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• PSBA 13th Annual Member Exhibition 2024: Time Travel

  • Start
    29 Sep 2024
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  • End
    13 Dec 2024
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  • Location
    Evergreen State College, Daniel J. Evans Library, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW, Olympia, WA 98505

  

  Puget Sound Book Artists 13th Annual Members' Exhibition 2024: Time Travel

  Evergreen State College, Daniel J. Evans Library
  

  September 29 – December 13, 2024

           

  Playful and profound, the Puget Sound Book Artists 13th Annual Members’ Exhibition on the theme of Time Travel will be shown at The Evergreen State College Library, in Olympia, from September 29–December 13, 2024. On display will be a total of fifty-five artist books from forty-two different artists representing all parts of the Puget Sound and the western United States. Ann Storey, exhibit team chair, stated:

  “It is always a wonderful surprise to see how creative people interpret and play with an exhibit theme. The topic of Time Travel seemed to be especially resonant and sparked imaginative leaps across both time and space. After our recent experience of lock-down, when we couldn’t travel physically but managed to travel metaphorically, and when we confronted time in the form of facing our mortality, we have such interesting ideas to draw from in creating the artist books in this show.”

  The books in this exhibition celebrate the beauty, strength, and grace of our ancestors, question and celebrate our relationship with the natural world, challenge received wisdom, commemorate ancient art, and preserve memories.

  An open case event, where you will be able to hear from the artists will be held on Oct. 20 from 1-3 in the Evans Library at The Evergreen State College.

  For more information, please contact Ray Zill at Ray.Zill@evergreen.edu or Lucia Harrison at luciaharrison49@gmail.com

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• Lunchtime Conversation with Helen Hiebert: A Tour of Japanese Papermaking

  • When
    21 Nov 2024
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    14

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  Lunchtime Conversation with Helen Hiebert: A Tour of Japanese Papermaking

  Facilitated by

  Jane Carlin 

  Thursday, November 21 2024, 12:00PM–1:00PM   

  ZOOM

  This Event is Free but Registration is Required

       

  Helen will talk about the Japan Paper Tour that she led in June, an 11-day odyssey with a group of 10 paper enthusiasts. The group spent 3 days in Echizen, a village with over 1500 years of papermaking history; visited Gifu and Mino, where Isamu Noguchi revitalized lantern-making in the 1950's; and explored Kyoto, touring temples and gardens, visiting shops dedicated to paper. The tour culminated with a celebratory dinner complete with a geiko performance.

  Registration is open to the books arts community at large! Share with a friend!
  

  The ZOOM link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event. You must register to receive the ZOOM link!

  Presenter Bio: Helen Hiebert is a Colorado artist who constructs installations, sculptures, films, artists’ books and works in paper using handmade paper as her primary medium. She teaches, lectures and exhibits her work internationally and online, and is the author of the several how-to books about papermaking and papercrafts. Helen has an extensive network of paper colleagues around the world and her interest in how things are made (from paper) keeps her up-to-date on current paper trends, which she writes about in her weekly blog called The Sunday Paper. She interviews papermakers and paper artists on her podcast Paper Talk, and she holds an annual paper retreat and papermaking master classes in her Red Cliff studio.

  Questions? Contact Jane Carlin (carlinjane@gmail.com)

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• Lotus Fold Mini-Books Workshop

  • When
    1 Dec 2024
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Lotus Fold Mini-Books Workshop

  Sunday, December 1, 2024 1:00 PM–3:00 PM (PST)

  via Zoom

  
  

  Event is Free for PSBA Members but Registration is Required!

  In this two-hour Zoom workshop, Belinda Hill will teach you how to make lotus fold mini-books. These books can be made into ornaments, necklaces or earrings. Easy to construct and personalize, they make fun gifts or accessories.

  Instructor Bio: Belinda Hill loves creating and loves teaching. After she left full-time teaching, she had more time to create and has spent the last seven years working with book arts. Belinda started her book arts work by spending several years learning a variety of book structures incorporating her many years working in mixed media. In the last few years she has been teaching book making in monthly Olympia, WA area classes and in workshops for PSBA.

  
  

  Workshop Fee: $ 0
  

  Tool List: glue, scissors, bone folder, ruler

  Skill Levels: all levels
  

  Link to Workshop Instructions: https://tinyurl.com/minilotusfoldbook

  Zoom Link will be sent out on November 29th and December 1st.

  Questions? Contact Lucia Harrison: luciaharrison49@gmail.com

  
  

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