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Learn about bookmaking opportunities beyond what the Guild offers in Fairbanks. We will let you know about upcoming workshops and other events that intrigue and inspire us!

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UAF WINTERmester 2022
BOOKMAKING WORKSHOP
Clamshell Casements and Partitioned Boxes
with Margo Klass
Friday, January 7 (6:00 pm – 8:30 pm)
Saturday and Sunday, January 8 – 9 (10am – 4pm)
Location: Murie 306
Instructional fee: $195
(Materials fee is included)
Participants must be vaccinated and wear a mask during class
WAIT LIST ONLY
The clamshell box is an elegant casement that provides protection and storage for books, objects, or collections of printed materials. Learn how to create this classic structure step by step, following a comprehensive series of diagrams, drawings, and written instructions. You will be guided through the processes of measuring, cutting, assembling, and covering with book cloth a clamshell casement sized to a book of your choice (size restrictions apply). Its cover has an optional inset for a title plate.
Adding partitions to a clamshell is a logical extension of the basic structure, useful for making storage boxes or artist books that have more than one component. This workshop includes making a model of a partitioned tray using techniques that will expand the uses of clamshell casements and inspire ideas for future projects. Pre-cut pieces of book board will be provided for this part of the workshop.
A list of materials and other information will be provided upon registration.

 

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Tent City Press is hosting the annual Anchorage Zine Fair during the month of December. All interested artists are invited to share their work either online or in-person at the Fair’s bookshop open Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month. Online work will be featured on the Zine’swebsite with sales transactions handled by the artist or by Tent City Press. If you are interested in sharing your work in the Anchorage Zine Fair, visit their website and complete their online form. Submissions will be accepted throughout the month of December.

 

Newport Paper Book Arts Festival 2022
VIRTUAL & IN PERSON WORKSHOPS
April 21-24, 2022

The brochure for this year’s Festival will be published by January 17, 2022.
Use the link below to join the email list for the latest information.
Registration will open January 29, 2022 at 9am PST.

 

FOBA
FOBA 2022
Friday – Tuesday, July 15 – 19, 2022
WORKSHOP SNEAK PEEKS
Focus on Book Arts has posted a peek at the classes to be offered at the 2022 conference.
Check them out!
IMPORTANT DATES:
Workshop Catalog – March 2022
Registration Begins – April 2022

See the sneak peaks here

BOOK PAPER THREAD
New Workshops
Click here to read about the new series of virtual workshops offered by Linda Marshall, Karen Hardy, and Andrew Huot at Book Paper Thread. Workshops begin in June and run throughout the summer months.

 

 

UAF Rasmuson Library
Book Arts Basics
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The newly installed display at the Rasmuson Library features NBG’s Book Arts Basic classes. Included are examples of the materials, tools, bindings, and foldable structures featured in Series 1. The program of sequential classes is tailored for beginning book artists and is supported by a Community Development Grant from Alaska State Council on the Arts.

 

 

Timothy Ely: Line of Sight
Timothy Ely began making books as early as 1957. He is now one of our most important book artists. An interest in art, UFO images, alchemy, science, comic books and odd religious arcana led him from painting and design into bookbinding. Timothy Ely, in collaboration with Doug Garnett and Sam Q. Garnett, has produced a documentary of his work and process.

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Hand Bookbinders of California
Members’ Exhibition
The Hand Bookbinders of California (HBC) celebrates its 48th year in 2020 with a members’ exhibition at the Arion Press in San Francisco. HBC is an organization of individuals dedicated to preserving and passing on the traditions of fine binding and book arts. The annual exhibition showcases the diverse talents of its members; this year, it includes over 40 unique book structures.
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NOVA
A to Z: How Writing Changed the World
Just as writing changed the course of human history, the evolution of paper and printing revolutionized the spread of information. The printing press kicked off the Industrial Revolution that fast-tracked us to the current digital age. But as the 4,000-year-old tradition of penmanship falls out of favor, should we consider what might be lost in this pursuit of ever more efficient communication? (Premiered September 30, 2020)
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New Book Arts Exhibition:
All Sorts (No Licorice!)
Join Cynthia Sears, founder and director of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, for a video tour of BIMA’s current artist book exhibition.
Watch the video here
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Tim Barrett: The Story of a Papermaker
This video presents the story of Tim Barrett, retiring director of University of Iowa Center for the Book, MacArthur Fellow, and world renowned papermaker. Many of us have used his Iowa Case Paper as book covers and casements.
Watch the video here.

On Display at UAF Rasmuson Library: IMPRINTS

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Stop by the Rasmuson Library at UAF to see the new display! Recently installed is an exhibition of Imprints, the first publication of the Guild’s Northwoods Press. Included are examples of the the book itself, its casement, the colophonic booklet, and one of the 11 broadsides. A selection of photographs will remind all those who worked on the book of our 3-year journey together to complete this very special project.

DOING DOING
An exhibition of artist books by Susan Joy Share
Bivy, 419 G Street, Anchorage
If you happen to be in Anchorage this month or next, don’t miss this show of Susan Share’s artist books at Bivy. Curated by Simonetta Mignano, proprietor of Bivy, this exhibition takes on the exploration of books “as an ever-evolving art form.” The show runs through September.
Read a review of the exhibition here.

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THE SEWN BOARD BINDING
A MODEL BOOK BY ROBERTA LAVADOUR
The Sewn Board Binding, a model book by book artist Roberta Lavadour, is one of the treasures brought home from Focus On Book Arts (FOBA). Members attending the Guild’s July meeting were able to see it. This beautifully crafted cut-away model demonstrates all the nuances of good construction of this basic binding. The book is sold out but you can email Roberta here to get on the wait list for the next edition. See more photos here.

Origami Poems Project

The Origami Poems Project publishes microchaps of poems formatted of a single sheet of paper. The paper folds origami-style (using what NBG refers to as the French Fold structure) into palm-sized books. Download each microchap (at no charge) from the website. Alaska’s own Emily Wall has two microchaps on the site. More information about the project, printing and folding the book, and subscribing to their newsletters here.

Something new: Dwarsliggers!
Discover these tiny pocket-sized flipback books – they are the size of a cellphone and no thicker than your thumb, with paper as thin as onion skin. They can be read with one hand – the text flows horizontally, and you can flip the pages upward, like swiping a smartphone.  Read all about them here.

New Notable Publication
ART OF THE FOLD
by Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol
Attention Hedi Kyle fans!!! Renowned book artist Hedi Kyle and her daughter, Ulla Warchol, just published Art of the Fold. It includes step-by-step directions for creating her unique structures using folding techniques. Projects include flag books, the fishbone fold, and nesting boxes.