Book Arts Roundup

Rocky Mountain Chapter

Guild of BookWorkers

Volume 17, Number 2

July, 2011

DENVER AREA

Thanks to the great planning efforts of Sammy Lee (Denver region events coordinator) the Denver area has
had a busy spring! We hope many of you have been able to participate in the events of the last few months. Since
the last newsletter the region has hosted workshops by Shaun Sheehy (April), Peter Thomas (May), and Don Glaister
(June). We also co-sponsored and were treated to talks by both Shaun Sheehy and Don Glaister while they were in the
region.

We participated (for the second time) in the Colorado Arts and Crafts Society - Gathering of the Guilds, May
1, at the Boettcher Mansion in Golden. Many thanks to Karen Jones for helping me to greet the attendees and share
information about the guild, bookmaking, book history and marbling!

Please also stop by the Norlin Library on the Colorado University - Boulder Campus and see the chapter show
which is open until September 8! The exhibit is part of the ongoing celebration titled Book Craft: Deconstructing,
Unhinging, Decomposing. Thanks to all the members who shared your book arts works for this event and exhibit.

Regrettably, this is my final column as co-chair for the Denver region. I hope to see you at upcoming GBW
events, and wish you all the best in your book arts adventures!

-Ginny Kilander

SALT LAKE CITY AREA

Hello and greetings. We have an interesting year ahead of us. Just a few of the things to look forward to:

It looks like the Guild Standards meeting in Boston is sold out! I am very excited about visiting Boston, as
there are so many book related things to see and do. Hopefully, our chapter will once again be well representedat
the last two annual Standards meetings we had the most in attendance of any chapter. And dont forget that in 2012,
Standards will be held in our own Salt Lake City.

The chapter will be announcing an exhibit and show in the next newsletter.

Please send in the postcard with your vote for new chapter officers.

Our next Utah meeting will be on August 13, at 5:00 pm, at Toni Nelsons home. I hope to see you there.

-Ethan Ensign, Co-Chair (scruboakbindery@gmail.com)

c a l l t o e n t r y. . .
deadline: August 1

Visual Journals - Abecedarian Gallery, Denver , CO

A non-juried show of visual journals. Show dates September 2 to October 1, 2011.

* for more information, visit: www.abecedariangallery.com

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the book arts program at the marriot libarary

www.bookartsprogram.org

CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

August 6, 19 & 27
August 13 & again October 8
August 20
August 24 - December 7
August 25 - December 8
September 9 & 10
November 12

Comic Relief: Alternative Letterpress Forms with L. Decker, C. Taylor & M. Toscano
The Simple Thread of Sewn Books with Louona Tanner (an Educators Workshop)
Creating Custom Bookcloth with Chris McAfee
Letterpress Printing 1, 2 & 3 with Marnie Powers-Torrey & David Wolske
Bookbinding 1, 2 & 3 with Emily Tipps
The Jokers Wild: Unpredictable Letterpress with Amos Kennedy
Press to Post in a Day with Claire Taylor

LECTURE - free to the public

September 8, 7pm

Lecture with Amos Kennedy

EXHIBITS

July 15 - September 9
AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers
September 16 - November 4 Counterform: a Juried Show of Utah Book Work

U TA H B O O K F E S T I VA L
October 22 & the entire month of October
This year the festival will have activities throughout the month of October (National Book Month) at venues throughout the valley and state. Salt Lake City Book Festival Day, October 22, will feature 5 Keynote
authors (TBD) with book exhibitors and a poetry slam, at the City Library.
Look for updates in the coming weeks at our website: www.utahhumanities.org

new mexico
palace of the govenors - exhibit

October 23 - April 7, 2012

www.palaceofthegovernors.org

Illuminating the Word: St. Johns Bible, an epic work of art

escribiente calligraphy society

November 5 & 6

www.escribiente.org

Workshop with Peter Thornton

national workshops by chapter members

laura wait

(late July / early August) Alternative Book Structures, Santa Fe, NM

laurie doctor

August 11 - 14
September 9 - 15
jill berry

September 18 - 24
October 14 - 16

www.laurawait.com
www.lauriedoctor.com

Flotsam& Jetsam: Painting and Writing in Pieces, Northfield, MN

Intuition & Imagery, with Barbara Griek , Abiquiu, NM

www.jillberrydesign.com

Uncovering Umbria: A Portfolio of Visual Stories, Orvieto, Italy

Eat, Paint, Love, Valley Ridge, WI

newsletter

notes.. .

Please note that the autumn Book Arts Roundup will be coming out the second week of September,
submissions due by September 2.
* Submit to lang@eidolonpress.com, subject line: GBW Roundup *

If you want to receive the Roundup via email/pdf, please let me know at: lang@eidolonpress.com

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book arts league

July 15
mid-August

August 20

www.bookartsleague.org

Lafayette Art Night Out with BAL & pARTiculars, make artful cards for troops overseas
Letterpress Open House Field Trip to Tom Parsons Studio in Denver
Lafayette Peach Festival with a BAL booth & demonstrations

denver bookbinding company - classes

July 23
August 6
August 13

August 20

abecedarian gallery - exhibits

thru August 6
thru August 6

www.denverbook.com

Medieval Long Stitch

Secret Belgian Binding
Envelope Book (Variation on Western Case)
Archival Box Making: Clamshell

norlin library - member exhibit

thru September 8

www.abecedariangallery.com

Interactive Artifact
Music Bo(o)x, curated by Lynn Sures & John Risseeuw

www.ucblibraries.colorado.edu/norlin/

Book Craft: Deconstructing, Unhinging, Decomposing

2 7 th R o c k y M o u n t a i n

B O O K & PA P E R FA I R
August 5 & 6

Antiquarian and Rare Books - First Editions - Signed Books Maps

Western Americana - Post Cards - Travel Brochures - Posters
Silver & Golden Age Comic Books - Old Photos Prints
Childrens Books - Illustrations - Cook Books
Karen Jones interacting
with participants at the
Gathering of Guilds event,
Denver

at: Denver Merchandise Mart Expo Building

* for more information go to www.rmaba.org *

kozo fine art materials - classes

August 13
August 20 & 21
August 27

www.kozofineartmaterials.com

The Artists Book with Cameron Garland

Papermaking Extravaganza! with Leigh Holden
Monotype printing with Stencils with Jennifer Ghormley

american academy of bookbinding - classes in Telluride

www.ahhaa.org

September 12 - 23
Fundamentals of Bookbinding: Intermediate Fine Binding with Don Glaister
September 24 & 25
Pigment on Paper with Suzanne Moore
September 26 - 30
From Content to Concept to Object with Don Glaister & Suzanne Moore
October 17 - 28
Intermediate/Advanced Fine Binding with Monique Lallier
October 31 - November 11 Forwarding & Covering of Textblocks with Don Etherington
November 14 - 18
Advanced Paper Conservation with Renate Mesmer

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OF

BOOKWORKERS - ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER : ELECTION

OF

OFFICERS

The current Rocky Mountain Chapter Board wishes to express our support of the new slate of officers and to express our sincere appreciation for these individuals willingness to serve the chapter. Likewise, we would appreciate your casting a ballot as a member of the
chapter. Please check your votes & stamp/mail the inserted postcard.

Ethan Ensign, running for both Salt Lake City Co-Chair & Regional Events Coordinator

Ethan Ensign has been a bookbinder and conservator for 15 years. He is the owner of Scrub Oak Bindery. He has been a member of the Guild for
several years and would like to continue in the combined office for Salt Lake City area on the Rocky Mountain Board.

Pamela Leutz, running for Denver Co-Chair

Pamela has been bookbinding since 1979, having studied design binding with masters Jan Sobota and Hugo Peller. She taught bookbinding for the
past 20 years, first in Dallas, and currently in Colorado Springs. She has been a member of the Guild of BookWorkers since 1990. She served as copresident of the Lone Star Chapter and served as an advisory board member for the The Helen Warren DeGolyer American Bookbinding Competition. Pamelas book The Thread That Binds: Interviews with Private Practice Bookbinders was published by Oak Knoll Press in 2010.

Sammy Lee, running for Denver Regional Events Coordinator

Sammy studied fine art and graphic design at the University of California at Los Angeles and her graduate study was in architecture at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was introduced to the world of book arts at Graduate school through a field trip to Daniel Kelms bookbindery
in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Book arts was a fascinating new media to her, which, to her surprise, encompassed all of her training in fine arts,
graphic design and architecture. She moved to Denver with her husband in 2007. Sammy has held this office for the past two years and would like
to continue as Events Coordinator.

Emily Tipps, running for Treasurer

Emily Tipps is Binding Instructor and Studio Coordinator at the Book Arts Program at the University of Utah, and the proprietor of High5 Press,
which publishes innovative writing in the form of handmade artists books. While living in Alabama, Emily served as treasurer and then as chair of
the Southeast Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado, and an MFA in Book
Arts from the University of Alabama.

Lang Ingalls, running for Newsletter Editor

Lang Ingalls has been editing and producing the GBW Rocky Mountain Chapter Book Arts Roundup for the past six years. She owns and operates
Eidolon Press in Crested Butte, Colorado. She joinedtheGuild of Book Workers in 2000.

G UILD OF B OOK W ORKERS

R OCKY M OUNTAIN C HAPTER

ELECTION OF OFFICERS - 2011

please check your votes or email your votes to
lang@eidolonpress.com

Salt Lake City Co-Chair

& Regional Events Coordinator
_____ Ethan Ensign
Denver Co-Chair
_____ Pamela Leutz
Denver Regional Events Coordinator
_____ Sammy Lee
Chapter Treasurer
_____ Emily Tipps
Newsletter Editor, the RoundUp
_____ Lang Ingalls