A Post-Covid Booklyn Visit
After a long Covid-19 hiatus, Marshall Weber, visual, performance, and book artist, and co-founder and Directing Curator of the NYC-based book artists alliance Booklyn, Inc., visited UWM Special Collections once again last Friday to lay out some of the latest artists books being represented by Booklyn for the express purpose of seeing what might be most suitable to add to our Book Arts Collection in Special Collections. As is our practice, we invited the public to visit anytime during Marshall’s time here to review these exciting new works, offer opinions on what seems most interesting and useful, and perhaps even acquire something for themselves.
Several folks, mainly practicing artists and art faculty and graduate students, answered the call. I find these events extremely useful for my curatorial practice and I have acquired many of our most important works with input from community viewers. During this visit we acquired (with much encouragement) two works (shown above):
Oregon artist Roger Peet’s 2021 environmentalist book Seven Elemental Forces, printed in hand-carved letter-pressed linoleum relief prints in an edition of 15.
The Booklyn/Interference Archive 2020 box set Like the Waters We Rise, produced in an edition of 20 with 29 screen-prints.
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Other books shown but not acquired:
Marshall Weber’s unique 2020 wax rubbing book Rammaytush.
Cover and page spread for Mike Taylor’s 2021 screen-printed Q d’etat.
Rima Day’s unique 2022 embroidered book Scriptum XVI.
Max Yela, Marshall Weber, photographer Christina DeSpears, and painter, printmaker, and book artist Stephanie Copoulos-Sele reviewing Ryoko Adachi’s 2021 artists book Language of Shape.
Thanks to our department manager Alice for all the photographs.
-- MAX, Head, Special Collections
