BookOpolis 2010: Memory Palaces
A NATIONAL EXHIBITION

• Deadline for delivery of actual work at BookWorks is September 8, 2010, $12 entry fee / 2 max.
• All entries will be displayed for the BookOpolis Weekend*, September 24 and 25, 2010
• All entries will be considered for selection in the BookWorks Gallery** through December 10, 2010. Juror is Alice Sebrell, Director of Black Mountain College Museum.
• Prospectus (PDF) and download version is available on the BookOpolis page of this website.
• A Printable Basic Entry Form is there too.

*BookOpolis Weekend Opens Friday September 24
at Asheville BookWorks, 6 – 9 PM.
Continues Saturday September 25, 1 – 6 PM with letterpress & bookbinding demonstrations.

**Selected Works on exhibit through December 10, 2010

Innovative Printmaking on Handmade Paper: September 13 through October 18, 2010
Pulp Painting: Beyond the Squeeze Bottle: October 16-17, 2010, 9:00–5:00 p.m.

Innovative Printmaking on Handmade Paper, the sixth portfolio in a series, will be on display at Asheville BookWorks the week of September 13th through the week of October 18^th. The traveling exhibition includes 20 prints juried by the national non-profit organization Hand Papermaking, Inc. The collection incorporates a wide variety of printmaking techniques— traditional, contemporary, and experimental—while emphasizing the equal importance of printed image and paper.

Whether done by individual artists or as collaborations between papermakers and printmakers, these innovative prints reflect a successful marriage of print and paper. The handmade paper is not simply a substrate; it is inherent in the artwork. The printmaking techniques represented include etching, woodblock, chine collé, linocut, digital inkjet, silkscreen, monotype, lithography, pochoir, aquatint, and letterpress. The papermaking techniques include watermarking, pulp painting, double couching, and overbeating; with fibers such as cotton, linen, abaca, hemp, kozo, flax, and sea grass.

Brooklyn artist Shannon Brock will conducting a paper pulp painting class October 16-17, 2010, 9:00–5:00 p.m. at Asheville BookWorks. The two-day workshop, Pulp Painting: Beyond the Squeeze Bottle, will explore image making in hand papermaking.  Using multiple moulds and vats of pigmented pulp, along with contact paper, dental syringes, paintbrushes and squeeze bottles, participants will develop images by layering and overlapping thin veils of pulp.  Basic paper sheet formation and pigmenting will be reviewed.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 7 PM

Memory Theatres: The Photographic Work of Bea Nettles

Bea Nettles will give an overview of her photographic work, beginning with her earliest mixed media images of the 70’s, her photographic narratives, and ending with her most recent limited edition artists’ books. As her work is autobiographical, she has explored her roles as daughter, wife and mother as well as her memories and relationships to particular landscapes.
This event is free and open to the public.

Bea Nettles

Professor Emerita, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

The exhibition career of Bea Nettles began in 1970 when her work was shown in “Photography Into Sculpture,” at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Recognition as an experimental photographic artist followed and her work has been featured in over two hundred exhibitions throughout the world. Nettles’ work is found in history texts and has been regularly reviewed in the media. Over 26 public collections contain her work and she has received two National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships and grants from the New York and Illinois State Arts Councils. Nettles has taught photography to over one thousand students since 1970. She has delivered lectures and workshops internationally and is widely recognized for her innovations in mixed media photography and photographic books.

Jan 19, Feb 16, March 16, April 13, May 25, and June 29, 2011
Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:00 (suggested pre-class: Keeping Creative Visual Journals)

Instructor: Heather Allen-Swarttouw
$215

Drawing on the idea of a daily journal practice you will explore and expand your own personal artistic style.  Often it is less daunting or intimidating to explore the development of new ideas and images in the smaller format and repetitive nature of a journal. This class works uses specific parameters and the student’s established journal practice in a non-verbal, purely visual practice. By developing and maintaining a non-linear journal over 6 months we will explore how journals can lead to exciting artistic discoveries and insight. Having taken Keeping Creative Visual Journal can be helpful but not necessary.

Supply list, please bring:

• bring 3-5 actual pieces of your work, to introduce yourself to the first class
• current journal
• any blank journals/ sketchbooks lying around = potential journals
• favorite journal writing implement
• glue stick
• scissors
• anything that you naturally use to doodle, sketch or design such as:
• favorite pens, pencils, colored pencils
• watercolors and brush
• markers/pastels
• stamp and stamp pads
• collage materials
• thread and needles
• hole punches

Nov 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th and Dec 6th

Mondays 6:30 – 9:00

Instructor: Heather Allen-Swarttouw

$215 ( A materials fee of $10, instructor will supply cover papers, text block papers, and waxed linen thread.)

This class is for artists and creative people who have blank books just waiting to be filled.  Creative journals are repositories for things that inspire us, from phrases to images, and therefore places we can go to when seeking creative inspiration.  They can take many shapes. They allow one to stop and savor, to explore and to foster inner awareness. The first evening we will make a multi-pamphlet journal to use during the class. Over the course of 6 evening sessions we will explore various types of journals and the different purposes they serve, as well as various approaches to keeping them.

Please bring:

For the first class only – any bookmaking supplies that you have on hand, no need to buy as there will be some available. A straight book making needle, awl, small ruler, and bone folder.

All other class meetings -
Current in-progress journal, existing unfinished journals, favorite journal writing implements, glue stick, scissors, collections of ideas, postcards, cut out images that you have collected over time but not really had a place to put / organize them, anything that you naturally use to doodle, sketch or design such as: favorite pens/pencils, colored pencils, watercolors and brush, markers, pastels, stamp and stamp pads, and collage materials.