March 2012 Blog Posts (12)

A simple rain (digitally book) just published with poet Vivienne Glance. The work showcases my photography at the Athabasca Glacier, Alberta, Canada. I collaborated with Vivienne in the dialogue between images and text as well as designing the book.

Hello artist friends, near and far! We've received a number of inquiries about how people can submit work for The MCBA Prize 2012. Well, since The MCBA Prize is a biennial award, and we awarded it most recently in 2011, the next round will not be until 2013. We hope to release submission guidelines and accept submissions around December 2012 or January 2013. Work created between April 2011 and April 2013 will be eligible. So please stay tuned! :)

We recently had two workshops, one intuitive sketchbook which uses all kinds of mixed and unexpected media to confound the left brain and welcome the right brain to wave its freak flag.

The other workshop was a bound sketchbook intensive, where we made and bound our own sketchbooks and then filled them (see above ;-)

Both were highly inventive and energized.  You can…

The exhibit "DOWN THE SPINE: The Art and Craft of the Book in Central Illinois" runs from March 10th through April 6th at Contemporary Art Center in Peoria, Illinois. Images of the exhibit may be viewed at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/portfoliolab/sets/72157629574915083/



Curated by Robert Rowe, from Bradley University, "Down the Spine"

takes an expansive view of the art and craft…

This artist's book is an homage to Nizar Qabbani, the Syrian poet and diplomat (Damascus, March 21, 1923 - London, April 30, 1998). The prints are illustrations for a series of love poems from his book, "On Entering the Sea, the Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani," English translation Interlink Books,…

An exhibition of my photographs opens later this week at the Akron Museum of Art. I will be giving a lecture there on April 12th. If you would like to follow my professional activities, you can "like" my Facebook page by going herehttps://www.facebook.com/nettlespage

I’ve been pondering the value of unwanted books for twenty years, placing them in the trees and in the woods to decay over time.

   An interview with the Fall 2011…

"Entredós" is a collaboration between a printmaker and nine contemporary Spanish poets, all associated in one way or another with Granada.

I'll publish a few pictures here. If you want more information please go to my website: Maureen Booth.com.…

I'm just spreading the word about a fantatsic workshop in Qld Australia with the amazing Pop up Book and Sculptural Book artist Carol Barton from the USA. Carol will bi in Qld at Wrapt in June. If you'd like to find out about Carol go to http://www.popularkinetics.com/ . She has taught in Australia before at TAFTA forums in Geelong and elsewhere but this is her first workshop in Qld so it's a fanatstic chance for Australian book artists to join…

For those of you who cannot make it to Latrobe Regional Gallery for reasons of…

These are the first prints from my new series on Granada's Alhambra palace. I've avoided the Alhambra as a subject for years because of the danger of doing something trite. The Alhambra's been done to death over the past 200 years. But I'm encouraged by my experiments with…