Timothy Ely Workshop : Sketchbook : Plan and Action

THE SKETCHBOOK: PLAN AND ACTION with Timothy C. Ely

SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2012

GORGAS LIBRARY - TUSCALOOSA, AL

9AM - 6PM

Investigate the uses and utility of the artist’s sketchbook. A conceptual tool with a long and venerable history, it was recently celebrated at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. The sketchbook can serve as a planner, recording device, carrier of scrap, journal, and muse.

THIS ONE DAY WORKSHOP is designed to acquaint the participant with some often overlooked, first principals of the craft of bookbinding as well as provide a platform from which the participant can merge the generation of IDEA and OBSERVATION with the creation of a hand made book. Technique and concept are fused, and so for some, this will become a welcome revelation.

We will fabricate a ‘formal’ codex book with rigid covers. Knowledge of this conceptually flexible book form will ul- timately allow for a great deal of future spontaneous play. These structures are fascinating hybrids, combining a sewn text block with Ely’s development of the drum leaf binding covering techniques.There are many varieties and actions and time is provided to discuss numerous facets of the book building and thinking operations.We will discuss some surface design on covering materials, possible variants on format and engage in the mark making materials that form a foundation for exciting and durable archiving. Some of this material is being revealed here for the first time.

This workshop will crack the code for you. On completion, you will have an expanded working vocabulary and will be able to explore with familiarity the manuals and literature that surrounds this subject.The world of bookbinding becomes your oyster.

BIO Timothy Ely has been a student and scholar of the sketchbook form since the late 1960’s. He received an MFA in Design from the University of Washington in 1975 and since that time has been making unique manu- script books, sketchbooks & archives and has been active in teaching the art of the book. He is represented by Granary Books in New York City. His books are in public, private, and secret collections planet wide. He lives in Colfax,Washington.

Sponsored by Painted Bunting Books, Curly Head Press,

and The University of Alabama’s MFA in the Book Arts Program

TO REGISTER

Email Amy LeePard at Amy.LeePard@gmail.com with your name, address and telephone number. Then, mail a check for the full tuition of $70 made out to Amy LeePard. Send to 2315 7th Street, Northport, Alabama 35476. Your space in the class is only guaranteed upon receipt of full payment, and is on a first come, first serve basis. Materials kit available for an additional fee. A materials and supplies list will be sent upon registration.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE : FEBRUARY 24th

Painting Books with Beck Whitehead-A papermaking workshop

The Southeast Guild of Book Workers is proud to announce this exciting workshop!!

Painting Books with Beck Whitehead

A papermaking workshop

March 24 & 25, 2012 10 a.m.- 4 p.m

Lost Arch Papermill at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

$150 general public

$130 for guild members

Discover image and design techniques used to create handmade paper for book binding, printmaking, or as an end in itself. Surface, shape, color and texture can be used to expand the possibilities of any art technique that uses paper as a base. Demonstrations and discussion will include fiber selection and preparation, pigmenting pulp, sheet forming options, making and using stencils to create images with pulp, and creating decorative patterns. This process can be used to create multiple sheets for an edition or one-of-a-kind images. Beautiful sheets will evolve as you explore pulp painting techniques.

Beck Whitehead is a graduate of Trinity University and The University of Texas at San Antonio, where she received her MFA in 1980. She has taught papermaking since 1988 including workshops at Arrowmont, Pyramid Atlantic and Haystack. Her work has been exhibited around the country including Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts and the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum. She is the Chair of the Paper & Book Arts at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, Texas.

To register, email jessica@papersouvenir.com with your name, address and telephone number. Then, mail a check for the full tuition made out to The Guild of Book Workers to Jessica Peterson, PO BOX 132, Gordo, Alabama. Your space in the class is only guaranteed upon receipt of full payment, and is on a first come, first serve basis.

Co-sponsored by the MFA Book Arts Program at The University of Alabama and The Southeast Guild of Bookworkers.

Reminder! Paste Papers with Larry Lou Foster

Don't forget about this wonderful opportunity to work with one of the greatest paste paper artists in the country.

The reigning goddess of paste paper, Larry Lou Foster, will share her remarkable skills in this two day workshop organized by The Southeast Guild of Book Workers. Participants will design and create a series of high-end, luxurious paste papers. Larry Lou will share her research on how to create rich and intense colors, textures and designs. She will also demonstrate how jigs and printmaking methods can be used to make editioned paste papers. Paste paper is a method of making archival patterned decorative paper for bookbinding, first developed in the 17th century by German nuns.

Saturday, October 29, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, October 30, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

At Woods Halls, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

$80 for guild members/students
$90 general public
Enrollment is limited to 13.

Larry Lou Foster is foremost American craftsperson in the design and creation of paste paper. She has taught workshops at Asheville Bookworks, Pensacola Junior College, N.Y. Center for the Book, Jacksonville State and currently teaches bookbinding at Pensacola State College. She makes paste papers, books, and drawings at “The House with Blue Shutter” in Pensacola, FL. Larry Lou Foster holds a BFA from Auburn University in Art/Painting, MFA from George Washington University in Art/Design and a MFA from The University of Alabama in Book Arts/Bookbinding. Her research in paste papers was recently published in a limited edition book from SpeakEasy Press entitled The Paste Papers of Larry Lou Foster.

How to register for the workshop:
Email jessica@papersouvenir.com with your name, address and telephone number. Then, mail a check for the full tuition made out to The Guild of Book Workers to Jessica Peterson, PO BOX 132, Gordo, Alabama. Your space in the class is only guaranteed upon receipt of full payment, and is on a first come, first serve basis.

Co-sponsored by The Southeast Guild of Book Workers and the printmaking department at the University of Alabama

Deluxe Paste Papers with Larry Lou Foster

The reigning goddess of paste paper, Larry Lou Foster, will share her remarkable skills in this two day workshop organized by The Southeast Guild of Book Workers. Participants will design and create a series of high-end, luxurious paste papers. Larry Lou will share her research on how to create rich and intense colors, textures and designs. She will also demonstrate how jigs and printmaking methods can be used to make editioned paste papers. Paste paper is a method of making archival patterned decorative paper for bookbinding, first developed in the 17th century by German nuns.

Saturday, October 29, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, October 30, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

At Woods Halls, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

$80 for guild members/students
$90 general public
Enrollment is limited to 13.

Larry Lou Foster is foremost American craftsperson in the design and creation of paste paper. She has taught workshops at Asheville Bookworks, Pensacola Junior College, N.Y. Center for the Book, Jacksonville State and currently teaches bookbinding at Pensacola State College. She makes paste papers, books, and drawings at “The House with Blue Shutter” in Pensacola, FL. Larry Lou Foster holds a BFA from Auburn University in Art/Painting, MFA from George Washington University in Art/Design and a MFA from The University of Alabama in Book Arts/Bookbinding. Her research in paste papers was recently published in a limited edition book from SpeakEasy Press entitled The Paste Papers of Larry Lou Foster.

How to register for the workshop:
Email jessica@papersouvenir.com with your name, address and telephone number. Then, mail a check for the full tuition made out to The Guild of Book Workers to Jessica Peterson, PO BOX 132, Gordo, Alabama. Your space in the class is only guaranteed upon receipt of full payment, and is on a first come, first serve basis.

Co-sponsored by The Southeast Guild of Book Workers and the printmaking department at the University of Alabama

Horizon Exhibition Intent to Enter - 10 days remaining

September 30th deadline approaching for the upcoming Horizon Exhibition. Submit an Intent to Enter form for the Guild of Book Workers next national traveling juried exhibition at http://www.paintedbuntingbooks.com/test_forms2011/horizon.html

Horizon

Upcoming GBW Exhibition

The Guild of Book Workers' next biennial juried members' exhibition, Horizon, is right around the corner. Now is the time to consider work for submission. Submit an Intent to Enter form today!

The Intent to Enter form is now available online at http://www.guildofbookworkers.org/events/exhibits.php

A paper copy is available in the August newsletter or as a printable pdf download at http://www.paintedbuntingbooks.com/test_forms2011/pdfs/gbw_horizon_intent.pdf

An Intent to Enter form must be submitted in order to be notified of exhibitions updates and a link to the online entry form. The Intent to Enter form will be available on the Guild of Book Worker's web site from August 1 – September 30 or as a paper copy in the August GBW Newsletter (also available for download).

Set to open in the fall of 2012 at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, this GBW exhibition will explore the idea of the horizon. Whether by contemplating the apparent horizon, personal horizons or the horizon of the book as a binding or an object, this exhibition will showcase the current work of the members of the Guild of Book Workers while also offering a glimpse into what is just beyond.

This exhibition will feature approximately 50 works by Guild members. Works will include fine and edition bindings, artist's books, broadsides (letterpress printing, calligraphy, and decorative papermaking) and historical binding models.

Jurors for the Horizon exhibition will be Minnesota Bookbinder and Book Arts Instructor, Jana Pullman, University of Utah Binding Instructor and Studio Coordinator in the Book Arts Program, Emily Tipps, and New Hampshire book artist and photographer, Rutherford Witthus. Works will be juried from digital images. Submissions must be received between January 1 and March 1, 2012. Artists will be notified of selection by April 15.

The Guild of Book Workers will produce a full color printed catalog designed by Julie Leonard and Sara Sauers with photographs and descriptions of each work, as well as biographies of the artists. All exhibition participants will receive a complimentary copy of the printed catalog. Please consider making a tax deductible donation to the catalog fundraiser today: https://www.guildofbookworkers.org/assets/forms/misc/start.php (Please indicate the purpose of the donation is for the Horizon's exhibit catalog.)

Entrants must be current guild members and exhibitors must maintain their membership in good standing throughout the duration of the traveling show. Membership may accompany entry. To join today, visit https://www.guildofbookworkers.org/members/index.php

To view our most recent exhibition, Marking Time, visit the online exhibition catalog https://www.guildofbookworkers.org/gallery/markingtime/index.html

Order previous exhibition catalogs online:

https://www.guildofbookworkers.org/assets/forms/order/start.php

Questions/comments: exhibitions [at] guildofbookworkers [dot] org

Amy C. LeePard

Exhibitions Chair

Don't Forget: Drawn Lettering with Peter Bain: A Two-day Workshop in Typography

Attention Guild members!!

Seats are still available for this wonderful workshop!

The Southeast Guild of Book Workers is pleased to announce a workshop
in Columbus, Mississippi.

Drawn Lettering with Peter Bain: A Two-day Workshop in Typography

Saturday, September 17, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, September 18, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

$75 for guild members and students of any institution
$100 general public
Enrollment is limited to 15.

This workshop will teach traditional techniques for rendered or drawn
display lettering, using historical forms as a reference point.
Participants will develop their sensitivity to letter genre,
proportion, and weight; as well as their interaction. You will gain
experience evaluating and refining your letters while considering
their potential use. Projects will include at least one title design,
and explorations of the design possibilities in drawn lettering with a
bit of subtle collage. You are encouraged to bring a titling text to
the workshop as a basis for experimentation.

Peter Bain is Assistant Professor, Graphic Design concentration, in
the Department of Art at Mississippi State University. His projects
have been recognized by the AIGA and Type Directors Club; and appeared
in Communication Arts and Letter Arts Review. Prior to founding his
own design studio, he worked as a Type Director in New York. He has
taught at Parsons/The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and the
Wells Book Arts Summer Institute. Bain co-curated the exhibition
“Blackletter: Type and National Identity” at the Cooper Union School
of Art. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

How to register for the workshop:
Email jessica@papersouvenir.com with your name, address and telephone
number. Then, mail a check for the full tuition made out to The Guild
of Book Workers to Jessica Peterson, PO BOX 132, Gordo, Alabama. Your
space in the class is only guaranteed upon receipt of full payment,
and is on a first come, first serve basis.

Co-sponsored by The Southeast Guild of Book Workers and the Rosenzweig
Arts Center.
segbwnews.blogspot.com • www.columbus-arts.com

Drawn Lettering with Peter Bain: A Two-day Workshop in Typography

The Southeast Guild of Book Workers is pleased to announce a workshop in Columbus, Mississippi.

Drawn Lettering with Peter Bain: A Two-day Workshop in Typography

Saturday, September 17, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, September 18, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

$75 for guild members and students of any institution
$100 general public
Enrollment is limited to 15.

This workshop will teach traditional techniques for rendered or drawn display lettering, using historical forms as a reference point. Participants will develop their sensitivity to letter genre, proportion, and weight; as well as their interaction. You will gain experience evaluating and refining your letters while considering their potential use. Projects will include at least one title design, and explorations of the design possibilities in drawn lettering with a bit of subtle collage. You are encouraged to bring a titling text to the workshop as a basis for experimentation.

Peter Bain is Assistant Professor, Graphic Design concentration, in the Department of Art at Mississippi State University. His projects have been recognized by the AIGA and Type Directors Club; and appeared in Communication Arts and Letter Arts Review. Prior to founding his own design studio, he worked as a Type Director in New York. He has taught at Parsons/The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and the Wells Book Arts Summer Institute. Bain co-curated the exhibition “Blackletter: Type and National Identity” at the Cooper Union School of Art. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

How to register for the workshop:
Email Jessica(at)papersouvenir.com with your name, address and telephone number. Then, mail a check for the full tuition made out to The Guild of Book Workers to Jessica Peterson, PO BOX 132, Gordo, Alabama. Your space in the class is only guaranteed upon receipt of full payment, and is on a first come, first serve basis.

Co-sponsored by The Southeast Guild of Book Workers and the Rosenzweig Arts Center.
segbwnews.blogspot.com • www.columbus-arts.com