Thanks to LeeAnne Smith (EaglesWayProductions.com) for another wonderful video.

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!

Friday, September 24, Opening Reception, 6 – 9 PM
Saturday, September 25, 12 – 5 PM
Selected Works on Exhibit through December 10th, 2010

Friday September 24
6-9 pm BookOpolis exhibit opens to the public. We have received 100+ artist books to be on display from across the US as well as Italy, Canada, and Great Britain, international entries this year. All entries will be on display for the BookOpolis weekend only. From these entries, Alice Sebrell, director of Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center will make a selection of approximately 40 artists’ books to be exhibited through December 10, 2010. One lucky winner of the annual raffle of this year’s Small Book Exchange, “Memory Palaces,” will be announced.

Saturday September 25
Noon – 5 PM. BookOpolis Weekend continues with demos and hands-on activities introducing letterpresss, papermking, binding and printmaking, for all ages. A special Children’s Hour at noon. Children accompanied by a parent or other adult are invited to come at noon to learn about artists’ books and how to handle them, Laurie Corral,Director, will focus on 4 – 5 books from the exhibit. Children will participate in discussion and learn how to handle artist books.

Visitors of all ages are invited to visit the exhibit, see papermaking demonstrations, make and take a simply bound book with a letterpress cover and bring a t-shirt to print. In the spirit of Drive-By Press, who visited earlier this year, we’ll be inking blocks and printing them on t-shirts using the etching press. The theme of the blocks is Memory Palaces, taken from the exhibition poster. You can bring your own T-shirt or buy one at BookWorks, T-shirts for sale are $10.

A selection of prints and books from the exhibit will remain on display in our gallery until December 10, 2010.

BookOpolis 2010 Posters, screenprinted by Philip Bell, have been distributed and hung in some of our favorite places around Asheville. Posters are available for sale at the event.

BookOpolis 2010: Memory Palaces
A NATIONAL EXHIBITION

• Deadline for delivery of actual work at BookWorks is September 15, 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

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.