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What is BookOpolis?

BookOpolis began in 2004 as the inaugural event for Asheville BookWorks. BookOpolis has become our signature annual event showcasing a weekend of Book Arts. The first year, BookOpolis exhibited 60 entries and the next year it rose to 80 then in 2009, we received over 140 entries. Artists' Books and Prints arrive for BookOpolis from all across the United States and beyond, we've exhibited books from Canada, England, Mexico and Australia.
During the weekend, BookWorks hosts an 'open house' for people to view the BookOpolis exhibit, talk with artists, watch demonstrations, participate in cranking the letterpress or learn a simple binding technique. BookOpolis has introduced Book Arts, Letterpress and Print to many people who never knew.
Artists send their BEST work to BookOpolis, work that best integrates Concept and Craft; merging Content and Ideas with Creative Use of Materials, Inventive Construction and Technique.
Download pdf version of BookOpolis 2010 Prospectus here.

BookOpolis Entries, Deadline Sept. 8

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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

BookOpolis 2010

Tags: exhibitions

Memory Palaces

A National Exhibition

September 24 and 25, 2010, BookOpolis Weekend

September 25 – December 10, 2010, BookOpolis / Extended Exhibition

The Memory Palace is a general designation for mnemonic techniques that rely on memorized spacial relationships to establish, order and recollect memorial content. The technique was well known to ancient Greeks and Romans who memorized their speeches and rhetorical arguments.

Memory as an overarching theme of BookOpolis 2010 is open to varied interpretations such as: triggers to memory, memory as a function of mapping, unpleasant memory, memory loss or deletion, sensation and memory, animal memory, spacial positioning of thought, architecture of memory, memory laden language, false memory, stimulus to memory, historical and collective memory.

Artists may submit up to two pieces for the BookOpolis 2010 weekend. A Purchase Award will be included in the BookWorks permanent collection. In addition, a selection of works will be displayed in the BookWorks Gallery through December 10, 2010.

The BookOpolis 2010 Prospectus is available. It’s a rockin’ full-color mailer with poster and a pdf download and has all the information you need to submit entries. (Download pdf version of BookOpolis 2010 Prospectus here.)

Download the basic entry form here.

Please e-mail us, gallery@ashevillebookworks.com, include your name and mailing address if you would like a prospectus sent to you. We’re happy to send several to your university, library, book arts center or museum, just let us know.