2022 PSBA Annual Members' Exhibition Opening Reception

2022 PSBA ANNUAL MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION

Opening Reception

Saturday, June 11, 2-4pm

Collins Library, 

the University of Puget Sound

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Masks are now optional but recommended!

Please join us for an afternoon of celebration during the opening reception of the 2022 Puget Sound Book Artists Annual Members' Exhibition.  We will be serving light appetizers and beverages, followed at 3:00 with brief remarks by Traci Timmons lead curator for the exhibition, Dan Shafer guest juror, Sally Alger, President of the Puget Sound Book Artists and Jane Carlin Director of Collins Library, followed by the announcement of the awards.

The Exhibition Committee awarded the Curators' Choice Award to Ray Zill for her work, "Peaks & Valleys." This flag book structure incorporates photography and poetry by the artist and chronicles the peaks and valleys she experienced during the pandemic. Through photos using different exposure techniques, Zill depicts herself in a number of powerful poses-- sitting back to back with herself drinking and smoking, "Speak the truth, if you let me; cloud your judgment by choice, What is real becomes an effigy when all is shaken but your voice." The work embodies the exhibition theme, from its visual depictions of the personal ups and downs in the artist's life to the physical manifestation of peaks and valleys in the book's curving flag segments. All in all, it was a compelling piece that strongly resonated with the exhibition team.

Juror Dan Shafer selected Kimberly Izenman’s maze-fold accordion book “Grief" for the Award of Excellence. "Grief" invites the reader into a dense meditation on loss and devotion. The meticulously stitched fabric scraps, layered with family artifacts and memories, are both beautiful and fragile, and they seem to be quiet islands in a sea of chaotic, abstract painted gestures. The book reveals a journey through immense challenge and loss which, though intensely personal, is also invitational. In Izenman’s work, we are all given a space to consider our own grief, and to see a way through it.

There are several other campus events planned on this weekend and parking may be an issue so plan your arrival for the festivities, accordingly.

To locate Collins Library, click here for a map of the University of Puget Sound