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creative acts and messages as salvation
Creative practice has been important to me for many years – even when I didn’t have a name for it. More recently creative practice has not only been an outlet, but a kind of salvation in times of darkness, doubt, and difficulty. Sometimes they are messages of hope, sometimes of encouragement, sometimes of challenge. The rituals of the act of creation — whether artistic or ordinary — are a…
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Type: and the power of the internet
This past week in the Baylor University Libraries Book Arts & Letterpress Lab we uncovered a really beautiful font specimen that was part of a gift to the lab hiding in the shadows of a type with its roommate, the big, bold, bossy Cooper Black font. Our intern Mary Grace got to work identifying this lovely and mysterious, elongated font with a hint of modernity using an online font identification…
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the little press that could
Yesterday, the Baylor University Libraries Book Arts and Letterpress Lab welcomed its newest addition to press family, a Washington style standing iron press from 1870 made by R. Hoe & Co. (New York/London). According to documentation accompanying the press, it was used to publish the Spanish-language daily newspaper El Cronista del Valle (The Chronicler of the Valley) in Brownsville, Texas…
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The seeds of an exciting journey
Since the spring, a lot of my thinking and energy has been devoted to the development of an exciting new endeavor in the Baylor Libraries – the creation of the Book Arts and Letterpress Lab. The spring and this summer have been busy developing the space (on the first floor of Jones Library) and the concepts behind this space. Part of this journey was attempting to articulate the What and the Why…
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The Power of Artists’ Books
My friend and colleague Jane Carlin, former Library Director at Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound, just had an article published the recent issue (vol 85 no 5 (2024))of College & Research Libraries News (Association of College and Research Libraries). “The Power of Artists’ Books: Catalysts for Creative Thinking Across the Curriculum” looks at the impact of remote and…
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Making a Difference
Recently I received an email from a student who graduates this semester that reminded me that you never know how the work you do and the small decisions you make can a profound impact for someone else. Over the course of my work as a librarian, I founded and curate a collection of artists’ books (started nearly 20 years ago). This collection is used heavily to create hands-on, interactive…
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Engaging Student Experiences
This academic year has seen a number of really exciting collaborations with courses and the Baylor Libraries Special Collections. There are many more than the ones I’ll talk about here, but these are the ones in which I’ve been directly involved. Just during this year, I worked with over 1400 students in 43 different instructional settings, some of these were research related, but many were about…
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Hispanic and Latin American Artists’ Books
Hispanic and Latin American Artists’ Books
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Artist's Books Exhibitions
Artist’s Books Exhibitions
While the pandemic has been difficult in many ways, it also provided space for reflection and renewal and sparked many new art works and projects for me including calligraphic, musical, and artist’s books. Several of my artist’s books created over the last year have been selected for a variety of exhibitions, including invitational and juried shows, both national and international. You can…
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revisiting and recapturing
I just ran into a post that I shared here many year ago and paused to reflect. In it, I mention a tool that i really loved, and which sadly is now gone, but I wonder what suggestions you might have for replacing it? Part of it is just a practice of reflecting and recording, and there are many ways to do that, but the part I treasured was how it returned previous reflections to you (“here’s what…
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Artist Books
An inventory of the artist books I’ve created:
Towers, Sha. KnownUnknown. Limited edition letterpress artist’s book. Robinson, Texas: BlackHare Studio, 2015.
All copies of the edition (8) held in the following special collections:
• Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Herron Art Library • University of Washington Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Special Collections • University of…
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Opera Verbis: Artist Book Exhibition (Denver, CO)
Opera Verbis: Artist Book Exhibition (Denver, CO)
Delighted to have one of my recent artist’s books selected for the Opera Verbis exhibition in Denver, Colorado. The exhibit is slated to run Summer through Fall 2020.
A Clean Sheet of Parchment (2020), variable-edition artist’s book (4.5 in x 3 in)x 0.125
This simple, single-sheet book uses stark contrasts of white ink on black paper and the bold marks of the ruling pen and with quieter voice of…
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Artists' Book Cornucopia X (Denver, CO)
Artists’ Book Cornucopia X (Denver, CO)
Excited to receive notice that my artist’s book, We Are Writing These Things, has been selected for the international juried art exhibition Artists’ Book Cornucopia X, that will be at the Art Gym Gallery in Denver, Colorado, November 7-29, 2019.
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Art Exhibition (Eau Claire, WI) 2018
Art Exhibition (Eau Claire, WI) 2018
I recently had one of my artist’s books in an internationally juried art exhibition at Galaudet Gallery of Contemporary Fine Art in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The show was called Sense of Place: HERE and ran from June 21- September 21, 2018.
The work I showed was We Are Writing These Things, a variable edition artist’s book.
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What Do Making and Reading Have in Common?
Over at GOOD, there’s a great little piece up about maker spaces in libraries. These ones are bricks and mortar (or metal and glass), unlike the SparkTruck I wrote about yesterday, but it’s all part of the same movement in education and librarianship. The article is a good introduction to some of the exciting new projects being undertaken in places like Westport, Connecticut, and Oak Park, Illinois.
One thing stood out to me, though, and perhaps raised an eyebrow. The author, Zachary Slobig, begins by describing childhood experiences of his local library, “a modest brick building filled with stacks and stacks of books and a few big tables where we would read or do our homework.” He then moves into talking about the new maker spaces, and later write this:
A dynamic participatory experience was not what was waiting for me at the local library I grew up with.
I get what he means, I think, and I agree that maker spaces are something of a shift in library practice–from, as I wrote yesterday, acquisition and preservation to creation and production.
But.
As you know I’m committed to thinking about seemingly new developments in context. (It’s sort of my job.) So what came to my mind immediately on reading that sentence was, “No!”
What is reading (from among “stacks and stacks of books”) but precisely “a dynamic participatory experience”? The human mind shapes and is shaped by the process of reading. Readers engage with texts in unpredictably participatory ways.
In short, making is not the opposite of reading. Both are opportunities for people to engage creatively with materials at hand and produce something new. Whether those materials are polymers fed into a 3-D printer or Charlotte Perkins Gilman stories fed into a mind is, well, almost immaterial.
Indeed, that’s why it makes sense for libraries–which are expert at facilitating citizens’ creative, productive relationship to the world through objects like books–to be taking on an active role in this turn to the making of physical things.
Artist's book accepted to juried gallery exhibition
Artist’s book accepted to juried gallery exhibition
I’m excited to share with you all that my artist’s book _We Are Writing These Things_ has been selected for a juried gallery exhibition at Galaudet Gallery (Chicago and Eau Claire, Wisconsin). The show is called Sense of Place: HERE and will run from 1 June to 25 September 2018. Over 650 artworks from over 250 artists were submitted for this show, so i’m thrilled to have been accepted.
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Rothko taught that everyone can make art—even those without innate talent or professional training. According to the painter, art is an essential part of the human experience.
Sarah Gottesman in article "How to Teach Art to Kids, According to Mark Rothko” https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-teach-art-kids-mark-rothko?utm_medium=email&utm_source=11925486-newsletter-editorial-daily-01-16-18&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=st-P
