Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director, Jen Larson, Collections Specialist, and the Collections Committee. This exhibition marks the culmination of the three-year Collections Initiative, which involved the in-depth cataloguing and preservation of our extensive collection of artist books, prints, catalogues, and ephemera.
Includes image plates, A-Z inventory, writer's biographies.
The exhibition traveled to the Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 6 - Dec. 9, 2011; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 3 - May 6, 2012, Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX, May 31 - Aug. 25, 2012; Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 2012; The Book Club of California, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 21 - Apr. 15, 2013.
Contents:
Center for Book Arts collections initiative and online digital catalogue / Jen Larson
Artists' books and conceptualism(s) / Johanna Drucker
The (r)evolutionary democratic multiple / Tony White
Broadsides / Nina Schneider
Tradition and innovation in the digital age / Amanda Stevenson
Reading visually/visually reading / Alexander Campos
Residency snapshot: a contemporary outlook for the future of book arts / Erin Riley-Lopez