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SEPTEMBER 2019
NEWSLETTER
PROGRAM MEETING
Sunday, September 22
1-3pm
NBG Studio
Hedi Kyle's Versatile Accordion Fold
with Connie Stricks
Although the accordion fold is not a complicated structure, Hedi Kyle, in her book, "The Art of the Fold," focuses on it for its versatility and endless possibilities. At our September meeting, Connie Stricks will help us explore how to use this fold to create some very special structures. And along the way, she will introduce us to some specialty papers that work especially well for accordion-fold structures.
Please bring the following:
Cutting mat
Bone folder
Gluestick
Scorer
Awl
Cutting knife
Ruler 18-24"
Scissors, pencil, eraser
Needle
Graduated metal edges (optional)
Book Exchange: Boreal Forest
UPCOMING STUDIO EVENTS
STUDIO SESSION
Gelli-Plate Printing
with Mary Maisch
Saturday, September 14 12pm - 4pm
$40 members $50 non-members
$2
0 materials fee
CLASS FULL - Wait list only
Play with gelli plates, stencils, string, leaves, and other pattern-making materials as you cover papers with layers of acrylic painted monoprints. Your beautiful papers can be used later to make one of a kind artist books, folios, notecards, or gift boxes. Gelli plates are a firm but flexible surface used for rolling out paints or printing inks, upon which you arrange objects, stencils, or make marks that transfer to a paper when you rub it over the plate. Learn all about it! You'll take home a small gelli plate for continued experiments on your own, and learn how to make your own plates for future use. Gelli plates, paint, Shizen, Strathmore, and Canson papers, stencils and other mark making materials will be provided.
Found Paper Journals
with Corlis Taylor
Saturday, October 5 10am - 4pm
$60 members $70 non-members
$20 materials fee
Limited to 8 participants
Create an everyday journal using specialty folders and unique and interesting papers. We will design our covers, make the folios using a variety of papers, sew it all together and embellish with beads.
The instructor will provide the book covers, selection of papers, linen thread and beads. In addition to the paper provided please bring any paper you would like to include in your everyday journal.
Register and information
here
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WORKSHOP
Concertina Album Binding
with Margo Klass
Saturday, October 26 10am - 4pm
$60 members $70 non-members
$15 materials fee
CLASS FULL - Wait list only
Saturday, November 2 10am - 4pm
$60 members $70 non-members
$15 materials fee
1 space left
The concertina album binding elegantly holds a collection of photos or other images. When sitting on the shelf this album looks like a traditional book, but when open its panels stretch out for display. In this class we'll learn how to cut, fold, and hinge lengths of paper to make accordion-folded panels, cover boards with book cloth, inlay a cover plate, and join text block to cover structure. If you bring images to class, we will add them to the album.
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IMPRINTS NEWS
Thanks to an anonymous donation by one of our Imprints patrons, we are pleased that a copy of IMPRINTS has been added to the rare book collection of the University of Arizona Poetry Center. In acknowledging the donation, the Poetry Center's Executive Director Tyler Meier wrote,
"It is a truly breathtaking addition and we are thrilled to have it in our collection of rare books. I, along with my colleagues, took great joy in paging through the book and were all mesmerized by the gorgeous block prints."
IMPRINTS is also in the Rare Book Collection of University of Alaska Fairbanks.
NEWS FROM PAPER BIRCHES
Brass
Triangles
Newly arrived in Paper Birches are beautifully crafted brass triangles designed with convenient knobs for easy positioning and lifting. Cutting perfect right angles or mitering a 45-degree angle has never been easier! The longest edge on both tools is 4 inches.
... AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
CREATING ALASKA
Stitching a life together through the fabric of friendship
Enjoy this feature article about NBG Board member Corlis Taylor, written by David James for the Fairbanks Daily News Miner. We all know that Corlis is a book artist, but read how she also became a fabric artist!
ALASKA DREAMING
Book Repair Workshop Remembered
by Guest Artist Juliayn Coleman of Book Island
This blog posting by Juliayn Coleman is about the workshop she taught last June for book repair technicians from UAF Rasmuson Library, FNSB Libraries, and The Literacy Council of Alaska. The workshop was organized by Northwoods Book Arts Guild with generous support from The Alaska State Council on the Arts.
NORTHWOODS BOOK ARTS GUILD
CALENDAR
Studio Session
Gelli-Plate Printing
with Mary Maisch
Saturday, September 14, 12-4pm
NBG Studio
Class Full; wait list only
Program Meeting
Hedi Kyle's Versatile Accordion Fold
Sunday, September 22, 1-3pm
NBG Studio
Book Exchange: Boreal Forest
Workshop
Found Paper Journals
with Corlis
Taylor
Saturday, October 5, 1-3pm
NBG Studio
More information above
Workshop
Concertina Album Binding
with Margo Klass
Saturday, October 26, 10am-4pm
NBG Studio
Class Full; wait list only
Workshop
Concertina
Album Binding
with Margo Klass
Saturday, November 2, 10am-4pm
NBG Studio
More information above
Learn about and support Northwoods Book Arts Guild!
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