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N E W S L E T T E RSPRING/SUMMER 2016
IN THIS ISSUE
Networking: Upcoming Book Fairs, Conferences, Exhibits & Events
Opportunities:Grants, Residencies & Internships
Scholarship Spotlight: Sofia Paz Arrowmont School of Arts + Crafts
Scholarship Spotlight: Matthew Sutter Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory
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Residency Spotlight: Women’s Studio Workshop
Art-in-Education Artist’s Book Grant
Member Experience: The House that Book Arts Built, Katie Harper
Member Experience: Book Arts in Baltimore, Janet Maher
Member News & Publications
Classroom & Press Spotlights:Katie Baldwin’s Water-based Woodblock Printing
Esther K. Smith & Dikko Faust’s Purgatory Pie Press
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Above Left: Tender Love, box/blanket/book objects by Matthew Sutter, winner of the 2016 Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory/CBAA grant
Right: University of Arizona participated in CBAA’s Book Art Gives Back initiative by making materials for “Sheep is Life,” the 20th Annual Celebration of traditional Navajo shepherding and weaving culture. Read more on pg 7.
The College Book Art Association supports and promotes academic book arts education by fostering the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship, and criticism.
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COLLEGE BOOK ART ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER
MEMBER NEWS & PUBLICATIONS
News from CBAAOpenings: Studies in Book Art, the academic journal for the College Book Art Association has just published its latest
issue at http://journals.sfu.ca/cbaa/index.php/jcbaa. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.
New book from Stephen Clarke and Elizabeth Kealy-MorrisIn 2004 the artist Stephen Clarke visited the Burren on the west coast of Ireland on a field trip to the Burren College of Art. The
trip, organised by Professor David Ferry, was a part of his Masters degree course in Fine Art Printmaking at Winchester School of Art. The Burren is known for its unusual mix of arctic, Mediterranean and alpine plants, as well as rare insects and animals. One evening, as the light was dimming, Clarke came across a caravan park. The unpopulated site seemed out of place in this area noted for natural beauty. The modern caravans became imbued with the same sense of mystery that characterise the ancient stones of surrounding prehistoric sites.
Ten of these photographs have been printed into a concertina artist book titled a strange field. Taking its name from a site marked on the map made by the cartographer and writer Tim Robinson of the area in 1977, this book is a collaboration between Stephen Clarke and the artist bookmaker Elizabeth Kealy-Morris. An edition of 10, a strange field is the inaugural publication of the University of Chester’s Sequential Press. The book is printed on Seawhite 140gsm cartridge stock and covered with Ratchford Ltd. Windsor ‘Corfe’ bookcloth. The bellyband is printed on Rossler Paperado, ‘Taupe’, 160gsm. All type is Avenir Book, ranging from 8pt to 12pt.
The book has been accepted into the Galway Festival of Arts to be exhibited in the Impressions: Art Books Exhibit(http://www.giaf.ie/events/artbooks).
Stephen Clarke is an independent artist, writer and lecturer based in the North West of England. His writing and practice encompass collage and photography. He has published several photobooks with the independent publisher Café Royal Books: http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/, [email protected].
Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, a Senior Lecturer in Art and Design at the University of Chester in England, is currently engaged in a practice-based PhD entitled TheArtist Book: Making as embodied knowledge of practice and the self. The study considers the autoethnographic nature of the artist book and the ways in which knowledge is developed through making with one’s hands. Kealy-Morris delivered a paper entitled A Walk of Twenty Steps at the CBAA’s National Conference in Nashville, January 2016. [email protected]
News from Inge BruggemanInge Bruggeman announces the first in a series of books meant for active reading. “No one wants to play the victim no one when there is a gun involved and blue” is a prose
poem by Laura Wetherington that is letterpress printed in an edition of 15 copies from handset metal type on butcher paper and bound in a case binding. The accordion format book can be stretched out along 36’ of shelving for reading while walking. It is an exploration of a physically engaged reading with a material object.