2022 Holiday Card Exchange

2022 is quickly coming to an end and our final exchange of the year is almost here. The Holiday Card exchange is the one event where members must sign up in advance and then make an edition of their card, one for each person participating and one for our library. Before the pandemic we would usually celebrate this exchange at Sandy V’s lovely home where we could enjoy refreshments as well as look at the cards. While that was a great event for local members, it totally excluded the out-of-towners. Now that we have been using Zoom for our workshops, we invite all of our members, near and far, to watch the unveiling of the Holiday Cards. Please join Dolores Guffey on Zoom December 10 as she presents the 2022 Holiday Cards. Many thanks to everyone who participated in the exchange. We hope that they will be present to share with us the inspiration for their card’s structure and design. Those unable to join us will have their colophons read as the card is shown on the screen. After the sharing of the cards, we will have time to visit and exchange best wishes for the holidays and coming year.

Here are some photos of holiday cards from previous years 

2021

Ellen Clague

Miriam Hall 

Sandy Vrem

Andrea Penn

Becky Luening

Dolores Guffey

2004

When:   Saturday December 10 at 10 a.m. PST

Where:  On your computer, tablet or smartphone via Zoom

RSVP:    Yes, by Dec. 5 to Dolores Guffey to receive the password

Zoom Questions:  Bobbie Hayes

Contact information is in the newsletter

Arowana and BIMA

 

Our November workshop was all about a fish named Arowana. Our instructor, Edge Gerring, was very familiar with Arowana and knew just how to cut Arowana apart and then bring Arowana back together into a very “fluttery” flag book. It was a fun workshop and maybe a little more complicated than other workshops so not everyone completed their structure during the allotted time. So, we only have one example to share and it comes from across the big pond. Many thanks to Edge and to Margaret for sharing.

Margaret Beech (England)

Shapes of Things to Come is the title of the current exhibit in the Sherry Grover Gallery at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) in Washington. This exhibit will continue until February 15, 2023. Here is the introduction to the exhibit:

"The future of the book is here. These works from the Cynthia Sears Artist's Books Collection bend convention, break tradition, and steer a bold course for the future of artist's books. This exhibition features more than forty local, national, and international artists working in diverse formats, materials, and themes."

Here is a sample of some of the wonderful books on display. 

Transpose, 2021
 Islam Aly (Egypt)

Inside Chance, 2000
 Linda Smith (Arizona)

Socrates, Know Thyself, 1999
Stephen Daiber (Massachusetts)

Old Growth: Beneath the Forest Floor, 2015
Lucia Harrison (Washington)

Slices, 2004
Emily Martin, (Iowa)

Take Me, I'm Yours, 2019
Laura Russell (Oregon)

50 Revolutions, 2015
Helen Hiebert (Colorado)

Living With Tassels and Trims, 2019
Robbin Ami Silverberg (New York)

This is the book that goes with the jacket pictured above and 
here is the artist's description of the two pieces:

"I stumbled upon plastic bags filled with samples of textiles, tassels & trim when we were cleaning out my mother’s closets after she died. The remnants found in those bags were pieces of her story: dreams of creating a space and place, a home that defined beauty, projected refinement, and what she would have clarified as happiness.

The result is a cloth book with richly embroidered text & patterns sewn onto a wooden clothing hanger. The text focuses on the idea of ritual as movement and movement as reading. Each copy has a unique case made from clothing, which becomes the protection of these words instead of the human body. The viewer must ‘undress’ the book in order to read it."