University of North Florida

I've been neglecting various things, including updating here, because I started teaching at the University of North Florida as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking. I'm teaching a lot of old and new stuff, the students are really engaged and I like Florida so far. I will hopefully post some things as I go along.

Artist Talk and Workshop at Oberlin College

I was invited to give an artist's talk and workshop in Nanette Yannuzzi's book arts class at Oberlin College in April. Nanette specifically asked for me to do a more advanced book structure with her bookbinding enthusiast students. So, over two days we combined making paste paper with a drum leaf binding. Here are some photos from the workshop.

Talk and Workshop at Wake Forest University on February 22

I was invited to Wake Forest to give a talk by the Creative Writing and the Early Modern and Medieval Studies programs. The talk was titled "Recycled Possibilities and New Combinations: Book Structure from Medieval Europe to Contemporary Artist's Books" and gave an overarching trajectory of codex-based book structure while asking some questions about form (such as what does it mean to work primarily in a form that has remained largely unchanged for the past 1500 years?) and starting a conversation about current small press publishing, as impacted by the onset of digital technologies.

This talk was followed by a workshop with Wake Forest creative writing and art students, where we were able to talk about some of their plans for publishing projects and work on a couple of small structures.

Revealed Terrain: The Semantics of Landscape, at the Center for Book Arts

I'm pretty psyched to be included in this show about landscape, with various luminaries of printmaking and the book arts. It opens this Friday at the Center for Book Arts in New York City, and will be up through the beginning of April.

More information can be found here:

http://centerforbookarts.org/event/revealed-terrain-the-semantics-of-landscape/

CBAA conference 2016

I had the opportunity to present at the College Book Arts Association in Nashville on January 7-9. Here is the abstract for my presentation:

"Stream, Road, and Horizon: Geographic Narratives Within Artist's Books

What stories are embedded within a waterway or within other landscape features? Which of these stories do we choose to tell and how do those stories transform within the structure of an artist book?

Land and water features often contain their own linear imperatives, distinct boundaries and inherent or implied motion, be it rushing water or a charted path for humans to follow. The artist's book, meanwhile, has its own structures of movement, as a time-based sequential medium and a functional object, in which we as artists suggest or dictate the reader's motion with our structural and graphic choices. This presentation will investigate how these two movement systems map onto each other within the artist's book "Channel and Flow," which follows an urban stream and breaks it into fragmented, but still connected, narrative vignettes. The presentation will also discuss more generally how landscape features and their accompanying human-built land use structures can function within the artist's book to tell stories, convey information, explore ideas, or to attempt to represent the human experience of the environment. The presenter will bring various walking and mapping strategies into the discussion, drawing on cartography-related traditions of using psychogeographical frameworks, scores, and datascapes within artist's books, visual art and language projects."



Here is the panel I was on (photo nabbed from Sarah McCoy):


Overall, it was a great opportunity to do a lot of thinking and reading, and to get into some interesting discussions with other conference participants.