PSBA Members' Exhibition

Do you live in the Pacific Northwest or are you planning a visit during the months of June or July? If so, be sure to check out Puget Sound Book Artists’ Fifth Annual Members’ Exhibition. The exhibit is held in Collins Library on the campus of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington and features 44 handmade books by 28 different artists. Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA) is a non-profit organization comprised of professionals and amateurs from all quarters of book, paper, and printing arts. For more information about PSBA check out their blog:  http://blogs.pugetsound.edu/pugetsoundbookartists/   Currently two NORBAG members are also members of PSBA. This exhibition will run through July 30. To check on the hours for Collins Library visit the website at: http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/collins-memorial-library/. Scroll down for a sample of some of the books in the exhibition.

Collins Library

One of the display cases

Monsters & Beasts by Gabby Cooksey, winner of the Collins Library Award

Smoke by Lynn Skordal, winner of the Curator's Award

Circle or Zero by Mari Eckstein Gower, winner of the award for Excellence

The Studio Illustrated Magazine by An Gates

Pencils by Elizabeth Walsh

Token by Deborah Greenwood

Small Migrations by Gina Pisello

Knock on Wood by MalPina Chan

Tine Language by Gina Pisello

Empire Builder by Chandler O'Leary

Thanksgiving 1959 by An Gates

Bridge 2 by Kim Izenman

Alpha Bravo Charlie by Bonnie Julien

Our Family by Lynn Skordal

PSBA 5th Anniversary Book with individual pages by members