Last spring the San Diego Book Arts group initiated a project where seven book arts organizations came together to celebrate “where you live” through a hand-crafted, USPS-compliant, postcard exchange and freestyle bookmaking project. Groups included: Bay Area Book Artists, New England Book Artists, North Redwoods Book Arts Guild, PaperWorks, Puget Sound Book Artists, San Diego Book Arts, and the Santa Fe Book Arts Group. Named the "Wish You Were Here Project", it was a great success with wonderfully creative postcards being sent all across the U.S. and ultimately bound into each participant's individual book. Here is a link to an on-line gallery where you can see all the beautiful books and postcards.
Fourteen NORBAG members participated in the project and their contributions are shown below.
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| John Arbuckle |
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| John's postcard |
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| Rosie Arenas |
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| Rosie's postcard |
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| Dianne Byington |
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| Dianne's postcard |
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| Edge Gerring |
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| Edge's postcard |
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| Fran McReynold's postcard |
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| Fran McReynolds |
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| Mary Elizabeth Nelson |
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| Another view of Mary Elizabeth's book |
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| Mary Elizabeth's postcard |
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Mary Elizabeth's second book
(she participated in two different groups) |
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| Linda Swanson |
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| Linda's postcard |
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| Catherine von Schwind |
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| Catherine's postcard |
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| Sandy Vrem |
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| Sandy's postcard |
If the above examples didn't do enough to spark your enthusiasm for creating book art, check out the following link to view the 2021 Puget Sound Book Artists Members' exhibition now on display at Collins Library on the campus of the University of Puget Sound. The exhibit will be up until October 1.
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