Chris Clarkson shows GBW member Barry Spence the intricacies of sewing an endband.
Quick Links to Events
This is a list of some GBW-sponsored events. Also check the Chapters websites for events in your region.
To post an event, please contact Eric Alstrom, Communications Chair.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
New England Chapter Exhibit Call for Entries
The New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers is proud to announce a call for entries for a bookbinding competition. Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities printed by the Quercus Press has been selected as the set book for this juried exhibition. An unbound copy of the texblock must be purchased to enter this exhibit.
Please visit the New England Chapter website for more details and instructions on how to purchase the book.
Midwest Chapter Announces Upcoming Exhibit
The Guild of Book Workers Midwest Chapter invites all chapter members to participate in its 2010-11 traveling exhibition, New Views: Recent Work from the Midwest Chapter.
Intent to enter forms due July 1 and the artwork is due September 10, 2010.
Please visit the Midwest Chapter website for more details and the Intent to Enter form.
Lone Star Chapter Call for Entries
An exhibition for 2011 featuring chapter member Pamela Leutz’s publication "The Thread That Binds: Interviews with Private Practice Bookbinders".
Intent to Participate forms due March 15, 2010 (tentative schedule)
Read the complete call for entry announcement
(This book will also be featured in the 2010 Bind-O-Rama hosted at the Book Arts Web.)
EXHIBITIONS
Marking Time: GBW National Traveling Exhibition
Current Venue:
July 5-August 26, 2010
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH
Future Venues:
September 5-October 25, 2010 - Lafayette College, Easton, PA
November 5, 2010-March 20, 2011 - Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
For more information, see the Current Exhibits webpage
WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES
Islamic Bindings: A Conservator’s Perspective on Form and Function
An Ilustrated lecture by Katherine Beaty
July 28, 2010
6:00pm
Schlesinger Library, Cambridge MA
More information on the New England Chapter website
Past Guild of Book Workers' Events
Paste Paper Workshop
A workshop with Cindy Haller
March 6, 2010
10:00- 5:00pm
Arlington, TX
More information at the Lone Star Chapater website
The Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings
A Half-Day Lecture with Lois Olcott Price
March 16, 2010
1:00-5:00pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY
More information at the New York Chapter website
A Bookbinding Anomaly: Linked-Spine Bindings
An Illustrated Lecture by Sam Ellenport
March 18th, 2010
6:00 pm
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe/Harvard University, Cambridge MA
More information on the New England Chapter website
Edible Book Festival 2010
A lighthearted celebration of the book
April 3, 2010
2:00pm-5:00pm
Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD.
For more information visit www.books2eat.comor the Potomac Chapter website.
Armenian Bindings
A lecture with Sylvie Merian
April 6, 2010
New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY
More information at the New York Chapter website.
Limp Velum Binding Workshop
A workshop with Don Etherington
April 10, 2010
9:00am-5:00pm
Knight Library Conservation Lab, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
More information at the Northwest Chapter website.
19th Century Bookbinders' Mistakes: Why they are so fun to look at!
An illustrated lecture by Todd Pattison
April 12, 2009 (CORRECTED DATE!)
6:00pm
North Bennet Street School, Boston, MA
More information on the New England Chapter website
Midwest Annual Meeting and Workshop
Local tours, gatherings and a marbling workshop with
Steve Pittelkow
April 16-17, 2010
Ann Arbor, MI
More information on the Midwest Chapter website
Color Theory and Color Matching
A two day workshop with Julia Rabin
April 24-25, 2010
New York, NY
More information at the New York Chapter website
California Chapter Exhibition
An exhibition of recent and not-previously-exhibited work.
April 13- May 26, 2010
Oviatt Library, California State University, Northridge,CA
Please check http://library.csun.edu/ for library hours.Contact Joe Giangrande for additional information.
Karen Hanmer, Artist Talk
April 29, 2010
6:00 pm
North Bennet Street School,
Boston, MA
Clasp Making Workshop
A 2 day workshop presented by the Potomac Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers
May 1-2, 2010
9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD
Introduction to Photo Conservation
A 2 day workshop with Nora Kennedy
May 6-7, 2010
New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY
More information at the New York Chapter website.
The Book as Architecture
A Workshop with Paul Johnson
May 8, 2010
9 am to 5 pm
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
More information at the Delaware Valley Chapter website
Nag Hammadi Codex
A 2 day workshop with Julia Miller
June 18-19, 2010
New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY
More information at the New York Chapter website
Annual Meeting of the New England Chapter
July 1, 2010
6:00pm
The Independent
Union Square, Somerville, MA
More information on the New England Chapter website