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December, 2008
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Andrew Morrison's "Home "
Dear Book Arts Enthusiasts,
One way to add joy to this holiday season is to support book arts, whether it's buying through Another Room Book Arts or the Donna Seager Gallery (for the Bay Area), Vamp & Tramp, other book arts sellers, or by buying directly from the artists. We're all spending money on essentials first, but remember the obvious: the arts are what feed us emotionally, spiritually, and creatively.
The book arts community is a kind and generous group. When we buy each other's work we give and gain at the same time!
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San Francisco Center for the Book Holiday Fair
Dec. 12, Friday, 6-8 pm
Dec. 13, Saturday,12-5 pm
Another Room Book Arts will be selling artists' books, work by book artists new to Another Room, books about book arts, books on technique, prints, and more.
The Holiday Fair has at least 25 sales tables with printers, bookbinders, book artists, and other craftspeople selling books, journals, handmade and decorative papers, calligraphy, book-making supplies, holiday cards, and more.
Marie Dern's "Baa Baa Black Sheep" pictured below is for sale through Another Room Book Arts.
PCBA Calendar Show
Included in the Holiday Fair is the Pacific Center for the Book members' annual Calendar Show. Calendars will be displayed and for sale during the Holiday Fair, Dec. 12 & 13, only. www.pcba.info for more information about the organization.
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Patricia Wakida
Dec. 4, Thursday, 6:30 pm
Shig Murao
SF Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Community Room B, Lower level of the Main Library, 100 Larkin St. at Grove, by Civic Center BART, 415-557-4277.
"Literary historian Patricia Wakida will present a slide lecture on the research conducted for her upcoming biography on Shig Murao, a confidant of every major literary figure that haunted the book scene and the man responsible for creating the "soul" of City Lights Bookstore."
Patricia Wakida is also a book artist who uses wood cuts to illustrate her work. Below is a wood cut block and the printed image for her "Edges of Bounty" 2009 calendar, for sale at the Pacific Center for the book table at the SFCB Holiday Fair, Dec. 12 & 13. Patricia also sells her books through Another Room.
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Thomas Ingmire
Book Arts Salon,
Dec. 2nd, Tuesday
7 - 9 pm, free
San Francisco Center for the Book
300 De Haro Street, SF
A calligraphy presentation by Thomas Ingmire. Thomas Ingmire will show original works and discuss how they were made, share and explain tools he uses, demonstrate some calligraphy, and have prints and small originals for sale.
Thomas Ingmire is one of the forerunners of the modern western calligraphy movement in the world today. Focused on the exploration of calligraphy as fine arts medium, he has exhibited widely in the United States and his works can be found in numerous libraries, museums, and publications, including the The Art of Thomas Ingmire by Michael Gullick, which documents a large body of Ingmire's work.
The uniqueness of Thomas Ingmire's art work lies in its relationship to the traditions of calligraphy. Elected in 1977 to the English Society of Scribes and Illuminators, Ingmire was the first American and first person outside of the United Kingdom to receive this honor. Teaching since l978, he has conducted workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and several countries in Europe as well as in Japan and Hong Kong. The recently published Codici 1, edited by Ingmire, reveals insights into his teaching and working philosophies on modern calligraphy. Please check the following websites: www.thomasingmire.com, www.scriptsf.com, www.wordsforpeace.org
This is the last Book Arts Salon (formerly Book Users Group or BUG) meeting. SFCB has decided to have individual lectures and presentations. Thank you for supporting
the Book Arts Salon. Email Colleen@sfcb.org with any questions.
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New Artist Bios
Kelly Lee Barrett
Kelly Lee Barrett makes wordless photo books that collage full left-to-right page images into book-length
poems. The books are small in height, but are an inch or more thick with photos.
Pictured above is "Clarion Street."
Another Room has a number of titles and copies for sale.
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Notable Events
 You're invited to the PCBA Holiday Party, pot luck and show-n-tell!
Dec. 19, Friday, from 6 - 9 pm, the San Francisco Center for the Book, 300 De Haro Street, San Francisco (www.sfcb.org).
From 6 - 7 pm, check out recent book arts projects by PCBA members Macy Chadwick, Pam DeLuco, Penny Nii, Patricia Wakida.
Then, from 7 - 9 pm, food, drinks, conviviality!
Come
celebrate another great year with Pacific Center for Book Arts.
Non-members and friends are more than welcome!
Macy Chadwick's The Conversation
Robins: A Ten-Year Celebration of Friends and Calligraphic Books
Oct. 27 - Dec. 12, 2008
Mills College, Center for the Book, F.W. Olin Library, 5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA
Robins, a six-member book group whose method of working is to pass each new book from member to member, round-robin style, until completed have made a collection of over 40 artist books in the last ten years. Carla Tenret, Barbara Parke Wolff, Catherine VonSchwind, JoAnn B. Brand, Linda Race, Mary Ann Wight, Meredith Klein, Sandra Torguson, Vicky Lee.
Carl and Marie C. Dern
BOOKS
Join us for a talk with Carl and Marie Dern
The Donna Seager Gallery
Saturday, December 6, 6 pm
RSVP to art@donnaseagergallery.com or 415.454.4229
Oakland Art Gallery Holiday Sale
199 Kahn's Alley, Oakland, 94612
Party: Thursday, Dec. 11, 6 - 8
Sale: Monday, Dec. 8, 11 - 6 pm, and Friday, Dec. 12, 11 - 6 pm
Mary Marsh and Tony Bellaver
See their work in Another Room Book Arts
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Visit Another Room Book Arts at www.anotherrombooks.com.
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