Tuesday October 26 at 7 PM, Bea Nettles will be the guest speaker. 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. Her work is autobiographical, she has explored her roles as daughter, wife and mother as well as her memories and relationships to particular landscapes.

Free, come by to enjoy this special visit by Bea Nettles from Champaign-Urbana, IL.

The BookOpolis 2010 exhibition catalog was designed by Philip Bell, who created the poster this year, photography by Steve Mann and Laura Ladendorf. Three brief essays and images of all the books and prints selected for the BookOpolis Extended Exhibit through December 10th. Also includes images and artist statements of the 15 miniature books in the Small Book Exchange.

Preview and purchase a copy on-line http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1659792?ce=blurb_ew&utm_source=widget

Save on shipping and stop by the studio to purchase beginning 10/31/10. Plus – view the exhibit through December 10th!

Please welcome Shannon Brock and Bea Nettles for Artists’ Talks this month of October.

Saturday October 16 at 1 PM, Shannon Brock from Carriage House Paper, Brooklyn NY, will introduce a new series of work she is making. This is a brown bag lunch talk, lasting about 45 minutes or so. Free, come on and bring your lunch. There may still be a space open in her class too, Pulp Painting: Beyond the Squeeze Bottle.

Tuesday October 26 at 7 PM, Bea Nettles will be the guest speaker. 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. Her work is autobiographical, she has explored her roles as daughter, wife and mother as well as her memories and relationships to particular landscapes.
Free, come by to enjoy this special visit by Bea Nettles from Champaign-Urbana, IL.

The Soundtrack of Our Life, by Hollis Fouts

Asheville BookWorks now has a Facebook business page. Please visit us and LIKE us, if you do! When you’re there, take a look at the photo album of all 15 miniature artists’ books in the Small Book Exchange raffle tagged with the artists’ names and titles. The lucky raffle ticket, drawn from over 170 tickets, belonged to Ms. Clara Boza. If you’re interested in owning the only other boxed set, it is available for purchase. The price is set at $1700, equalling the total $ amount raised in the raffle. All money generated by the Small Book Exchange Project each year goes directly into the Artist Residency Program.

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.