Andrew Borloz Books!

Our friend Andrew Borloz sent us a couple of great photos of his books. The books on the left are are stencil books he made at Penland. How cool! One day I will get to Penland!

The  books on the right are a photo of the 20 books he made in one week!! Andrew's work is filled with dazzling color, shape and texture. He lives in northern NJ and is a self-employed as a designer, artist, educator, printer and craftsman. His work is so neat and precise--wonder if his degrees--a  BS in industrial design and MA in computer science have anything to do with that that?  Andrew learned these structures from Pam Sussman during her Book Arts Coterie last July.

Pam Sussman is a book arts instructor and the author of Fabric Art Journals, published by Rockport/Quarry books in 2005. This is a terrific book on fabric journals - one of my favorites! She teaches book arts across the country. Check out her blog and her book!

Colorful Japanese Stab Bound Books

The very talented Donna Eyring just sent me a photo of some Japanese Stab Bound Books she is making. Love the bright colors! She said that the had the fabric forever and decided to make a bag to house the books. Each of the books has a different sewing pattern for the binding. So fun and lovely, what a great gift they will make! Thanks Donna!

Book Arts Exhibition - Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

The ASU group known as A-Buncha-Book-Artists is comprised of undergraduate, graduate, faculty, alumni and guest artists. Their work is on exhibition at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in Terminal 3 Level 2 cases. I almost fainted when I saw my book Metamorphose, on the postcard! Actually, I was really confused since I thought I was opening the water bill. The airport and the water department have the same city emblem on the envelope. Nice surprise--way better than the water bill!

I highly recommend you go and see the exhibition. We know a lot of the artists in the show and their work is amazing! This is exhibition especially near and dear to my heart because it was maybe 13-14 years ago I had just finished my first bookbinding class when I was flying out of Sky Harbor Airport and saw an ASU bookarts exhibition while I was waiting for my plane. I was totally fascinated with the work. I called ASU when I got back because I knew after seeing the work that I wanted to make artist books. Gary Martelli, the museum person who curated the show just sent over photos of the installation. Now I've gotta get over there to see the show!

Book Arts Portfolio in Demo Magazine

I'm way late but I just had to post the photos from Columbia College's Demo Magazine because they featured book arts! It's just such a visual treat!
Jessica Spring--http://www.springtidepress.com/
Ben Blount

Miriam Centeno

Aimee Lee--http://aimeelee.net/

Jen Thomas--http://artistbooknews.com/thomas.htm

Mardi Sears

Shawn Sheehy--http://shawnsheehy.com/Shawn_Sheehy/Shawn_Sheehy.html

You can read the DEMO article online: http://cms.colum.edu/demo/2008/09/portfolio_book_paper_arts.php

The Power of the Press

The Power of the Press:Shared Visions
Chandler Center for the Arts
An Exhibition of Prints and Collaborative Media
September 19th thru October 31st

Come and see what Lisa and I have been melting and printing on!

Tempe Arts Center Paper Biennial

Tempe Arts Center Biennial: Paper
Sept. 6 - Jan. 10

This exhibition celebrates the one-year anniversary of the opening of the TCA and features works on paper, art made of paper and artists inspired by paper, a tradition for first anniversaries

Lisa Kokin at The Paper Studio and in Fiber Arts Magazine!

Congrats to Lisa Kokin whose work appears in the March/April 08 issue of Fiber Arts!Lisa Kokin and Lia Roozendaal were here teaching a weekend workshop and the work that was produced pretty wonderful. Not only are they terrific artists but they are super nice people as well. You can see more of their work at http://www.lisakokin.com/

Who knew power tools and books would make such a great combination?

Thanks to Marissa who brought in the copy of Fiber Arts. Is was such nice surprise for Lisa!

Book Autopsies--Brian Dettmer

Everyone has been blogging about Brian Dettmer and his book autopsies over the past couple of weeks. His work is fabulous and I got a kick out of that he went to Columbia College Chicago (although not at the Book and Paper Center) but still...wow! none the less...

His work involves the alteration of preexisting books to transform their physical form and/or to selectively remove and reveal content to create amazing works of art. A significant and notable body of Dettmer's work is created by altering books without inserting or moving any of the books' contents. Dettmer seals, then slices and carves into older textbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, medical guides, science books, engineering books, history books, comic books, and others, exposing select images and text to create intricate works that impart or reveal new or alternative interpretations of the book.

So inspiring! Scalpel please!