Happy New Year, PSBA members!
Greetings from Your PSBA Board!
Happy New Year! To say that PSBA is starting off 2024 with a "bang" is an understatement! The Miller Library exhibit opens on January 4, we have a wonderful ZOOM workshop planned on the Lotus Fold Book on January 20 and will end the month with a terrific in-person presentation by Peter Newland and Robyn Johnson on January 28. They will share portions of their personal collections that will eventually be part of the Whitman College Special Collections.
We'd also like your help. If you or a family member are graduates of the University of Puget Sound, or you have an association with the University as a former student, employee, volunteer, educator or are a "neighbor" to the campus, can you please email luciaharrison49@gmail.com. We have a long association with the University and are interested if our members have as well! We want to be sure to have that information available to share with the University administration when appropriate.
January Events
Nature and the Book: An Exhibition of the Puget Sound Book Artists: January 4-30. Opening reception January 13 from noon to 2pm, University of Washington, Miller Library.
PSBA is pleased to sponsor Nature of the Book exhibit in the Elizabeth C. Miller Library and to celebrate artists who share their love of nature through their artist books. For more information visit the Miller Library website.
Surprise, a lotus fold book and a box to keep it in: January 20, 1:00–3:00pm, Zoom. Instructor: Belinda Hill.
You may already know how to make a lotus fold, but do you the different ways there are to put it together into a book? The lotus fold is simple but with it you can create a myriad of different book structures. In this mini-workshop we will make an explosion book and a simple box to keep it in.
Open to PSBA members and non-members. Non-members may register beginning January 10.
Workshop fee is $20. Click here to register and for additional event information.
Artists' Books, Small, Medium, Large: January 28, 2-4pm. University of Puget Sound, Collins Library Archives Room. Hosted by Peter Newland and Robyn Johnson.
This is an opportunity for each attendee to spend some hands-on quality time with 22 Artists’ Books from the Newland/Johnson Collection destined, in the coming years, for the archives of Whitman College.
Registration is required. Click here to register and for additional event information.
Save the Date! Annual Meeting is February 11, 2024 on Zoom
More information to come. Registration will be emailed to members and shared on the calendar here.
Annual Membership Renewal
The annual membership renewal email was sent out to members this month. Instructions for renewing memberships are also available online.
Member News
Suze Woolf will have a solo exhibit at the World Forestry Center, Portland OR: “State of the Forest. ” Composed of 30 sets of her watercolor burned tree portraits, digitally printed on 3 layers of fabric, it will be on display February through April, 2024. Fourteen of the trees have white-text-on-black silhouettes with stories by Durango author and wildland firefighter Lorena Williams (google.com). The installation has been touring in North America since 2019 and this is their first stop in the Pacific Northwest. There will be an opening reception Feb 1. A second large fabric installation, “Core Values,” will also be on display. It was created as part of an Olympic National Park glacier memorial: Terminus: Bretherton Snowfield by Suze Woolf - Olympic National Park (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
Save the Date: Focus on Books Arts Conference June 26-30 in Monmouth, OR
FOBA's 2024 Conference is in Monmouth, Oregon June 26-30, 2024, and this year's theme is "interaction."
Books invite interaction from their viewer – at the simplest level, readers turn pages. This residential conference provides opportunities for inspiring interactions outside of workshops at lectures, in residence halls, at meals, around campus, and while meeting and shopping with artists, peers, and experts in the trade. At FOBA 2024, we’ll celebrate all the ways for interaction that a book arts conference embodies!
For more information, visit the FOBA 2024 Conference website.
Call for Member News
Are you planning a special event or workshop? Have you recently presented your work at a Conference or event? Is your work included in an exhibition?
If you would like to share information, please send your submission to Julia.stringfellow@cwu.edu by Friday, January 26. Subject line should read: PSBA Member News. The February newsletter will be sent out to the membership early that month.
Call to Share Upcoming Events
Do you have an upcoming event that you are holding or participating in? Let us know! Email psba.public.relations@pugetsoundbookartists.org to add it to the calendar.
Sincerely,
Your PSBA Board
Meet the Board members on the Contact Us webpage.