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Book Arts Roundtable The four 2009-2010 MCBA Jerome Foundation Book Arts Fellowship recipients -- Bethany Kalk, Anna King, Cecilia Ramón and Joanne Price -- will share some of their past work and inspirations, and present the Fellowship projects they will be working on throughout the coming year, culminating in an exhibition opening in November 2010.
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2010 Minnesota Book Artist Award Reception Wilber "Chip" Schilling is proprietor of Indulgence Press and a longtime pillar of the Minnesota book arts community. His artist's books and fine press works have been exhibited internationally and are included in the collections of the British Library, New York Public Library, Getty Center, Library of Congress, Harvard University, Yale University, Wellesley College, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota Historical Society and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Please join us at Open Book for a reception honoring Chip and his extraordinary contributions to the book arts. An exhibition of Chip's work will be on display in the Open Book Cowles Literary Commons from January 30 through March 21.
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Exhibition Opening Reception The need to order our world is an innate human characteristic. This exhibition explores the art of this practice through works featuring numbers, formulas, codes, counting systems and a variety of other mathematical organizational schemes. Book art from over 50 artists from around the globe will be presented in this unique exhibition curated by MCBA artistic director Jeff Rathermel, on display March 12 – June 20, 2010. Free and open to the public!
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Book Arts Roundtable Angie Butler & Lilla Duignan of CoCoLlab are artists interested in contributions to alternative models of dissemination beyond the current network of book arts fairs and exhibitions in the UK. They will be spending ten days or so among the MCBA community networking, collaborating and developing some participatory projects to extend their collaborative practice within a wider contextual setting. At the March 30 Roundtable, join Lllla and Angie for an entertaining evening "salon" -- with traditional tea and homemade cakes to add a little English flavour! After a casual presentation about their book arts experiences on both sides of the pond, they hope to get to know and learn from the MCBA community. So please feel comfortable to chat, share advice, make friends and collaborate! To preview just one of Angie and Lilla's unique collaborations with other book and multidisciplinary artists, check out this project from the UWE (Bristol, U.K.) Artists Book Club. (And explore the UWE book arts website for many more!) Always thought-provoking and always free; for more information on MCBA's Book Arts Roundtables, visit the Roundtables page.
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Free Family Day Join instructors from MCBA and The Loft to make a counting book with your own rhymes! Simple writing exercises and examples will help you jumpstart your creative juices. Construct a step book with a simple sewn binding to put your poem inside. Collage and drawing materials will be available for making illustrations. While numbers dance in your head, browse MCBA’s current exhibition Quantified Aesthetics featuring artist's books inspired by numbers. Free and open to all ages!
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Book Arts Roundtable From the Dead Sea Scrolls to e-readers, the book has changed society and culture -- and society has changed the book in turn. Artist, U of M instructor and proprietor of Western Slope Bindery Jana Pullman will guide us through a fun and interactive exploration of the book throughout its history, with both digital images and real life samples. Interested in learning more about ancient book forms? Experience the Science Museum of Minnesota's exhibition The Dead Sea Scrolls: Words That Changed The World. Always thought-provoking and always free; for more information on MCBA's Book Arts Roundtables, visit the Roundtables page.
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