The Center for Book Arts is committed to exploring and cultivating contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object, while invigorating traditional artistic practices of the art of the book.
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Friday, November 6 at 6:30pm - Artist Talk: Ellie Brown - A C...
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Wednesday, October 28 at 6:30pm - Broadside Reading, Wed. Oct 21...
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Wednesday, October 21 at 6:30pm - Poetry Chapbook Reading--Wed. ...
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Wednesday, October 7 at 6:30pm - Center for Book Arts @ NY Art ...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center
Thursday, October 1 at 6:00pm - Opening Reception for Three Ne...
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Wednesday, September 23 at 6:00pm - Opening Reception for Three Ne...
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Wednesday, September 23 at 6:00pm - Fall Open House
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Saturday, September 12 at 2:00pm - Book Arts Lounge - Under Press...
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Friday, September 11 at 6:00pm - Book Arts Lounge @ Center for ...
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Friday, August 14 at 6:00pm
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Please join us for an artist talk featuring renowned artist and scholar Johanna Drucker. Every year the Center for Book Arts invites an artist/ instructor from outside of New York to teach a master class and to give a formal lecture in New York City. The Sally R. Bishop Master Faculty Fellow for 2009 is Johanna Drucke...r, who is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. In addition to her artistic work, Johanna Drucker has published and lectured extensively on topics related to the history of typography, artists' books, and visual art. She is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.
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Time:6:30PM Friday, November 6th
Location:The Center for Book Arts
The Center invites all binders and book artists to a new opportunity offered this fall: Open Bindery Studio on Thursday evenings. Students may now rent the Center's bindery facilities after hours, each Thursday evening from 6:30 to 9PM...
The Center for Book Arts It's not too late to register for fall classes! Some exciting offerings are: Reductive Woodcut, Comic Book Weekend, Bookbinding I, A World of Boxes, & Letterpress I. Visit our website for details and to register.
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The Center for Book Arts is dedicated to preserving the traditional crafts of book-making, as well as exploring and encouraging contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object.
The Center for Book Arts At the October 9th, 2009 installment of Book Arts Lounge (the annual workshop/open studio event at The Center), we made palm leaf books, a binding structure that incorporates the accordion fold between two boards that open and close with a cord (imagine venetian blinds). Roni Gross was the leader, and a good time was had by all. We also printed some abstract designs to bind at home.
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The Center for Book Arts invites you to an artist talk, featuring photographer and book artist Ellie Brown discussing her work, A Chronicle of Lovers, currently on view at the Center as part of its Featured Artist Projects series. A Chronicle of Lovers was started in homage to each of the men the artist has slept with.... Each man has a book and a digital print of the book in his name. The books are based on her impressions, memories and experiences with each man, regardless of whether the experience was positive or negative. She has contacted the men she's still in touch with to share her altered book version of their affair. The artist stresses that each book is an earnest evaluation of her memories and not in any way meant to degrade, attack, or humiliate the men.
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Time:6:30PM Wednesday, October 28th
Location:The Center for Book Arts
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Broadside Poetry Reading Featuring Alex Dimitrov and Alex Lemon, Organized by Ada Limón
Join us for the first reading in the Center's 2009 Fall Broadside Reading Series. Limited edition, letterpress printed broadsides featuring the poems of both readers will be available after the reading.
BIOS:
Alex Dimitrov is the recip...ient of a Roy W. Cowden Fellowship from the Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan. His poems and reviews have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, The Southwest Review, Poets & Writers, Crab Orchard Review, and The Portland Review among others. He is the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City.
Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir, the poetry collections Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, Fancy Beasts (forthcoming), and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and frequently writes book reviews. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas and teaches at Texas Christian University.
Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, California. She received her MFA from New York University. She has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry from ACM. Her work appears in numerous magazines, including The Iowa Review, Slate, Watchword, Poetry Daily, Tarpaulin Sky, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. Her first book, lucky wreck, is forthcoming by Autumn House Press in February of 2006.
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Join us for the first reading in the Center's 2009 Fall Broadside Reading Series. Limited edition, letterpress printed broadsides featuring the poems of both readers will be available after the reading.
BIOS:
Alex Dimitrov is the recip...ient of a Roy W. Cowden Fellowship from the Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan. His poems and reviews have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, The Southwest Review, Poets & Writers, Crab Orchard Review, and The Portland Review among others. He is the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City.
Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir, the poetry collections Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, Fancy Beasts (forthcoming), and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and frequently writes book reviews. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas and teaches at Texas Christian University.
Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, California. She received her MFA from New York University. She has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry from ACM. Her work appears in numerous magazines, including The Iowa Review, Slate, Watchword, Poetry Daily, Tarpaulin Sky, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. Her first book, lucky wreck, is forthcoming by Autumn House Press in February of 2006.
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Featuring Alex Dimitrov & Alex Lemon. Organized by Ada Limon.
Time:6:30PM Wednesday, October 21st
Location:The Center for Book Arts
The 2009 Poetry Chapbook Reading took place this past Wednesday, October 7th here at the Center...
Nigel Beale
Listen to my Biblio File Interview with the Janus Press's Claire Van Vliet here
http://nigelbeale.com/2009/10/audio-inte
The Center for Book Arts Artist and Printer Delphi Basilicato, the creator of one of the Center for Book Arts' 2009 Chapbooks, in action as he finishes the edition.
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The Center is please to participate in the New York Art Book Fair, held this weekend, October 2-4 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center. The Center is organizing two events in conjunction with this year's fair:
Panel Discussion: The Handmade Multiple featuring former and current Center Artists-in-Residence Nicolas Dumit Esteve...z, Catarina Leitão, Karina Skvirsky, and James Walsh.
Sunday, October 4 at 12:30 PM in The Classroom at PS1
Hands-on-Workshop: Bookbinding demonstrations
Sunday, October 4 at 11:30 AM in The Classroom at PS1
Visit us at the fair!
When: Preview party: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6-8pm
Friday/Saturday, October 2 & 3, 2009, 11am - 7pm
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Panel Discussion: The Handmade Multiple featuring former and current Center Artists-in-Residence Nicolas Dumit Esteve...z, Catarina Leitão, Karina Skvirsky, and James Walsh.
Sunday, October 4 at 12:30 PM in The Classroom at PS1
Hands-on-Workshop: Bookbinding demonstrations
Sunday, October 4 at 11:30 AM in The Classroom at PS1
Visit us at the fair!
When: Preview party: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6-8pm
Friday/Saturday, October 2 & 3, 2009, 11am - 7pm
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Stop by this weekend for artist books galore!
Time:6:00PM Thursday, October 1st
Location:PS1 Contemporary Art Center
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The Poetry Chapbook Reading, featuring Bonnie Jo Campbell and Teresa Leo, marks the release of two limited edition, artist-made chapbooks, published as part of the Center's annual Poetry Chapbook Program. This year's chapbooks, which will be signed by their authors, were created by Delphi Basilicato and Barbara Henry i...n an edition of 100.
ORGANIZED BY:
Kim Addonizio and Sharon Dolin
BIOS:
Bonnie Jo Campbell grew up on a small Michigan farm with her mother and four siblings in a house her grandfather Herlihy built in the shape of an H. She has since hitchhiked across the U.S. and Canada, scaled the Swiss Alps on her bicycle, and traveled with the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus selling snow cones. As president of Goulash Tours Inc., she has organized and led adventure tours in Russia and the Baltics, and to Romania and Bulgaria. Her collection Women & Other Animals won the prestigious Associated Writing Programs prize for short fiction; her story "The Smallest Man in the World" has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. For fifteen years she has put together a personal newsletter The Letter Parade which was written up in the Village Voice.
Teresa Leo is the author of a book of poems, The Halo Rule (Elixir Press, 2008), winner of the Elixir Press Editor's Prize. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Women's Review of Books, Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry (Prentice Hall, 2005), and the anthology Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sport (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999). She works at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently she serves as a contributing editor for The American Poetry Review as well as Xconnect Magazine, the literary journal at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kim Addonizio is the author of four poetry collections including Tell Me, A National Book Award Finalist. Addonizio has also authored two instructional books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux), and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, both from W.W. Norton. Addonizio's awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship,a Pushcart Prize, a Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal, and the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared widely in anthologies, literary journals, and textbooks.
Sharon Dolin's fourth poetry book, Burn and Dodge, won the AWP 2007 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008. Her other books include Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004), Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Heart Work (1995). She currently teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. Her poems have appeared in dozens of journals including Barrow Street, The Kenyon Review, New American Writing, Court Green, and The New Republic.Read More
ORGANIZED BY:
Kim Addonizio and Sharon Dolin
BIOS:
Bonnie Jo Campbell grew up on a small Michigan farm with her mother and four siblings in a house her grandfather Herlihy built in the shape of an H. She has since hitchhiked across the U.S. and Canada, scaled the Swiss Alps on her bicycle, and traveled with the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus selling snow cones. As president of Goulash Tours Inc., she has organized and led adventure tours in Russia and the Baltics, and to Romania and Bulgaria. Her collection Women & Other Animals won the prestigious Associated Writing Programs prize for short fiction; her story "The Smallest Man in the World" has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. For fifteen years she has put together a personal newsletter The Letter Parade which was written up in the Village Voice.
Teresa Leo is the author of a book of poems, The Halo Rule (Elixir Press, 2008), winner of the Elixir Press Editor's Prize. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Women's Review of Books, Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry (Prentice Hall, 2005), and the anthology Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sport (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999). She works at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently she serves as a contributing editor for The American Poetry Review as well as Xconnect Magazine, the literary journal at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kim Addonizio is the author of four poetry collections including Tell Me, A National Book Award Finalist. Addonizio has also authored two instructional books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux), and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, both from W.W. Norton. Addonizio's awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship,a Pushcart Prize, a Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal, and the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared widely in anthologies, literary journals, and textbooks.
Sharon Dolin's fourth poetry book, Burn and Dodge, won the AWP 2007 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008. Her other books include Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004), Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Heart Work (1995). She currently teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. Her poems have appeared in dozens of journals including Barrow Street, The Kenyon Review, New American Writing, Court Green, and The New Republic.Read More
Featuring Bonnie Jo Campbell and Teresa Leo
Time:6:30PM Wednesday, October 7th
Location:The Center for Book Arts
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"There Goes My Hero" explores a selection of contemporary women artists-Blanka Amezkua, Dara Birnbaum, Maureen Burdock, Julie Doucet, Ali Fitzgerald, Chitra Ganesh, Aimee Lee, Dulce Pinzón, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Trina Robbins, Colleen Rudolf, and Anne Timmons-who use the format of comic books and/or the comic book supe...rhero in their artistic practice as a strategy to comment on larger socio-political concerns.
Organized by Erin Riley-Lopez, Associate Curator, The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Featured Artist Project: Ellie Brown
"A Chronicle of Lovers" was started in homage to each of the men the artist has slept with. Each man has a book and a digital print of the book in his name. The books are based on her impressions, memories and experiences with each man, regardless of whether the experience was positive or negative. She has contacted the men she's still in touch with to share her altered book version of their affair. The artist stresses that each book is an earnest evaluation of her memories and not in any way meant to degrade, attack, or humiliate the men.
Writing and/the Wor(l)d: Johanna Drucker, The 2009 Bishop Faculty Fellow
Every year the Center for Book Arts extends an artist/ instructor from outside of New York the opportunity to teach a master class and to give a formal lecture in New York City. The Sally R. Bishop Master Faculty Fellow for 2009 will be Johanna Drucker, who is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. In addition to her artistic work, Johanna Drucker has published and lectured extensively on topics related to the history of typography, artists' books, and visual art. She is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.Read More
Organized by Erin Riley-Lopez, Associate Curator, The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Featured Artist Project: Ellie Brown
"A Chronicle of Lovers" was started in homage to each of the men the artist has slept with. Each man has a book and a digital print of the book in his name. The books are based on her impressions, memories and experiences with each man, regardless of whether the experience was positive or negative. She has contacted the men she's still in touch with to share her altered book version of their affair. The artist stresses that each book is an earnest evaluation of her memories and not in any way meant to degrade, attack, or humiliate the men.
Writing and/the Wor(l)d: Johanna Drucker, The 2009 Bishop Faculty Fellow
Every year the Center for Book Arts extends an artist/ instructor from outside of New York the opportunity to teach a master class and to give a formal lecture in New York City. The Sally R. Bishop Master Faculty Fellow for 2009 will be Johanna Drucker, who is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. In addition to her artistic work, Johanna Drucker has published and lectured extensively on topics related to the history of typography, artists' books, and visual art. She is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.Read More
"There Goes My Hero," Ellie Brown, Johanna Drucker
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, September 23rd
Location:The Center for Book Arts
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