Books & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - May 2024
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- Some sad news! On April 29, 2024, Wells College announced its forthcoming closure. Their Book Arts Summer Institute will take place this summer as planned. They encourage you to join them for what will still be the best Summer Institute yet and experience their extensive book arts studios
- Some residencies you can apply for: In Cahoots residency - Jan - May 2025 deadline: Jun 1, 2024 and Jun - Dec 2025 deadline: Oct 1, 2024; Maine Media’s Book Artist in Residence - deadline: Jun 9, 2024; Dieu Donné’s 2025 Workspace Residency for NY State-based visual artists is now open for applications - deadline: Jun 30, 2024; Jaffe Center for Book Arts Salzberg Residency in Book Arts - deadline: Aug 5, 2024;
- In my wanderings into the many rabbit holes on the internet I came across this online cool binding workshop from the UK called Romanesque Binding and TAPESTRY - handmade embroidered journal - videos available with no expiry date if the times are not a good fit for you (also in calendar starting Jun 2 and Jul 21 respectively) - the artist is Anna Yevtukh-Squire - please check the calendar or her website for her other workshops
- If you happen to be in Johannesburg (or Joburg if you are local), South Africa, at the end of this month and would like to attend an origami workshop in tessellations that turn 3D, have a look at Maia Lehr-Sacks post on Instagram
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
Kentish Town Congregational Church, London - Book Arts Day 2024 - Jun 1, 2024, 11am to 4pm
Minnesota Center for Book Arts main gallery - Shift-lab: Ten Years of Collaboration - now until Jun 1, 2024
San Francisco East Bay Art Open Studio - Jun 1 - 2, 2024
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC - Pulp & Bind: Paper & Book in Southern Appalachia - now until Jun 2, 2024
Melbourne Art Book Fair, Australia - now until Jun 2, 2024
Frederick Festival of the Arts ( Frederick, MD) - Jun 8 - 9, 2024 - don't forget to visit the Frederick Book Arts Center for their grand opening with lots of book arts related events happening at the same time
San Francisco East Bay Art Open Studio - Jun 8 - 9, 2024
Minnow Arts, Santa Cruz, CA - Jody Alexander solo exhibit Aqua Lab: in Search of the Third Thing - now until Jun 9, 2024 - closing reception Jun 7 from 5:00pm - 8:30pm - artist available from 2:00pm - 4:00pm on Jun 8 and Jun 9
2024 Paper/Print/Book tour of Northern Italy - led by Lynn Sures, Artist, and Giorgio Pellegrini, Fmr. Director of the Museum of Paper and Watermark - register here - Jun 3 - 14, 2024
Book Arts in Venice with Kalamazoo Book Arts Center - Jun 4 – Jun 15, 2024
Princeton University Library, NJ, USA - Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond - check link for guided tours - now until Jun 13, 2024
Betty Feves Memorial Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, OR - Local Color - now until Jun 13, 2024
2024 East Village Zine Fair, New York - Jun 15, 2024 -11am - 7pm
San Francisco Center for the Book - Remember Me: American Carved Stone Books from the Ian Berke Collection - now until Jun 23, 2024
The University of Texas at Austin, Blanton Museum of Art - Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper - now until Jun 30, 2024
UWE, Bristol’s city campus, UK - Bristol Artist’s Book Event - Jun 29 - Jun 30, 2024
Charles Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA - The Art of the Book - now until Jul 15, 2024
The Met Fifth Avenue, New York, NY - Thomas J. Watson Library - Emulating Books: Book Objects from the Lynn and Bruce Heckman Gift - now until Jul 16, 2024
The Gallery at Penn College, College Ave., Williamsport, PA - Books Undone 2: The Art of Altered Books - now until Jul 21, 2024
Puget Sound Book Artists 13th Annual Members' Exhibition 2024 Time Travel - A Creative Journey Through Time - Puget Sound Collins Memorial Library from Jun 4, 2024 – Aug 1, 2024 and then at The Evergreen State College (TESC) from Sep 29 – Dec 20 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 - Jun 18 - Aug 18, 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 - get involved, submit a project by Jun 17, 2024, etc. - Sep 18 - 25, 2024
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN - now until Oct 6, 2024
Origami in the Garden - Cerrillos, NM - now until Nov 1, 2024; Fort Collins, CO - Jun 1 - Nov 3, 2024; Orlando, FL - Jan - Sep 2025; Punta Gorda, FL - Oct 2025 - Apr 2026; and a peek into the garden with this video
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 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: How It Unfolds and Stories In Fragments
Have you ever needed to cut down a square piece of paper to an A4 ratio? Here is a video on how you would do that
Want to learn more about tessellations and go at your own pace? Madonna Yoder of Gathering Folds is offering a free Summer of Twists series starting Jun 3, 2024
Bauhaus 3D Paper Structure: Spiral Exercise - here is another - the honeycomb pattern
Your iPhone Is now "Discoverable by Others" by default - here's how to turn it off
This shortcut opens every app and file that you normally on the daily
4 ways to take a scrolling screenshot on a Mac
The meditative and tranquil quality of Jaq Belcher's art is accessed through the repetition and precision of cutting the seed shape over and over from a large sheet of white paper (from Helen Hiebert)
Inspired by Bluetonic’s mission to ‘awaken your blue mind’, here’s a bookart project, How to be Blue, with Rachel Hazell
If you are in need of a chuckle here is a re-creation of the solar eclipse with cats
A short talk by Sarah Bodman about UK libraries and collections practices with artists' books for the seminar panel at Kunstnerboken: unik og mangfoldig (Nordic Artists' Books)
Greg Olijnyk’s Fantastical Cardboard Mechanical Insects
Learn how to make a woven accordion book with Kit Davey
Are you like me and adore the sound a brown paper bag makes? Here are instructions to make your own paper bag that closes with a ribbon and other self closing gusseted bag
I was always wondering what to do with those paper bags I have been saving and now I know - make a lei
A double popup interactive page and here is another one with accordions (you can double up on this one by turning the 2nd one 180⁰) with Srushti Patil
I went and looked up what it means to be a flexagon - it is a folded paper figure that can be flexed along its folds to expose various arrangements of its faces. Here is the history behind it and some of my favorite ones below:
- Simple flexagon from a square
- Tree shaped never ending card although it could be an ice cream cone, the TransAmerica Building, etc.
- Another never ending card with no shape change, another with a shape change, and one that is not square
- Square flexagon that shows 4 faces and 6 faces (that last fold can be a bit fiddly but do persevere)
- Paula's flexagon from her demo at MoMath August 2021
- If you are looking for hexagonal flexagon a search in google or youtube will yield many results
I would love to have any of these as a library with a little spot to fold as well - now the 1st one is what I call a nook but they are probably AI generated
Celebration of the Book, the Santa Fe Book Arts Group (BAG) exhibited work at all three City of Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA) Public Libraries created and narrated by Will Karp
38 stairway walks in the San Francisco Bay Area, Merced County's annual blooming tours and Modesto's almond blooms - do you have stairway walks and annual blooms in your area?
An afternoon with Don Taylor is about a 38 minute YouTube video and CBBAG 40th Anniversary Celebration, Still The Binder with Don Taylor is also another YouTube video with introductions and then the talk with Don Taylor
I have been a big fan of Goran Konjevod ever since I came across tessellations 3 or more years ago. Here are some of his remarkable tessellated forms and folds in recurring patterns
I should have known that SoCal speak exists and then I realized that I do have a long drawn out, "Y-e-a-h, noooo!" when I want to really emphasize a "No!" But then I also did not realize I had a Californian accent until I was at a beachcombing conference in North Carolina and was fascinated by the NC accent that I have not been able to perfect.
Our house and cat (there are 5 now, 2 inside and 3 outside and to think we started with 1) sitting officially began after I dropped off our house sitee (would that make sense since we are the house sitters?) and her friend at the airport while Bill gassed up and dropped off our rental car. After Bill was dropped off by the rental car company we headed to fill up our house sitee's car and look for some quick and good local food at the gas station. Turns out their gas was less expensive than Costco's but was only able to score some poke bombs (sushi rice and spicy poke stuffed into tofu pouches - delicious - and even more so if you add local, buttery avocado, as big as your head, to them) but no fried chicken, much to my disappointment. We continued with our adventures of looking for new beaches to hike to. Keep in mind most beaches on the Big Island can sometimes take a little bit to get to (please see last month's musings and meanderings) unless you stay where the major resorts are. Even then these resorts are massive and it would take a nice walk to get to the beach. Even if you aren't staying at these resorts there is usually public access available. We hiked over lava fields to get to Mauna Lani beach a couple of visits ago. Always bring more water than you think you need. We only brought one bottle and luckily the kind attendant at the towel stand saw that we needed water and offered us as much as we needed. The other thing, too, is if you wear flip flops, or slippahs as the locals call them, as you will end up with strange tan lines on the top of your feet despite sunscreen!
We bought some amazing photographs printed on aluminium - a night lava shot and the Milky Way viewed on Mauna Kea with a meteor streaking through - from a local photographer at a farmers market/artisan faire. The conversation got around to "so what do you like to do on the Big Island" and when we mentioned we loved going to see a rainbow eucalyptus tree up on that street (sorry can't mention it unless you are going to be there so give me a yell when you do) he shared that there were a grove of them up in Naalehu giving us directions that only a local would understand. I think it was a test and it looks like we passed since we found the spot. I also noticed in a photograph in an email I get about a labyrinth on the east side of the island that 2 ladies were leaning up against one. So we will be off to locate that one. I was just a little bummed to find out that we were 30 minutes away from a grove on Maui when we were wandering around Ho'okipa Beach. It didn't occur to me to look for them when we were there but then we didn't have a lot of time on that island. Next time! So we did find 2 more rainbow eucalyptus trees at the labyrinth mentioned earlier and also a little free library (LFL). It was a double decker one with the lower cupboard containing children related books. Then I remembered that I had found a couple of others. I looked back on my Google Photos and found that I have been taking pictures of my cheery finds. I may post these pictures on Instagram after I send out the newsletter. The interesting thing is these are not listed on the official Little Free Library list of locations with the exception of the one at the labyrinth and the one at Kula County Farms (the strawberries there were spectacularly delicious and inexpensive and the views expansive).
I love that I continue to be surprised by the islands:
- The monthly test tsunami warning on the 1st business day of the month so you know it is 11:45am (time for lunch!) and even though expected is still a jolt to the nervous system;
- The chickens have started to take over Maui and the Big Island (the little chicks have been downright adorable though) so they are not just everywhere on Kauai, did not see that many on O'ahu but then I was looking out for traffic and parking spots;
- Going back to the same locations, running into the park rangers, asking questions, answering questions and seeing things differently because we went right instead of left ;
- The farmers markets were just as great as we saw old friends and discovered new vendors (well, it had been a year since we last visited)
- Making new friends not only with people, locals and visitors (there was a couple from the mainland that thought I was local and they really wanted to see lava even though I told them them that Madame Pele was currently napping and there was no ETA as to when she would wake up), but also with a couple of chickens (did you know I spoke chicken? I can call them over with a the cooing they make as they feed in a group);
- I never cease to be amazed at how things grow everywhere and on top of everything else - bromeliads, orchids and other "air" plants growing in every nook and cranny of a monkeypod tree;
- You look at the same scene every day but because you stand in a different area the achingly blue skies, the spring green cinder cones and red roof of a gallery suddenly become the perfect vignette but your camera cannot capture what your eyes see
- Because we were 2700 feet (almost 820m) up the slopes of Kohala Volcano we encountered more fog than you would think was normal and it rained almost everyday in the early mornings or late afternoons we were there but usually cleared up by the evenings for spectacular sunsets;
- Even though we have put aside the idea of buying a house on the Big Island since we are still actively traveling we did do a drive by look to check out the neighborhood on a house that ever so slightly intrigued me.
We landed back in LA almost at midnight and did not set foot in the house until 1 am. I greeted the house with my usual, "Hello, house! I hope you didn't miss us too much". We already had a number of errands to run later that same morning and the TV broke the next day. We've been sort of expecting it especially since we'd had it since we won it in a raffle back in the mid to late 2000s. I didn't want it at the time as it was HUGE but when they delivered it Bill said, "We're keeping it!" My next question was, "Where are we going to put it?" It ended up in the master bedroom which I am now told is not the best idea for TV placement. It was a wonderful heater during the winter but just terrible in the summer. So far this new and even bigger TV has not generated as much heat and the colors are brighter than real life. On top of getting a new TV installed that week, I had a visit from a fellow Paula and Hedi workshop attendee, Amy B. and husband. It was a lovely and delightful visit where we took a walk by the cliffs of the Point Vicente Interpretive Center, checked out the visitors center, had lunch at a favorite Japanese restaurant and visited the Japanese Dollar store, Daiso. I wished they could have stayed longer but it was a week day and traffic would have been brutal headed back to their lodging. Here's hoping for more visits in the future!
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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