August PSBA Updates
Greetings PSBA members! Hope your summer is going well!
PSBA Members' Exhibition Closes August 5: Plan a day to come and absorb the work in this exhibition!
To learn more about the exhibition, visit the Collins Library website.
PSBA Members' Exhibition Panel Discussion: Thursday, July 28 5:30-7:00, Zoom. This last exhibition event is a special screening of a pre-recorded panel discussion between several artists in the exhibition and moderator Peter Newland. The four selected panelists are Nancy Brones, Kimberly Izenman, Lynn Skordal, and Ray Zill. Additional information and registration is here.
PSBA Members' Exhibition, Pick Up Work: August 6, Time TBD. Collins Library. Masks are not required, but recommended. Visit the PSBA website here for updates.
2023 PSBA Members' Exhibition Updates: As a PSBA member, you’re invited to participate in the 2023 Annual Exhibition. This year’s suggested theme is “Collaboration.” As always you are encouraged to think broadly in your interpretation. Building community within PSBA and connecting with the larger community is so important today and we hope that this theme will meet that objective.
Here are some ideas to get you started: You can take this prompt literally, as in two or more artists working together. Or you may interpret it more generally, as in being inspired by or in alliance with a creative work from an historic or contemporary author/visual artist. Or you can think outside your routine as well, expand into the community by working with an elderly neighbor, talking to someone that works in a field you find interesting, or chatting with someone at a local community center. Collaboration can imply a positive partnership and it can also have a more negative connotation such as conspiring with a dangerous or subversive group.
As always you also have the option of going outside of the theme. Dates and other details will be announced later.
Let the creativity begin!
Book Club of Washington, On Collecting and Legacy: August 14, 2pm Zoom. For more information and to register, click here.
Puget Sound Book Artists 4th Annual Book Exchange: Registration opened May 1st and will close August 27. The date will be sometime in September. Location TBD. Registration is required to participate. To register and see the latest updates on this event, click here.
Alisa Banks, Changing the Conversation Presentation: August 25th, 4pm, Zoom. Register for this free event here.
Changing the Conversation is an exhibition co-curated by MalPina Chan, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Jane Carlin and Angela Weaver and features over 60 books collected over the last decade that address social justice themes. Alisa’s book Wrongful Termination in this exhibit addresses race-based discriminatory practices. Starting in the 1980's, multiple suits have been filed against employers, schools, and other agencies by people of color (primarily women) who were fired, passed over for promotion or hiring, or sent home for wearing their natural hair
Alisa Banks investigates connections to contemporary culture, her Creole heritage, and the African diaspora through the lenses of home, terrain, and the body, using Southern Louisiana as a point of entry. Her sculptural artist books, writings, and textile collages, which incorporate fibers and found materials, reference traditional craft forms through twisting, knotting, crocheting, and sewing. Her interests include exploring alternative modes of reading and the performative potential of the book. Alisa’s work has been exhibited in Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, and throughout the US, and is housed in several private and public collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, the US Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library.
Alisa holds a B.S. degree in Medical Laboratory Science from Oklahoma State University and an M.F.A. degree from Texas Woman’s University. She lives in Dallas, TX. For more information, visit her website
Workshop: A Study of Home, A Hybrid Workshop: Zoom: Sat. Sept. 17, 1-4pm. Zoom: Sat. Oct. 1, 1-4pm. Becky Frehse's Studio: Oct. 23, 9-4. Zoom: Sat. Nov. 5, 1-4pm.
This is a combination of 4 Zoom and In-person sessions taught by Shu-Ju Wang designed to help you learn how to develop an idea, conduct research, and create a workable model for an artist book in time for the 2023 PSBA Exhibition. Registration is required. Registration opened July 7th for members and will open August 1 for non-members. Cost is $260 and registration is limited to 12. Register here.
Sincerely,
Your PSBA Board