Another Room Book Arts Blog

Marie Dern, Sat., Feb. 11, 2pm, Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, presentation and sale

Another Room — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:38:49 +0000

Marie Dern

Tree Heart / True Heart, Kay Ryan

Marie Dern will discuss Jungle Garden Press (begun in 1974) and Red Berry Editions (started with Jane Downs in 2008) with a sale to follow the talk.

Saturday, February 11, 2:00 pm, Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore

2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA

510-704-8222

Through Jungle Garden Press, Dern makes and publishes fine artists’ books as a letter press printer, book binder, and collaborator with poets and artists. She will present her recent work Not an Exit by Bill Berkson (edition of fifty copies) which she letter press printed and bound; and “Tree Heart/True Heart,” a letterpress-printed broadside of the poem by Kay Ryan (edition of thirty copies), with whom she’s collaborated many times. Dern will share and discuss other work as well.

Red Berry Editions publishes work (from design to editing) by writers and visual arts in the form of trade books, art catalogues, chapbooks and deluxe books.

Select work from Jungle Garden Press and Red Berry Editions will be for sale after the event.

Betsy Davids: palm leaf books. Sunday, March 20, 4 pm, Mrs. Dalloway’s Books

Another Room — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:43:41 +0000

palm leaf book

Betsy Davids has travelled to India several times researching the handmade palm leaf book. She will talk about a nontraditional structure and will share examples from her collection.

A presentation keepsake will be available.

Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts 2904 College Ave., Berkeley CA (510) 704-8222

Basel Book Arts

Another Room — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:46:05 +0000

Swiss book arts show, Basel Book Arts, at Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts in Berkeley, will be up until Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. 2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA.

A show of contemporary fine press books and prints from Basel, Switzerland

Contemporary book and print works from printers,

typographers and graphic designers in Basel, Switzerland.

Megan Adie

Christof Buchwalder

Florian Dammeyer

Marcel Göhring

Romano Hänni

Felicitas Wernli

European artists’ books at Mrs. Dalloway’s Books, Berkeley, California

Another Room — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:47:38 +0000

European artists' books, more on shelves beneath.

Another Room selected numerous European artists’ books at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair this past November. These books (Boekie Woekie, Coracle, Lubok Verlag, and more) are currently on sale. More books have been ordered and are on the way.

Mrs. Dalloway’s Books, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, California. M-W 10-7, Th-Sa 10-9, Sun 12-6. (510) 704-8222.

Marie C. Dern, Jungle Garden Press and Red Berry Editions

Another Room — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:04:34 +0000

Marie C. Dern, Jungle Garden Press and Red Berry Editions

October 3rd, Sunday, 4 pm, Mrs. Dalloway’s Books (2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA).

Marie C. Dern presents and discusses a selection of her handmade books from Jungle Garden Press, founded in 1974, and a selection of books from Red Berry Editions, which she founded in 2008 with Jane Downs. Both presses publish collaborations with writers and visual artists, and Jungle Garden Press includes books written by Dern. Dern will also talk about her newest book from Jungle Garden Press, Not an Exit, with poems by Bill Berkson and drawings by Leonie Guyer, which will be published later this fall.

Jungle Garden Press books are letterpress printed and hand bound. Dern says her intention is “to make the experience of reading beautiful to the touch and the eyes as well as the mind, and to make the text understandable to the reader in the way I interpret it.” Red Berry Editions books include commercially printed and letterpress printed.

Authors published by Jungle Garden Press and Red Berry Editions include Kay Ryan, Betty Allen Smith, Jane Downs, and David Scounce, and artists include Inez Storer and Carl Dern.

Books from both presses will be available for sale after the presentation.

A selection of the books Kathleen Walkup will present and discuss Sept. 12, Sat., 4 pm, Mrs. Dalloway’s Books, Berkeley

Another Room — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:49:49 +0000

The World and Its Inhabitants: 24 exploratory cards. Paul Etienne Lincoln. London: Books Works, 1997 3 1/4” x 5 1/4”

imagine finding me. Chino Ostsuka. Weymouth, England: Trace Editions, 2006 8”x8”

folded napkins. Erica Van Horne. Tipperary: Coracle Press, 2006 4 1/4” x 6”

6 1/4” x 9 1/2””]

The Royal Road to the Unconscious. A project by Simon Morris. York, England: Information as material. n.d. [2003

Kathleen Walkup: European Book Artists, 9-21-09, Mrs. Dalloway’s Books, 4pm,

Another Room — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:04:09 +0000

Kathleen Walkup’s presentation on European artists’ books will be at Mrs. Dalloway’s Books (www.mrsdalloways.com) in Berkeley, California, on September 12, 4 pm.

Kathleen Walkup, Professor and Book Art Program Head at Mills College, will present and discuss the European artists’ books she purchased during her recent trip to London. The books will be for sale after the presentation, as well as other European artists’ books from Another Room Book Arts. Mrs. Dalloway’s Books also sells “book art object,” a survey of book arts books throughout the world, published by the CODEX Foundation. Mrs. Dalloway’s Books is located at 2904 College Ave, one block north of Ashby Ave., in Berkeley, California. Please either email lucy@anotherroombooks.com or contact Mrs. Dalloway’s for more information.

Ever wonder where to see book arts books?

Another Room — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:29:13 +0000

This past July, 2009, in the BOOK ARTS listserv, Cathy DeForest, a book artist and owner of DeForest Gallery (www.gallerydeforest.com), started the question of where to see book arts books, and the answer includes locations all over the world.

Here is the list:

From: Sophie BLACHET <sophie@ARTVITAM.COM>

For France, you have different public and private places:

*Le CNEAI located in Chatou, http://www.cneai.com/

*Centre des Livres d’Artistes, http://cdla.info/en

*Page(S). It is an association which is organizing every year a “salon” in Paris, generally last weekend of November.

http://www.pages-bibliophilie.eu/

*Florence Loewy http://www.florenceloewy.com/

*Atelier Vis-a-Vis. Association with workshop and collection. They are organizing every year a big event in Marseille. This year October 10 and 11th. http://www.ateliervisavis.com/index_eng.php

*Bibliotheque Municipale de Lyon has a full department of artists’ books.

http://www.bm-lyon.fr/decouvrir/collections/livres-artistes.htm

*Quai de la Batterie, located in Arras, north of France; they organize a Biennale http://www.quaidelabatterie.com/

*Galerie Schumm Braunstein art gallery located in Paris zith a specialisation in artist book

http://www.galerie-schummbraunstein.com/tiki-index.php?page=3DLivres%20d=20=

*Livres des artiste de la Mediatheque, Ville de Voiron http://mediatheque.ville-voiron.fr/ville-voiron.fr/opac/index

*Les Abattoirs located in Toulouse http://www.lesabattoirs.org/mediatheque/livresartistes.htm

From: ”Huttner, Sidney F” <sid-huttner@UIOWA.EDU>

The University of Iowa Libraries http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll

The University of Iowa Libraries has a large collection of artists’ books housed in our Special Collections department. Individual items are available to the public on request for perusal in our reading room during regular service hours (generally 8-5 M-F).

Since we have some 4,000 titles in the Charlotte Smith Collection of Miniature Books, we may have a somewhat larger number of artists’ books in miniature formats than most collections.

From: Elissa Campbell <erscampbell@HOTMAIL.COM> www.blueroofdesigns.com

www.blueroofdesigns.wordpress.com

The University of Vermont has an amazing collection of artist books. You don’t need an appointment to see them either – just show up at Special Collections during their regular hours and they’ll take care of you.

Dr. Carol Pulin, director@printalliance.org American Print Alliance,

www.PrintAlliance.org, a non-profit consortium of printmakers’ councils

If you’re looking for places where students can regularly see artists’ books, don’t forget the museums and libraries that collect them AND are open to artists and regular people — not just “credential-holding academics.” Our list at the American Print Alliance includes only those that answered us that they allow the books to be studied even when not on display; note that you usually have to make an advance appointment. Go to the Library section of our website (www.PrintAlliance.org) and pick Print Study Rooms, then scroll down or pick the state or province you’ll be visiting. I’m never sure if the direct-to-page link will work, but here it is: http://www.printalliance.org/library/li_study.html

This is a free resource from the Print Alliance.

Mindy Belloff, Studio On The Square: An intimate setting for learning Book Arts & Letterpress Workshops

http://www.StudioOnTheSq.com

or http://www.IntimaPress.com

Tel: 917-412-4134

The Musuem of Modern Art – book & paper gallery

the Morgan Museum & Library

the Grolier Club

& Printed Matter – all in NYC.

The Metropolitan Museum & the Cloisters always have illuminated manuscripts on display. And, the NY Public Library exhibitions change often.

NJ, the Newark Public Library.

http://bookandpaper.org/

Columbia College Chicago

Center for Book & Paper Arts

1104 South Wabash Avenue, 2nd floor

Chicago, IL 60605-2328

312.369.6641

Visual Studies Workshop has a gallery that exhibits artist books; a resource library with around 4,000 artist books; classes in artist books; an MFA Program in Visual Studies; and publishes Afterimage.

http://www.vsw.org/

31 Prince Street

Rochester, NY 14607

From Cathy DeForest www.gallerydeforest.com

Cathy DeForest cathy@gallerydeforest.com

Gallery DeForest and Jubilation Press, 1067 Emigrant Creek Rd., Ashland, OR 97520 (541) 690-6976

California

Donna Seager Gallery; Donna Seager, owner; 851 4th St., San Rafael, CA 94901 (416) 494-4229

www.donnaseagergallery.com

San Francisco Center for the Book

300 De Haro St, San Francisco, CA, 94103-5144, (415) 565-0545 www.sfcb.org

Colorado

Abecedarian Gallery; Alicia Bailey; 910 Santa Fe, Unit #101, Denver, CO 80204

phone: (720) 282-4052 or (303) 340-2110, fax: (303) 479-9556

www.abecedariangallery.com

Minnesota

Minnesota Center for the Book

Open Book Building, 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415 (612) 215-2520

www.mnbookarts.org

New York

New York Center for Book Arts; 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor; New York, New York 10001; (212) 481-0295

www.centerforbookarts.org

Oregon

23 Sandy Gallery,Laura Russell, owner and book artist

623 NE 23rd Ave, Portland, OR 97232 (503) 927-4409

23sandygallery@gmail.com

Washington

Wessel & Leiberman, 208 First Avenue South, Seattle, Washington 98104 (206) 682-3545

www.wlbooks.com

Museum Collections that Feature Artists’ Books, USA

Museums Collections of artists’ books are a plethora of inspiration. Here are favorites to fill you with awe and wonder.

East Coast

Museum of Modern Art, Franklin Furnace Collection

11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019, 212-708-9400

www.moma.org

Museum of Fine Arts, The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

617-369-3385

www.mfa.org

National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20005-3970

202-783-5000, 1-800-222-7270

www.nmwa.org

America’s Heartland

The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60603-6404, 312-443-3600

www.artic.edu

West Coast

The Getty Museum, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, California 90272, (310) 440-7300

www.getty.edu

From: MelissaJay Craig <craigmjay@SBCGLOBAL.NET>

In Chicago, there is the Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection at the School of the Art Institute, 37 S. Wabash. Thousands of books and multiples that can be handled.

Also, Vespine Gallery, an artist-run space at 1907 S. Halsted, regularly (though not exclusively) features artists’ books, prints and broadsides.

http://web.mac.com/melissajaycraig

From: John Cutrone <jcutrone@FAU.EDU> Programs Coordinator, JCBA: Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University Wimberly Library, Boca Raton, Florida

I suppose we’ll each be blowing our own horns until the list is ultimately compiled… here in South Florida, the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University always has book related exhibitions up and running. We’re in Boca Raton, about 40 miles north of Miami. http://www.jaffecollection.org

From: Paul McCann <polm@DAMPFKRAFT.COM>

As a matter of at least related interest, there’s the Karpeles Manuscript Museums:

http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/

From: ”Freeman, Brad” <bfreeman@COLUM.EDU>

Maurizio Nannucci in Firenze has an artist book archive that may be open to the public.

Zona Archives / Box 1486 / 50121 Firenze / Italy / Telefax 39.55.679378 /

http://www.journalofartistsbooks.org

The Center for Book & Paper Arts has a gallery that regularly exhibits artist books; workshops in book arts (letterpress printing, bookbinding, papermaking); an MFA program in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper; and publishes JAB – the Journal of Artists’ Books. http://www.journalofartistsbooks.org

Richard Kegler, Western NY Book Arts Collaborative, Western NY Book Arts Center,

468 Washington St., Buffalo NY 14203, (716) 903-6875

http://www.wnybookarts.org

http://bflobookarts.blogspot.com/

There are 2 Karpeles Museums in Buffalo. If anyone gets by this way to visit us at the WNY Book Arts Center, be sure to try and fit in a visit to one of the Karpeles Museums. I think someone had asked a little while back what was book-related to be found in Buffalo. I had posted something in a travel brochure mode for last year’s TypeCon conference, aimed at typophiles and bibliophiles.

http://www.typecon.com/talk.php?id=137

From: ”Herbert, Teri Lynn” <herbertl@MUSC.EDU>

Subject: Re: Karpeles Museums

We have one of the Karpeles Museums in Charleston and the exhibits are

wonderful! Currently here is the Florence Nightingale letters, reports,

documents – she had a beautiful handwriting. These museums are a

treasure. All of the exhibits are fascinating – the last one here was

on stereoscope pictures and you could borrow the glasses and look

at the old photos of presidents, famous people, houses, etc.

Go visit one! It is hard to find a better free resource!

Teri Lynn Herbert

Charleston, SC

Another Room Blog Arrives!

Another Room — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:00:15 +0000

Hello and welcome to the all-new Another Room Book Arts Blog!

We’re new to this around here, so bear with us while we continue to develop this page. But starting now you can expect to come here regularly for new, interesting, and useful information regarding book arts! Huzzah!