Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Love it, thank you!

That was stunning, so very visually interesting!

Amaaaaaaaaaazing! What an art.

It's great fun every year.

One of the best ways to support the arts and come home with lots of great gifts. I suggest you buy two of everything, though, as you will have problems parting with the goods.

Flora - I will have a box in the mail to you this week. Super fun new inventory for shop! :-)

Also book artist Julie Chen.

That's Tom Killion who does beautiful japanese woodcuts prints on his cylinder press using oil-based inks. A wonderful melding of techniques. He'll be in the segment called Process.

Thanks for the additional info, Mary and Elisabeth -- and we were able to find more info for the episode in which they both appear:

" 'Process' looks at what inspires a person to choose a career in craft and shows how they go about acquiring the knowledge and necessary skills. Artists and institutions featured include New York City’s 92nd Street Y, Professor Cary Esser of the Kansas City Art Institute, and Nikki Lewis, a recent graduate of her ceramics program, Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, the director of Boston's North Bennet Street School which has been training people for employment in the crafts since 1885, book artists Julie Chen and Tom Killion, and jewelers David and Roberta Williamson of Berea, Ohio."

"Julie Chen, book artist, Berkeley, California. Julie Chen’s works defy traditional definitions of bookmaking, combining original works of poetry and three-dimensional paper techniques to stunning effect. Each one holds embedded messages to be discovered and journeys to be taken, in form and text. Julie Chen works like a conceptual artist, allowing an idea to determine its form and content. Her book forms reflect the variety of concepts that fascinate her, including language, history, memory, and time. Every element – structure, shape, color, material – is in symbiotic relationship with the concept. In contrast to Julie’s highly innovative and conceptual books, we will present the work of Tom Killion, printmaker and book artist, whose work reflects a traditional aesthetic."... Read More

And Julie Chen was, of course, one of the five finalists for the 2009 MCBA Prize for her artist's book "Panorama"!

This is fabulous. Both for him, and for the field. So good to see this kind of work rewarded.

Congratulations! this is wonderful!