My book Oscar Wilde: In Earnest and Out, has been selected as a finalist for the Meggendorfer Artists Book Prize, awarded by the Movable Book Society. The winner will be announced at the MBS Conference in Denver, CO, on October 2, 2021. For more information on my book, click on the Books link above.
Unseen exhibit
My book Gertrude Has a Few Questions, is in an exhibit organized by 23 Sandy/form & concept at the form & concept gallery in Santa Fe, NM, August 11 – November 20, 2021. For more information about my book, click the Books link above.
Movable Medley exhibit
My book Oscar Wilde: In Earnest and Out is in an exhibit organized by the Abecedarian Gallery at the Arts Students League in Denver, CO, September 29 – November 7, 2021. For more information on my book, click the Books link above.
2021 International Art of the Book exhibit
My book Oscar Wilde: In Earnest and Out is on exhibit at the Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY, July 9 – October 31, 2021. For more information on my book, click the Books link above.
The Book as Art v9.0:Muse
Three of my books, The Tragedy of King Lear, Oscar Wilde: In Earnest and Out, and Gertrude Has a Few Questions are on exhibit at the Decatur Arts Alliance exhibit on Decatur, GA, August 13 – October 1, 2021. For more information on the individual books, click the Books link above.
My contributions to the Artists Book House Conversation series
I had the great pleasure of participating in the Conversations series for the Artists Book House this spring. The video is of a conversation between Jamie Thome and me. The written conversation is a set of questions posed by Shawn Sheehy and my responses. Both conversations are posted here, the link to the video first, then written conversation:
My Fine Press Book Association Keepsake
I have printed a keepsake that will appear in the upcoming deluxe edition of Parenthesis from the Fine Press Book Association https://fpba.com/about/. The idea was sparked by my work in progress titled Madness: Reading Hamlet in the Time of Covid-19 and Other Plagues. The keepsake is letterpress printed from polymer plates with pressure printing using a Vandercook SP-15 on Sakamoto heavy paper. The character depicted is Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, and she is speaking one of her lines from the play. The keepsake has given rise to a side project called Gertrude Has a Few Questions.
Artists Book House Collaboration
I had the opportunity to do a collaborative project with my nephew Cy Hedayati recently. Artists Book House is a potential Book and Paper Arts Center in Evanston, IL. To see the whole project use this link: https://artistsbookhouse.org/news/2021/5/4/2qxm7fs4e3h7kbzabvr887wbl7qa54
CBAA Grant awarded
I have been awarded a 2021 Member Support grant by the College Book Art Association. I will be working to bring Madness: Reading Hamlet in the Age of Covid-19 and Other Plagues to final form. The grant will allow me to use the wonderful papers of papermakers Andrea Peterson and Mary Hark in the pages of what is planned as an edition of a letterpress printed accordion book with puppet inclusions. At the start of my pandemic year, I discovered to my horror, I was too unsettled to be able to read. I adopted all sorts of coping behaviors instead. I copied the play out word by word on a 55 foot long roll of paper and I made dancing paper puppets called the Solitude Squadron among other activities. This book has been shaped in so many ways by all the events of last year and is as much about the year as the play. I am still working on the various text elements so stay tuned.
Pandemonium exhibit
I will have two sets of stand alone puppets in the upcoming Pandemonium exhibit at two sites in Denver, CO. In March, the exhibit will be at Tallyn’s Reach Library. In June and July, a reconfigured exhibit will be at North Gallery at Spark.