Pardon Johnny Cash: 2009 Flower Pickin' Festival Poster Design Competition

2009 Poster Competition Call for Entries
Deadline: Entries must be Postmarked by June 12, 2009
The Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival is an annual event that takes place in Starkville, Mississippi where Johnny Cash was inspired to write the song "Starkville City Jail". The event honors the spirit of redemption, the depth, and humanity of Johnny Cash's life and music.

The Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival "pardon committee" requests submissions for the 2009 poster design competition. Designs will be judged by a panel of artists and professionals. The poster will be distributed both locally and regionally to promote the event, and may be used as the design for festival T-shirts.

Artwork should include the following:
• A reference to Johnny Cash and Starkville, Mississippi
• Festival dates: October 16–18, 2009
• www.pardonjohnnycash.com.

The artist of the winning design will be awarded $300 and will receive 3 posters signed by the event's headliners. All submissions become the property of the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival. All entries should be original work and contain no copyrighted material. Multiple submissions are allowed.

Submission Requirements:
• Submit a hard copy of the artwork that is sized proportional to 16” x 20”. Artwork should be full-color, any medium.
• Submit a PDF of the artwork on a CD marked with the applicant's name.
• Provide contact information including e-mail, mailing address, & phone number
• Entry Fee: Student fee: $5.00 per entry (must include a photocopy of current ID to be accepted); Professional fee: $20.00 per entry.

View previous winning entries at the festival shop at pardonjohnnycash.com.

Submission packet contents should be properly packaged and shipped to:
Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival
Poster Competition
P.O. Box 6284
Mississippi State, MS 39762
For more information, visit the Pardon Johnny Cash website or contact Robbie Ward at pardonjohnnycash@gmail.com.

Atlanta Printmakers' Studio: Paste Paper Workshop

Instructor Rory Golden
Saturday, March 21, 2009 10am-4pm
$75 APS members / $85 non-members

Paste papers developed in 18th Century Germany, have much potential beyond their traditional use as decorative patterned papers for book and box covers and end sheets. The term “paste paper” refers to a method of decorating the surface of paper with acrylic or tempera paint mixed in a “paste” medium and applied in various methods resulting in patterned papers. In this workshop we will learn basic techniques for patterned, and pulled papers. We will then learn to make a “tabletop monotype” paste paper and will create two-sided papers using kozo, handmade mulberry paper. All paste papers may be used in subsequent projects, such as a book cover or as a background layer for a relief print, silkscreen or letterpress printing.

Rory Golden teaches workshops at the Center for Book Arts in NYC, which he directed from 2000 – 2004, the San Francisco Center for the Book, the Long Beach Museum of Art and numerous colleges and universities around the country. He holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama and has been an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and Yaddo. His artwork is in public and private collections around the country.

For more information, visit the Atlanta Printmakers' Studio website and click on the "Classes" link.

SABA Workshop Conference and Juried Exhibition

Southeast Association for Book Arts (SABA)
The University of South Carolina will hold its 3rd Biennial SABA Workshop Conference and Juried Exhibition May 11 – 14, 2009, with evening reception May 10. For more information about both the conference and exhibition, see the SABA website at http://www.southeastbookarts.org/

2009 DATES TO REMEMBER FOR JURIED EXHIBITION:
FEBRUARY 20: Deadline for submissions
MARCH 5: Email notification of accepted entries
APRIL 14-28: Artwork Due at McMaster Gallery
MAY 5: Exhibition Opens
MAY 12: Exhibition Reception, 5-7pm
MAY 29: Exhibition closes and all artwork will be returned

Topophilia: Love of Place

Olde Towne Arts Center
300 Robert Street, Slidell, LA 70458
985-649-0555

National Juried Exhibition
Call for Artists’ Books

Topophilia: Love of Place: This exhibit is about places that are near to our heart – rural or urban, public or private, internal or external, microscopic or macroscopic, singular or plural, real or imaginary, past or present. Topophilia comes from the Greek words topo- and philia-, literally meaning love of place. The exhibit is open to all interpretations on the theme.

Calendar of Important Dates:
Deadline (postmark) for entries: January 31, 2009
Juror results mailed or emailed by: February 14, 2009
Accepted art due at OTAC: March 7, 2009
Opening Reception 6-8 PM: March 13, 2009
Exhibition: March 13 - April 13, 2009

Juror & Curator: Natasha Lovelace Habers, Assistant Professor of Art, Kennesaw State University, Georgia. Open to artists living or working within the USA.

Email Charlotte Lowry Collins: charlotte@otacenter.com to receive a PDF entry form and submission guidelines.

Alabama Bound: Contemporary Fine Press and Artists’ Books

October 10, 2008 – April 12, 2009
Mobile Museum of Art
Mobile, Alabama

Book Arts are the skills including calligraphy, binding, writing, painting and hand-set printing which enable individual artists and artists in collaboration in the creation of handmade, limited edition or one-of -a-kind books.

The 49 works in this exhibition are the product of book artists and teams of skilled artisans, many graduates of the M.F.A. in the Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama, who have studied or reside in Alabama. The show was curated by Billie Goodloe.

Artists include: Cathleen A. Baker, Frank Brannon, Jr., Billy Collins, Cade Collum, Mickey Cleverdon, John Cleverdon, Anna Embree, Louise Lawrence Foster, Suzanne F. Gray, Glenn House, Sr., Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Ellen Knudson, Wayne McNeil, Steve Miller, Paul Moxon, Tut Altman Riddick, Ian Robertson, Mary Ann Sampson, Luis Francisco Diaz Sanchez, R.T. Smith, Charlotte Wegrzynowski, Mary Wehner

Deadline October 31: Atlanta Printmakers' Studio Residency

Atlanta Printmakers Studio is pleased to announce the Emerging Artist Residency, and encourages all interested artists to apply. This residency will provide the resources necessary for emerging artists to complete a printmaking project that they propose. See the Atlanta Printmakers studio website for more details!

Making Faulkner Suite into a Book

SEGBW member, Mary Ann Sampson, recently presented an essay "Making Faulkner Suite into a Book" at the Faulkner/Chopin Conference held at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Giraradeau, Missouri. Dr. Sue Brannan Walker, Poet Laureate of Alabama, authored Faulkner Suite and Ms. Sampson letterpress printed and bound an edition of fifty copies of the book. Dr. Don H. Doyle, McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, wrote the Foreword to the book.

Mary Ann Sampson
The One-Eye Opera Co.
OEOCO Press
Ragland, Alabama
Email: oeocopress@alltel.net