For Students, for Teachers, and for Book Fans of All Kinds

FOR STUDENTS:

Artist Books—A Structural Approach

Esther K Smith

Art Students League NYC Class

April 30–May 4

Monday–Friday, 1:30–5:00 pm

Fee: $400

Instructor present each day

Enrollment limited to 12 students

Artist books work as containers for drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and even experimental and electronic media.  This workshop explores a new approach each day, with students first making quick models and looking at artist books, and then developing their pieces in the studio. Students will make books from Eastern and Early Western traditions that require only a few tools and almost no glue: simple stitched books, accordion-based forms, and simple pop-ups. Students will make their own long-stitch leather- covered sketchbooks with their favorite drawing paper.

Esther K. Smith is the author of How to Make Books (Random House).  She makes collaborative limited edition artist books with printer Dikko Faust and other artists at Purgatory Pie Press. Solo exhibitions include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Harvard University.  Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, the Whitney, Cooper Hewitt, and the Tate. Smith has taught how to make artist books at Cooper Union since 1992, and has been a visiting artist at Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA), Center for Book Arts, RISD, Princeton University, London College of Communication, Camberwell College of Arts (London), and many other institutions.

FOR TEACHERS:

Construction is complete at the Mt. Airy Art Garage, and they are going to be launching their first series of classes soon -- hopefully with a whole bunch of book art classes! Interested in teaching?  Contact donna@mtairyartgarage.org

Fill out this form to submit your proposal (click here)!

FOR EVERYONE!!!

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

3rd Annual Book Fair
May 5th 2012*
12-6pm
Free and open to the public

PPAC will be hosting its third annual book fair on May 5th of 2012. A number of local, national and international presses, publishers and artists will be in attendance selling books, prints and other ephemera.

Partial list of participants:
Gottlund Verlag
Sun System Press
A-Jump BooksSchematic Quarterly
Chad States
Debutante Hair
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Vox Populi
Bodega Press
Visual Studies Workshop/ Preacher’s Biscuit Books 
Spaces Corners
MACK Books
Miniature Garden
NOWORK
Empty Stretch
Conveyor Arts
Indie Photobook LibraryLay Flat
Mossless
Swill Children
Chad MuthardChristopher Gianunzio & Jenny TonderaLight Work

Curated Table:
Roma Publications
Little Brown Mushrooms
Paula McCartney
Loosestrife Editions
Hamburger EyesMegawords

Book Signings:
Ron Jude/ Lick Creek Line (MACK)
Benjamin Lowy/ Iraq | Perspectives (CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography)Ed Panar/ Salad Days Volumes I &II (Gottlund Verlag)
                 Animals That Saw Me: Volume 1 (Ice Plant)

For inquiries, please contact us at:
Bookfair@philaphotoarts.org

Call for Teaching Artists!

At Philadelphia Center for the Book, we're looking for committee volunteers AND teaching artists with workshop proposals (for which we may be able to provide spaces).  Email us!

The Art Center is also looking for Teaching Artists!  Details and contact information are below.

Call For Teaching Artist:

Fairmount Art Center

Experimental Paper: Collage, Books & Mixed Media

Tuesday 6:30 PM to 9:30PM

5/1/12 - 6/5/12 [6wks]

Explore paper, book arts, collage, and media for working on paper! In this exciting class, you'll experience a range of materials and techniques. Create collages of various scales.  Craft books of various binding types and fill them with collections of your ideas and explorations.  Use 2-D drawing media in and through your pieces including pencil, charcoal, paint, and pastel. Explore ways for mixing materials and techniques and follow your process as you work from 2-D to 3-D book arts constructions! All materials are included!

Jill Markovitz

Director

Fairmount Art Center

2501 Olive Street

Philadelphia, PA 19130

Queen Village Art Center

514 Bainbridge Street

Philadelphia, PA 19147

www.phillyartcenter.com

215-765-2787(ARTS)

Call for Committee Members and Volunteers

With the induction of the new board, PCB now has several volunteer opportunities for committee members.  We'd love to have you join our team!  

Marketing Committee

Are you excited about advocating for the arts?  Are you a social media butterfly?  Do you already love to attend members meetings and workshops, or are you interested in attending more? We're looking for a few good folks to join the Marketing Committee and help spread the word about PCB.  As a volunteer for the committee, you would help with marketing campaigns, social media strategy and posts, and blogging to keep our members and book arts community informed and engaged.  If interested, please emailmarketing@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org.

Events Committee

The Events Committee is looking for members to help with every aspect of event and workshop planning and execution - from liaising with other organizations and artists to scheduling and planning catering and decorations.  To get involved please email events@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org.

Exhibitions Committee

The goal of the Exhibitions Committee is to create and implement opportunities for exhibiting the work of PCB members in the Philadelphia region, and to engage with local cultural institutions to promote book arts through exhibitions. PCB can have up to two large exhibitions every year and numerous small ones. The Committee organizes everything for PCB's exhibitions from curating shows, soliciting gallery space from local institution, to label making and receptions. If you would like to contribute to our efforts, we are happy to have you volunteer!  Please emailexhibitions@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org.

Development Committee

The Development Committee is looking for members who are familiar with raising funds online through social networking and other sites such as Crowdrise.  This committee plays a major roll in planning for the organization through fundraising, grant writing, and donor outreach.  If you'd like to join or learn more, please email development@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org.

Not sure what committee to join?  Interested in learning more about how the board works and how we plan out the year for PCB?  Join us for our Open Board Meeting!

Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Prints and Pictures Department
April 11, 2012 (TONIGHT)
6pm-8pm

Hope to see you there!

MEMBERS & FRIENDS MEETING AT BARTRAM'S GARDEN

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 6:00 to 8:00pm

Join us this Spring at the historic home and garden of the Bartrams, America’s pioneering family of naturalists, botanists and explorers.

On this site more than 275 years ago, John Bartram, a Quaker farmer, was stopped in his tracks by a daisy while plowing his fields. The plant’s simplicity and beauty inspired John and his son, William to spend the rest of their lives exploring, collecting and seeking to understand all forms of nature.

Included in their historic collection are examples of John and William Bartram's publications, and a small selection of artwork by William Bartram.

We will be led by Curator Joel Fry on a tour the garden, visit the John Bowman Bartram Special Collections Library, and will learn about the history of the Bartram family.

Bartram’s Garden
54th St. and Lindbergh Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19143

RSVP at events@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org

Three more days until the Edible Book Festival!

The Edible Book Festival is on Sunday!  I hope you're excited about joining us for some delicious fun!  It's going to be a really great event this year as we partner with Queen Village Art Center.  Here's a "menu" of what we have planned:

• Starting at 4pm - Marvel at the smorgasbord of scrumptious volumes and vote for your favorites!  Have you entered your "treat"ise into the contest yet?  Enter here!
• Starting at 4:30pm - Enjoy refreshments while the artists speak about their work!  After the votes are tallied, we'll all eat their work too!
• At any time during the event, from 4pm-6pm, visit a craft table to make your own edible creations!  

Are you crafty, and do you enjoy helping others?  We could still use a few volunteers to assist at the craft tables and help with event clean up.  If you are interested in lending a hand, please contact Valeria Kremser (and THANKS, in advance)!

Edible Book Festival 2012 - Flyer and Information

Philadelphia Center for the Book and the Queen Village Art Center are happy to announce the Second Annual Edible Book Festival! The International Edible Book Festival is held annually world-wide on April 1st, partially to celebrate the birthday of French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), and partially to celebrate the fun of eating your own words. An edible book can be simply defined as an edible object that somehow relates to books. It may integrate text, illustrate literary titles or content, or represent book form. You can read more about edible books at the official website, www.books2eat.com. Join us for refreshments, crafts, and, of course, edible books. Vote for your favorite and then eat it! Artists’ talks will take place at 4:30 and, while the votes are being tallied, the eating of the books will begin. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Valeria Kremser at events@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org Want to enter your edible tome into the contest? Visit the PCB site http://philadelphiacenterforthebook.org/edible_book_festival_intent_to_enter_2012.pdf to download an entry form.

Call for Entry

The Poetic Pen: Celebrating Calligraphy and Poetry

Exhibition dates: June 22 - July 28, 2012

Location: 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Entry Deadline: April 20, 2012

23 Sandy Gallery invites you to celebrate the beautiful word by entering

The Poetic Pen, a juried exhibition of calligraphic artwork that uses

poetry as a primary textual focus.  Calligraphers throughout history have

employed poetry to illustrate the art and fine craft of lettering,

letterforms and calligraphic design. This show is open to pen or brush

works in the form of wall-hung pieces, broadsides, books, sculptural

objects and more. Will be held in conjunction with the Calligraphy

Northwest Calligraphy Conference, which will bring over 500 fans of

calligraphy to Portland in June 2012.

Complete information about this show can be found at

http://www.23sandy.com/poeticpen/callforentries.html