A Book Arts Mosaic Community Exhibition Available to Libraries, Schools, and Galleries Curator's Statement The Exhibition Thumbnails Acknowlegements The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild is pleased to announce that exhibition venues are now being booked for a tour of a new book arts collection titled A Book Arts Mosaic, curated by Canadian book artist Lise Melhorn-Boe.

A Book Arts Mosaic consists of 26 pieces (33 including all of the pamphlets included in the work Feasts) by 38 Canadian book artists (see list of artists below). The collection includes pieces which are delightful or beautiful, moving or inspiring, amusing or thought provoking, and in toto provide ideas and stimulation, suitable for a wide viewing public and for students and instructors.

Included are examples of structures such as of accordian, tunnel, miniature, Coptic, Japanese stab binding, open lectern, and Chinese whirlwind books, as well as pamphlets and broadsides. Techniques include handmade paper with and without watermarks, calligraphy, blind tooling, incised decoration, paper decorating (including marbling, paste, sponge paper and stencil, hand cut rubber stamps, hand painting, etc.), letterpress printing, linocut, hand printed lithography, xylography, wax resist, collage, and many contemporary techniques and technologies such as machine perforation, polyester resin casting, digital printing on film, digitized photographs, offset printing, giclée printing, and computer layout. Materials include fused glass, knitted copper wire, curled paper ribbon, thongs, frosted acrylic, transfer paper bonded to unbleached cotton, painted wood, leather, paper, and many others.

The collection is suggested for exhibition and/or a teaching tool. It is suitable for small galleries and museums, libraries and archives, schools, and other locations. A Book Arts Mosaic is housed in a handmade box by Don Taylor, Kate Murdoch, and Reg Beatty. The dimensions of the box are 23" x 12" x 9" and this is shipped in a slightly larger corrugated box.

A location fee of $100 is charged venues. Venues must insure the exhibition while it is on-site. As well, venues are responsible for the cost of insured shipping from and returned to Toronto. The shipping charge to the venue from Toronto will be invoiced by CBBAG unless venues have their own account with a shipper. For more information contact: Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild 60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 112 Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X9 cbbag@cbbag.ca You can also book online using CBBAG's secure web server.

Participants: A Book Arts Mosaic

Jocelyne Aird-Bélanger Walter Bachinski & Janis Butler, Shanty Bay Press Joe Blades Ingrid Hein Borch Sarah Butt Joan Byers, Dorothy Field, & Virginia Porter Susan Carr Stephanie Dean-Moore Karen & Geoffrey Hewett Susan Warner Keene Trisha Klus Clarissa Lewis & Lise Melhorn-Boe Judy Martin Anne Graham McTaggart Cathryn Miller Micheline Montgomery Jane Morgan Akemi Nishidera The Ottawa Press Gang: Susan Globensky, Holly Dean & Larry Thompson, Roberta Heubener, Grant Wilkins, April Flanders, Richard Coxford, and Britt Quinlan Rob Richards Anik See Shelagh Smith Peter Sramek Ann Stinner Judith Welbourn & Derek Chung Robert Wu

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