me and even Bill was worried that I was overdoing it. I knew however that there was going to be a reward after the hike - picking up sage honey from a roadside stand. We went to what I realized was the wrong stand (they did not have sage honey) and I had to rely on my very faulty memory to figure where it was we had bought the honey the last time. I knew it was off a major street in Los Osos and so we drove down Bay Blvd. I told Bill that he may have to make a sudden right turn as I scanned the side streets. I yelled, "Here! Turn here!" and did remember that it would be the 1st street on the right after the turn and, sure enough, there it was. They had moved the stand across the street but we did come away with some precious sage honey.
Why all the fuss about getting sage honey? When I was a kid my father used to make me french toast on weekends but instead of maple syrup (not sure if we had maple syrup back then) he melted butter (salted as a nice foil against the sweet honey) and heated up the sage honey in it. I had been trying all kinds of honey since we left Malaysia in an attempt to find the correct flavor and once I realized it was sage honey I was able to recreate one of my favorite childhood breakfasts.
We also rolled through San Luis Obispo to find an artisanal chocolate store and bakery which ended up being inside a Peruvian restaurant and the chocolatier was from Italy. All selected items were unusual and delicious flavor combinations. Dinner that night was at an old favorite in Casmalia where they grill just about everything, Santa Maria style, over live oak. We drove through small towns you probably may not have heard off in order to get to dinner - Arroyo Grande, Halcyon, Bromela, Guadalupe (they filmed the 10 Commandments here), Betteravia - rolling sand dunes fixed with farmland and equipment. The next day brought another fabulous breakfast that we worked off with yet another hike to a trail we had never been on. It was an uphill grind as soon as we got on the trail but first a quick detour to admire a year round waterfall on the other side of the parking lot first. The lovely rolling hills of the Central Coast were at their finest with the vistas we saw as we panted our way up the hill. I was glad to be done with that trail. We also decided to look around Avila Valley Barn - a seasonal produce stand, restaurant, petting zoo, etc., and met many goats (always looking for the high ground), weird and regular chickens, emu, alpacas (not too close as I know they spit!), burros (more like little burros so burritos?!?) and a cow, as you head towards Avila Beach just off the freeway. I was tempted to get a peach or ollalieberry (I don't think I've tasted ollalieberry before but I liked the name) pie but they did not have a personal sized pie for us to split - a regular sized pie would have been entirely too much and nothing by the slice!
Dinner that night was also another favorite in Los Alamitos we where drove past flower fields that were a colorful feast for the eyes and where we were also trying to identify produce in their un-harvested state. We enjoyed the view of the restaurant's gardens (they use the herbs grown here) while we dined and was delighted to find an artichoke plant with baby artichokes growing at the end of stems. We left early the next morning stopping by Orcutt to get breakfast at an old country diner where as we were waiting to be seated I heard an unusual noise. I looked up from my phone as I was looking to see what other little adventure we could have on the way home and there were 3 cowboys with stetsons walking towards the diner and I was hearing their spurs! I almost squealed with excitement. I have a small vignette of vintage items and the latest addition was a pair of spurs. I had to get up and ask for their permission to take a picture of their spurs. Not only did I get a picture of their spurs but I also caught a comforting whiff of their lovingly well worn leather boots. Oh! Breakfast was also very good! To work off breakfast we tried to hike the Nojoqui Falls trail but it was closed. Perhaps from the monsoonal rains we got earlier this year. It will have to be another trip but I won't mind. Maybe in September as I plan a trip where we pickup my brother and his significant other in San Jose and drive down Hwy 1 and Big Sur back to LA. Woo hoo!
So what else has been taking my time and taxing my brain just a little? Spring cleaning as mentioned earlier. Keep? Donate? Trash? Whose system would I use? Marie Kondo? 90-90? I watched a lot of videos about how people decided, de-stashed, de-cluttered and organized. I started with my 2 desks - where I work on and research the newsletter (work) and where I fold origami, make my cards and have zoom meetings (make). I dug in and started opening things - boxes, drawers, cabinets, storage containers, paper bags, etc. It felt like Christmas and birthdays rolled into one. A lot of, "So that's where it went!", "Do I still need this?", "Why do I have 3 of these?" and "Why did I buy this?" As I went along I attempted to keep like things together, for example, pens, pencils, leads, inks and refills in one drawer, items bought on Kickstarter/Indiegogo in another, hanging up my parent-sized sheets of Japanese paper on a rolling double shoe rack, etc. Also attempting to label what is in drawers since my memory is not as good as it used to be especially on days when I am fatigued. I try to do a little section or corner almost every night but there is still more to do. Some nights I don't do anything but relax while watching The Great British Bake Off. I have managed to reclaimed some floor space in my 2nd bedroom - even Bill was impressed. Eventually the 2nd bedroom will be a guest room again, I hope! The work desk is still looking ok but the make desk has become messy again as my latest models (see below) are perched precariously on my Chromebook. BTW - would you let me know what you do with all the models you have made from the workshops you have attended? Do you take pictures and throw them away or do you keep them in containers/binders so you can enjoy them again at a later date? Or do you keep the ones that delight you? I would love to hear your ideas and stories behind what you do with your models!
I did make a graduation card for a neighbor's son last weekend. I just learned this structure and I call it an inner and outer gate fold. I experimented with some color blocking using light and dark metallic papers and, as usual, my beautiful Japanese screen printed chiyogami paper did the heavy lifting. I have been making models of the cards before I make the final structure - good for when you mess up as you experiment. I was attempting to make the structure in order to use one sheet of cardstock so the original dimensions had to be finagled from centimeters to inches and again to fit within an 8.5x11 piece of cardstock and eventually it worked out. The sentiment ended up being a long accordion book where we congratulated the graduate and offered some thoughts about things Bill and I picked up along the way. I was touched when his mom told us that he cried when he opened and read the card. That young man is going into law enforcement and we wish him nothing but the best. He has an amazing support system and I know he will do well.
So what are you doing this summer that makes you happy, content or chill? 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
About the calendar
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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