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 AUGUST 2019 
NEWSLETTER

 

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
Limited to 8 participants
 
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.

Register here.

   
 
 

WORKSHOP
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  here .





WORKSHOP
Concertina Album Binding
with Margo Klass
 
Saturday, October 26    10am - 4pm
$60 members $70 non-members
$15 materials fee 
Limited to 8 participants
 
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.

Register  here .





UAF Rasmuson Library Display
IMPRINTS

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.  

 
 
... AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

 
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.



THE SEWN BOARD BINDING 
A MODEL BOOK  BY ROBERT LAVADOUR

The Sewn Board Binding, a model book by book artist Robert 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.
 
NORTHWOODS BOOK ARTS GUILD
CALENDAR

Studio Session
Gelli-Plate Printing
with Mary Maisch
Saturday, September 14, 12 -4pm
NBG Studio
More information above

Next Program Meeting
Hedi Kyle Foldables
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
More information above


 

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