Roberta Lavadour Pendleton, OR |
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| Roberta Lavadour's Mission Creek Press is located at the foothills of the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon near the original Oregon Trail. She spends much of her time collecting plant specimens for making the papers she uses in her books and loves scavenging and experimenting with found and recycled materials and local plant fibers. For Roberta, the process of bookmaking is evolutionary. She begins by moving her hands, bending paper, feeling textures and discovering ways to assemble and create in ways often unintended. She feels fortunate to live in an area where an amazing array of materials for papermaking and book arts is available literally in her own backyard. | |
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Series #11 2004 Handmade Abaca paper, couched onto stencils, flexible-sewn on double raised cords with laced boards and reclaimed leather cover. |
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Binding Sampler 2004 Edition of 22 Mixed media with reclaimed embroidery and found fabric, relates bookbinding stitches to decorative embroidery stitches. Special note: the first ten copies were commissioned by the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas where one is on display until 2006 for their Turning Pages Project. |
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Book About a Thousand Things 2005 One-of-a-kind book (not editioned) Handmade paper from day lily fiber bound into a mobius strip ˇ°palm-leafˇ± book, displayed with a library catalog card. Special note: when the local arts center took over the old Carnegie library building in Pendleton, the catalog went online and the old catalog cards were discarded. The artist salvaged all the ˇ°The Book ofˇ¦ˇ± entries, and this is the first book in a series that seeks to recreate library books as art pieces. |
