tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19244585972517594252024-03-13T04:17:07.095-07:00The Kidney Presskidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-23858256420741686912018-04-08T16:36:00.004-07:002018-04-08T16:37:58.483-07:00Recent activities: SGC, Under the Blankets, Print Camp 2018It's been a long time since I've updated here- I've been teaching new classes, setting up studio equipment, and generally settling into all the new tasks of a new job.<br />
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A few things happening though:<br />
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I just got back from the SGC (Southern Graphics Council) conference in Las Vegas. I went to several great panels and was also looking at some potential artists for a print show I'm putting together this coming year.<br />
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I'm a part of this show, opening on May 4th in Pittsburgh:<br />
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And, I was selected to be a part of Print Camp 2018 at Printmakers Open Forum in Oxford, PA the first week of June, where I will be focusing on multi-plate intaglio and experimenting with non-toxic grounds. It looks like it's going to be rad!kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-23756202215424720842017-06-15T17:48:00.003-07:002017-06-15T17:48:42.241-07:00New JobNews: I am heading to Appalachia, having accepted a position as an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Marshall
University in <span class="highlightNode">Huntington</span>, WV, where I
will be teaching printmaking and the book arts starting in the fall. The other faculty are interesting
and supportive, and the facilities are great- in a<span class="text_exposed_show"> newly converted
six-story downtown department store building, built in 1902. If you are ever in Huntington, give a holler. </span><br />
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kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-74473351015323925102017-03-29T20:14:00.000-07:002017-03-29T20:16:17.327-07:00Upcoming workshops: The Morgan, Pyramid Atlantic, WSW, Penland School of Crafts<br />
I am teaching several workshops this summer.<br />
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Letterpress at the Morgan Conservatory (Cleveland, OH) June 17th and 18th: </div>
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Screenprint at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (Hyatsville, MD) July 1st and 2nd: link forthcoming.</div>
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Letterpress at Women's Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY) in their Summer Art Institute, July 10-14:</div>
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And in the fall, I will be teaching a one-week class combining printmaking with simple book forms at Penland School of Crafts (Penland, NC), November 5-11: link forthcoming.</div>
kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-80245336501281044922017-03-29T20:05:00.002-07:002017-03-29T20:17:16.770-07:00Space Gallery showI'm getting caught up here keeping track of some of my goings on.<br />
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In January I was invited to be a part of a show at Space Gallery in Jacksonville, called A More Perfect Union.<br />
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There's a blurb about the show here:<br />
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The opening was super- showcasing the diverse and growing Jacksonville arts scene.kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-42226452300305604882017-03-24T10:28:00.003-07:002017-03-29T20:18:10.453-07:00Recent interviewInterview with the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville: <br />
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<br />kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-26948519373051658762016-03-14T10:57:00.002-07:002016-03-14T10:58:44.723-07:00Talk and Workshop at Wake Forest University on February 22I 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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<br />kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-27932936270693299962016-01-20T10:07:00.001-08:002016-01-20T10:08:33.665-08:00Revealed Terrain: The Semantics of Landscape, at the Center for Book ArtsI'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.<br />
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"Stream, Road, and Horizon: Geographic Narratives Within Artist's Books<br />
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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? <br />
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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."<br />
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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. kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-48722827970026456892015-04-08T11:30:00.002-07:002015-04-08T11:30:22.354-07:00Conversations on Craft 4/16 at OCACI'm looking forward to being part of this conversation this coming Thursday April 16. I like the emphasis on "persistence" rather than "value" in the following description of the event- it frames it more as an inquiry rather than manifesto:<br />
"Craft's persistent presence in a contemporary culture suspicious of labored beauty and material literacy."<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>speakers including:</strong></span> <br />
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen</strong> - The Ford Family Foundation sponsored Golden Spot Artist in Residence at OCAC</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Jeffry Mitchell </strong>- The Collins Foundation sponsored Artist in Residence at OCAC</span></li>
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kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-35734776602051468902015-02-15T20:30:00.004-08:002015-02-18T19:15:03.975-08:00Processing flaxI've been processing flax at OCAC this past weekend. This is flax that I planted last May, harvested in September, and let ret through December.<br />
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kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-86876194170916130962015-01-27T17:08:00.000-08:002015-02-02T09:25:41.163-08:00Cuba, OCAC, ShowsGetting caught up here, it's been a busy few months!<br />
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1. In December, I went to Havana, Cuba for 3 weeks. I primarily went to visit a friend, but ended up working on an unanticipated book project with a printmaker- Julio C. Peña Peralta- at the Taller Experimental de Graficos- the printmaking workshop that my grad program at the University of Alabama has an ongoing relationship with. I showed up to see and share work, and Julio and I felt an affinity in our styles, so we decided to undertake a project. It was a bit harebrained as it was over the holidays, I had no tools, and we didn't have much time in general. Basically we made the book in five days: one day papermaking, one day planning, one day prepping, one day printing, and one day binding. Somehow we pulled it off! It was fun working with Julio and great to be introduced to the poetry of Rito Ramon Aroche (<a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/rito-ramn-aroche">http://wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/rito-ramn-aroche</a>).<br />
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2. Three days after I got back from Havana, I started driving cross country to Portland, Oregon where I will be Artist-in-Residence in Book Arts and a guest instructor at Oregon College of Art and Crafts for the spring semester. I will get to hang out with the excellent Barb Tetenbaum and will be working on a new book(like) project. Veronika Schapers (German book artist) and Howard Risatti (craft theorist) have visits slated this semester so I am already anticipating overstimulation! I've been here a week, and I started processing the flax that I harvested in September. Check back here for (probably infrequent) updates.<br />
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-<b>Artists' Maps</b> at Fenwick Gallery of the George Mason University Libraries, up through February 6th. Here's a write-up- I especially like the way they link to related books at the bottom, neat to have artists' books be an inspiration for further exploration: <a href="http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/?page_id=1487">http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/?page_id=1487</a><br />
-<b>Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Arts </b>at the Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado, which opened January 24.<br />
-<b>Artists' Book Cornucopia</b> at Abecedarian Gallery in Denver, opening January 27.<br />
-<b>Approximate Exactitude: The Diagram and the Book</b> at this year's Southern Graphics Conference (SGC- I have to go to this one of these years!) at the Emporium Art Center in Knoxville, TN, opening March 6. If you're going to the conference be sure to check it out, Sarah Smith curated, and it looks to be an interesting show!kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-73680011853445849302014-10-30T18:01:00.003-07:002015-01-31T21:57:21.877-08:00Workshop and Lecture at FSU's Small Craft Advisory PressThis coming weekend (November 1 and 2) I am going to be facilitating a workshop at the Small Craft Advisory Press, which is part of the Facility for Arts Research at Florida State University. The workshop is sponsored by the Southeast Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers.<br />
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[Post-script: Here's some of what we did in the workshop!:]<br />
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kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-18501090568655351612014-10-05T11:13:00.001-07:002014-10-05T11:13:53.536-07:00Guild of Bookworkers Tips and TricksThe Potomac Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers invited me to give a presentation in their Tips and Tricks series. I'll be talking about some of these bookbinding tips within the context of a few of my artist's books. Tuesday 10/7, with socializing and snacks beginning at 6pm, to be held at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD. kidneypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141147504595182577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924458597251759425.post-17899450257084200682014-08-26T13:34:00.002-07:002015-01-31T21:58:33.525-08:00The Book as Art: Expanding the LimitsMy new book, <i>Channel and Flow, </i>is currently on display in The Book as Art: Expanding the Limits exhibition, presented by the Decatur Arts Alliance and the Art Institute of Atlanta-Decature. More info and pictures of the work here:<br />
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I was also just told that <i>Channel and Flow</i> won the Best-in-Show award which is pretty neat!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Designed and executed by students in the Fall of 2013 under the guidance of instructor Sarah McDermott, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><em>Reliquiae</em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> explores the phenomenon of the long-term preservation of the human body, and what these practices symbolize, express, and reveal about the societies in which they occur. Beginning with the idea of the body as a relic, the book then details modern embalming practices and examines seven extreme cases of preservation. Combing intriguing detail about the venerated body with imagery of the deceased, the book encourages the viewer to continue the discovery process. </span></div>
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