June 2011 Blog Posts (8)

An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street - A Call To Book Artists - From Beau Beausoleil

Help us reach 200 artists by 1st September 2011!

On March 5th 2007, a car bomb was exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street is in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the…

Read the article here:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Mystery-masterpieces-are-the-stuff.6792373.jp

The NMWA in Washington DC is offering its Artists' Books Grant  of $12,000.

For details visit their website at http://www.nmwa.org/library/program.asp

T he artists book NYX is the result of an artistic collaboration over a…

For the past few years I have been involved with a wonderful place - Hypatia-in-the-Woods - - located on Hammersley Inlet, in the lower Puget Sound, near Shelton, WA. This place has been built with love and devotion by Elspeth Pope and a cadre of dedicated friends and members. Holly House - a retreat for women artists, craftswomen, poets, writers, musicians, dancers - is nestled among soaring cedars, douglas firs, and native shrubs. It shelters women seeking a quiet refuge for themselves and…

Museum and galleries of the modern art  Erarta in St.-Petersburg represent an exhibition under the name "Museum" the Book of the artist",  devoted to century of this direction in modern Russian art.

http://www.erarta.com/timetable/233/

One of the best aspects of working in the field of book and paper arts is the chance to work with such varied artistic materials and techniques—even traditional handicraft techniques. Think of knitting, embroidery, sewing, beading, felting, needlework, stitching, quilting and any other myriad possibilities. Combine these techniques or materials with a strong concept, meaningful content, a story to tell or a compelling narrative and we have a new era in the book and paper arts. This exhibit…

The 2011 Agassi Book Arts Prize has been awarded by The Centre for Fine Print Research to the MA Multi-disciplinary Printmaking student Angie Butler for all her wonderful book works, especially as artist-in-residence at Miss Carol a small traditional hair stylists in Bristol.

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