Booked 11 Opens With a Crowd!

On Saturday, March 1st, BAR held its opening reception for Booked 11.  Everyone enjoyed looking at the books created by the members.  There were 65 works, by 37 artists.  So much to see!

The variety in form was wonderfully intriguing - from the shape one typically thinks of for a book, to books which belong on the wall, to one which lights a room, to others which are really rather sculptures, to one which is interactive, to...  I think you get the picture!

And of course there was food to help celebrate!

Congratulations to BAR for putting on a great show - the 11th year for this annual show.  Also, a big "Thank you" to Liz Demaree for chairing the committee, and to the BAR members who helped do the work.



Photo credits: Karen McDermott

More Photos from Booked 11 Installation!

Lots of BAR members hard at work...

Just a peek at what is in store for us to enjoy...

See you there!


Photo credit: Vicki Parker

Booked 11 Exhibit to Open on Monday!!

BAR members have been working very hard this past week in preparation for their upcoming exhibit, "Booked 11", at the Pierro Gallery, in South Orange, New Jersey.

The exhibit is open to the public beginning Monday, February 24th, with the Opening Reception on Saturday, March 1st.  (For address and times, please see the previous post.)

BAR's members have devoted many hours and a lot of energy to creating their pieces.  I encourage you all to come and celebrate the opening and see the show. You will be amazed!


Picture credit: Elisa Kessler Caporale

A Really Good Resource

 

I recently discovered the   Center for Book Arts Blog.  I'd learned about it because by friending them on Facebook.



There's a daily pattern to the posts throughout the week---Methods Monday, Typeface Tuesday, Wednesday Exhibitions, Thursday Terms, Friday Insights.






My favorites are the Typefaces, Methods and Terms.
You may think you know all about some of these basics,
 but it can be good to reset your mind with proper techniques.









The subjects range from scoring to Coptic binding to tipping end sheets to brayers to bone folders and much, much more.  The typeface this week is Goudy Oldstyle which I love and have in my type drawers.  One of the illustrations in the post is a portrait of Goudy made entirely of Goudy Oldstyle type (see below).  It's worth taking the time to go back through the posts as far as January of this year when it the daily columns bagan.  Look on the right hand column and you can go systematically through the months.  I like to check at least weekly to see what is there!

Caterpillar Stitch Demonstration

Wednesday we were treated to the next to the last demonstration for the Booked 8 show. BAR member Ann Vollum showed the Caterpillar Stitch. This technique is such an attention grabber and good to have in your repertoire of skills.

Ann shows variations of what can be done with

this stitch. A large demo card makes it easy to

see how to progress.

Here she is adding beads.

Booked 8 Exhibition opens

Booked 8 has finally opened!
Rescue/Reveal at the Pierro Gallery at the Baird in South Orange, NJ
Friday, April 15 to Saturday, May 21.
Gallery hours: 10:00am to 4:00pm daily. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 14, 6:30pm to 9:00pm

Scheduled Book and Paper Art Demonstrations:
Sat. April 16 at 1:00pm Cynthia Weiss will do Trace Monotype.
Sun. April 17 at 12noon Joe Reilly demonstrates Coptic Binding.
Wed. April 20 at 12noon Dolores Fish will show how to do the Icicle Stitch.
Thur. April 21 at 1:00pm Paula Ehrich will demonstrate how to make an Accordion Spine Book.
Thur. April 28 at 12noon Debbie Livingston will run a session on making pop-up cards.
Sat. April 30 at 1:00pm Benita Wolffe will show how to do Long Stitch Binding.
Wed. May 4 at 12noon Elisa K. Caporale will demonstrate Knotless Netting.
Sat. May 7 at 1:00pm Sam Forlenza will show how to make an Accordion Spine Book.
Wed. may 11 at 11:00am Ann Vollum with demonstrate Caterpillar Stitch with Beads.
Sat. May 14 at 1:00pm Joan Bess will demonstrate Monoprint with Gel Printing Plate.

The Baird
5 Mead Street
South Orange, NJ 07079

Mica Workshop with Dan Essig

The workshop with Dan Essig was last weekend and it was an exciting and intense three days. Mica is an amazing material and we learned a multitude of ways to use and manipulate it. The resulting books had heft and felt good in your hand.
Here you can see some of the books that were made. You can't really appreciate them until you can hold them in your hand, though!
Here's the group photo with our books ready to be sewn.

A very nice bonus of the workshop was the opportunity to buy handmade tools and mica in many forms. The "shopping bazaar" was a popular station throughout the three days.
And here we are in the downstairs room at the Baird working away. Dan was an excellent instructor and nudged us along, with humor, to get our work completed.

The Eighth Year!

One Page Becomes Many

After a stormy night chased us all (except for one) from our September meeting at The Baird we met the following Thursday. We got up to speed with all the calendar changes, upcoming workshops, "stitch-it-ups" on the horizon, and plans for the 2011 "Booked" show. And then we exchanged the pages for the 2010 Collaborative project, "LUNAR - it's a Paper Moon!" This is only the third time I've participated, but once again I am amazed by the talent, creativity and care that participants put in to their pages. After focusing on my own pages for so long, and creating a twenty plus edition, suddenly in the span of minutes, an idea is transformed into a book (or will be soon) with variety and the personality of all the participants.

Our new blog is started!

Well,  I thought I'd just get this thing started and see what happens.  I'm sure there are many things that will have to be adjusted but if you find the blog please leave a comment.  The Bar had our March meeting tonight and discussed many things.    There were some interesting books shown and discussed.  Playing with Books,  Transfers and Altered Images, Print and Stamp??  and Print Pattern and Color all looked worthy of checking out.  I think what we can do is leave comments adding to what I've written.  If someone wants to make a post, perhaps they could send the post by email to me at lastarun at yahoo dot com and I can add it as a post to start a new topic.   We can add photos as well which should be fun.