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Rare Books/Book Arts Collaborative Exhibition Featured in Utah Daily Chronicle

15 Friday Jan 2016

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“We are embracing the process of making the book.” — Allison Milham, Book Arts Program Community Outreach Coordinator.

Glimpse gallery at the Marriott Library, Monday December 7, 2015.

Glimpse, Special Collections Gallery — Photo courtesy of Utah Daily Chronicle

Allison Milham (Book Arts Program) and Luise Poulton (Rare Books) teamed up to curate an exhibition featuring the work of library and guest instructors for the Book Arts Program’s 2016 workshop schedule. Read more about it in the Utah Daily Chronicle.

The exhibition, “Glimpse,” in the Special Collections Gallery on level 4 of the J. Willard Marriott Library, includes artists’ books held in the Rare Books collection. 2016 Book Arts Program guest instructors include Keiji Shinohara (Woodcut), Karen Hamner (Flag Book and Leather Binding), Pamela Smith (Paper Marbling), Michelle Macfarlane (Cyanotype), Claire Taylor (Linocut on Fabric), Allyn Hart (Xerox Lithography), Becky Thomas (Experimental Ink Techniques), Stacy Phillips (Painting with Encaustics), Louanna Tanner (Calligraphy). Additional workshops are offered by Book Arts Program faculty and staff Crane Giamo and Marnie Powers-Torrey (Digital Letterpress), Emily Tipps (Narrative Pages), and Allison Milham (Bookmaking). For more information about these workshops visit the Book Arts Program.

Rare Books is proud to work with our colleagues in Book Arts!

 

Book Arts Exhibition – Glimpse

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Rare Books is pleased to support the Book Arts Program with its historic, fine press, and artists’ books collections. Glimpse features these and many other book artists represented in our collections.

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A FOWL ALPHABET
Alan James Robinson
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1986

Wood engravings by author. Lettering by Suzanne Moore. Title printed in brown and black; initials and headings printed in brown and gold. Issued in cloth clamshell box. Edition of fifty copies, signed. University of Utah copy is no. 36.

AAAZZZ

AAAAAZZZZZ
Karen Hanmer
Glenville, IL: Karen Hammer, 2002
N7433.4 H357 A6 2002

Housed in box. Title on box shows the letter “A” turning into the letter “Z.” Edition of eight copies. University of Utah copy is no. 6, signed by the author.

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THE SPECTRUM A TO Z
Karen Hanmer
Glenview, IL: K. Hanmer, 2003
N7433.4 H357 S6 2003

Accordion-style alphabet book. Edition of twenty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 4.

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PATRIOT ALPHABET
Karen Hanmer
Glenview, IL: K. Hanmer, 2004
N7433.4 H357 P37 2004

Karen Hanmer layers fragments of text and image, evoking personal memory within cultural context. Intimate but strong, her books are designed to be handled, their sculptural elements giving way to the physicality of reading the old-fashioned way, by turning a page.

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Recommended Workshop – Non-Credit Letterpress

22 Tuesday Apr 2014

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The Book Arts Program presents

Non-Credit Letterpress

Tuesdays, May 13 through July 1
5PM – 8PM
Book Arts Studio, Level 4
J. Willard Marriott Library
Workshop fee: $280 Materials fee: $60

This gem of a workshop introduces the fundamentals of letterpress, from paper selection and cutting to mixing ink and printing. Practicing a variety of techniques and using an array of media – miraculous moveable type, dazzling zinc cuts, luscious linoleum blocks, and precious pressure prints, among others – participants design and produce several projects with the jewels of the Book Arts Studio: its flatbed cylinder and clamshell platen presses.

Instructor Claire Taylor is the Studio Manager at the Book Arts Program. She received a BFA from the University of Utah in printmaking in 2007. Working mainly in letterpress and drawn media, she exhibits nationally.

Relicensure points are available from the Utah State Board of Education.

For more information: bookartsprogram@utah.edu or 801-585-9191

The Rare Books Division supports the Book Arts Program with its collections.

Vanity
Rebecca Chamlee Keeley
Los Angeles: R.C. Keeley, 1988
N7433.4 K434 V35 1988

Trapazoidal pages in which the top edge has been trimmed on an angle. Accordion structure bound in cloth covered boards. From the colophon: “The text was composed in Spartan, Futura and Baskerville types by Bell Type and Rule Co., printed on Roma paper, written, designed and bound by me. The zinc cuts were colored by a letterpress method invented by Dikko Faust of Purgatory Pie Press.” Edition of twenty-five copies. University of Utah copy is no. 25, signed by the author.

Phosphorescent Face Highlighter
Sarah Nicholls
New York City: S. Nicholls, 2010
N7433.4 N525 P46 2010

From insert: “Letterpress printed from handset type and linoleum blocks at the Center for Book Arts in NYC.” Edition of forty-five copies. University of Utah copy is no. 10, initialed by the author.

The Topography of Home
Macy Chadwick
Oakland, CA: In Cahoots Press, 2009
N7433.4 C414 T68 2009

Pages attached to a concertina with most pages having a circular silk tissue window so that the preceding and following pages show through. From the colophon: “[W]ritten designed and [letterpress] printed by Macy Chadwick…Printed with pressure prints and polymer plates on Mohawk [sic] Superfine and French’s Extra Blue Butcher paper…Window images hand-stenciled on Silk Tissue.” Edition of fifty copies, numbered and signed by the author/artist. University of Utah copy is no. 26.

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Book of the Week – Wo/Men at Work

03 Monday Jun 2013

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Wo/Men at Work
Salt Lake City: Red Butte Press, 2012
N7433.4 W65 2012

Three texts (“Consuming labor: a preface to Wo/Men at Work” by Matt Basso and Andrew Farnsworth, “Cooking from Scratch” by Judy Blunt, and “Everything’s dangerous: an essay from the 1941 collection Men at Work” by Ralph Powell) printed in a W-fold pamphlet. Titles printed on opposite covers. From the colophon: “…Book Arts Program staff contributors are Managing Director Marnie Powers-Torrey, Creative Director David Wolske, Laura Decker, Claire Taylor, Becky Thomas and Emily Tipps. David designed and typeset the text. The typefaces, evocative of the 1930s and ‘40s printshop vernacular, are as follows: bold titling is Hamilton, a revival of a popular 19th century wood type; bylines and colophon are Franklin Gothic, a workhorse sans serif found in printshops across America; italic subheadings are Cheltenham Italic, a ubiquitous early 20th century serif design; and the main body typeface is a version of Fairfield, released in 1939 and designed for the Linotype machine. Claire and Laura produced the saddle and pressure cooker drawings, respectively, in dialogue with the essays and one another…Andrew [Farnsworth], Dayna Kerns, and Chris Dunsmore, under the direction of Book Arts staff, letterpress-printed the imagery and text from photopolymer plates on Rives Heavyweight and BFK papers. Emily oversaw binding design and production of the W-fold pamphlet…Associate Director for Special Collection Greg Thompson provided the committed support that helped make this endeavor a reality.” Edition of twenty-six copies. University of Utah copies are letters ‘U’ and ‘V.’

Congratulations to the Book Arts Program and Red Butte Press staff for receiving one of 7 AIGA 100 Show Professional Copper Ingot awards for Wo/men at Work. The AIGA 100 Show showcases the year’s best design, advertising, and digital media. Of those pieces, a select few are awarded the Copper Ingot, one of the most sought-after communication awards in the Intermountain West. Visit http/aigaslc100show.com for information, to view pictures from the awards ceremony, and download the 100 Show Book PDF.