Visit the Workshops Schedule page for more information, and a complete listing of 2008 classes.
June 20 - 22
June 27 - 29
June 30 - July 3
July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 13
July 8, 10, 15 and 16
July 14 - 18
July 21 - 25
July 26 & 27
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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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BookWorks Welcomes a New Assistant
Meet Erin Johnson, our amazing new studio assistant. Erin is a recent graduate of Warren Wilson College where she studied art, sociology, and gender studies in relation to community organizing. In the past, Erin has interned and taught a class on recycled book at Bookworks. She is participating in the Interlude project and is currently working on a book edition. Erin will be involved in the daily business and studio management from answering phone class to taking class registrations and entering info on our data base. Erin will also be instrumental in planning and organizing the Fourth Annual BookOpolis event.
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Exceptional Interns
BookWorks has a vital intern and volunteer program. This winter / spring the focus of the intern program was beginning the daunting process of organizing the letterpress studio. These two hardworking interns assisted in creating structure and order out of chaos. They successfully sorted, identified, and labeled over 100 cases of type, arranged reglets, furniture, leading, spacing and printer’s odds and ends turning the letterpress studio inside out. I admire the patience and dedication of these interns as well as their razor-sharp sight! Thank you and best wishes in your new adventures!
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Akriti Bhambi wanted to spend my semester off in a city small enough to become close with and learn from unique and progressive artists—Asheville sounded like an appropriate city for those goals. “I had an inkling that printmaking would be my eventual area of artistic focus, primarily because it is characterized by a strong spirit of community and activism. I learned about the logistics of running a community studio space, and the importance of being vocal for the art you believe in.”
Akriti is returning to Rhode Island to finish her undergraduate education at Brown University and plans to continue on to grad school to receive an M.F.A. in Printmaking.
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Tori Bush came to BookWorks almost two years ago to take a class. “I have become extremely passionate about letterpress during my internship.”
Tori is moving to Chicago in a few weeks to work for a commercial letterpress company and plans to apply to the MFA programs in the Chicago area. |
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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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