by Elissa | Dec 6, 2013 | B.A.G. Meetings, bookbinding, Exhibitions, MailB.A.G., Member News, Vermont, Workshops
Next Meeting: Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
We meet at the Unitarian Universalist Society Church located at 152 Pearl Street in Burlington, VT. We will be in the Sophia Fahs Community Room, a large room located in the basement. Click here for more information on directions/parking.
Program: Celebrating Book Arts
Join us in December as we celebrate our personal successes, challenges and inspirations in the vast field of book arts.
Bring along your creations to show and tell, share a useful tip, technique or tool you’ve discovered, tap into the collective knowledge of the group to puzzle out a challenge you may be having with a project, or bring us all in on what’s inspired you in the past year – anything from books you’ve read or classes you’ve taken to Pinterest boards, blogs and YouTube videos.
You are also welcome to simply come and soak it all in. In either case, expect to leave energized, inspired and eager to entertain your own creative muse!
November Meeting Reflections
Our third annual Card Tricks and Book Blitz meeting drew a large audience, and delivered on the promise of learning new tricks and simple (or maybe a little complex) structures.
Participants shared stories about where their techniques, cards, and structures came from, and followed with demonstrations. Variations on pop-ups, tunnel structures, and flag books were some of the ideas presented to start off the holiday season with good spirits.
Thank you everyone for sharing your talent, time, and enthusiasm.
You can view images from the meeting on the B.A.G. blog.
The Book Arts Guild of Vermont Needs You!
The primary mission of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont is to act as both an educational and creative resource in the field of book arts. One of the main ways we strive to achieve this is by offering interesting, enriching and inspiring presentations at our monthly meetings. Your presence at meetings goes a long way to supporting this effort – every presentation is enhanced by everyone who attends.
There are two additional – and crucial – ways that you can help us continue to provide high-quality programs every month. The first would be to recognize that you have a skill, a passion, a favorite technique or a body of work that others would love to learn about, and then take the leap and volunteer to share it with us as a presenter. We are truly a group of eager learners, and your efforts will be rewarded with respect, admiration and gratitude.
The second way that you can help keep our programming strong is by becoming a member. In addition to the benefits you receive (outlined in the sidebar of this newsletter), your paid membership enables us to cover expenses such as the fee for our wonderful, well-lit meeting space (which includes free parking!). It also allows us to reimburse presenters for travel expenses and materials, and pays for our website and email newsletter – key tools for keeping our book arts community in touch and informed.
If you would like to become a presenter (or would even just like to explore the possibility), please contact Programs and Events Chair Jill Abilock.
If you would like to become a supporting B.A.G. member, click here to download our membership form – when completed, send it to:
Book Arts Guild of Vermont
c/o Elissa Campbell
846 Gallison Hill Rd,
Montpelier, VT 05602
B.A.G. News
*** The Book Arts Guild of Vermont is happy to announce that the Spring exhibit will be hosted by the Rae Harrell Gallery in Hinesburg, in May. The show’s theme will be Nature: Beasts and Botanicals.
This broad theme can inspire fantastical, outlandish ideas as well as environmental, natural concepts. Find inspiration everywhere: on your daily walk, at your birdfeeder, on Pinterest, and at the library. Whether or not you have exhibited with us in the past, all members and friends are encouraged to submit work.
Deadline for submission will be April 1st, and we’re not kidding.
*** Vermont artist Jane Davies will be teaching a one day workshop in the Burlington area on February 22, 2014. The workshop, Text and Image Collage, will allow us to explore the power of image/ word relationships as well as learn basic techniques and principles of collage.
We will create expressive pages that can be used for books, with found and created text, personal photos, and found/altered imagery. This will be a great way to jump start your ideas for the Spring exhibit, and to lose those winter blues.
- Date: Saturday, February 22, 2014
- Location: Burlington area, exact location to be determined
- Cost: $55.00 (note revised cost)
Click here to download the registration form.
*** B.A.G. member Amy Burns is showing 2 pieces at Aprons-R-Us, an exhibit in the gallery at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury, VT. The exhibit celebrates the apron through personal response and historical and cultural artifacts.
The show is open now through January 1, 2014. The opening reception is Friday, December 6, from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
*** We want to know how we can best serve you! Within the next several weeks, you will be receiving a short survey about B.A.G. It is an online survey so there will be nothing to print out and mail – simply click on the link and answer a few short questions. We are striving to best meet the needs of our book arts community, and your feedback is both vital and greatly appreciated!
Book Arts News
*** The Boston Athenæum will be holding a conservation open house on Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. A panel discussion, Beyond the Athenæum: Life After the Laboratory, will take place at noon.
Behind the glass doors of the Conservation Laboratory, Athenæum staff work to stabilize, preserve, and restore the Athenaeum’s antiquarian and contemporary treasures. Stop by to get a behind-the-scenes look at treatments at the Athenæum, and watch as conservators demonstrate conservation and bookbinding techniques throughout the day – washing paper, paring and gilding leather with antique brass tools, and mending damaged paper documents.
This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. The Athenæum is located at 10½ Beacon Street in Boston, MA.
*** Chena River Marblers is holding an open studio on December 14 & 15 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. There will be marbling and bookbinding demonstrations, along with an end-of-year overstock and seconds sale.
The studio is located at 70 Justice Drive in Amherst, MA. For more information, please call (413) 253-2835.
*** The New England Historic Genealogical Society cordially invites you to a reception on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. to celebrate the 2013 opening of its conservation lab for the care and repair of materials held in its Library and Special Collections. A presentation by Deborah Rossi, NEHGS Conservation Technician, will be followed by group tours of the lab.
The Genealogical Society is located at 99 Newbury Street, Boston, MA in the first floor of the Treat Rotunda. Directions to NEHGS can found at AmericanAncestors.org/directions. R.S.V.P. by January 2, 2014 to drossi@nehgs.org.
Book Arts Classes
*** The Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, MA is offering Carousel Books with Johanna Finnegan-Topitzer on Sunday, February 23, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. This sculptural book opens to form several shadow box-style pages in the round, like a carousel or zoetrope. Create images by cutting, drawing and painting, then precisely cut, fold and assemble accordion pages.
For more information the class, please visit the Eliot School’s website or click here to download the complete catalog.
*** The North Bennet Street School is offering Copperplate Script with Maryanne Grebenstein on Saturday – Sunday, December 14 – 15, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The beautiful business ‘hand’ of the 18th and early 19th centuries known as Copperplate Script will be taught in this hands-on workshop. Developed centuries after the broad-edged style of traditional calligraphy, this pointed pen style is useful for wedding invitations and other stationery items, as well as poetry and other framable pieces.
For more information or to register, please visit the NBBS’s website.
by Elissa | Jan 8, 2013 | B.A.G. Meetings, bookbinding, Exhibitions, Lecture, MailB.A.G., Member News, Vermont, Workshops
Next Meeting: Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
DATE CHANGE: PLEASE NOTE THAT WE NOW MEET ON THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH.
There will be no change in location – we meet at the Unitarian Universalist Society Church located at 152 Pearl Street in Burlington, VT. We will be in the Sophia Fahs Community Room, a large room located in the basement.
Click here for more information on directions/parking.
Program: Sharing and Support
Welcome to our annual meeting of minds! Perhaps you have an idea you’re not sure how to execute, or a project that has presented unexpected difficulties. Bring your questions or challenges and take advantage of the cumulative skills and wisdom of fellow B.A.G. members.
Bring book arts projects, either in process or completed, resources (books, magazines, web sites, blogs), favorite tools, sources of innovation, or anything else that inspires or connects you to the book arts. Perhaps you have a project begun at a meeting or in a class or workshop that you could share.
You are also invited to come with proposals for programs: speakers, projects, field trips etc. that you would like to see happen or that you would like to do yourself! This popular annual program will help us celebrate our eighth anniversary (!), so come, share and be ready to leave with a wealth of new creative energy.
Reflections on December’s Meeting
Our annual Pot Luck with Swap and Shop proved to be a delicious evening in many ways, with lots of exciting food to share, friends to meet, and book arts items to swap and purchase.
We were inspired by each others’ creativity in the culinary arts as well as paper arts, and enjoyed swapping recipes and news before shopping and trading for materials and gifts.
Thanks to all who attended for an enjoyable, relaxed evening during the holiday crunch.
You can view images from the meeting on the B.A.G. blog.
B.A.G. News
*** Please note that in 2013, our meeting date has permanently changed to the second Wednesday of the month. The change was made to resolve meeting/holiday conflicts.
Mark your calendars! Our 2013 meeting dates are:
- January 9, 2013
- February 13, 2013
- March 13, 2013
- April 10, 2013
- May 8, 2013
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- June 12, 2013
- September 11, 2013
- October 9, 2013
- November 13, 2013
- December 11, 2013
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*** B.A.G. is happy to announce that our 2013 spring exhibit, There’s No Place Like Home, will be hosted by Studio Place Arts in Barre, VT. The show will take place at the same time as an exhibit on children’s literature in the Main Floor Gallery.
The exhibit will be in SPA’s Third Floor Gallery from June 4 – July 6, 2013. The deadline for submissions is April 10, 2013. The official call for artists will go out soon, along with more details on the exhibit.
*** B.A.G. member Marcia Vogler asked us to share this with you:
Here is a book art project I found totally inspiring, and though you might as well.
The Icebook by Davy and Kristin McGuire is a miniature theatre show made of paper and light. An exquisite experience of fragile paper cutouts and video projections that sweep you right into the heart of a fantasy world. It is an intimate and immersive experience of animation, book art and performance.
*** B.A.G. member Elissa Campbell is teaching a brand-new class, Leather Pocket Journals, at Studio Place Arts in Barre, VT on 2 Tuesdays in February 12 & 19, 2013 from 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
In this workshop, you’ll learn 6 bindings that use only leather, paper, and thread – no glue needed! For each binding, you’ll sew 3 sections of folded pages into covers cut from one piece of leather. These bindings are very flexible and allow the books to open completely flat, making them perfect for use as sketchbooks or journals.
Each sewing technique creates a different decorative sewing pattern on the spine and we’ll try out different closure methods. No previous experience required – this is a great class for a beginner. You can even bring in your own leather to customize your book.
To register, contact SPA via phone (802) 479-7069 or Email.
Book Arts News
*** Now through January 19th, Burlington City Art‘s exhibit Constructed Conceptual brings together four different bodies of work in which paper and graphite drawings are uniquely cut, torn, rolled, twisted, folded, and painted to create dynamic sculptural objects, and alphabets of line and color.
Vermont-based artist and architect John Anderson challenges conventional definitions of drawing and sculpture by blurring the boundaries between two-dimensional drawing and three-dimensional space.
Burlington City Arts is located at 135 Church Street in Burlington, VT.
*** On March 5, 2007, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street, the ancient street of booksellers, poets and writers, located at the literary and cultural heart of Baghdad, Iraq. The attack killed 30 people and injured scores more.
As part of an international response to this event, the Cambridge Arts Council presents Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, a three-part exhibition of 261 artist books made by 260 international artists from 24 countries.This exhibition events aims to bear witness to the events on Al-Mutanabbi Street, and to collectively affirm that the right to a free exchange of ideas and culture in public space is never to be taken for granted.
An opening reception will be held on January 14th at 6:00 p.m. at the CAC Gallery at the Cambridge Arts Council, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, 2nd floor, Cambridge, MA.
For more information about exhibit, event listings, images and video, please visit the project website.
*** The North Bennet Street School will present the lecture, Reflections of a Bookbinding Career with Sam Ellenport, on February 7th from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sam is a highly skilled bookbinder, collector, lecturer and writes about the history of bookbinding. His influence on the bookbinding field in New England cannot be overstated. He was instrumental in establishing the bookbinding program at North Bennet Street School in Boston, was the first Chair of the New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers and is past President of Harcourt Bindery.
The event is free and registration is available online.
Book Arts Classes
*** The New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers is hosting a Tyvek Toning Workshop with Dana Kull at the Northeast Document Conservation Center. The workshop will take place on Saturday, January 19th, from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
You’ll learn what Tyvek is and the different varieties that are available. Students will learn how Tyvek takes color and experiment with different effects. Most important of all, Dana will discuss how you can use toned Tyvek in your own bookbinding projects. Each participant will leave the workshop with a number of colored pieces of Tyvek.
To register for the workshop, please send an Email to bookandtile@att.net – space is limited so please register early. The Northeast Document Conservation Center is located at 100 Brickstone Square in Andover, MA.
*** Haystack Mountain School of Crafts has announced their 2013 summer workshop lineup:
If you would like to receive a course catalog or be added to their Email list, please contact them at haystack@haystack-mtn.org or (207) 348-2306. Haystack is in Deer Isle, ME.
*** The Penland School of Crafts has announced their 2013 spring and summer workshop lineup:
Registration is available online. For more information, please visit Penland’s website.
*** Now celebrating its 30th year, the Paper & Book Intensive is a working sabbatical for practitioners and motivated beginners in the book arts, papermaking, and conservation. PBI will be held at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, MI from May 12 – 23. Available classes include:
- Finesse the Sheet: Papermaking with Bernie Vinzani
- Pressure Printing: A Painterly Approach to the Press with Sarah Bryant
- The Three Ls: Limp – Link – Long; or Exploring Techniques Hidden In Libraries Across Europe with Adam Larsson
- Turning The Corner – And other useful leather covering techniques with Jeff Altpeter
- Page Design – It’s an Open Book with Paula Jull
- A Look at the World of Islamic Bookbinding with Yasmeen Khan
- Writing Tablets, Personal Almanacs and Calendar Books with Pam Spitzmueller
- BigAss Papermaking with Julie McLaughlin
- Daredevil Letterpress with Jessica Spring
- Ideas and Actions in Context and Construction with Tim Ely
Applications are being accepted online until April 15th, but acceptance letters are sent out in mid-February, so timely application is encouraged. For more information, please visit PBI’s website.
by Elissa | Nov 8, 2012 | B.A.G. Meetings, bookbinding, Exhibitions, MailB.A.G., Member News, Vermont, Workshops
Next Meeting: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
DATE CHANGE: PLEASE NOTE THAT IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER WE WILL BE MEETING ON THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH.
There will be no change in location – we meet at the Unitarian Universalist Society Church located at 152 Pearl Street in Burlington, VT. We will be in the Sophia Fahs Community Room, a large room located in the basement.
Click here for more information on directions/parking.
Program: Book Blitz and Card Tricks
Join us for a card or mini-book exchange B.A.G.-style called Book Blitz and Card Tricks. Get prepared now and join in the fun!
Design a card or small/simple book structure that has a trick or two; maybe a pop-up, French doors or a window. Bring your completed card or mini-book, along with six undecorated cards or mini-book structures to share. We will have an exchange and then engage in some decorating fun.
Please feel free to join in the fun even if you don’t have time to prepare cards or mini-books to bring. We did a similar program last December and there was more than enough to go around. Like last year, expect to go home with some great new ideas, several new tricks up your sleeve, and a few new cards for the season.
Things to bring:
- A decorated card/mini-book with a “trick” (optional)
- 6 card structures of your card/mini-book “trick” to exchange (optional)
- Glue
- Scissors
- X-Acto knife
- Cutting mat
- Ruler
- Decorative punches
- Stamps and ink
- Pens, pencils, markers
- Decorative papers
- Fun stuff!
Don’t forget, our meeting date has permanently changed to the second Wednesday of the month!
Reflections on October’s Meeting
Our October meeting featured Lyna Lou Nordstrom, who demonstrated both monoprinting and gelatin print techniques. After sharing examples of her own work, which features natural patterns and plant materials, she shared her methods and techniques with the eager group.
In the hands-on part of the program, Lyna Lou provided the materials as well as inspiration to get us going on our own prints. The meeting went longer than usual because the group was having so much fun! Thanks to Lyna Lou, participants came away with exciting small works of their own.
A big thank you to both Lyna Lou for lugging all the materials to the meeting and to Jill for setting up and cleaning up.
You can view images from the meeting on the B.A.G. blog.
B.A.G. News
*** More on that meeting date change – everyone has done a great job this year of adjusting to our new schedule of meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. However, this year the 3rd Wednesday of November falls on the day before Thanksgiving and the 3rd Wednesday of December is only six days before Christmas.
Fortunately, we have successfully changed the dates of our November and December meetings to the 2nd Wednesday of the month (November 14th and December 12th). Many thanks to Christina Fulton and the Unitarian Universalist Society Church of Burlington for being so accommodating!
*** B.A.G. is happy to announce that our 2013 spring exhibit, There’s No Place Like Home, will be hosted by Studio Place Arts in Barre, VT. The show will take place at the same time as an exhibit on children’s literature in the Main Floor Gallery.
The exhibit will be in SPA’s Third Floor Gallery from June 4 – July 6, 2013. The deadline for submissions is April 10, 2013. The official call for artists will go out soon, along with more details on the exhibit.
Book Arts News
*** The Paper Room (formerly known as Langdell Paper) at AVA Art Center is having an open studio on Saturday November 10th, from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Not only are there going to be 1,000’s of sheets of handmade paper available for purchase, but there will also be free paper, a door prize, and refreshments.
The AVA Art Center is located at 11 Bank Street in Lebanon, NH. The Paper Room is on the second floor in studio #209. For more information, please call (802) 222-0503.
*** Chena River Marblers in Amherst, MA is holding an open studio on December 8 & 9 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. There will be marbling and bookbinding demonstrations, along with an end-of-year overstock and seconds sale. For more information, please call (413) 253-2835.
*** Non-Visible and Intangible: Artists Books Respond to E-Books is a series of events and a gallery exhibition on the topic of Artists Books in the Digital Age held at the Harold F. Johnson Library, Hampshire College in November 7-16, 2012.
The events explore how technology has affected all aspects of artists books – from production to creation to access and use. Some of the works on display in the exhibit Pulp to Pixels: Artists Books in the Digital Age explore interactive generative art with text and image, some function as books in their own right but can be enhanced with technology, and others require a smartphone or tablet to view them at all.
The Harold F. Johnson Library is located at 893 West Street, Amherst, MA. For more information, please visit the event website.
*** November 16-18, 2012 offers the Boston Book Collectors’ Weekend, an event including both the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair and the Boston Book, Print, and Ephemera Show. Patrons purchasing an admission ticket for Saturday, November 17th to either of the two shows will receive a complimentary admission pass to the other show, good for entry on Saturday only.
The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held at the Hynes Convention Center during all three days. On Saturday, November 17th at 5:00 p.m., rare book librarians Martin Antonetti and Ron Patkus will offer an illustrated presentation on the history and work of the press in The Art of the Book in Wales.
The Boston Book, Print, and Ephemera Show will take place on November 17th from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Back Bay Events Center. Tom Twetten of Craftsbury Antiquarian Books will be exhibiting some design bindings.
Book Arts Classes
*** The Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, MA is offering Tiny Books with Jennifer Erin Hughes on Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Make awesome little books that fit in the palm of your hand: stab, accordion, single sheet fold-out books and a few more.
Jennifer will also be teaching Leather-Bound Coptic Books on March 10 & 17, 2013, from 10:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. This simple, elegant, exposed-spine, sewn book dates back to the 2nd century AD. Learn the basics of coptic binding to create a beautiful leather-covered blank book.
For more information these classes, please visit the Eliot School’s website or download the complete catalog.
*** The North Bennet Street School is offering Calligraphy Concertina: A Hand-Lettered Accordion Book with Maryanne Grebenstein on December 1 – 2 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
In this workshop, students make a one-of-a-kind accordion book while perfecting basic calligraphy forms. Calligraphy, layout decoration and accordion-style binding is taught. Some experience in hand-lettering is recommended but not required.
For more information or to register, please visit the NBBS’s website.
by Elissa | Nov 30, 2011 | B.A.G. Meetings, bookbinding, Exhibitions, MailB.A.G., Member News, Vermont
Next Meeting
Wednesday, December 2, 2011, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
We meet at the B.C.A. Center (formerly known as the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts), located to the right of City Hall on Church Street in Burlington, VT.
Program: Card Tricks with Gwen Morey and Jennifer Alderman
Our December meeting will be a Card Exchange B.A.G. style called Card Tricks. Get prepared now and join the fun in December!
Design a card that has a trick or two; maybe a pop-up, French doors or a window. Bring your completed card along with six undecorated card structures to share. We will have an undecorated card exchange and then engage in some decorating fun.
See the sample below to give you an idea of what we’re going for:
Come to the December meeting with or without cards and we will all go home with a few new cards for the season.
Things to bring:
- A decorated card with a “trick” (optional)
- 6 card structures of your card “trick” to exchange (optional)
- Glue
- Scissors
- X-Acto knife
- Cutting mat
- Ruler
- Decorative punches
- Stamps
- Pens
- Decorative papers
- Pencil
- Fun stuff!
Reflections on November’s Meeting
Maryanne Grebenstein was our honored guest at the November B.A.G. meeting. Over thirty members came to listen to the expertise Maryanne shared on her process and techniques with designing her one-of-a-kind books.
Maryanne is inspired by calligraphy and illustration from medieval illustrated manuscripts and creates new manuscripts using time honored techniques. We were all greatly impressed with her technical demonstration of layering gesso and then gold on a letter within her page.Maryanne’s books are beautifully bound and we were got to view the collaboration of Maryanne’s manuscript and Elizabeth Rideout’s binding.
To learn more about Maryanne’s work and Elizabeth’s binding go to the websites at The Abbey Studio and Turn in the Path.
You can view images from the meeting on the B.A.G. blog.
B.A.G. News
*** B.A.G. is happy to announce the theme of our 2012 spring exhibit, Shaping Pages: An Exhibit of Artist Books & Fine Bindings. The exhibit will be hosted by the S.P.A.C.E Gallery in Burlington and will run during the months of April and May, 2012. Our exhibit will be part of the First Friday Art Walk. Stay tuned for more details!
Submission details:
- Entries for the exhibit may be submitted, accompanied by registration forms, from January 4 – February 1, 2012.
- All entries are required by the gallery to be for sale. Sale prices must be indicated on the entry form.
- All submissions must be accompanied by an entry form and a single page artist statement or artist bio.
- Reading copies (typed or photographed) are required for all multi-paged artist books.
Exhibit Dates: April 6 – May 3, 2012
Artist Reception: April 6, 2012, 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
All book arts entries and questions should be directed to Nikki King.
Good Luck and Happy Bookmaking!
*** Chena River Marblers in Amherst, MA is holding an open studio from December 10 – 11. This is a great time to take advantage of their end-of-year overstock and seconds sale. We’d love to take a field trip down there to visit our friends and local paper marblers. If you’re interested in joining a car pool, please contact Elizabeth Rideout.
Book Arts Classes
*** B.A.G. member Linda Lembke is teaching two graduate education courses at Saint Michael’s College in January and February. These courses are designed for elementary and secondary school teachers of science, math, and art, but are also open to those who would like to explore a variety of book forms and their connections to these subjects.
- Math, Art & Bookmaking: In this 1-credit course you will explore connections between math and art through the book form. In the first session, you will construct 6 to 8 book forms inspired by geometry and incorporating mathematical concepts in their design. In the second session, you will connect book forms to math concepts, creating two books that explore mathematical ideas.
- Science, Art & Bookmaking: In this 2-credit course you will discover connections between form and function in science through the art and craft of bookmaking. Students will construct several book models suggested by such concepts as cycles, sequences, and classification as well as handmade laboratory or field notebooks designed for scientific exploration.
For more information or to register, please visit the Saint Michael’s website.
*** The Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, MA is offering book arts classes in February and March.
- Do-Si-Do & French Doors: Learn to construct some playful alternatives to conventional folding structure and covers. Do-Si-Do combines multiple books within one structure. French Doors allow a book to open on both the left and right sides.
- Case Binding: This elegant and sturdy hardcover binding is perfect for blank journals. Start with some simple skills (gluing, folding, etc.) and over the two class sessions make one beautiful book.
For more information, please visit the Eliot School’s website or click here to download the complete catalog.
Book Arts News
*** Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord is giving a workshop at the Center for Creative Wholeness in Newbury, MA on Saturday, December 3 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The focus is on simplicity. It’s a perfect introduction to bookmaking for those with no prior experience and a chance to let go and relax for experienced book artists.
With clear instructions and gentle guidance, you’ll make several accordion books and then complete them with collage materials. As a gift to the earth, the books will be made from recycled materials. No art experience or creative confidence is needed; this workshop is truly for everyone.
For more information, please download the workshop flyer.
*** The Boston Athenæum is hosting the exhibit Artists’ Books: Books by Artists, featuring remarkable and unexpected artists’ books from their outstanding collection. Featured artists include book artists Russell Maret, Laura Davidson, Ryoko Adachi, Stephen Dupont, Harriet Bart, Xu Bing, Iliazd, and more than two dozen others.
The exhibit runs October 12, 2011 – March 3, 2012.
by Elissa | Nov 30, 2011 | B.A.G. Meetings, bookbinding, Vermont
What a crowd!
Maryanne Grebenstein talking about her process
Shell gold
This book is currently available for purchase (see details below)
Title: Calligraphy: A Course in Hand Lettering
Author: Mayanne Grebenstein
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823005534
