Book Arts Newsletter No. 76: September - October 2012

Dear Readers

The September - October 2012 Book Arts Newsletter, No. 76 is now ready for download (it’s a bit of a beast at 51 pages this issue!) at: 

http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm

IN THIS ISSUE: Cover page – The London Centre for Book Arts!

The first UK Centre for Book Arts is set to open in Hackney Wick, east London, in October 2012, read all about it on page 19.

EXHIBITIONS, INCLUDING:

Otto at UWE, Bristol

7th Annual Artist Book Exhibition, Artisan Books, Australia

INKED! Contemporary Northwest Letterpress at 23 Sandy Gallery, USA

Ampersand Duck, Handset: Letterpress Poetry Broadsides, UNSW@ADFA Library, Canberra, Australia

Printed in Norfolk: Coracle Publications 1989-2012, Sheffield and Shandy Hall, UK

Artists’ Books by Eckhard Froeschlin, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany

Book Arts MA Show 2012, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK

VS VS VS at Art Metropole Window, Toronto, Canada 

Sense of Place in Artist Books, ALA Library Gallery, Rapson Hall, Minneapolis, USA

Cosmic - Arts and Goethe, Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main, Germany

Collaborative Bookworks - Guy Begbie & Lawrence Upton, The Sheppard Library, Middlesex University, UK

Artist’s Book Museum at Museum Pavel Kuznetsov, Saratov, Russia 

HELP/LESS at Printed Matter, New York, USA

Libros Abiertos - Rodrigo Arteaga, Alugar Gallery, Chile

In Association: Collaboration in the Book Arts, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA

Telling Stories: Hastings at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, UK

29 Years of Mini Books from the Artists’ Books Archive – Milan, Italy

Text&Context, Various locations, Cambridge, UK

Book Sculpture: Transforming Books into Works of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, USA

Palimpsest 2012, Theartspace, Dusseldorf, Germany

Sounds in the Trees - Noelle Griffiths at Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, UK

Lessons in History Vol. II – Democracy, at grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane, Australia

Claude Closky – Animations, Le Quartier Quimper, France

BROOM at the Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, UK

Seeing Artists Books as Research, The Royal Society of Victoria Heritage Library, Melbourne, Australia

Bookmarks X - Infiltrating the Library System, September 2012 - February 2013 at various venues.

COURSES, LECTURES, FAIRS, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS, INCLUDING: 

Book Binding Boot Camp with Karen Hanmer, USA

Courses with Hanne Matthiesen in Malling, Denmark

Paris: Stars and Celebrations - With Hazell Designs Books

The Center for Book Arts New York, new classes

Courses at bookRoom Press, UK

HEY! DON’T GET LOST IN THAT TUNNEL… BOOK! With Caren Florance, at Belconnen Arts Centre, Australia

A new course at Hot Bed Press run by Lucy May Schofield, UK

MCBA’s Fall 2012 classes and workshops, Minnesota, USA

Introduction to Book Binding With Mavina Baker, UK

The London Art Book Fair 2012, UK

Plymouth Artists’ Book Fair, UK

Printed Matter, Inc. presents THE NY ART BOOK FAIR, USA

The Seventh Manchester Artist’s Book Fair, UK

XVth International Book Project in Marseilles, France

The Book Arts Fair at HOFS, Essex, UK

Como Pedro por mi casa Festival, Barcelona, Spain

OPPORTUNITIES AND CALLS FOR ENTRIES INCLUDING:

Call for artists: Idaho Booker’s Dozen 2013

Call for artists: Beyond Dickens

Call for applications: WSW Residencies and Fellowships, USA

Call for exhibitors: Artists Book Fair - BOOKFACE Chapter 3, UK

Call for exhibitors: By Leaves We Live: annual Artists’ Books Fair

Call for exhibitors: Turn The Page 2013

NEW ARTISTS PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING:

The Blue Notebook Journal for Artists’ Books

Walk through Arnhem by Bas Fontein

Future Fantasteek! No.13 Wanna Buy a Feejee Mermaid?

Several Clouds Colliding by Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair

Tender Buttons - A new title from Uniformbooks

Lone Wolf by David Schulz

Notes from the Desert by Pat Hodson

Three new books from Lyn Ashby

A Glass Half-Full? by Mike Nicholson

A Simple Rain by Vivienne Glance and Perdita Phillips

New books from Red Trillium Press

Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers: The Printer as Designer and Craftsman 1700 to 1914, by David Jury

Introducing Pixiebks - Priya Pereira

REPORTS & REVIEWS, INCLUDING:

Book Art Object 2, by David Jury

Souvenirs from an Ideal State by Natalie Yiaxi, 2012

STOP PRESS!

Events at the Raum fur Kunst, Literatur und Kunstlerbucher, Basel

Diamond Leaves: Artists’ Books from around the World, Central Academy Of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing

Handmade & Bound at St Bride Foundation, London

THE BOOK AS ART: The bibliophile editions of Raoul Veroni at Museo del libro y de la lengua, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bristol Artist’s Book Event at Arnolfini

Print Workshop: publication from Yellow Owl Workshop

Next deadline: 14TH OCTOBER - FOR THE NOVEMBER 2012 NEWSLETTER