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This weekend!! Excited to see all the amazing book This weekend!! Excited to see all the amazing books, prints, and art and looking forward to sharing new collaborative work with @bodlecarrie and our brilliant assistant @oomenstudio. Come grab a free AR poster! — Posted @withregram • @seattleartbookfair Mark your calendars! 🗓 The FIRST EDITION of the Seattle Art Book Fair is on MAY 6–7 at the historic Washington Hall in the Central District of Seattle! @washingtonhall206 Seattle Art Book Fair is a free annual event that celebrates independent publishing, book design, and artists’ books. This nonprofit event features a wide range of books and publications by artists/designers, collectives, small presses, booksellers, and distributors, hailing from the west coast and beyond. SABF will also present talks, workshops, and installations exploring contemporary topics in independent bookmaking. We’re excited to bring together seasoned practitioners and enthusiastic newcomers to grow the community of booklovers and bookmakers in our region. #SeattleArtBookFair #SABF2023 #SABF #artbookfair #artbook #seattle
If you follow @uwbmfa, you already know that our u If you follow @uwbmfa, you already know that our upcoming Fall Convergence on Poetics is being held in conjunction with the 14th annual @asap_artsnow conference, under the theme "Arts of Fugitivity," on October 4-7, 2023! The call for proposals has been extended to this Friday April 7! You'll find a link to submit your artist's talk, workshop, panel, paper, performance, and more in the MFA and ASAP bios. This year's theme, "Arts of Fugitivity," addresses strategies of survival and imagination. What does it mean to hide within plain sight, to create alternative ways of being, seeing, and doing, to escape? More than just longing for something else, arts of fugitivity show us how to get there and suggest that we might, in fact, already be there. Confirmed keynotes include Elisheba Johnson, Fred Moten, Dylan Robinson, and Tania Willard, with more to come. Please join us!!
You have until December 31st to submit to this yea You have until December 31st to submit to this year's EP/MFA book contest, an annual collaboration between Essay Press (@essaypress) and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics (@uwbmfa) to publish a work of innovative prose. I'm honored to judge this year! Send me manuscripts that extend or challenge the formal possibilities of prose, including but not limited to: lyric essays and prose poems or poetics; experimental biography and autobiography and more. Simultaneous submissions, multiple submissions, collaborative manuscripts, digital and hybridized text/art manuscripts are all welcome. -- Read submission guidelines, see previous winners and judges, and learn more at the @essaypress website!
I am so grateful to be part of the Virtual Paterso I am so grateful to be part of the Virtual Paterson Poetry Festival, which closes out our Fall Convergence on Poetics—10 Years of Convergence: The MFA Celebrates! Founded by MFA alum Talena Lachelle Queen (@herbestself4440), who graduated with the MFA’s first cohort, this feels like a beautiful circle to reunite and collaborate with her @wordseedinc. Excited to read with my colleagues Ching-In Chen (@chinginchen), & #JeanneHeuving, and our brilliant alumni Ashley Skartvedt (@afox2101), Stephanie Segura (@moonbreaths), and Aimee (Harrison) Wright-Clow (@aimee.c.harrison) today at 3pm PT/6pm ET! Sign up at www.wordseedinc.org for the YouTube stream link!
It's hard to believe @uwbmfa celebrates 10 years t It's hard to believe @uwbmfa celebrates 10 years this year! Please join us for the annual Convergence on Poetics, which takes place Saturday October 1 on Zoom and is totally free. Full schedule included in these slides features conversations between @ceciliavicuna & Jen/Eleana Hofer @labicibilingue, @essaypress authors @yanara_friedland & @valeriehsiung , @wolf_hour & @philipmetres, and Tracie Morris and @kazimalipoet! These visiting artists have shaped our thinking and contributed greatly to our community. We are honored to celebrate with them! And extra honored for our faculty and alumni to take part in a virtual panel at this year's Paterson Poetry Festival, hosted by MFA alum @herbestself4440 & @wordseedinc on Monday October 3 from 3-4pm Pacific. Hope to see you there!
“I heart Santa” red rubber stamp lettering on “I heart Santa” red rubber stamp lettering on white painted wall inside child’s playhouse. #rubberstamp #love #frenzy
“Electrical lockout point.” #keyhole #signage “Electrical lockout point.” #keyhole #signage #horizontal #bestlock
“Patent notice inside.” Close-up of placard on “Patent notice inside.” Close-up of placard on Dictaphone dictating machine type A, model 10x. Made in USA by Dictaphone Corporation, “sole manufacturers.” #authenticdust
“Listen ⬆️ Neutral ⬇️ Dictate.” 〰〰 “Listen ⬆️ Neutral ⬇️ Dictate.” 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰Close up of vintage Dictaphone wax cylinder recorder with mouthpiece in lower left foreground. #thingsiwant #thingsididnotbuy
Today on campus outside the ARC @uw_bothell! Come Today on campus outside the ARC @uw_bothell! Come get your copy of this year’s @uwb_clamor journal, pick up a tote and a copy of the @husky_herald newspaper! Please wear a mask for this socially distant drive-thru and walk-up event!
These new artists’ books are out today from @qua These new artists’ books are out today from @quarantinepubliclibrary! 📚 Read 💛 Read 💛 Read 📚 Gorgeous and essential work by members of @bookprintcollective including @primbookart, @abanksart, @akualezlihope, @rejinl, @honghongstudio, and @tiffanyebarber @the_sandyman_can and @maripari9.
A few of the many voices in THE BOOK: 101 DEFINITI A few of the many voices in THE BOOK: 101 DEFINITIONS, a collection of answers to the question, “What is a/the book?” by artists, bookbinders, publishers, librarians, and scholars that expand our idea of what the book is and can be. Animation: Anteism Presents selected quotations by contributors to THE BOOK: 101 DEFINITIONS, including @jenbervin, Christian Bök, @caconrad88, Jason Dodge, Zuzana Husarova, Aurelea Mahood, Bonnie Mak, @sigliopress, Robin Price, Tatiana Rapatzikou, @samuels1942, and @boekiewoekie. Animation by @frederiquegagnon for @anteism_books and @cepconcordia. #pmvabf #pmvabf2021
I’m incredibly excited to share THE BOOK: 101 DE I’m incredibly excited to share THE BOOK: 101 DEFINITIONS, a collaboration between @anteism_books and @cepconcordia, launching at this week’s Virtual Printed Matter Art Book Fair, which takes place 2/25-28! @printedmatter_artbookfairs @printedmatterinc #pmvabf #pmvabf2021 LINK IN BIO! What is a book? Read 101 definitions by artists, bookbinders, publishers, librarians, and scholars that expand our idea of what the book is and can be. • 5” x 7.5” / 12.7 cm x 19 cm • 110 color pages • Cover: 2 Colour Risograph on Via Jute. • Interior: 1 Colour Risograph on Via Warm White • Edition of 350 • 15 USD Includes brilliant contributions by folx too numerous to mention, including @passages_bookshop, @abanksart, @caconrad88, @primbookart, @buzzspector, @doc_mofo, @derek.a.beaulieu, @uranol, @andrewnormanwilson_actually, @latasha.diggs, @jenbervin, @allison.parrish, @samuelace, @imyouredruscha, @baum.erica, @franny_capone, @michacard, @granarybooks, @huldrapress, @colleenlouisebarry, @katedurbin, @fivehundred_places, @thewayofray, @_ihatch, @jhavejohnston, @diddioz, @eloyer17, @jillmagi, @piotr_marecki, @scottmccarneyvisualbooks, @beanettles, @elikaortega, @shinyupai, @sigliopress, @pinteretnip, @idoradon, @deedottiedot, @alexsaum, @miriamschaer, @cuneiformpress, @jared_stanley_studio, @mirisuzanne, @keyclaw, @thememoryofacolor, @boekiewoekie, @terriwitek, @vievekaplan, @jphillipsbrown, @kimota, @neural_mag, @weedlet, @debpoe, and more!
Pleased to share this micro-artist’s book of pro Pleased to share this micro-artist’s book of programmatically-generated curtal sonnets based on code by @doc_mofo, which was published by @quarantinepubliclibrary this month. All QPL books are free to print at home on a single sheet of 8.5x11” paper. Any donations go directly to nonprofit @everyoneon, so important right now for ensuring everyone has internet access for online learning and remote work! -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Repost from @quarantinepubliclibrary • 2021.18. Borsuk, Amaranth. “Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona.” A series of programmatically-generated curtal sonnets that meditate on the turn of a difficult year. @amaranthb @mitpress #quarantinepubliclibrary Amaranth Borsuk is a poet, scholar, and book artist working across print and digital media, performance and installation. Her most recent volume, The Book, is part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.
Deposit old U.S. Flags. #flagsonly #nomail #flagdr Deposit old U.S. Flags. #flagsonly #nomail #flagdrop #mailbox
Judy Chartrand, The Cupboard of Contention (2001). Judy Chartrand, The Cupboard of Contention (2001). Clay, glaze, lustre, wood. White painted cupboard with ceramic soup cans on open shelves and lower door ajar with text that reads “OH CANADA YOUR HOME IS NATIVE LAND.”
Graham Gilmore, Ploy (2003). Ledger paper mounted Graham Gilmore, Ploy (2003). Ledger paper mounted on canvas. #polyvocality #foundtext #rivers
Marianne Nicolson, Oh, How I Long for Home (2016). Marianne Nicolson, Oh, How I Long for Home (2016). Neon, SFU Art Collection, gift of the artist. The Kwak’wala phrase “Wa’lasan xwalsa kan ne’nakwe” illuminates a room in a red neon glow. #neonart #textbasedart #indigenousartists . From the wall text: “In its translation to Kwak'wala, Oh, How I Long For Home - 'Wa'lasan xwalsa kan ne'nakwe' - refers to a "return," as well as to the cycle of the sun rising. The double meaning of title not only points to an idea of home as Indigenous territory, but the longing for home that settlers also seek, complicated by unceded lands.”
Ecstatic to share that Between Page & Screen has b Ecstatic to share that Between Page & Screen has been translated and transformed by the team at Lleom! It is now available in Spanish via Libros UNAM, and @bradbouse and I are deeply grateful! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Repost from @cinthya_gl using @_repostplus • ¡Tenemos un libro! / We have a book! 🙌🏻🔮 Entre Hoja y Pantalla, la traducción del laboratorio de literaturas extendidas y otras materialidades al paradigmático Between Page and Screen de @amaranthb y Brad Bouse ya está disponible en librerías UNAM, y se editó en el marco del programa Síntesis 2020. ⚫️⚫️⚫️ Varios años después de esta traducción a cinco manos, tenemos por fin impreso este proyecto que hicimos con mucho amor y que busca visibilizar las prácticas híbridas que involucran distintas materialidades en literatura. Gracias a Síntesis y a Libros UNAM por hacerlo posible.
Coolest AirBnB hosts ever? Bookshelf featuring art Coolest AirBnB hosts ever? Bookshelf featuring artwork by Nita Mae Hicks, embroidered handkerchiefs with the slogans “See you in Mexico,” “Real Men Cry,” and “Snatch the Moment” as well as back issues of HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women’s Music and Culture. Not pictured: Egon Schiele Love and Death, and Seeing Gertrude Stein. #shelfie
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