Monday, September 26, 2011

NEW Conservation Basics Workshop - Registration Open!

Saturday, December 10, 2011
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
The National Archives at Philadelphia
Entrance on Chestnut Street between 9th and 10th Streets
Instructor: Erin Paulson

Registration deadline: November 18, 2011
Click here for application form.

$75/Members, $95/Non-Members, $15 Materials fee
(Materials fee is paid to the Teaching Artist on the day of the workshop.)

This course will be an introduction to the vast world of book and paper conservation. Basic conservation tools and techniques will be covered, as well as archival materials and simple ways to protect items for the future. We will also address simple repairs for papers and books. Students are encouraged to bring in their own old or damaged books or paper items in need of protection and repair, for practice or for consultation. Your projects should be those on which you are willing to practice. All interested parties are welcome; no prior experience necessary!

Erin Paulson is a book artist and conservator living in Philadelphia. She received her BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago in May 2007, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts.
Since 2007 Erin spent two years working at Loveleaf Press, a custom bookbindery in Chicago, doing bookbinding and letterpress. She has studied books and fiber arts at the American Academy of Bookbinding, the Penland School of Crafts, and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and book conservation under Barb Korbel at the Newberry Library and Christine Fabian at the Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson and Burnham Library.

LIBRO CURIO Opening Reception - REMINDER

LIBRO CURIO Opening Reception
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
The National Archives at Philadelphia
Entrance on Chestnut Street between 9th and 10th Streets

R.S.V.P. to 215-606-0112 or liveandlearnweekend@nara.gov

Philadelphia Center for the Book and the National Archives and Records Administration at Philadelphia (NARA) will be celebrating the exhibition Libro Curio: Reconstructing the Book with an opening reception on this date. The exhibit features work of PCB members who were inspired by book debris, such as book spines and fragments, discovered during a demolition project at NARA.

We hope that the exhibit, among other things, will stimulate visitors to think about book and paper conservation, book construction techniques, the role of government in daily life, storytelling, and the uses of primary sources.

The exhibit will be on view until April 2012.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Charles Alexander Talk on "The Poem, The Page, The Book"

Temple University’s MFA Creative Writing Program
and New City Writing present: Charles Alexander

The Poem, The Page, The Book:
Saying & Showing

Tuesday, September 27th
2:00 PM
8th Floor Lounge, Anderson Hall
Temple University

He will also be reading his poetry at 6 PM at the Kelly Writers House on the Penn campus.

Poet, book artist, critic, and editor, Charles Alexander is the founder and director of Chax Press in Tucson, Arizona, where he lives with the visual artist Cynthia Miller. His books include Hopeful Buildings (Chax 1990), Arc of Light / Dark Matter (Segue 1992), Near or Random Acts (Singing Horse 2004), Certain Slants (Junction 2007), and nine chapbooks. Cuneiform Press has just published a complete edition of the long serial poem Pushing Water.

LIBRO CURIO Opening Reception

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
The National Archives at Philadelphia
Entrance on Chestnut Street between 9th and 10th Streets

R.S.V.P. to 215-606-0112 or liveandlearnweekend@nara.gov

Philadelphia Center for the Book and the National Archives and Records Administration at Philadelphia (NARA) will be celebrating the exhibition Libro Curio: Reconstructing the Book with an opening reception on this date. The exhibit features work of PCB members who were inspired by book debris, such as book spines and fragments, discovered during a demolition project at NARA.

We hope that the exhibit, among other things, will stimulate visitors to think about book and paper conservation, book construction techniques, the role of government in daily life, storytelling, and the uses of primary sources.

The exhibit will be on view until April 2012.

Book Paper Scissors Registration OPEN

Save the date for our annual Artists' Book Fair!
SATURDAY, November 19, 2011
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
at the Parkway Central Library
Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine Street

Free and open to the public!

**REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN**

Click here for application form.
Deadline to apply: October 16, 2011