Book Arts and Photography

Art 446 fall 2011 calendar

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2011-09-06 – Tuesday

Classes start – semester overview discussion.

Combat Paper returns to UW-Madison

Drew Cameron, Drew Luan Matott and Margaret Mahan from Combat Paper returned to provide a workshop for students and veterans at UW-Madison’s Paper Lab. The paper for this piece was made from military uniforms and the image was created by spraying pulp through a silk screen stencil.

Up and 99% running.

Thanks to a new theme and some recent updates, the site is back on line. Lets hope the cyber pranksters have moved on.

Perfect CyberSpace Storm

Excuse the wonkyness of my current site. I have fallen victim to a perfect storm. Last week all of my sites were hacked. Once I repaired them, I discovered that the most recent update to WordPress has issues with plugins and the theme that I used for the site.  I am in the process of looking for a new theme. Get in touch if you need something and are unable to find it. Thanks for visiting.

Handmade Paper in Motion portfolio

I had the pleasure of taking photos of the newest portfolio from the Hand Papermaking Organization group. About every two years, Hand Papermaking issues a call for submissions and curates a national competition to promote fine made made from handmade paper. The most recent issue in Handmade Paper in Motion. This link will take you to a gallery of photographs of Portfolio #9 Handmade Paper in Motion. Visit Hand Papermaking Organization for more information about the organization. Purchasing information for Paper in Motion is here.

College Book Art Association

Julie VonDerVellen at the CBAA Members Exhibition.

The College Book Arts Association conference took place at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana January . The CBAA is an organization dedicated to promoting Book Arts in Colleges and Universities. This year University of Wisconsin-Madison Alum Julie VonDerVellen took first place in the student section. Click on this link to see more photographs of Julie VonDerVellen’s artwork.

Charley Trujillo visits with faculty and students

Charley Trujillo is a small publisher and author. Several years after serving in Viet Nam, he wrote about his wartime experience in his book “Soldados: The Chicano Experience in Viet Nam.” He included stories of 19 fellow Chicano veterans from Corcoran, California. A great lesson for all of us is that his manuscript was rejected by dozens of publishers. It left him with no alternative, but to publish the book himself. In 1991 he received the American Book Award. He has a small publishing company called Chusma House Publishing which is located in San Jose, CA.