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Hybrid Book Conference Events

Come one, come all to the Hybrid Book Fair
Friday and Saturday, June 5 and 6
1-6 in the Greshman Y. (401 S. Broad St.)
The Fair is free. Please come visit us at our chapter table!

There is also an exhibition:
The Hybrid Book: Irma Boom, Gunnar Kaldewey, and Hedi Kyle
The show will be up from June 2 to June 30
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery (333 S. Broad Street).
Hours: Monday-Friday 10-5, Wednesday 10-8, Saturday and Sunday 12-4.

Hedi Kyle and Gunnar Kaldewey will be interviewed in the opening event of the conference:
6 PM, June 4 in Solmssen Court, Hamilton Hall (320 S. Broad)

For more information click here.

Please come to these interesting events!

(book pictured above is by Hedi Kyle)

Progressive Book Party Fun

The Progressive Book Party was such fun! We all brought an accordion book along with a dish for the potluck. After a delicious meal we cleared the table and this is what we did: Each person had two minutes to draw a picture on the first panel or spread of their book. Then they passed it to the person sitting next to them who had 20 seconds to look at the picture before covering it up. Then they had 1 minute to draw what they saw. Or in many cases, what they thought they saw! The drawings began to evolve into something else. For example, a drawing that started as an umbrella turned into a flying bat. Very entertaining!

Progressive Book and Potluck Dinner

A potluck dinner and evening of drawing fun at Alice’s house
May 1, 2009
5:30 – 8:30
RSVP! (click here and we will send you Alice’s address)

Bring something to eat, something to drink and a book to draw in. Your accordion will need at least eight pages. Below you will find instructions for an easy accordion which is put together with a glue stick. This is just a suggestion. Make what you like. The book you bring will be passed around and each person will make a drawing in it.
Hope to see you there!

An Opportunity

An Opportunity for Members of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the GBW

The Delaware Valley Chapter is taking a table at the book fair being held during the Hybrid Book Conference at the University of the Arts on June 5th & 6th.

This is a great opportunity:

-it is free for DVC members

-you can sell your work

-your work will be eligible for purchase prizes

-your work will be seen by conference attendees

Time line:

Mail the intent to exhibit form to Claire Owen: by May 8FOR BOOKS ONLY

Claire Owen

6129 Greene Street

Philadelphia, PA19144

Delivery of book:Friday May 22

Bring it to:

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1314 Locust Street

Philadelphia, PA19107

215-546-3181(Jennifer Rosner)

DVC Members: email me if you did not get the intent to exhibit form as an email attachment last week.

Annual Meeting

We held our Annual Meeting on Wednesday, March 18, at the Library Company with 11 people in attendance. (A record!)

The meeting resulted in several ideas for upcoming events:
– a Fast, Friendly, Free workshop with Andrew Huot sometime this Spring.
– a potluck dinner that will include a round-robin bookmaking activity.
– a Fall workshop.
Details coming soon….

We topped off the evening with a folding project. Alice Austin taught us all how to make Vade Mecums.

It was a very enjoyable evening!

 

Hybrid Book Conference at the University of the Arts

Codex Book Fair Berkeley, CA

The second biennial book fair, Considering the Book as a Work of Art, took place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley February 8 – 11. Around 140 artists from around the country and the world rented tables, showed books and attended the symposium. The talks took place in the mornings and the fair in the afternoons. I rented a table and also attended most of the symposium.

My favorite talks were Karen Bleitz and Ron King. Karen makes books with machines, pop-ups, and magnets which become dynamic stages. Ron King formed Circle Press in 1967 and gave a great talk about his life and work. He might be best known for a pop-out alphabet poster that you can still buy. While his work is often graphic and mixes bold silk screen with the text, his new work is a series of sculptural Logbooks made of logs. Since there were so many artists at the fair, the opportunity to meet and talk to people was endless.

The Codex organizers have done a great job creating a friendly forum for everyone who loves books!

Shanna Leino Workshop

A marvelous time was had by all at the 12th Century Coptic workshop with Shanna Leino last weekend, January 17 and 18. The workshop was held at The University of the Arts, and was filled with fantastic personalities, not the least of which was the sparkling and witty Shanna.

Ten students were whipped into action as they made cover boards from laminated papyrus, sewed text blocks with a 4 needle Coptic stitch, pared leather for covers and trim—all this in the first few hours. Shanna’s humor directed them well through each daunting step, and she provided sugary snacks at the appropriate afternoon hour to keep them going.

The students left on Saturday evening with a sewn book in hand, and homework: work on their leather covers! (I didn’t, and was significantly behind the next day).

One of the beautiful things about this particular structure is the appliquéd leather cover. Simple designs were boned onto the covers using a template, and then parts of the design were cut away. Additional pieces of leather, in contrasting or similar colors, are attached to the back, and then stitched, creating an appliqué. There was much excitement about this step, and minds were racing as to what they could do with this. (Hedi was already thinking paper and Tyvek…)

Sunday came, headbands were sewn, covers continued to be worked on, and as the grand finale: a lesson in hardware-making. Shanna demonstrated how to make brass pegs for the books. The pegs are inserted into the double cover after the leather is put on, and combined with a leather toggle, provided a nice closure. Muscles were worked out as the students huffed and puffed to get their pegs made. It was a beautiful site. Denise Carbone was particularly excited about her peg.

In two short days, ten beautiful leather bound books were completed, many jokes were made, and spirits were generally high. You’d be hard-pressed to find a comparable experience. Thank you to the Guild and thank you to Shanna—hopefully she’ll be back in Philadelphia soon!