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“FORMATION”: The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 Traveling Juried Exhibition
“FORMATION”: The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 Traveling Juried Exhibition
I am extremely honored to have two pieces in FORMATION, The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 traveling juried exhibition, with a theme evoking a wide array of interpretations.
Simply defined by Merriam Webster as “an act of giving form or shape to something,” ‘formation‘ can insinuate process, history, creation, change, beginnings, an arrangement, botany and landscape, personal narratives and impersonal storytelling. As artists, designers and craftspeople with our own histories that form us, we also play a vital role in the formation of objects and experiences; pulp molded into paper, paper folded into books, books shelved into a library.
What is the final product, if not for the methods used to create it? What makes us into the artists we are? What pushes us to continue to create?
Exhibition Schedule:
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
June 15–October 21, 2018
Robert C. Williams Papermaking Museum
Atlanta, GA
November 1, 2018–March 7, 2019
University of California, Los Angeles
Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
March 15–May 25, 2019
North Bennet Street School
Boston, MA
June 5–July 27, 2019
University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
August 1–October 30, 2019
Bookmaking series with Debra Disman at The Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean
Debra brings back her popular bookmaking classes in a special three-part series. In June, work on Flag Books - a kinetic book whose parts move in separate flags as you page through. July brings Tunnel Books, which draw the reader into a three-dimensional story, and August finishes with Fireworks Books: a bibliotechnical bang which contains a popup structure of repeated forms that unfold from all sides. Bring your work back to the Camera for second Saturday craft lounges and continue your experiments in bookmaking.
Family Bookmaking Workshops at LACMA
A series of one day Family Bookmaking Workshops at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art!
Join us 10AM - 1PM Saturdays, July 21, 28, August 4, 11 and 18.
Learn how to create fun book structures including The Flag Book, The Folded Fan Book, The Accordion Fold/Concertina Book, and The Tunnel Book.
Each project will include an exploration of a special artwork at the Museum which relates to our bookmaking project for that workshop.
All materials included.
Each project will include an exploration of a special artwork at the Museum which relates to our bookmaking project for that workshop.
All materials included.
Flag Bookmaking at the Granada Hills Public Library
Granada Hills Branch, Los Angeles Public Library 10640 Petit Avenue Granada Hills, CA 91344, Granada HillsMake a Flag Book at the Granada Hills Public Library
Learn to create the fun, versatile and kinetic flag book structure at the Public Library!
Comprised of an accordion spine, covers and "flag" pages, this easy to make, yet fantastical book can hold writing, visual art, travel treasures and ephemera and more.,
The Los Angeles Summer Reading Challenge 2018 theme is:
“Reading Takes You Everywhere”, so join us to read, make, discover and explore at the Granada Hills Branch Library.
All ages welcome, all materials provided.
This program is made possible in part by a grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)