Books & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - March 2024
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- Congratulations to Helen Hiebert on her 500th edition of The Sunday Paper - to celebrate she is having a zoom workshop on Mar 29, 2024, Interactive Eclipse Card - sign up here
- Join Penland School of Craft for their Fall Short, Concentration and Weekend session - their fall enrollment opens May 1, 2024 - their summer session is currently open for enrollment
- There is a list of open workshops for Focus on Book Arts (FOBA) in the June 26 - June 30 calendar entry - I am considering one or 2 classes and that would mean planning a trip around a workshop - woo hoo!
- If you are in the Denver area on a Friday how about a private bookbinding lesson with Rhiannon Alpers? Look in the resource section below and click on On-Demand
- To check if where you live is in the path of totality for the upcoming solar eclipse on Apr 8, 2024 here
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 |
Resource List |
About the calendar |
Housekeeping
San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) - A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making - now until Mar 31, 2024
The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts and The Book Arts Roundtable - Booked 18: See/Ing exhibit - now until - Mar 31, 2024
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA - Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines - now until Mar 31, 2024
Street Road Artists Space, Cochranville, PA, USA - Library 12 - Summer Library series - now until Apr 13, 2024
Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK - SALT+SHAW: TAKING A JOURNEY - now until Apr 16, 2024
Hermes Gallery, Halifax, Canada, presents a selection of handbound books from the Nova Scotia Book Arts Group now until until Apr 21, 2024
Spark Gallery in Denver’s Art District - Printed Page IV will be on view from Mar 28 – Apr 21, 2024
MCBA Outlook Gallery, Minneapolis, MN - Caitlin Skaalrud: somewhere to rest - now until Apr 27, 2024
Glickman Family Library, Portland, Maine, USA - Midcoast Maine Book Arts - Transformation: Inspiration into Object - now until Apr 27, 2024 - a YouTube video from their exhibit, Structure & Narrative, in Sep 2020
Printed Matter, Inc. - NY Art Book Fair 2024, New York, NY - Apr 25 - 28, 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 - 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
Grolier Club, New York, USA - Language, Decipherment, and Translation – from Then to Now - now until May 11, 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 main gallery - Shift-lab: Ten Years of Collaboration - now until Jun 1, 2024
San Francisco East Bay Art Open Studio - Jun 1 - 2, 2024 and Jun 8 - 9, 2024
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC - Pulp & Bind: Paper & Book in Southern Appalachia - now until Jun 2, 2024
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
San Francisco Center for the Book - Remember Me: American Carved Stone Books from the Ian Berke Collection - Apr 27 - Jun 23, 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
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
University of Denver, Denver, CO - Anderson Academic Commons - Pulp to Pages (information forthcoming) - Aug 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
Request for proposals: The Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference (CABC) planning committee invites panel proposals and individual submissions for their virtual 2024 conference entitled “Artists’ Books as Expanded Literacy.” - submissions due: Apr 5, 2024 - apply here - conference will be held May 9 - May 10, 2024
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: Passing Borders
Had to include this as my phone stopped working completely and utterly (more in musings and meanderings below) - how to backup your android phone or how to backup your iPhone (search on youtube for other phone types)
Do you go rogue and purchase unlocked cell phones, that is, a phone not tied to any particular service provider? Maybe you ask the question, “Will my mobile phone work with a certain mobile carrier?” Maybe this will answer your question
Do you like boxes as much as I do? If you haven't had a chance to check out the beautiful boxes that Nancy Akerly of Liberty Grove Paper Arts has created do have a look
Cool black and white accordion book with differing page heights - another cool rust book also by Ann Kittridge
Been wanting to check out this art installation, Fallen Star, hanging off the top of a building on the UC San Diego campus - Oddity Odysseys got permission to go inside - don't forget to look up!
Simple and quick stapler bookbinding
Came across this new to me artist, E. Klingner, about a year ago and enjoyed exploring her art through her website
Creating a digital zine in Canva
In this ABC interview from 1974, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke makes the bold claim that one day computers will allow people to work from home and access their banking records.
Origami in Orbit: Reusable heat shield transforms spacecraft reentries - to fold a similar structure here is Jeremy Schafer's video and a baby version to start out with
Are you interested in creating and managing book arts subscriptions - see Stephanie Wolff article on page 17
What a cool spine and binding - using a tessellation spine for a book to store tessellations!
I love taking pictures of stairs - but these are at another level
Kyoto bookbinding experience - bonus - you can also stay at the bookbinder's airbnb (in the description of the video)
You are never too young to learn about finances (needs, wants and priorities) and I love how this teacher is doing it by charging her students rent
Enter the extraordinary world of book arts and meet local artists behind the movement
Envelope - no cuts, no glue, self closing
Here is the Movable Book Society February 2024 meeting - Women Paper Engineers
I was already following Gina Pisello even before I was lucky enough to attend some of her workshops when I was first getting my feet wet in the book & paper arts world. Her artist book, The Road to Spring, grabbed my attention and piqued my curiosity. Here is the book I made book inspired by Gina (thank you, Gina!) - the link is to my Instagram post.
Would you like to try your hand at the Turkish and Hungarian map folds used by Gina in her book and my book? Here are the crease patterns from Gina's blog. If you prefer videos: Turkish map fold from square paper; Turkish fold from rectangular paper and makes for a cool star book; Hungarian map fold
So get up and dance like no one is watching or dance in your seat like I do when I'm driving - Alors on danse (so we dance) - it doesn't have to be this song - pick one that moves you - I like the Daiso (Japanese dollar store although not so much any more) in my area as they have tunes I can dance to - yes, I am that person dancing in the aisles or dancing anywhere with Bill when a favorite slow song comes on at a gas station, winery, restaurant, etc.
If you missed Susan Share's talk with Seattle BAG on Mar 21, 2024 here is the video
Tips and tricks to take better pictures of your artists' books with Brenda Gallagher
Also found these tools that help with placement of your book boards for your covers: We R Memory Keepers Book Cover Creator; Misfit's Book Cover Guide Tool
Because we sometimes sit all day working on projects or newsletters try these stretches - how to stretch if you haven't stretched before; neck, shoulder and thigh; sitting all day; sit all day and have bad posture and this one
Different stitches that can can be used for soft cover books
Did you miss the CODEX 2024 Book Fair? Here is a video with iBookBinding and Inge Bruggeman, Director of the CODEX Foundation and book artist chatting about the CODEX Book Fair and other activities of the CODEX Foundation
Interesting alternative to using HeatnBond and wheat paste: no HeatnBond; filling with media; traditional
I have been going to more in person workshops in the last 3 months than I have in the last 3 years. It was glorious to be able to reconnect in person and to make new connections. I have been wonderfully surprised and grateful to find out that so many of my fellow attendees know about my newsletter. If you ever wondered about how I get my inspirations to write in this section, I have always taken nourishment from observing out a window whether it is a car, plane, bedroom, looking between fence posts to get a different perspective when going to workshops, having coffee/lunch with friends or having more adventures. I have an amazing number of sweet and wonderful memories in my mind that no pictures taken with a camera could rival. Well ... except maybe pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope. I have noticed that here are more crows than normal at the Palos Verdes Interpretive Center (PVIC) where we take walks but maybe they were just aggravated by the ravens that normally live there and were being most raucous about it. More dolphins were spotted in feeding circles with pelicans diving in to add to the excitement but we kept missing the grey whales. The wildflowers are starting to peek out in what I suspect will be a superbloom in the area around PVIC and elsewhere in California. Even the sides of the highway between Tucson and Phoenix were covered in yellow, orange, purple, pink and white wildflowers. Not surprising as Tucson got more than its usual share of rain. We drove under clouds heavily ominous with rain after passing the border between California and Arizona and even spotted virga - rain that does not reach the ground even though it was obviously raining from the bottom of the cloud.
We got up close, well not too close, with a Saguaro cactus that was over 4 Bills high and a bit - over 21 feet (6m) tall and made Bill look tiny. They can grow up to 40 feet (12m) tall! Did you know that Saguaro don't even start to bud and grow their "arms" until they are between 50 and 75 years old (thanks, Laura R.!). I remember reading about them in National Geographic as a kid and falling in love with them. Also fell in love with astronomy and had a crush on the King of Bhutan because of Nat Geo. We definitely stayed away from the Cholla/teddy bear (they only look fuzzy from a distance)/jumping cactus keeping a healthy distance between us and them. We were also lucky enough to spot a rare crested Saguaro but was not quick enough with the phone as I spotted it from the car going 75mph and thought, "What a strange looking Saguaro!". But the sunsets, the sunsets (not my picture but close) in Tucson are extra spectacular! I found a lookout, Babad Do'ag Scenic Overlook, on the way up to Mount Lemmon, and stood there in utter awe as we tried to capture the play of colors between the warm sunset and the cool hills. It was even better after the sun went below the hills. It looked as if Madame Pele decided to take a vacation and brought all the colors of erupting lava and splashed it across the sky. Gosh! If we ever move to Tucson that view might just have to be mandatory! Unfortunately I lost all my pictures - please see the next paragraph for the explanation. Bill visited the PIMA Air & Space Museum and chatted with a WWII veteran who is 100 years old while I was at Ed's workshop. Petroglyphs between 7,500 - 12,000 years old were also admired on this trip with necks craned so as to get the best shot and we left wondering what they were trying to record. Hmm ... we had the same thought with the petroglyphs in Hawai'i.
Still the one ever so small downside with in person workshop are the muscles you don't normally use can sometimes get a little tweaked. But this in turn led to me to discovering Stretch Zone where they assist you in correctly stretching and deepening said stretch without you hurting yourself. Did you know you have 3 sets of hamstrings? I certainly didn't until I booked my first complimentary stretching session and found out how not very flexible I had become. I am a little more flexible now but more importantly it feels like my energy levels are also coming up. Woo hoo!
Oh! One other thing - my phone stopped working - utterly and completely! It had a bad habit of overheating when taking pictures and I thought nothing of it until the night we got back from Temecula (visiting old friends we hadn't seen since before COVID) driving from Tucson. Tried to revive it with all suggestions from YouTube including putting it in the freezer for 20 minutes. Since I couldn't do much until the next day I thought it best to order a an unlocked phone (not tied to any service provider and so when you pop your old SIM into your new phone you are back up and running). If the old phone could be recovered I'd return the new one. If not I had a new phone ready to reconnect to the world. I found out very quickly after dropping off my phone at the repair center that it was, to borrow a turn of phrase, "dead in the water". They recommended another repair center that may be able to recover the phone/data who then told me after a 3 day wait that they would need to send it out to get the data recovered as the phone was no longer be operable. Luckily I was able to get the SIM before they sent out the phone so that I could now be reconnected with the Internet of Things when placed in my new phone. My no longer viable phone reached the data recovery center a few days ago. I will find out in a few more days if the data can be recovered. I really would love to have those sunset pictures and the picture I took of Hedi's hands during her workshop last October. And that giant board shear she uses as a letter opener and side buffet when there is company.
You would think that I would have setup automatic reminders or backups for my phone data to go to an external drive connected to my laptop or up to the cloud or both. I made the erroneous assumption that my phone would continue to work until I was ready to change it out for a newer model. It was an expensive lesson to learn but then that is why you have a secret bank account, isn't it? So I now carry a tiny micro-SD card that has the same storage capacity as my new phone and reader that easily connects to my phone and fits in my tiny purse. I need to create a tiny bag for it to keep it relatively dust free. Backups can done any time with that setup and once a week or month with the external drive connected to my laptop. Sigh!
So how did it feel not having a phone from a Monday night to Saturday evening? "And why so long?", you ask? The phone configuration I wanted - dual SIM (to facilitate international travel), 8GBs of memory, 256GBs of storage and unlocked (please see above) would take that long to come in even when purchased on Amazon. Strangely enough it was less expensive than the same model phone with one SIM and 128GBs of storage with everything else the same. Come to find out I was rather dependent on my old phone for the many alarms I had set. I missed being able to look things up on the spur of the moment. While without phone I felt a little nervous and disconnected but at the same time a little freer and lighter (no phone in purse). It was a pretty heavy phone for its size and the weight of it tended to pull my belt loops out of shape as my tiny purse hooks onto my belt loops with lobster claws - keeps my hands free! My take away from this - backup your phone as soon as possible if you haven't already!
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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