Spring Classes at BookWorks

BookWorks in Asheville, North Carolina

It's Spring! Celebrate and renew your creative spirit. At Asheville BookWorks our spring schedule is full of inspiring classes to put new life into your artistic endeavors. Along with our series of Pulp to Paper and Letterpress classes we are featuring some exciting new workshops. Also listed are those "back by popular demand" classes that everyone loves. Our instructors are all excellent artists with innumerable skills to share with their students.

Atlanta Printmakers Studio and American Print Alliance

Looking for a class or workshop to learn a new printmaking technique or a different book structure? Need a creativity infusion? The American Print Alliance is launching a new page on The Atlanta Printmakers Studio website to help you find exactly what you want. APS's new list, free for everyone to use, concentrates on printmaking, papermaking and book arts classes, with other related media plus travel that includes art instruction. Whether you're looking for an evening etching class to ease you from Winter into Spring, or saving for that perfect Summer studio get-away, you can easily search our List of Classes & Workshops and then click to get complete information and registration forms. Go to http://www.printalliance.org/library/li_classes.html, or use the link on the APS homepage www.PrintAlliance.org (there's a direct link in the news item, or go to the Library section and select Classes & Workshops).

Watch Your Mailboxes for SEGBW Chapter Election Ballots!

It's voting time again! Members of the Southeast Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers should be on the lookout for voting ballots to arrive in your mailboxes within the next few weeks. After voting, please return them ASAP! Thanks, everyone!

61st Annual IAMPETH Convention

August 9-14, 2010. Hilton at the Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida

The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers, and Teachers of Handwriting (IAMPETH) is an international, non-profit association dedicated to practicing and preserving the beautiful arts of calligraphy, engrossing, and fine penmanship.

The IAMPETH Annual Convention offers a selection of half-day and full-day classes taught by expert instructors. Digital projectors are used so that you can see the instructor’s hand at work even from the back of the room. The convention is held in a hotel. The modest conference fee covers the instruction only. You make your own arrangements for lodging and meals. See the website for info on the $111 night rooms at the hotel (these rooms are limited; make your reservation with the hotel early). The $111 room rate is $99 plus approx taxes. Some classes may have a materials fee. There are classes on both pointed pen and broad-edged pen alphabets and on illumination.

For full details, a list of instructors, and registrations forms: www.iampeth.com/2010_convention.php

Tuition:
Until June 1: $210 regular, $195 senior/full-time student (includes IAMPETH membership)
After June 1: $230 & $215

ARTBOUND: First Annual Juried Student Book Arts Competition at the University of Florida Libraries

Call for Entries:
Students (graduate or undergraduate) making books in book arts and/or fine arts programs across the United States are invited to participate in ARTBOUND by submitting work to a juried artists’ book exhibition and permanent collection at The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries!

Entrants are to submit handmade, artists’ books printed in edition. Books printed with letterpress, intaglio, inkjet, and/or screenprint techniques will be considered. We will also consider one-of-a-kind handmade books created in other mediums. We are looking for high quality, original work.

Books selected by the jurors will be purchased for the qualifying award amount, exhibited during the ARTBOUND exhibition, and permanently added to the University of Florida Smathers Libraries’ Special Collections in Book Arts.

Students whose work is selected will be required to provide proof of enrollment. All entries must be original work completed by a book arts student (graduate or undergraduate) enrolled between Fall 2008 and Spring 2010.

Postmark deadline for submissions: March 12, 2010

For further details and to download an entry form go to:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/
Scroll down the page to find the ARTBOUND icon and link to the entry form.

Mail Art Exchange

1st [Annual] Jacksonville State University Graphic Arts Guild
Mail Art Exchange

The theme of this year’s exchange is “No Such Thing” Feel free to interpret this in any manner you can imagine. Requirements: Any EDITIONABLE art media may be used. (Just a few examples: woodcuts, litho, digital printmaking, etc.) Each of the prints should be the same. The post card must be no larger than 4”x 6”.

13 identical prints should be sent individually to the address posted below. Each card must be stamped and will bear the markings of travel and the postal service. Edition must be numbered 1/13, 2/13, 3/13… DO NOT send the cards together in one envelope.

Include the following information on the back of the card:
Name
Your Return address
JSU GAG mailing address (see below)
Title
Media [A list of the process(es) used]

Donations Requested: Please send separately a donation to help pay for postage in the form of cash or a check payable to the Graphic Arts Guild.

Suggested donations:
$3.00 students $4.00 others $5.00 international
Send more if you can, less if you can’t.

MAIL BY JANUARY 1, 2010. ENTRIES DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. Artwork received after January 8, 2010 will not be included in the exchange. Please postmark prints with sufficient time to arrive. After receiving everyone’s postcards the Graphic Arts Guild will randomly divide up the cards and you will be sent 12 new and different prints from other participants. The Graphic Arts Guild will keep one of the 13 for The JSU Art Department Works on Paper Collection. Postage and handling for returning the 12 new prints will be paid for by the Graphic Arts Guild. Your donation will help us out tremendously.

Please be sure to put your return address on every postcard sent! Send postcard prints to:
Professor Jauneth Skinner
JSU Graphic Arts Guild
Department of Art
700 Pellham Rd. N.
Jacksonville, AL 36265-1602

*Please send questions and comments to the Graphic Arts Guild President, Rick Adkins
graphicartsguild@gmail.com

The entire mail art exchange will be exhibited:
Mail Art: No Such Thing
January 14 – March 26, 2010 exhibition dates
Gallery 9
9 Public Square East
Jacksonville, AL 36265

Questions? artistegrafica@hotmail.com

Letter to Members

Dear Members of the Southeast Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers,

First of all, on behalf of the members and officers of the Southeast Chapter, I would like to welcome our new members for 2009: Barbara Eaton of Savannah,GA, Bridget Elmer of Tallahassee, FL, and Susan Leeb of Chapel Hill, NC.

I would also like to thank all of our members for their continued interest in and support of the Southeast Chapter.

A special thanks is extended to Martha Ebener of Decatur, Georgia who has served as our Secretary and Membership Officer. Ms. Ebener has recently resigned the office of Secretary/ Membership. Thank you, Ms. Ebener, for all of the time and energy that you have given to the Southeast Chapter.

As assigned by the remaining officers, I am happy to fill the position of interim Secretary and Membership Officer. Elections for chapter offices will take place in 2010. If you have any questions or concerns about chapter membership, I welcome your e-mails.

As a reminder:
The SE Chapter website can be found at http://segbw.com/
Our newsletter takes the form of a blog at http://segbwnews.blogspot.com/
The national organization has a beautiful new website at http://www.guildofbookworkers.org/
You can also find the national organization on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112415003489

New opportunities for SE Chapter members:
Our newsletter editor, Ellen Knudsen and I have been working to create an opportunity for members to contribute to our blog newsletter. I have offered to help Ellen field this opportunity for members. If you would like to be a guest blogger or regular contributor to the blog, please let us know.

As a guest blogger, after submitting a proposal, you would have a week of blogging and could post about upcoming events in your area, share techniques or showcase current work or any other related topic of your choice. As a regular contributor, you could propose to submit once or twice a month or even on a weekly basis. Or if you would just like to let us know about book related events in your area but would rather someone else do the blogging, e-mail us with the details.

Your SEGBW officers would love to hear your ideas or help with an event in your area. Get in touch!

Very Sincerely,
Amy LeePard

Southeast Chapter Guild of Book Workers Secretary/Membership Officer