UNHINGED: BOOK ART ON THE CUTTING EDGE
September 27, 2015 - January 3, 2016, Lightcatcher Building Whatcom Museum Bellingham, Washington
From the museum: "This exhibition surveys recent directions in book art through 70 diverse works by 60 prominent artists in the field from across the country, including Great Britain and Australia. It explores the limitless potential of the book as an independent, creative medium through both intimately-scaled pieces and large installations. Many artists carve old volumes or twist their pages into unique, sculptural configurations.
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The Book Arts Guild and Guild of Book Workers Northwest Chapter co-sponsor:
Wood Shop Basics for the Book Artist a workshop taught by Susan Collard September 27 & 28, 2014 10:00am-5:00pm Art Building Room 207 University of Washington Seattle campus
This class provides an introduction to cutting, drilling, and fastening wood using common hand tools. Each student will make a small board book with poplar, oak, and birch aircraft plywood pages, bound with Tyvek and Japanese repair tissue. The books will include enticing features of the “constructed” book: a shadow box with mitered corners, simple magnetic closures, windows, and a fold-down mirrored page.
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It is a great pleasure to announce our award winners for Book Power Redux. Jane Carlin, library director at University of Puget Sound Collins Library and MalPina Chan, an independent curator based in Olympia spent hours agonizing over how to select just four of the 61 books in this "powerful" exhibition to be singled out for awards. Let me tell you--this was a very tough job!
Winning a Best of Show Award is Susan Collard, for her heartbreaking book, My Little Book of Suicides.
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