Asheville BookWorks host a variety of events throughout the year - gallery exhibits, special lectures and of course the Annual BookOpolis weekend. Visit the Past Happenings page to see the variety of exhibits and events hosted at BookWorks.
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July 11 - August 15, 2008
Works by Gwen Diehn & Sandy Webster
Reception: July 11, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
"Temporary Shelter" is a group of related work by Gwen Diehn and Sandy Webster. Much of the work was created during artists’ ‘retreats’ in Sandy’s studio. The exhibit reflects each artists’ individual styles and as well as work created in respond to each other. The topic is one that both artists have carried on a conversation about for several years. The show highlights two and three-dimensionional, mixed media work.
“The pieces are all part of a body of work that deals with temporary shelter-- that is, the ways in which we protect ourselves from the unknown, from the uncontrollable, from the very idea of temporality, from the unknowable, and from all those things that creep about in the night outside the circle of our small fires.” -Gwen Deihn
“Each shelter is shaped around an idea of safeness within structure. Houses of my childhood inform the houses of my imagination. The boats, like the houses, carry roots of home and the pigments of place. Land-worthy, well away from water, they give shelter and offer transport home.” -Sandy Webster
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August 7 at 7:00 pm
This event is free and open to the public.
BookWorks is thrilled to announce the first visit of Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC. Vicky and Bill Stewart represent more than 250 contemporary fine presses and books artists. They travel throughout the US from January until Thanksgiving, taking the works they represent to museums, libraries and private collectors.
While they have a website (www.vampandtramp.com) with descriptions and images of all the work and exhibit regularly at selected book fairs, their real joy is bringing actual work to potential collectors. Their mini-van becomes a traveling gallery, a movable feast of Book Arts.
Vamp and Tramp serves presses/artists who are disinclined or unable to market their work. They schedule meetings with collectors to view the work of 10 or 30 or 60 presses and artists in one sitting.
While traveling around the country, the Stewarts offer educational talks and workshops to groups of all kinds, spreading the word about the wonders of contemporary fine press and artists’ books.
Join us on August 7 at 7:00 pm as Vamp & Tramp show and talk about a generous sampling of what’s new in the world of Book Arts.
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