Bookworks 12 gets some press

Bookworks 12, the CBAS exhibit at the Main Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County was reviewed in the on line arts magazine Aeqai - the review, written by Fran Watson, is quite nice and speaks to all of us who love the tactile nature of handling a book and who relish the visual in an artist's book.


Check it out below by clicking on "Aeqai". The exhibit runs through August 28th. A final artist walk through is scheduled for Sunday August 28th from 2 to 3pm.



Aeqai

Farewell

This past CBAS board meeting (July 2011) was bittersweet as Cody Calhoun officially announced that she will be leaving the CBAS board and moving to Texas! Oh Yeah! Texas (although we know, no State is too big for Cody...)

Her spouse, Kim, got a job in Texas, (congratulations) and off they go! We will miss Cody immensely. Cody was instrumental in organizing and planning projects for community book arts projects that CBAS did for the Fine Arts Fund and for Books by the Banks. She gave fantastic book arts workshops for the study group and her spirit and subversive giggle will be very much missed during board meetings!

Cody with a book!

Tunnel book workshop

Cody demonstrates book making techniques

 CBAS president Jack Campbell had this 
to say during the board meeting:

"Cody, Calhoun, our brilliant book artist and long term board member, is off to the Lone Star State. We are sending      

up a Bravo and many Kudos for all the wonderful workshops, time given to the organization and tremendous

assistance she has lent to CBAS over the years.  

THANKS CODY!"

Great Books in Bookworks 12

Bookworks 12, view of the Atrium

I (Diane S.) just got back from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, downtown branch, where installation of Bookworks 12 is almost complete. The show looks great, filled with expressive, poignant and textural books along with lovely miniatures and splendid leather bindings.

Thanks to Library staff, Kate Lawrence and Cindy Benasch for careful and great placement of the books. I tweaked and did some rearranging but not much. We had so many books this year that more cases are being requested, so the installation of the show should be completed by Tuesday afternoon, June 13th.

Judith Serling-Sturm & Jeanne Taylor

Thanks to all the artists, whose work makes the show so impressive!

Bookworks 12 Exhibit

BOOKWORKS  12 opens June 14th!

CBAS's  20111 annual exhibit of artists' books and fine bindings will feature 52 works from regional artists and binders. Come see the wide range of talent displayed in these books that delve into poetic musings, reveries on daily life and that pay homage to  important texts. You will enjoy the variety of technical approaches too, from altered book to finely crafted bindings.

Constance Wozney

June 19th from 2pm to 3pm is an Artist Walk Through featuring artists from the exhibit: 
Patty Bertsch, Pamela Howard, Bobbi Vallery and Cecie Chewning, Lou Kroner 
and Judith Serling-Sturm* 

The exhibit runs from June 14th to August 29th, 2011 and  is located in the atrium of the lobby of the main branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, downtown Cincinnati, on Vine at 8th Streets.

In conjunction with Bookworks 12, the library has mounted an exhibit in honor of our beloved and passionate CBAS troubadour, Keith Kuhn, who passed away in 2008. The Keith Kuhn Memorial Artists' Book Exhibit will display books from regionally and nationally recognized artists on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the library.  

Don't miss it and bring a friend! 

*Judith still to be confirmed

Larkspur Press workshop!

Join the folks at Larkspur Press in Monterey, Kentucky for a mini retreat in the beautiful countryside near Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky.

Larkspur Press is located about half way between Louisville and Lexington and has been offering this workshop regularly for one weekend each summer.

 

Workshops on Bookbinding & Decorative Papers

including marbled & paste papers, hand

 sewing, case and non-adhesive bindings

at Larkspur Press from

 

Carolyn Whitesel

of Yellowbird Editions

 

Carolyn is moving back to Cincinnati and looking forward to seeing more of us all again.

 

Saturday & Sunday, June 18 & 19, 2011

Cost: $160

 

Limited to 15 folks, cost includes materials.

For further information or to enroll,

call or write Gray Zeitz at Larkspur Press

340 Sawdridge Creek West

Monterey, KY 40359   501-484-5390

 

For more information about the press and proprietor, Gray Zeitz, who has been publishing letterpress printed, limited edition books at a reasonable price for nearly forty years

www.larkspurpress.com 

Gray doesn't do e-mail though, so phone!

Bookworks 12 Artist Walk Throughs

CBAS's annual exhibit Bookworks 12 at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (main branch, downtown Cincinnati) will close August 29th. 

 Not all is lost though! You can still see the exhibit 

one last time and hear artists talk about their 

work this Sunday August 28th from 2 to 3pm.

 Artist Walk-Throughs of Bookworks 12-

August 28th, 2-3pm (Sunday)

The walk through will feature artists: Diane Stemper, Veronica Sorcher, Janice Kagermeier, Maxine Seelenbinder-Apke and Stephan Washburn. Each artist will talk for 5 to 10 minutes about their piece(s) in the show. The public, friends and other exhibiting artists are all invited. We thought this would give us an opportunity to meet new artists, get to know one another and give the public an opportunity to hear what goes through the minds and hands of those who make books!



Hope to see you there!


Tell your friends about the exhibit and invite them to the walk through too!

Documenting the show! BOOKWORKS 12

Jo Diamantes cataloging the work

  Whew! Putting together a exhibition is a long process - but we think worth it! All the team effort pays off in presenting strong and interesting work in a professional setting and producing a digital catalog that each particpating artist will be given. Three dedicated CBAS members spent a long day at the library on Friday May 20th photographing all 52 entries in Bookworks 12. Photographer Dianne Dennis was assisted by Jo Diamantes and Cecie Chewning. Thanks to Jeanne Strauss-DeGroote for reserving our "studio" space in a meeting room at the library and so carefully receiving all the entries. 

Dianne Dennis lends her photographic expertise

Judging from all the excellent creative work submitted, Bookworks 12 will be a great exhibit to see this summer! Tell your friends and...

 

 

Remember to mark your calendars now for the two exhibition
walk-throughs  

with some of the exhibiting book artists:  

Sunday, June 19, and Sunday,
August 28, both from 2-3 p.m.