Bookbinding Now

129.  Susan Mills, longtime host of Bookbinding Now, here with a 2020 update.

128.  Sandra Brownlee is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada where she practices weaving, tactile notebook keeping and teaching.  Guest host Robin Muller is a textile and book artist also based in Halifax.

127.  Martha Cole is a fiber artist who has explored artist books for 30 years. Wheat paste application is her primary medium. Guest host Robin Canham is a librarian and bookbinder who serves on the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild national board.

126.  Hedi Kyle is the coauthor, with Ulla Warchol, of The Art of the Fold, a step-by-step guide to making a broad selection of her original structures, Laurence King Publishing, 2018.  Robin Muller guest hosts.

125.  EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss is a special project of the CODEX Foundation, a collective global exclamation: “ENOUGH!” It will take place in multiple locations throughout the U.S. and abroad during the Summer of 2021. Sam Pelts is the organizer and coordinator of the project.

124g.  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   Here and There is Everywhere   Susanne Padberg has been the owner of Galerie DRUCK & BUCH since 1994 – first in Tübingen and now in Vienna. The gallery, next door to the Freud Museum in Vienna, specializes in international contemporary book art.  As a traveling book art gallerist and curator in both Europe and the United States, she has encountered a number of differences in the book art world here and there. Despite that, she addresses three aspects – collecting, mission/contents/aesthetics, and book form.

124f.  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   FLAG Victoria Bean is a London based artist, writer, and visual poet, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and co-founder of Arc Editions. She is the co- editor of The New Concrete, an anthology of visual and concrete poetry in the 21st Century that features a hundred artists and writers who work across a variety of disciplines like art, poetry, graphics and literature.

124e.  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   Black Truffles, Vibrant Colours Set Between Black and White   Till Verclas — While still an art student in Hamburg in 1979, Verclas founded his own printmaking studio, going on to work with renowned German and American artists such as Baselitz and Twombly. Verclas works not only in printmaking, but also in large-scale sculpture in bronze, wood, and steel. His artist’s books are often made as a reaction to the sculptural installations. Verclas’s work can be found in public collections across Germany and the United States.

124d.  THOMAS MILROTH  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   Swe Den Thomas Milroth discusses the interaction between Danish and Swedish artists in Denmark and Copenhagen leading to an early outburst of artists' books and printed matter in the 30s, the 40's, and today. He emphasizes the book art activity in South Sweden and Denmark as well as the story of the early thoughts about an alternative space for art.

124c.  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   The Jack Ginsberg Collection of Artists' Books: Highlights from 25 years of working with the collection in South Africa David Paton is currently Senior Lecture and past head of the Department (2004-2009) of Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He examines important curatorial projects and selected seminal moments from Jack Ginsberg's extensive Johannesburg-based collection of artists' books and archive of books on artists' books.

124b.  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   From Finland barefoot in snow Tatjana Bergelt discusses her recent artist book From Finland barefoot in snow, a cassette with two books, edition of 4, Northern Sami / Finnish/ German languages, 2015. Focusing on the existential poetry by Sami activist Nils Aslak Valkeapää, yet deeply differing from Middle European existentialism, this artists' book project respects the very core of Nomad culture of the indigenous people of Europe in its visual form. Sami people have been relatively isolated in the very Northern part of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. They speak 10 different languages but yet still must fight for their rights of land ownership and identity.

124a.  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   We always try to keep it simple Åse Eg Jørgensen, Jesper Fabricius and Jesper Rasmussen are co-editors of Pist Protta, a journal like no other. Firstly because it is rare that a Danish journal dedicated to contemporary art survives for so many years – Pist Protta is the oldest existing art journal in Denmark – and secondly, because it does not look like any other art journal. The principal rule the editors have adhered to is that no issue is to be like any previous one in either format or content. According to the co-editors’ motto Pist Protta is not only to be about art, but to be art, the individual issues can be seen as a hybrid between a magazine and an artist's book.

123. Susan Joy Share has worked with book art for 40 years, first in Brooklyn and then, since 1997, in Anchorage, Alaska. Guest host is Paula Beardell Krieg. Susan's 2013 video is here.

122.  Nicholas Yeager is a rare books librarian, historian of the book, scribe, motorcyclist, inventor of Zorbix and the travel researcher 'Motoscribendi'.

121.  Oakland-based Keri Schroeder publishes  the new podcast series Books in the Wild- exploring books in their natural habitat.

120.  San Francisco Bay Area bookbinder John DeMerritt has been binding books professionally since 1986. He specializes in small editions and boxmaking.

119f.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.   Reflections on Diamond Leaves: Artists' Books in China Now Marshall Weber is an artist and curator.  In 2012, he co-curated the first "Diamond Leaves Triennial" exhibition at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing with Chinese artist Xu Bing.

119e.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form. My Mighty Journey Gaylord Schanilek established his press, Midnight Paper Sales, in 1980.

119d.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.   Netting the Small Fry Sue Anderson and Gwen Harrison have worked collaboratively to create limited edition artists’ books for over ten years. Although many of their books focus on Australian historic sites and their stories, with a particular interest in institutionalization of certain groups of people, the works often reflect dramas that are universal.

119c.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.   Codex 2017 Symposium - Keynote Speaker Lu Jingren has designed more than one thousand books, and is considered one of China's most influential book designers and illustrators. Lu Jingren's finest and most inventive works provide a modern response to the centuries-long traditions of both Chinese and Japanese book making.  Live translator - Yishu Wang

119b.   The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.   Lines of Force: the Hand, the Book & the Body Electric Dr. Betty Bright is a writer, curator and historian who helped to start Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) in 1985 and  authored No Longer  Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 (Granary Press, 2005).

119a.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.   Between Drawing & Printing Johannes Strugalla lives and works in Mainz and Paris. A visual artist and a poet, he is a co-founder of despalles éditions with his wife Françoise Despalles.

118.  Patrick Kiley and Ben DuVall collaborate at Publication Studio in Troy, New York.

117.  The Book, the Woman and the Body Politic - an artist talk and panel with Tatana Kellner and Juliana Cerqueira Leite, moderated by Corina Reynolds of Small Editions.  This event was part of the NY Art Book Fair 2016, at MoMA PS1.

116.  Yishu Wang is one of 11 Chinese contemporary book artists exhibiting at the 2017 CODEX Book Fair and Symposium.  

115.  The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to "establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts."  Current president Bexx Caswell speaks about sustaining the guild today.

114.  Kyle Holland is an artist in Cleveland Ohio; he teaches bookbinding and paper making workshops, and coordinates workshops and paper sales at the Morgan Conservatory. Elizabeth Sheehan is an artist in Brooklyn; she is studio assistant and bookbinder at Small Editions and a core instructor at The Center for Book Arts in NYC.

113.  Julia Miller is a book conservator and bookbinding historian based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  She is the author of Books Will Speak Plain and edits the Suave Mechanicals series of essays on the history of bookbinding, all published by The Legacy Press.

112.  Portable Editions was founded in 2014 by Juana Meneses + Leila A. Leder Kremer, in Miami, FL;  Carol Todaro guest hosts.

111c.  Map as Metaphor3   This is the third panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource for book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture.    Panel 3: “The Artist Map: Appropriation and Creation” Moderator: Heidi Neilson, artist and co-founder of SP Weather Station. Panelists: Doug Beube, mixed-media artist and independent curator Martin C. Brückner, Associate Director of the Center of Material Culture Studies and Professor of English, University of Delaware Dahlia Elsayed, artist and Assistant Professor of Humanities at CUNY LaGuardia Community College Katarina Jerinic, mixed-media artist and public space-based interventionist

111b.  Map as Metaphor 2 This is the second panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource of book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture.    Panel 2: “The Eco-Techno Map: Data and Online Initiatives”   Heidi Neilson, artist and founder of SP Weather Station Panelists: Liz Barry, urban designer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of TreeKIT, and Co-Founder and Director of Community Development at Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science Ingrid Burrington, artist-in-residence at Data and Society Research Institute and fellow at Autodesk/Pier 9’s Experimental Research Lab Eric W. Sanderson, director of the Mannahatta Project, author, and Senior Conservation Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Natalie Campbell, independent curator and co-founder of SP Weather Station

111a.  Map as Metaphor 1 This is the first panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource of book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture. Panel 1: “The Socio-Political Map: Control and Power” Moderator: Heidi Neilson, artist and co-founder of SP Weather Station. Panelists: Neil Freeman, cartographer, artist, and urban planner Shannon Mattern, media artist and Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School Lize Mogel, artist and co-editor of An Atlas of Radical Cartography

110.  Leah Taylor is an active freelance writer and the Associate curator of the Kenderdine Art Gallery and College Building Galleries on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, Canada. The inaugural Toronto Art Book Fair features her exhibit Somewhere in the Middle with artists Amalie Atkins, Joi Arcand, Troy Gronsdahl, Ellen Moffat, and Kara Uzelman.

109.  Leah Mackin is an artist based in Pittsburgh; Esther S White guest hosts.

108.  Miami-based Carol Todaro is an artist and writer whose work often combines both activities in the form of sculptural tableaus and artists' books.

107.  Trevor Powers works with photographs, artist books, collaboration, coincidence and curatorial projects in western Massachusetts.

106.  Esther S. White curates the Northampton Print and Book Fair and publishes collaborative zines and short-run artist books as Sister Sister Books.

105.  John Cutrone, director of the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, in Boca Raton, Florida, speaks about the exhibit Wanderlust! - the work of John Eric Broaddus.

104.  Buzz Spector speaks about his work in conjunction with the exhibit Buzz Spector: The Book Under (De-) Construction at The Center for Book Arts in NYC.

103.  Jonna Twigg is the proprietor of Twigg's Bindery, a new storefront in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

102.  Kat Howard embroiders, weaves, and publishes handbound books and zines, as Book Meat Studio, in Kingston, NY

101.  Book artist Steve Miller of Red Hydra Press speaks about his current work in Cuba; Christopher Davenport guest hosts.

100  Artist Paula Beardell Krieg makes works-on-paper and teaches book art near Albany, NY.  She publishes the popular Bookzoompa blog.

99.  Mark Cockram is a designer bookbinder based in London; Abby Schoolman guest hosts.

98.  Robbin Ami Silverberg is an artist and founding director of Dobbin Mill, a hand-papermaking studio, and Dobbin Books, a collaborative artist book studio located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Guest host is Elizabeth Whalley.

The Mills College book art department is currently under review. Mirabelle Jones and Kate Robinson are graduates of Mills' MFA in Book Art and Creative Writing program and are encouraging people in this brief appeal to join with them in support of book art at Mills.  

97.  Daniel E Kelm operates The Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton MA where he designs and produces artist's books, interpretive fine bindings and book sculptures.

96.  Joan K. Davidson founded Furthermore a philanthropic program that supports the publication of printed and illustrated books. Since its inception Furthermore has assisted more than 1000 publishing projects with grants that total almost $5 million.

95.  The Pine Tree Scholars program introduces Columbia and Barnard students to the crafts associated with fine book production, such as typography, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking, as well as to the rare and art book trades.  The program is run by Teresa Harris, Curator of Avery Classics at Columbia's Avery Art & Architecture Library; Karla Nielsen, Curator of Literature in Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library; and Shannon O'Neill, Associate Director of Archives & Special Collections at Barnard College.

94.  Heléne van Aswegen is an art and book specialist in the Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University, in Stellenbosch, South Africa.