Curated by: Jennifer Rowan and Elizabeth Uhlig
Exhibition Dates: May 6 - June 18, 2005

May 7, 2005

Gallery talk: 2 pm
Featuring Sandy Tilcock and Susan Lowdermilk

Opening reception: 4-7 pm

Book-related Events during the Exhibition

Roberta Lavadour, Common Threads Workshop

May 14, 9 to 5pm, May 15, 9 to 12pm

Lane Community College

Roberta Lavadour of Mission Creek Press will offer two workshops focusing on the link stitch technique used in Coptic bound books and exploring other decorative embroidery and leather working stitches that adapt themselves to beautiful and structurally sound bookbinding.

Book Works, Book Arts: an exploration of the book

May 21, 1pm to 4pm

Eugene Public Library

This three-hour event is designed to introduce and educate the community to the various approaches and disciplines that explore, expand, and perhaps challenge the notion of what a book is. Members of the Emerald Book and Paper Arts Guild, a local group of bookbinders, conservators, calligraphers, and book artists and artisans, will offer individual presentations on various book art specialties that may include book conservation and repair assessment, traditional casebound books, altered books, multicultural book constructions, artists’ books and journals, and other unusual and creative formats as well as the associated arts of calligraphy and papermaking. Community members will have the opportunity to learn how a book is put together, to receive book conservation advice, and to view a variety of book construction techniques. Although the emphasis is a presentation format, participants may have the opportunity to produce simple book forms or to create materials that can be used in individual projects.
We will also be assembling displays in the Eugene Public Library to correspond with this event. Displays will go up May 1 and will rotate over a two-month period.

Sandra Kroupa Lecture

May 26, 7pm

Knight Library Browsing Room, University of Oregon

Sandra Kroupa, Curator of Book Arts in Special Collections at the University of Washington, has spent over 30 years building UW’s celebrated 11,000 volume collection of artists’ books. She is a recipient of UW’s Distinguished Staff Award for her contributions to the Library in compiling the book arts collection at little cost and by making it into a “living resource” for faculty and students through her lectures that intersect and bring together diverse disciplines.
A small exhibit featuring examples from the collection of artists’ books from the U.O.’s Architecture and Allied Arts Library as well as handcrafted books by AAA faculty, Margaret Prentice, will be displayed in the two cases outside the Knight Library Browsing Room during the months of May and June.