Sponsored by the Caxton Club June Midday Program Young Lochinvar is come out of the west … which is great, because that leaves plenty of room for us to head to Seattle to enjoy a virtual visit to the University of Washington’s superb book arts collection, which includes historical and […]
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Sponsored by The Caxton Club and the Newberry Library Join library curator Jill Gage of the Newberry in a broad-ranging discussion of an extraordinary collection of artists’ books gathered over several decades by Robert McCamant, the noted book designer, former president of the American Printing History Association, and longtime graphic […]
Sponsored by The Baxter Society Rachel Church will speak about her artist’s book The Women of Windy Hill, which commemorates the creation of a self-published cookbook during the pandemic. To register for this talk, contact: baxtersociety@gmail.com From Rachel’s website: In 2021, the Women’s Group of the North Vienna United Methodist […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Feb 28, 6:00-7:30pm EST University of Iowa staff member Rich Dana will give an in-person talk at the Grolier Club about the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Marvin Sackner, M.D., was a Grolier Club member from 1991 until his death in 2020, and […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Sep 22, 7:00pm-8:30 New York/Eastern time Phylis Brody is a life-long experimenter and doer of arts and crafts, including dimensional quilts and textiles, encaustic painting, assemblage, and altered books. In her words, “Each book is a small and intimate work of art that compels […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California At Home, Together: The Quarantine Public Library Monday, July 25, 2022, 5-6:15 PM Online presentation via Zoom Quarantine Public Library is a repository of one-page books made by artists, free for anyone to download, print and assemble—to keep or give away. Tracy Honn […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolier Club member Mary Catherine “MC” Kinniburgh, currently at Granary Books (a NYC-based rare book and archives dealer, and independent publisher), and creator of her own small editions of artists’ books under the imprint TKS, will explore how the characteristics of 20th-century counterculture poets’ libraries […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Kathy Walkup will offer a behind-the-scenes tour of an artists’ books exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book. A virtual tour of Possibilities: When artists’ books were young, a show at the San Francisco Center for the Book, will be led by Grolier […]