Books & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - November 2024
Hello everyone,
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Lots of news to bring to your attention as I have been away ....
Set some time aside for the Zhen Xian Bao (ZXB) series 2025 online workshops - all workshops will be on a Wednesday at 1pm or 6pm ET:
- Become fluent with folding the layered boxes for ZXB - Pair each box with a finished mini project each session - 4 sessions, March 2025
- Scaling and sizing the ZXBs from the tiny to the gargantuan - Pre-requisite: Must have taken the March workshops - 2 sessions, May 2025
- ZXB Reimagined - Have your own ZXB adventure - 4 sessions, October 2025
- Are you interested in the workshops above? Do you wish to be directly contacted when registrations opens Dec 9, 2024? Please send your emails to: supabookarts@gmail.com
- If you have missed any Paula Krieg workshops this year there are more workshops coming up in January and February 2025 - search the calendar
If you are interested in joining Helen Hiebert in New Mexico at a paper retreat, details here
- Weigh in on whether to hold her yearly Red Cliff Paper Retreat on Folded Paper Forms; Save the Date for her free mini-workshop on Zoom on December 17th at 12pm MT (details will be sent 12/1 - sign up for her newsletter by scrolling to the bottom of any page)
- Weave Through the WInter registration opens Jan 1, 2025
- The Paper Year registration will open Dec 17, 2024
- Also don't forget to send her your favorite organizations, people, etc, related to the book and paper arts community to include in her 100 Papery Picks for 2024 - here is last year's list and link for submissions for this year by Dec 15, 2024
Hiromi Paper (Los Angeles area) will be having their annual paper sale from Dec 2 - 30, 2024
In my dives into internet rabbit holes I found a community print shop in West Newton, MA, called Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio - check them out - their workshops will be making their debut in the calendar soon
Never too early to save the date for FOBA 2026 - make your plans for Jun 24 - 28, 2026 or NPBAF 2025 on Apr 10 - 12, 2025
Save the date for your trip to Fabriano, Italy, for the 2025 Paper/Print/Book tour of Southern Italy led by Lynn Sures and Giorgio Pellegrini happening May 31 - Jun 13, 2025 - details - registration
23 Sandy's showroom has moved to Santa Fe's Second Street Studios artist community and invites you to an open house on Saturday December 7th from 1-5pm - browse the books in the cases, chat, and enjoy light refreshments
Me ke aloha nui - Jade
Unfolding paper explorer, information conduit & facilitator, foodie, unorthodox traveler, astronomy enthusiast, somewhat grudgingly tech savvy
Connecting talented people with people exploring their talents
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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
University of Denver, Denver, CO - Anderson Academic Commons - Pulp to Pages view online catalog - now until Nov 30, 2024
Maine Media Worksops + College, Rockport, ME - Anniversary: 10 Years of the Charles Altschul Book Arts Studio exhibit - now until Dec 1, 2024
University of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA - Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - Material World is an exploration of the materiality of the book form using non-traditional materials - now until Dec 9, 2024 - online catalogue; The Movement of Books - now until Dec 13, 2024
Puget Sound Book Artists 13th Annual Members' Exhibition 2024 Time Travel - A Creative Journey Through Time - The Evergreen State College (TESC), Olympia, WA - now Dec 13, 2024
Notts Book Arts Exhibition 2024/2025 (various locations in UK) - blend - Wollaton Library, Nottingham, UK - now until Dec 19, 2024; Arnold Library, Nottingham, UK - Jan 4 - Jan 22, 2025 - exhibit catalog online
Boston Athenaeum - The Art of Paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press - now until Dec 30, 2024
Craft in America Museum, Los Angeles, CA - Erik and Martin Demaine: Puzzling with Paper - now until Jan 4, 2025 - artist talk with Erik and Martin Demaine on Dec 11, 2024, 2pm - 3pm - if you can't make the exhibit there is a virtual exhibit in the previous link or a video short on YouTube
Rancho Linda Vista Gallery (1955 West Linda Vista Road, Oracle, AZ) & PaperWorks Tucson - Serendipity the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: an unplanned fortunate discovery - exhibit: Jan 5 - 31, 2025
John O’Lague Galleria (Hayward City Hall, 777 B Street, Hayward, CA) - Guild of American Papercutters exhibit, LIGHT and SHADOW - now until Jan 9, 2025
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN - Jerome Book Arts Residency XVII Exhibition Exhibition on view in MCBA Main Gallery - now until Jan 12, 2025
Notts Book Arts Festival, Nottingham, UK - a biennial celebration of book art with an exhibition, accompanying workshops and a fair - now until Jan 21, 2025
Rancho Linda Vista Gallery (Oracle, AZ) and PaperWorks Tucson - Serendipity exhibit - Jan 5 - 31, 2025 - more info forthcoming
Elisabeth C. Miller Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Nature and the Book II - Feb 6 – 27, 2025 - more info forthcoming
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Gallery - 15th annual Illustrated Accordion exhibition - Feb 7 – Mar 21, 2025
Tucson Museum of Art - Arizona Biennial 2024 - now until Feb 9, 2025
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art - Sherry Grover Gallery (Bainbridge Island, WA) - Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined - now until Feb 23, 2025
Southern Vermont Arts - Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum (Manchester, VT) - Lineages: Artists Are Never Alone - register for the artists talks with previous link - now until Feb 23, 2025
The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center presents Book Arts in Venice - details - Jun 16 - 27, 2025 - deposit due: Jan 15, 2024 - final payment: Feb 1, 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 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 Artists: The MCBA Shop is seeking new artists interested in selling their work - 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 workshop proposals: Santa Fe Book Arts Group - more information - 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 entry: The Topeka Competition at the Alice C. Sabatini Art Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS celebrates national artists working in 3-dimensional media - details - deadline: Dec. 3, 2024
Call for workshops proposals: Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory 2025 summer season - proposal form - deadline: Dec 30, 2024
Call for exhibition: Kalamazoo Book Arts Center - 15th annual Illustrated Accordion exhibition - information - deadline: Jan 27, 2025
Call for entries by 23 Sandy and Baylor University Libraries: Ritual, an International Juried Exhibition of Book Arts - deadline Jan 24, 2025 - details and prospectus - on view at Baylor University Feb 28 — May 14, 2025
Call for article submissions for Guild of Book Workers Journal 2025 issue, volume 54 - submission guidelines here - due Mar 1, 2025
Call for participation: World Book Night 2025 - Tell e Trees (Listen to the Trees) - full brief - deadline: Mar 5, 2025 - What would you say to the trees? What are they saying to you? Is there a tree nearby that you want to send a message to or one you admire from afar?
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 - Season 4 resumed in September 2024 - latest videos: Irreversible Actions and Equal Marriage
Did you miss the MCBA Prize virtual reveal and artist talk? You can watch it now on our YouTube and hear Juror Yuka Petz in discussion with the MCBA Prize winner and finalists and see videos of the winning works
Georgia Center for the Book - Artist Talk #1 - The Book As Art v.12: Rock, Paper, Scissors - with Denise Stephenson and Donna Stepien
I noticed in some of the meetings I have been attending where attendees would ask about what glue was used and so I thought I would include a cool website called This to That where you can inquire as to the best glue to use to stick things together
Some of us may be wanting to do more travel and now you can renew your passport online - news video about this process
Dominic Riley's interesting paths that took him towards bookbinding. Look for his workshops on the San Francisco Center for the Book website
Erik and Martin Demaine: Puzzling with Paper - playing with paper and math - what more could you ask for?
Adventures in Bookbinding:
- Perfectly Trimmed Tipped-On Endpapers
- Making a Card Scoring or Creasing Jig if you don't have a scoring board
Timothy C Ely - Line of Sight - 4 years old but still a good viewing of his process
If you do a lot of cutting or trimming on your paper trimmer or cutter here is a way to keep your blade sharp - I am providing 2 videos depending on whose voice you prefer: Video1 or Video2
I used this closure for the 2nd Zhen Xian Bao (Chinese Thread Purse) workshop I took with Paula Krieg and Susan Share. I ended up making a very non-traditional ZXB. Here is the link to slides showing my final ZXB starting at slide 19
A quick and easy book by Peter Baumgartner Note: To turn on auto translate for any foreign language video on YouTube, you can do the following: (1) Open the video (2) Click the CC button to turn on closed captions (3) Select Settings (4) Choose Auto-translate (5) Select your language from the list
Graphic accordion book from Ann Kittridge of annmadebooks on Instagram
Book Arts Guild artist talk with Carol Dubosch (I find her books unusual and fascinating) from May 2024
Quick clips on some slip covers
Origami Tutorial: Box with Lid from a single sheet (Anna Kastlunger)
Not paper related but who wouldn't want to follow an ice cream trail in Massachusetts!
Business cards done perfectly
I sometimes wore a tiara while driving our little sports car and vacuuming - this paper crown would look great folded from metallic or glitter paper
Have you used or are you using a magnetic glass craft mat? I received an email saying that their related rulers were on sale but I had not heard of these mats. I found a short on Youtube about it. Keep in mind the YT short will keep looping until you get out of it. How do you like yours?
I would run across the name of Don Rash every now and then and was excited to check out his YouTube channel
Andersonville's hottest new art gallery is so small you might miss it
Make an explosion book to display your prints, pictures, beautiful papers, etc. with The Curious Printmaker or how about a Turkish map fold book?
New fun fold card - I see possibilities in playing with the proportions of the inside-outside card - could also be a great interactive page?
Snappy flip-flap popup card tutorial with template from PaperPaul (this creator has some extraordinary popups) on YouTube
The Bewitching artists’ books: ArtKlat 2.0 exhibit has ended but some books and artists' names are featured in this write-up
Finding bookbinding needles and locking the thread -
AI generated cartography dresses - beautiful!
A shortcut to use when you wish to paste copied information without any formatting - terribly helpful when copying information over from other website pages to your emails or documents
Dreamy, fabric sea creatures
Double tsuru from one sheet of paper
It may be past leaf peeping season but for future reference - check up on fall color progress with these live feeds
A handy, dandy, easy & useful origami pen holder - great for your pocket sized notebooks
Combining accordion style books with pamphlet stitch signatures to make some super fun books and maybe combine this blizzard pocket fold with the previous structure?
I am always looking for ways to fold accordions and keep them from drifting - here is the lady that started it all for me
Good idea on how to deal with printing waste - I will be checking them out when I am, hopefully, in Singapore next year
Using corner clamps for making boxes in various angles
Matthew Reinhart dowel and string spinner popup mechanism
Imin Yeh honors everyday objects with mini paper sculptures
Helen Hiebert mini-workshop on making a pleated paper card
I found this very cute and endearing - a paper dancing emoji
Hidden gardens in the Los Angeles area - do a google search to locate them in your city/town
Some basics on how to resize images using the web, on Windows, Mac or on your cell phone
Another frame with an inside edge of a different color and the ability to put a backing and acetate sheet or 2 acetate sheets (to also admire the back for mandalas and tessellations)
One of the largest artists' book collection in Canada, held at the Banff Centre in the Paul D. Fleck Library and on this page and here are some more snippets of artists' book collections at other organizations: Otis College of Art and Design (1) and (2); MIT Libraries (1) and (2); University of Utah - Marriott Library’s Rare Books Collection; Connecticut College's Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives; National Galleries of Scotland - Modern 2
Musings and Meanderings
I am back from my trips and now traversing down internet rabbit holes and bringing you news and information about papery and bookish goodness. I cannot believe how many mandalas and envelopes to store them in I folded incentivized by the many people I had lovely visits with.
We took a trip up north to San Jose, CA, to meet up with my brother and his significant other and met up with Kit Davey (full of beautiful light studio tour up a spiral staircase, a little free art library and a stick library for dogs!) and Jen Kwan (amazing and insightful conversations over coffee and keeping an eye on the pigeons). This trip was a smorgasbord of diverse cuisines, was blown away by a small batch coffee roaster (you got to pick whether you wanted a light, medium or dark roast for your capuccino and they had their own high tech small batch coffee roaster where you can program in all the coffee profiles), an ice cream company that played off Asian desserts, a first experience with a ghost kitchen. We had adventures (among which was a rail bike tour - unfortunately they are being forced to close by Dec 1 - asked and got a bent & rusty 100-year railroad spike to remember them by) and hikes in Monterey, Carmel and the Big Sur area north of McWay Falls (Highway 1 was closed further south at the time of our trip). We continued down to the Pismo Beach area but stopping in the Ragged Point area (going as far north on Highway 1 as possible on this leg) to check out the amazing views through the Portal of Big Sur. We drove back to the Los Angeles area the day before my brother and his SO were due to fly back to Houston after enjoying our time in the Pismo Beach area. If you are in the San Jose area, they do have the empty smaller burlap and jute coffee bags for the asking - head to Coffee & Water Lab on Saratoga Avenue. I folded a mandala and corresponding envelope every night we were there to give away to everyone I visited.
Towards the end of September I had the opportunity to attend the Oceanside Zine & Print Fair where I met up with Laurie M., Maria R and Denise S. I had last seen these 3 lovely and talented ladies back in February and it was a lovely way to catch up and have lunch. And then it was zines and graphic novels galore. There was a young man there whose zine "How to make a scrubbie" was accompanied by a scrubbie made by his mom! He is also a talented graphic novelist and I could not help myself and had to get all 3 of his graphic novels. Zines are an amazing art form made by artists of all ages and I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with everyone.
Five (5) days later we flew to the Big Island of Hawai'i to start our house-sitting adventure. We normally fly directly to the Big Island but this time we flew to Honolulu in order to fly on a Boeing 787 airplane for the 1st time. It was a very enjoyable flight - the windows no longer have window shades and you controlled the opaqueness with a button below the bottom of the window - the ceiling of the plane changed colors and appeared to have constellations of stars. And since it was Hawaiian Airlines you were still fed during the in-flight meal service - no need to bring a meal on board or purchase a meal. Tangent memory: I miss when we used to bring Pollo Campero fried chicken onto the plane when we left Guatemala to head back to Los Angeles - just about everyone on the plane did it and beer was brought on board as well. However when we last visited in 2019 the Pollo Campero restaurant in the airport was no longer there. We were most excited when they opened a branch close by but unfortunately it was just not the same. Sigh! On top of catching up with many old friends at our favorite coffee spot and restaurants (we would keep running into the same people as we kept meeting friends and was told, "You guys sure know a lot of people!" LOL!), we made new ones waiting in line at our favorite bakery and restaurants. Our cheeks hurt from laughing and I loved the sharing of aloha and "talking story". I also had the opportunity to take a day trip to the island of O'ahu to met an artist who had been introduced to my newsletter and calendar by Shawn S. at FOBA. Allison R. picked me up at the airport and we had a marvelous time going on a tour of the Manoa Heritage Center (such a special place - I felt my most tranquil there), an exhibit at DAC (Downtown Art Center) Honolulu and lunch at her studio (where I could see so many vignettes that her art made up). By the time I got back to Kona airport I was starving and luckily the restaurant where we had a later reservation was able to fit us in earlier even though it was a Friday night. Thank you, Allison for a lovely day and my book necklace made up of indigo pages. I felt very regal in it and was stopped many times with people asking me about the necklace. The house sitting was uneventful except for a flat tire and one of the kitties needing to go to the vet.
Once our house sittee returned Bill went back home to the mainland and I continued on to Kauai and spent about 5 days with Laurie M. We had been trying for a few years to meet up in Kauai and things fell into place this year. I was introduced to the magical lanai where I enjoyed the chill sounds of wind through the coconut and manila palms, birds chirping, the ocean in the distance interspersed with siren (but way less than in LA) and rain along with visits from unseen barking geckos and very visible Madagascar day lizards and in between all of that chats, food and origami lessons. Bonus adventure: I love looking for rainbow eucalyptus stands on the Big Island and was disappointed when we were not able to find one that had been mentioned to us while at an artists cooperative. Then as we are driving around on our Kauai adventures I see a whole row of glorious rainbow eucalyptus. I take a walk and as I get to the 1st tree it starts to rain lightly. I start taking pictures and it starts to pour. I start to walk back and it stops. Back I go and had a marvelous time taking pictures of these colorful trees. 4 stands of rainbow eucalytus that I know of now. Blissful sigh!
Another adventure randomly showed up on one of my feeds and off we went on a quick trip to ride Clydesdales in Cambria and scratch behind the ears of thoroughly adorable mini burros. These Clydesdale were t-a-l-l - shoulders above our heads! Bill and I are short and definitely needed the 3-step ladder to help us mount. The halfway point had ocean views with welcome breezes for both the horse and us and afforded a photo opportunity. Always happy to visit the Central Coast of California again.
Whether your upcoming week is quiet and reflective or having boisterous family time I hope you have the time and space you want.
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 (pick a video, any video):
- 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
- Video from NEBA mixer
- 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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