B.Y.O.T.Y. III Book Fair - Registration Open

Calling all zine makers,
the B.Y.O.T.Y Bookfair is almost here.
On October 15th from 12-6PM little berlin is holding their annual B.Y.O.T.Y. Bookfair. Registration is open for vendors at the bookfair, and there are still a few spots available. Anyone who makes books is welcome to participate. Registration for vendors is only $20, don't delay register online!

Bodies of Text III at Clark Park on Saturday!

Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 4:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Clark Park, West Philadelphia
(Corner of Woodland Ave & 43rd/45th Streets)

FREE!
No Tickets Needed
Don't forget to bring blankets and chairs for your viewing comfort.

The Bodies of Text series concludes with exciting outdoor performances that will be site-specific and take place during the Philly Fringe Festival.

Featuring collaborations between:
Melissa Diane & Bonnie Whitfield
Stone Depot Dance Lab & Anna Mavromatis

Stone Depot Dance Lab's new work is a collaboration with visual artist Nicole Donnelly, who will create large outdoor sculptures for the piece. Anna Mavromatis' provocative book, In the Wings, which utilizes a curved structure, pattern and multiplicity, provides the inspiration for Stone Depot choreographers Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Beau Hancock and Donnelly to create a unique outdoor performance environment. The piece also uses source material from early motion study photographs by Eadweard Muybridge.

Melissa Diane (Jacelyn Biondo and Kristen Shahverdian) is a site-inspired, movement-driven performance company. For Bodies of Text III, Melissa Diane presents City Calm Down, inspired by Bonnie Whitfield's heavily altered book, A Den Brooklyn Nights, in which Whitfield utilizes Thoreau's exploration of isolation in the wilderness in Walden to describe her personal isolation within her relationship as well as in her new city of Brooklyn. The work juxtaposes inside and outside worlds and explores how we act when we are alone and how we interact intimately when with another person. Often contradictory emotions explode in the work as Melissa Diane uses the backdrop of a West Philadelphia location, Whitfield's book, and their own character studies to explore subversive and aggressive behaviors, feminism, and what it does to our behavior when we are seen or hidden.

This performance is an opportunity for audience members to experience dance in an unusual setting, and reinvents the usual surroundings of the park for passersby. Site-specific works provide the audience with the agency to connect with the performance in their own way. So often dance performance is limited to proscenium stages, expensive concert halls, and obscure or inaccessible venues. In placing this performance in Clark Park and charging no admission creates a welcoming environment for all members of Philadelphia's diverse community to share in the artistic process of the Bodies of Text project. The audience is invited to bring chairs or blankets for their comfort.

The artist books will be on display at the event, and the dances will be followed by a discussion between choreographers and book artists.

Keep up to date with all things Bodies of Text by visiting the Bodies of Text blog: http://bodiesoftext.blogspot.com

Upcoming PCB Events

Summer Workshop Series:
Single Tray Box with Magnetic Closure
($20 Materials fee)
Instructor: Tara O’Brien
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Registration Deadline: August 22, 2011

10:00 am to 5:00 pm
The University of the Arts 333 South Broad Street (2nd Floor Bindery)

$75/Members, $95/Non-Members. Material fees are paid to the Teaching Artist on the day of the workshop.

Click here for more information and application form.

Bodies of Text III
unique collaboration between Philadelphia’s Dance and Book Arts Communities
Featuring Collaborations between:
Stone Depot Dance Lab & Anna Mavromatis
Melissa Diane & Bonnie Whitfield

September 3, 2011 at 4:00 & 7:00 pm
Clark Park, West Philadelphia
Corner of Woodland Ave and 43rd/45th Streets in West Philadelphia

FREE!
Click here to reserve your place today at the Festival Website.

The Bodies of Text series concludes with exciting outdoor performances that will be site-specific and take place during the Philly Fringe Festival.

Stone Depot Dance Lab’s new work is a collaboration with visual artist Nicole Donnelly, who will create large outdoor sculptures for the piece. Anna Mavromatis’ provocative book, In the Wings, which utilizes a curved structure, pattern and multiplicity, provides the inspiration for Stone Depot choreographers Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Beau Hancock and Donnelly to create a unique outdoor performance environment. The piece also uses source material from early motion study photographs by Eadweard Muybridge.


Melissa Diane (Jacelyn Biondo and Kristen Shahverdian) is a site-inspired, movement-driven performance company. For Bodies of Text III, Melissa Diane presents City Calm Down, inspired by Bonnie Whitfield’s heavily altered book, A Den Brooklyn Nights, in which Whitfield utilizes Thoreau's exploration of isolation in the wilderness in Walden to describe her personal isolation within her relationship as well as in her new city of Brooklyn. The work juxtaposes inside and outside worlds and explores how we act when we are alone and how we interact intimately when with another person. Often contradictory emotions explode in the work as Melissa Diane uses the backdrop of a West Philadelphia location, Whitfield’s book and their own character studies to explore subversive and aggressive behaviors, feminism and what it does to our behavior when we are seen or hidden.

This performance is an opportunity for audience members to experience dance in an unusual setting, and reinvents the usual surroundings of the park for passersby. Site-specific works provide the audience with the agency to connect with the performance in their own way. So often dance performance is limited to proscenium stages, expensive concert halls, and obscure or inaccessible venues. In placing this performance in Clark Park and charging no admission creates a welcoming environment for all members of Philadelphia’s diverse community to share in the artistic process of the Bodies of Text project. The audience is invited to bring chairs or blankets for their comfort.

The artist books will be on display at the event, and the dances will be followed by a discussion between choreographers and book artists.

For more information: click here.

Call for Entries: The Decorated Book

The Decorated Book: Continuing a Tradition

The Athenaeum of Philadelphia is a library and museum founded in 1814. Its
legacy collections, surviving from the 19th and early 20th centuries, include rich holdings in designed bindings. The Decorated Book invites artists, through the medium of the book, to explore and respond to book covers from the legacy collections of the Athenaeum. Selected items from the designed binding collections, including work by Margaret Armstrong, Olive Grover and the studio artists of Decorative Designers, are emphasized in this call. See the scans or visit the Athenaeum from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday, at 219 South 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA. The proposed books may be editioned or one-of-a-kind, artist books, book objects, altered books or zines but must in some way respond to the specified items from the designed binding collection posted on the Athenaeum website and on view at the museum.

For additional information: click here.

PCB Members & Friends Meeting

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

The Rosenbach Museum & Library
2008 Delancey Place

Join us and be inspired by a selection of rare and fascinating books from the Rosenbach's collection, presented by Librarian, Elizabeth Fuller.

Quarterly Members & Friends meetings are open to anyone interested in learning more about Philadelphia Center for the Book.

NEW Summer Book Arts Workshop Series

PCB is pleased to present our Summer Book Arts Workshop Series from book artists Erin Sweeney, Donna Globus and Tara O'Brien. Take just one class or become a master with all three! Each workshop will create a standard sized book form that will culminate in a final enclosure structure and will teach skills that build with every additional class.

July 23 to August 27, 2011
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Individual Class Fee: $75 for members and $95 for non-members, plus materials fee. (Material fees are paid to the Teaching Artist on the day of the workshop.)

Special discount: Register for all three workshops at $195 for members or $255 for non-members.

The University of the Arts (Second Floor Bindery)
333 South Broad Street
Philadelphia PA 19107

Chinese Sewing Box Book
($15 Materials fee)
Instructor: Erin Sweeney
Saturday, July 23, 2011
A book made entirely of folded boxes and enclosures based on paper wallets used to store sewing supplies-an origami lovers' dream! Many things can be housed in this finished structure: surprises, stories, drawings, prints. Students will leave with two finished books.

Sewn on Tapes: A Simple Non-Adhesive Book
($12 Materials fee)
Instructor: Donna Globus
Saturday, August 6, 2011
We will make a multi-section supported spine blank book with an integral soft cover. The lovely sewn stitching can be either visible or hidden in the completed book. Text block and cover paper will be provided; students may bring colorful papers for end sheets.

Single Tray Box with Magnetic Closure
($20 Materials fee)
Instructor: Tara O'Brien
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Easier than a traditional clamshell box, but just as elegant, this box consists of a single tray and a hard case which wraps all the way around the tray and closes using rare earth magnets and a sheet of tin.

Click here for more information and application form.

Call for Entries Opportunities

IN AND OUT OF THE BOX
Hera Gallery

Application Deadline: 6/27/2011
On Exhibit: 7/9/2011 – 8/13/2011

In And Out Of The Box is a national juried exhibit focusing on concepts associated with shipping, mailing, and transient art work.

For more information: click here

HAND LETTERED
abecedarian gallery
Application Deadline: 8/8/2011
On Exhibit: 11/4/2011 - 12/17/2011

Hand Lettered is an invitational exhibition to include artists from throughout the United States whose book works include handlettered elements as either primary content or concept.

For more information: click here

UNCOMMON THREADS: The Handicrafts in Book Arts
23 Sandy Gallery

Application Deadline: 8/13/2011
On Exhibit: 9/23/2011 - 10/29/2011

Uncommon Threads seeks artist books and other forms of book and paper art that utilize handicraft techniques, materials or subjects as a way to round out, illustrate or compliment a central concept.

For more information: click here