Members--Please Support the Guild through our End of Year Fundraiser

We hope that you will consider the Guild of Book Workers in your year-end  giving.  Your support will ensure the continued success of our organization, while helping to build and strengthen our existing membership benefits.  Donors can choose from a variety of thank you gifts, and all donors will be thanked on our website and in an upcoming issue off the Newsletter.  We hope to raise $15,000 by the end of the fundraiser on January 15, 2017. 
For more information or to donate now, go to:  Year-End Giving
(Or by https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/guild-of-book-workers-year-end-fundraiser)

Dos Rapporte with Stone Veneer

Stone veneer book covers 

 RMC/GBW workshop held Nov. 5-6
Coleen Curry introduced us to stone veneer and its possibilities as a binding material. The structure, dos rapporte, was empathetic to the stone and highlighted its potential. The veneers (slate and quartzite) really need to be handled to be believed; very seductive surfaces!
Coleen was a great instructor; relaxed, encouraging and very knowledgeable; ensuring the class a was success for all.
 

The catalog for Souvenir, the traveling exhibit of work by members of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers is now available online at this link:  Souvenir

The show is currently up in Arizona. Dates and locations for the exhibit are:

Phoenix, AZ: Oct. 3  - Dec. 2, 2016 @ Phoenix Public Library 

Provo, UT:  Jan – March 2017 @ BYU

Denver, CO: April 1-June 30,  2017 @ Denver Public Library

Laramie, WY: July-Sept 2017 @ University of Wyoming

Dos Rapporte in Stone Veneer
Two-day workshop with Coleen Curry
November 5-6, 2016
9:00a-5:00p
Denver Bookbinding Company
1401 W. 47th Ave, Denver, CO 80211
Dos Rapporte is a flat back binding sewn on tapes with attached boards and lift off spine with basic sewing. Students will sew a text block, tip on end sheets, make boards and spine piece and assemble. Yes, we’re using real stone veneer! Basic understanding of binding and good grasp of measurement and attention to detail is required.

About our instructor
Coleen Curry bound her first book in 2003 in Colorado and was hooked. She then became a student of Monique Lallier at the American Academy of Bookbinding (AAB) and graduated in 2009 with a diploma in Fine Binding. Coleen has studied with Eleanore Ramsey, Dominic Riley and Hélène Jolis. Coleen teaches at AAB and is also an assistant to Don Glaister. She is a Board member of the San Francisco Center for the Book and a past President of the Hand Bookbinders of California. Coleen has exhibited internationally and her work is held in private collections. She is Canadian and lives in Muir Beach, CA with her husband, where she crafts design bindings, runs trails and rock climbs in her free time.

Registration fee
$175/GBW members
$200/general
$40 materials fee 

Questions: contact Martha Rome, martha.g.rome.cambridge@gmail.com
Register online: https://gbw.formstack.com/forms/dosrapport
Limited to 10 registrants.

Celebrating Shakespeare!

James Reid-Cunningham, bookbinder, conservator, and book historian gave a great presentation, Artistic Bookbinding in the Twenty-First Century. He explores the complex balance of art and craft in artistic bookbinding, as illustrated in the exhibition currently on display at The British Art Center, “The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert



First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare will be in Colorado
August 9-31, 2016
Register for FREE timed tickets here:
www.ShakespeareatCU.brownpapertickets.com
The exhibit, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, will be open to the public at the CU Art Museum August 9-31, 2016. The First Folio is the first complete collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623, seven years after his death. Compiled by two of Shakespeare's fellow actors, it preserves 36 of Shakespeare's plays. Without it, we would not have 18 of those plays, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra.

Learn about the programming celebrating the arrival of the First Folio at  http://www.colorado.edu/shakespeareatcu/  Look for some workshops focusing on the book arts, courtesy of the Book Arts League.

 

In the midst of joyous tool making with Jeff Peachey

Yep, it was joyous despite all the serious looks on the faces of the participants (who were very invested in getting their tools made just right).  The amazing Jeff Peachey came out to Utah last weekend to put on a tool making workshop.  During the workshop, guild members learned about working with steel, bamboo, and Delrin—a plastic that Jeff introduced to us as a good replacement for Teflon.

Jeff Hunt, Christina Thomas Maloy, Amy Spencer Lee, and India Johnson all watch Jeff as he works on making lifting knives with hack saw blades.

In probably the fastest sold out workshop the Rocky Mountain Chapter has seen (about 4 hours), ten participants coming as far away as Texas spent the weekend in the conservation lab at Brigham Young University to see what tools they could make that would each fit their individual needs and hands.

            Emiline Twitchell in the middle of making a wooden handle for her paring knife.

Participants walked away with a paring knife, some lifting knives, and bamboo and Delrin folders—a huge amount of work for a three-day workshop. 

Tools that we made during the workshop (courtesy of Emiline Twitchell’s phone)

A big thank you goes out to Jeff Peachey for coming, teaching, and spending time with us.  We were all amazed at his knowledge and ability to handle a group of 10 intense bookies all at once.  A large thank you also goes out to the Rocky Mountain Chapter, Brigham Young University, and the Church History Library for helping out with such an amazing workshop.

  

 

Scott Simkins at the belt sander

India Johnson shaping bamboo with a hammer and chisel

Jeff Peachey showing Summer Spencer Lee, Amy Spencer, Christina Thomas Maloy, and Emiline Twitchell how to begin shaping Delrin

Scholarships Available for GBW Conference--Fill out an Application Online Today!!

Scholarship applications for the 2016 Standards of Excellence Seminar are now open!

The 2016 Guild of Book Workers annual meeting and Conference will take place in Charleston, SC, September 15-17^th. 

Scholarships are available for both student and regular members. An applicant must be a member at the time of application. The scholarship consists of a waiver of registration fees to the Seminar, lodging costs for four nights (Wednesday through Saturday) at the conference hotel and the banquet. Recipients are responsible for making their own travel plans. After scholarships are awarded, the GBW Treasurer will contact recipients to discuss lodging arrangements. Recipients may be asked to help with newsletter coverage and/or assist with other tasks during the Seminar.

Applications must be received by June 1, 2016.

The Scholarship Committee will inform applicants of their decision before the early bird registration deadline on June 30.

 Full conference schedule and application information at:https://guildofbookworkers.org/standards

CALL FOR ENTRIES: RM Chapter Show

The deadline to enter is May 31. Please fill out your intent form as soon as possible so that we can give potential venues an idea of number of entries. See https://gbw.formstack.com/forms/souvenirexhibit_intent for details. Contact karen.jones@jeffcolibrary.org with any specific questions or concerns. Digital images are due in August and the work is due in Sept. We have firm commitments to exhibit the show in CO and WY, and members are actively pursuing venues in other RM states. We anticipate that the show will travel beginning in the fall of 2016 and ending in the fall of 2017. The opportunity to exhibit and share our work is one of the great benefits of membership. Looking forward to seeing a lot of great book art!  Karen and Katie

Hey friends,
I got this announcement from the Utah Calligraphic Artists group--they are invited GBW members to attend if they so wish.
                 

The Utah Calligraphic Artists guild is pleased to be hosting an evening lecture with Diane von Arx, one of three American calligraphers invited to be part of the artistic team for the St. John’s Bible project. The lecture will be Thursday, May 5, 2016, at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 S., West Valley City, Utah, at 7 p.m.  

A talented artist/calligrapher, Diane worked as an illuminator on the St. John’s Bible and was also responsible for the design and completion of the Book of Honor, the donor volume for the collection.  She is a renowned calligrapher and  graphic designer of corporate resolutions and documents of recognition.  Her corporate clients include: Target Corporation, General Mills, Inc., University of Minnesota, Westlaw, Medtronics, Ameriprise Financial, and Saint John’s University.  Diane is a gifted lettering arts teacher and has taught classes and workshops throughout the U.S., Canada, in Japan and Australia.

Diane has titled her lecture “Special Treatment Illuminations from the Wisdom Volume” and will be sharing her experiences working on the St. John’s Bible.  We are pleased that the Special Collections Department of BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library will display two volumes of their Heritage Edition of the St. John’s Bible at the lecture. There will be refreshments and an opportunity to visit with Diane following her presentation.  This event is free and open to the public.

We would like to extend a special invitation to you, your colleagues, and students to join us for this very special evening.  I have attached a flyer about the lecture and hope you will take a minute to forward it to anyone you think might appreciate knowing about this event. 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.

Best wishes,

Judy Sommerfeldt

Utah Calligraphic Artists Workshop Chair

judithsommerfeldt@comcast.net

Bookbinding Tool Making Intensive with Jeff Peachey: Knives, Folders and Lifting Tools

CLASS INFORMATION

When: June 23-25, 2016

Where: Conservation Lab of the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah

Price: $300 for GBW members, $315 for non-GBW members

CLASS DESCRIPTION

In this three day tool making intensive, we will make several knives by hand, using stock reduction,

and make a variety of Delrin and Tonkin bamboo folding and lifting tools. Participants should bring

any tools they wish to discuss, sharpen, alter, clean or restore. The specific tools that bookbinders

use will be examined in detail: paring knives, lifting knives, scissors, hole punches, spokeshaves and

board shear blades. The pros and cons of various sharpening systems will be discussed, including

water stones, ceramic stones, diamond stones, oil stones, natural stones, silicone carbide powder,

aluminum oxide powder, diamond paste, abrasive papers and stropping compounds. Basic

principals of tool steel and edge geometry will be discussed. This class will focus on the techniques

of efficient free-hand sharpening, which is applicable to any sharpening system. Participants will be

provided the 3M Microfinishing film, a large paring or lifting knife blank, and all hard hacksaw

blades to two small knives of their choosing, a variety of Delrin blanks and Tonkin Bamboo. The

goal is to free participants from the plethora of misinformation and mystique that surrounds

sharpening and the shaping material using hand tools.

The URL to sign up for this class is:  https://gbw.formstack.com/forms/toolmaking

*This class has been graciously subsidized by the Harold B. Lee Library and the Church History

Library in a joint venture with The Guild of Bookworkers. No materials fee is required. Once signed

up, further information and details will be sent. 

Please contact katie.smith@ldschurch.org or 801-240-6983 for any questions regarding the workshop.

Celebrating "Vessel"

Our chapter celebrated the GBW traveling exhibit, Vessel, with a presentation by chapter member and Colorado exhibitor Lang Ingalls. Lang shared in detail the inlay and incision techniques she's been perfecting to produce her beautiful entry. She brought along her tools and a plaquette displaying the great variety of techniques possible. We were in awe of her careful technique!
After her talk, we toured the exhibit in small groups, admiring the wide range of work and trying to guess how some of it was even accomplished (a book in a bottle?!).
The show closes on April 12. If you don't get a chance to see it, catalogs are now available. Inquire at guildofbookworkers.org

 

 

VESSEL: Guild of Book Workers 2015-2017 Traveling Exhibition

The book as vessel inspires beautiful metaphor - a craft for traveling, a container, a holder, a receiver, a transporter. There are 43 works in this juried show; this is one of only 5 venues in the country hosting the show. The show closes April 12.
Join us to celebrate the exhibit!
Saturday, April 9, 2-5p
Anderson Academic Commons (AAC) on the DU campus
RMC/GBW member and exhibitor Lang Ingalls will be on hand to talk about her work. GBW members are invited to a short meeting at 2:30p in the Loft (on the 3rd floor). Lang will begin her presentation at 3p. The books are displayed on the second floor and main level of AAC. Refreshments available 2-5p in the Loft.
The event is free and open to all.

Reception sponsored by Rocky Mtn. chapter, Guild of Book Workers (RMC/GBW).

Book art fans enjoyed a great presentation 

at the University of Denver, March 30

Book Art: One Theme, Three Interpretations featured open book presentations from Lang Ingalls, Sammy Lee, and Gail Watson – three artists from the Rocky Mountain region with varied concentrations and practices in the book arts. Each shared one artwork in detail, exploring the materials, methods, and meanings involved and revealing their creative process along the way. Alicia Bailey, owner/director of Abecedarian Gallery  introduced the presenters and served as moderator. This event was held in conjunction w/Vessel: the GBW Traveling Exhibit, on display at DU through April. 12

Sammy Lee

Gail Watson

Markmaking and the

Drum Leaf Binding
Two-day workshop with Laura Wait
April 30-May 1, 2016  
9:30a-4p each day at Ewing Farm*

Handwriting and marks will be developed to use as content and image in your artist books. Day one \will be devoted to making marks, expanding and abstracting your use of handwriting, and discovering the uses of repetitive meditative mark making using all kinds of tools. These are methods I use in my own work and finding a place to start on the page. We will work primarily in black and white. Please bring a list of 10 related words.
On day two we will bind the pages together in a drum leaf binding, an excellent structure for artists, which can be made without the use of expensive equipment. This binding is made of a series of single, one-sided pages. Covers will be made with materials made in class in order to include them as an integral part of the process. This will include decorating your own bookcloth for the spine. Our ultimate goal will be the creation of a unique work
of art in book form. Limited to 10 registrants. This class is open to all levels of experience. Bring lunch! To see more about Laura and her work, visit laurawait.com

Registration fee:
$195/BAL and GBW members
$225/general
price includes $25 materials fee (BFK Rives paper, mark making tools of all sorts, a selection of water soluble pencils, inks, and crayons, as well as all bookbinding materials)

Questions? Vivian Jean vjean@mac.com  
Register: http://bookartsleague.org/classes-2/
Bring to class:
- 12-18” metal ruler
- small glue brush for PVA
- scalpel or Olfa
- small closed container of PVA
- scissors
- bone and/or teflon folder
- apron
- self-healing cutting mat (12 x 18)
- small bottle of black sumi ink or FW acrylic ink (white also useful).

optional:
- pens and brushes - small weights
- dividers
- metal triangle

*915 N 95th St., Lafayette CO 80026. For a map, see http://bookartsleague.org/contact/

This workshop is sponsored jointly by the Book Arts League and the Rocky Mtn. 
chapter of the Guild of Book Workers.

Bookmobile Opening Reception:

Christina Q. Maloy Solo Book Arts Show

February 13, 2016

6:31 pm - 8:33 pm

Gallery 5 (level 5) of the BYU Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Provo.

 Please come and support your fellow Rocky Mountain Chapter member in her first solo show!  It's been 6+ years in the making, but her first solo bookbinding/book-art show is finally up.  She would be delighted if you'd stop by and join her for an evening of art, jokes, valentines, and the premier of Bookmobile-inspired music from the fabulous Erik Louis Maloy.  The event is also posted on her Facebook page at:  https://www.facebook.com/events/758450724289527/

Please come and spend an evening with all of us!

Bookbinding classes with Priscilla Spitler in Truth or Consequences, NM

The series starts from the beginning as soon as January 30, with a focus on sound bookbinding structure. Classes are posted through mid June, possibly to be repeated in the fall (depending on edition workload).
http://www.priscillaspitler.com/workshops/
Also, future plans will include a four day class on planning for edition binding, for those wishing to produce multiple bindings.