Book Arts Roundtables
Spring 2012

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is a hub of creativity where interesting, passionate, and knowledgeable people like you learn, share ideas, and get inspired. Join the conversation by attending our fun, interactive Book Arts Roundtables in MCBA's lively studios. Always FREE and always OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Tuesday, January 17; 7pm
The Call and Answer Project film screening, with filmmaker Amanda Lovelee
Lovelee's Call and Answer Project is an exploration of human connection, strangers holding hands, and the joy of square dancing. The project has many components, including keepsake books produced through the MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Mentorship program, as well as an all-night printing session, participatory square dance and photo booth to hold a stranger's hand, held in MCBA's studios as part of Northern Spark 2011. (If you are unable to attend the public screening, you can preview the film online.)

Tuesday, March 13; 7pm
Artist talk: MCBA Artist-in-residence Shana Agid
Shana Agid is a visual artist, activist, and cultural critic. Her work challenges ideas of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-Civil Rights Era U.S. and reflects an investment in building new language to address new ideas and possibilities for undoing relationships of power in the 21st century. Working in both visual art and writing, he has explored these interests in projects addressing varied but interconnected issues, from the construction of "safety and security" to the formation of "ideal" transgender citizen-subjects with legibly gendered bodies. Agid's work insists upon and explores the impacts of multiple and related systems of control and resistance on people and the spaces in which we live. Her visual art has been shown at The New York Center for Book Arts and Southern Exposure and is in the collections of the Walker Art Center and the University of California, Irvine, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Southern California libraries' special collections. For images and more information about Agid's work, visit the website of his imprint, Rind Press.

Tuesday, March 20; 7pm
Meet the New MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Fellows
Get to know the work of the five artist recipients of the MCBA/Jerome FOundation Book Arts Mentorship Series XI: photographer Bill Cottman, cartoonist Will Dinski, video and performance artist Amanda Lovelee, printmaker and book artist Cathy Ryan, and graphic designer and printer Todd Thyberg.

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