Jill, congrats on the show! I was at the opening with another friend who has a
book in the gallery and hoped to get to meet you in the flesh Saturday. Maybe
another time...

This friend, btw, has applied for membership in this group and still not been
approved. Shall I ask her to try again, since you've only recently taken it
over?

http://www.recyclart.org/2010/09/library-information-desk/?ref=nf



The whole desk is made of books.  Cool.



Does everyone know that the book arts show is up in Ventura?  Art of the
Book 3 at the Artist's Union Gallery.



Ines Monguio, who has created these shows for the past few years, says this
one is the best yet.



There will be a talk about the show and artists books in general during
First Friday in Ventura on October 1.  Here is some information:



Art of the book 3 First Friday Speakers



Three speakers from varied backgrounds will be talking about artist books
from their own personal creative processes.



Fiona Spring co-founded and manages Lettre Sauvage, a small press in Santa
Paula where she publishes contemporary literature and art in hand-made
letterpress editions. She is a designer and writer as well. The press work
can be found in the collection of The Getty Center among other important
collections.



Jill Littlewood is a broadly trained artist best known for paper art and
artist books. She has exhibited nationally and is the president of the
Friends of Dard Hunter, an international organization of hand papermakers.
Her approach to artist books, like her approach to her art, and indeed to
Life is "Try it!" One of her books, composed of double sided images embedded
in hand made paper, is so large that it requires an entire room to be shown.



Joe Cardella is a well known artist in sculpture, assemblage, collage, and
photography. He is the founder and publisher of Art Life, a limited edition
magazine that was published uninterruptedly for 25 years. Art Life is in the
permanent collection of various museums, the most recent Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, which has purchased the entire collection for permanent
display.





Jill Littlewood





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http://361920.rxcapsulesweight.net

A Biblioteca Britânica, em Londres, colocou na internet mais de um quarto dos
seus manuscritos gregos, totalizando 280 volumes, em mais um passo rumo à
digitalização completa desses importantes documentos antigos.
Os manuscritos, disponibilizados gratuitamente no site
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts, são parte de uma das mais importantes coleções
localizadas fora da Grécia para o estudo de mais de 2 mil anos de cultura
helênica.
A biblioteca detém um total de mais de mil manuscritos gregos, mais de 3 mil
papiros e uma abrangente coleção de impressos arcaicos gregos.
As informações ali presentes interessam a acadêmicos que trabalham com
literatura, história, ciência, religião, filosofia e arte do Mediterrâneo
Oriental durante os períodos clássico e bizantino.
"Isso é exatamente o que todos esperávamos da nova tecnologia, mas raramente
tínhamos", disse Mary Beard, professora de cultura clássica da Universidade de
Cambridge.
"Isso abre um recurso precioso para qualquer um — do especialista ao curioso –
em qualquer lugar do mundo, gratuitamente."
Entre os destaques do acervo digitalizado estão os Salmos de Theodore, altamente
ilustrados, produzidos em Constantinopla em 1066, e as fábulas de Babrius,
descobertas em 1842 no monte Atos, que contêm 123 fábulas de Esopo corrigidas
pelo grande acadêmico bizantino Demetrius Triclinius.
A iniciativa, financiada pela Fundação Stavros Niarchos, se soma a outros
projetos da biblioteca para ampliar a divulgação de documentos antigos, frágeis
e raros.
Outros projetos digitais incluem um caderno de Leonardo da Vinci, do século 16,
e o Codex Sinaiticus, do século 4., contendo a mais antiga cópia completa do
Novo Testamento.
Mike Collett-White (REUTERS)
Fonte: Link Estadão.

The LA Book Arts Guild is an organization dedicated to fostering and promoting
the book arts in Southern California. As part of the International Printing
Museum, the Book Arts Guild is an energetic community of book artists,
letterpress printers, enthusiasts, collectors, typographers, book binders,
papermakers and printmakers. The Guild regularly meets on the second Saturday of
each month. Meetings feature special printing demonstrations & workshops for its
members, social gatherings, shop visits, access to the Printing Museum
collections. Lectures, special exhibits and much more.

Membership in the LA Book Arts Guild is open to Friends of the Printing Museum
with annual dues of $50/year. Membership in the Guild provides you the benefits
of all the Guild activities, as well as all the benefits of the Friends of the
Printing Museum. We look forward to having you as a part of this exciting new
gathering of Los Angeles book artists and fellow enthusiasts!  For more
information, contact Guild President Cami Lee-Shono (leecami [at] hotmail.com)
or Guild Director Mark Barbour (mail [at} printmuseum.com or 714-529-1832) at
the Printing Museum.

Messengers and Storytellers  Saturday  November 6, 2010 9AM to 4PM
   $100 All materials and tools included  No experience necessary.
Come enjoy the fun.

      Expand your design vocabulary in this spirited workshop by
creating three-dimensional figures. We will make these figures of
polymer clay using unique surface designs of millefiore & mokume gane
and rich embellishments of beads, fibers and your personal
treasures.  Our inspiration will come from earlier cultures and also
from easy whimsical designs we'll collage from two-dimensional
imagery - a fun way to work to stimulate new ideas! The "Messengers"
can have secret places to hide a message or object, the
"Storytellers" can house a small book and both can incorporate
removable jewelry.
      This class will give you fresh visions and open new
possibilities for your own work!


Rattles and Rattle Beads Sunday November 7, 2010  9AM to 4PM
   $100 All materials and tools included

      We’ll start off this spirited class by looking to ancient
cultures as our inspiration to create Rattles and Rattle Beads from
beautifully designed sheets and balls of polymer clay. Add dimension
to your work by adding sound! The rattles can be in many shapes and
sizes, from simple forms to more complex. We will explore ways to
produce different sounds within the rattle.
      Techniques for surface designs will be many and varied-
Millefiore, texture and sculptural elements.

Messengers and Storytellers  Saturday  November 6, 2010 9AM to 4PM
Hosted by Backspace Book Arts at New Roads High School, Santa Monica
California
   $100 All materials and tools included  No experience necessary.
Come enjoy the fun.

      Expand your design vocabulary in this spirited workshop by
creating three-dimensional figures. We will make these figures of
polymer clay using unique surface designs of millefiore & mokume gane
and rich embellishments of beads, fibers and your personal
treasures.  Our inspiration will come from earlier cultures and also
from easy whimsical designs we'll collage from two-dimensional
imagery - a fun way to work to stimulate new ideas! The "Messengers"
can have secret places to hide a message or object, the
"Storytellers" can house a small book and both can incorporate
removable jewelry.
      This class will give you fresh visions and open new
possibilities for your own work!



Rattles and Rattle Beads Sunday November 7, 2010  9AM to 4PM
Hosted by Backspace Book Arts at New Roads High School, Santa Monica,
California
   $100 All materials and tools included

      We’ll start off this spirited class by looking to ancient
cultures as our inspiration to create Rattles and Rattle Beads from
beautifully designed sheets and balls of polymer clay. Add dimension
to your work by adding sound! The rattles can be in many shapes and
sizes, from simple forms to more complex. We will explore ways to
produce different sounds within the rattle.
      Techniques for surface designs will be many and varied-
Millefiore, texture and sculptural elements.

For more information please e-mail or call Marcia Moore at 310-722-9004

http://rapidshare.com/files/425024644/128.exe

Hi everyone, update time.



      I hardly had time to catch my breath after my trip to Korea - where I
presented talks and art to an international audience of hand papermakers -
when it was time to get into high gear for the annual meeting of the Friends
of Dard Hunter, which is the American organization of hand papermaking.  I
am president of this group, and it was my idea that we go to Arrowmont
School of Arts and Crafts for our conference this year.  Because of the
nature of the place, with huge workshop areas and the most unbelievable
amount of equipment in all art fields, we added on days of workshops as well
as doing a conference with lectures and demonstrations. In terms of work, it
was equivalent to doing two conferences. But many people felt it was the
best conference ever presented in the 30 year history of the Friends. Better
yet, I'm still standing.

      I knew I had to open the conference with a welcome speech and it kept
me from sleeping the night before I was to give it. Finally it came to me.
But first you need to know a bit of back story about Gatlinburg, Tennessee,
where we were.  It is on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountain national park,
and it would be hard to find food there that did not include cotton candy,
corndogs, or biscuits and gravy. There are wax museums, a Ripley's Believe
It or Not Aquarium, and Dollywood is nearby.  You can get several different
versions of bikinis made with confederate flags - the crossing lines in
strategic places - and there are two Harley Davidson megastores within 6
miles of each other.  Ginormous RV's wind their way up tiny mountain
passages, with miles of frustrated cars in their wake.

      In this environment, Arrowmont is like Hogwarts, and you need to have
faith to find the entrance. Amid all the garish signage is a tiny wooden
sign that says where to turn and find the magic.  It is an oasis of beauty
and sanity that for a century has kept hand culture alive. It was started by
a woman's sorority to teach women of the mountains weaving and basketry;
more recently it teaches students of all ages and incomes. Arrowmont is a
campus with dorms and a dining hall in addition to the workshop spaces, and
when I checked in and asked for the room key the lady helping me shrugged
and said nothing is locked - they have never had a theft.  Sure enough, for
days I saw purses, cameras, laptops, and cell phones lying around unattended
but seemingly secure.  The muggles couldn't find the opening even though we
were close enough to hear the roar of the Harley's go by.

      Our keynote speaker was a tiny Frenchman with a huge beard and a beret
who came to tell us about the giant wooden stamper he has just competed in
his little town in France. A stamper is the original paper pulper:  imagine
huge wooden hammers turned by a waterwheel to pound rags into pulp - hence
the term "rag paper". Jacques Brejoux had been brought by Tim Barrett, the
first president of the Friends, who just last year won the McArthur genius
award for his work in paper.  He is the go-to man if you have to have
someone work on the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. With
this audience, I was feeling a bit nervous about what to say. I prefaced it
by saying we would be hearing about paper for the next few days, but I
wanted to talk about us as a community. Here is what I said:



In 1969 my mother started a commune in Carmel Valley, California.  She
bought 50 acres of land from a denist named - I kid you not - Dr. Nodo.  It
had one structure on it, a concrete block one-room schoolhouse with dark
slate blackboards on three walls in the main room.  The first year she was
there 25 people a day came through, but that tapered off and eventually the
traffic became smaller and finally a few of the seekers of that time decided
to stay.  They built houses called Toad Hall, The Mushroom Dwelling, and the
Tree House - you get the picture.  None of these houses had septic tanks,
and it took a case of hoof and mouth disease to convince some people that
hot water and soap were not a bourgeois conspiracy against being "natural".
Things eventually sorted themselves out and after a few years the commune
was pretty settled.

My mom charged a dollar per person per day to live there but the mainstay of
their economy was based on barter, growing marijuana, and harvesting
psychedelics.  I was in college when my mom started this and I would visit
on vacations.  I liked some of the freedoms - clothing was optional - but I
never felt comfortable with the overall shambles of the place.  I didn't
like that if the front door swelled and stuck people just used the side
door. I didn't smoke dope or do acid and was not amused by conversations
others found profound or hilarious.  I was not attracted to what people made
with their hands - they were mostly interested in things to sell quickly and
no one had sustained patience or discipline to devote to the deeper
practices of art and music. Everything was for the moment, and being
anti-traditional was a pervasive current of energy.

The one thing I did like was that this whole idea was an attempt to create
something outside the insistent commercial culture. My mom's place in Carmel
Valley was an hour's drive inland from Carmel, which is a precious tourist
town by the sea with expensive stores and hotels.  It is so chi-chi that it
voted to ban ice cream eating in parks and on city sidewalks because the
drips and spills were too messy.  You can see there was a bit of contrast
between Carmel and the values of the commune.

The other thing I liked was that my mother had named her place "Water
Brothers', after a science fiction book in which giving and sharing water
becomes a deep bond.  As shabby and weird as her place was, I finally
realized that what her goal was was to create a gift culture.



We are a gift culture.  Just last night we had a gift from Lynn Forgache
though she died years ago: her husband sponsors our keynote speakers in her
name.  All week I have been witnessing acts of generosity, and all year I
have been privy to what the members of the Executive Council do to bring you
this conference.  Cecile Webster, our treasurer, had a flood in her house
this summer that made book keeping a much bigger chore, but she kept on
doing the complicated finances necessary to get us all here.  Brian Queen
has a full time job and does all the work as Vice President of the Annual
Meetings in the time he could be spending with his family and friends, or
just having fun.  We have all been amazed at his keepsake contributions over
the years, and the only reason we don't have one from him this year is
because he burned up his $7,000 laser cutter while he was making us
keepsakes.  Yongsook Kim has a hectic teaching schedule and was a keynote
speaker just before she came here from Korea, but she came a day early so
she would be able to set things up for her students.  Catherine Nash got a
grant for supplies she could give to her students. She, Yongsook Kim, Jim
Croft, Shannon Brock and other teachers asked to have the buildings opened
at 7AM instead of 8 AM so they could spend time setting up for you - this
after taking time in the evenings to get ready. Betsy Dollar rented a van to
bring her compressor and all her gear for pulp spraying; it will cost her
more than she is making in teaching salary.  In other words, she is paying
for the privilege of teaching.



A few months ago, I asked Robert Possehl if he would help with Publicity and
Outreach and he said yes.  He has driven here in order to get to know the
Friends better, and he doesn't know how he will pay for the gas to get back
to Oklahoma.  Jim Croft drove more than 40 hours and slept sitting up in the
driver's seat of his car so he could come.  Sally Rose, who does the
member's CD every year, watches for sales on CD's all the time and this year
she burned 200 copies so each of us could have one. David Reina has been
working for weeks to develop a low-cost Hollander Beater, and he drove all
night from New York to get here to teach.  I am spending more than $1,000
for my air fare, room and meals for the 10 days of solid work it takes to
pull this conference off, in addition to the hours I spend each week on work
for the Friends.  Peter Thomas is here even though he would like to be with
his family as his first grandchild comes into the world. Paul Denhoed, who
does such a beautiful job editing the Bull & Branch, would love to come to
the conferences but it is too expensive for him to fly from Japan.  He gives
his gifts long distance without getting the perks of being with us; I know
he feels isolated but he keeps on helping.



And so it goes.  We are rich in community if poor in pocket.  In this space
at Arrowmont, which honors and supports people like us who work with
patience and care, we feel nurtured. Walk out that driveway into town and
not a shred of that feeling survives.  Like Carmel and Carmel Valley, this
is an oasis where commerce of the crass kind is kept at bay and we come
together in gift culture. For the next two days we will be given the
greatest gifts by our speakers and demonstrators.  If you, personally, can't
give back to this community, take the energy from here and "pay it forward".
The gift must always move.



Jill Littlewood

President, Friends of Dard Hunter

October 22, 2010



































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This book artist has carved out a dictionary, leaving only the images - an
amazing piece of work:
http://hokeystokes.blogspot.com/2010/10/vintage-dictionary-book-carving.html

Hi everyone,

Fishbon is a collaborative arts group here in Santa Barbara and they are
going to do a wonderful, crazy Xmas tree farm this year on the weekend of
December 10, 11, and 12.  It will be at 46 Helena St. one block from Stearns
Warf.  The trees will be cut from wood in cool patterns - flames and such
since a lot of these folks go to burning man - and they will also have their
annual Santa Con event with costumes you never knew Santas dressed in
(http://www.independent.com/news/2008/dec/24/fishbons-art-participatory-cele
bration/).  To decorate the trees I'm working up some ideas that use paper:
kirigami (http://rhodiadrive.com/2007/11/13/kirigami/), quilling, origami,
and others.  I thought this paper snow flake might be of interest to this
group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausJdGcgs0k
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausJdGcgs0k&feature=player_embedded>
&feature=player_embedded



I am also going to be doing a doll/puppet thing that has always been
successful, this time using the holiday theme.  It is so simple it is
magical: cross two sticks together and wrap them so they don't move too
much.  Now start putting fabric and broken jewelry parts on.  I am always
amazed at how this simple beginning gives permission to go in any direction:
if you are a seven year old boy, it becomes a super-hero with the addition
of a cape.  If you are a girl, a crown or wings is all you need to be a
fairy princess.  My daughter and I used to make these dolls in the field by
crossing two sticks, wrapping with grass, and adding acorn heads, moss hair,
stone jewelry, and pod bodies. The folks at Fishbon made some bizarre and
wondrous things and thought this workshop was one of the best ever.  At
Arrowmont recently I had a table of fabric and paper and some glittery stuff
and people were off and running: one woman did a dragon it took her three
days to finish while others turned out several doll/puppet beings in an
hour.



If you are local and want to give me scraps of fabric and broken watches,
jewelry, etc. that would be great.  I have enough paper for all the things I
want to do, but if you have ideas for paper ornaments please pass them on to
all of us.



Jill



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Thanks Jill for the interesting info.  I love the snowflake and will make
some with my daughter this year.  Come say Hi to me at the beach show in SB
if you are ever down there on a Sunday.

With peace and love, Carol





faceaday.blogspot.com

artclinic.blogspot.com

www.lifsart.etsy.com



   _____

From: bookartsconnection@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:bookartsconnection@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jill Littlewood
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:18 PM
To: bookartsconnection@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bookartsconnection] paper ornaments







Hi everyone,

Fishbon is a collaborative arts group here in Santa Barbara and they are
going to do a wonderful, crazy Xmas tree farm this year on the weekend of
December 10, 11, and 12. It will be at 46 Helena St. one block from Stearns
Warf. The trees will be cut from wood in cool patterns - flames and such
since a lot of these folks go to burning man - and they will also have their
annual Santa Con event with costumes you never knew Santas dressed in
(http://www.independent.com/news/2008/dec/24/fishbons-art-participatory-cele
bration/). To decorate the trees I'm working up some ideas that use paper:
kirigami (http://rhodiadrive.com/2007/11/13/kirigami/), quilling, origami,
and others. I thought this paper snow flake might be of interest to this
group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausJdGcgs0k
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausJdGcgs0k
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausJdGcgs0k&feature=player_embedded>
&feature=player_embedded>
&feature=player_embedded

I am also going to be doing a doll/puppet thing that has always been
successful, this time using the holiday theme. It is so simple it is
magical: cross two sticks together and wrap them so they don't move too
much. Now start putting fabric and broken jewelry parts on. I am always
amazed at how this simple beginning gives permission to go in any direction:
if you are a seven year old boy, it becomes a super-hero with the addition
of a cape. If you are a girl, a crown or wings is all you need to be a
fairy princess. My daughter and I used to make these dolls in the field by
crossing two sticks, wrapping with grass, and adding acorn heads, moss hair,
stone jewelry, and pod bodies. The folks at Fishbon made some bizarre and
wondrous things and thought this workshop was one of the best ever. At
Arrowmont recently I had a table of fabric and paper and some glittery stuff
and people were off and running: one woman did a dragon it took her three
days to finish while others turned out several doll/puppet beings in an
hour.

If you are local and want to give me scraps of fabric and broken watches,
jewelry, etc. that would be great. I have enough paper for all the things I
want to do, but if you have ideas for paper ornaments please pass them on to
all of us.

Jill

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Wow, Jill. This is fantastic information!

We do a monthly free art activity for customers out in front of Made in Ojai
(http://www.madeinojai.com) and the stick dolls would be just perfect for us!

And those snowflakes are gorgeous. We also teach customers to make the cut paper
snowflakes every Sunday in December, but these would be fantastic for decorating
the store.

Can you please post a reminder about the Xmas tree farm when it gets a bit
closer? I want to go but there's so much going on right now that I'm afraid I'll
forget about it.  ;-)

Thanks,

Lori

--- In bookartsconnection@yahoogroups.com, "Jill Littlewood" <jill@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Fishbon is a collaborative arts group here in Santa Barbara and they are
> going to do a wonderful, crazy Xmas tree farm this year on the weekend of
> December 10, 11, and 12.  It will be at 46 Helena St. one block from Stearns
> Warf.  The trees will be cut from wood in cool patterns - flames and such
> since a lot of these folks go to burning man - and they will also have their
> annual Santa Con event with costumes you never knew Santas dressed in
> (http://www.independent.com/news/2008/dec/24/fishbons-art-participatory-cele
> bration/).  To decorate the trees I'm working up some ideas that use paper:
> kirigami (http://rhodiadrive.com/2007/11/13/kirigami/), quilling, origami,
> and others.  I thought this paper snow flake might be of interest to this
> group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausJdGcgs0k
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausJdGcgs0k&feature=player_embedded>
> &feature=player_embedded
>
>
>
> I am also going to be doing a doll/puppet thing that has always been
> successful, this time using the holiday theme.  It is so simple it is
> magical: cross two sticks together and wrap them so they don't move too
> much.  Now start putting fabric and broken jewelry parts on.  I am always
> amazed at how this simple beginning gives permission to go in any direction:
> if you are a seven year old boy, it becomes a super-hero with the addition
> of a cape.  If you are a girl, a crown or wings is all you need to be a
> fairy princess.  My daughter and I used to make these dolls in the field by
> crossing two sticks, wrapping with grass, and adding acorn heads, moss hair,
> stone jewelry, and pod bodies. The folks at Fishbon made some bizarre and
> wondrous things and thought this workshop was one of the best ever.  At
> Arrowmont recently I had a table of fabric and paper and some glittery stuff
> and people were off and running: one woman did a dragon it took her three
> days to finish while others turned out several doll/puppet beings in an
> hour.
>
>
>
> If you are local and want to give me scraps of fabric and broken watches,
> jewelry, etc. that would be great.  I have enough paper for all the things I
> want to do, but if you have ideas for paper ornaments please pass them on to
> all of us.
>
>
>
> Jill
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

In conjunction with the UCSB Library's celebration of the acquisition
of its 3 millionth volume, a reception and exhibit opening are
scheduled on Wed. Nov. 10, from 5-7.  In addition, book artist
Charles Hobson (www.charleshobson.com) will be speaking from 4-5 pm
at the UCen.  For more info, contact yhowze@... or call
805-893-5509.

Pam

What fun those paper ornaments are..the music on the utube was hysterical...wish
I could see the Xmas display..take photos, Jill!

--- In bookartsconnection@yahoogroups.com, "Jill Littlewood" <jill@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Fishbon is a collaborative arts group here in Santa Barbara and they are
> going to do a wonderful, crazy Xmas tree farm this year on the weekend of
> December 10, 11, and 12.  It will be at 46 Helena St. one block from Stearns
> Warf.  The trees will be cut from wood in cool patterns - flames and such
> since a lot of these folks go to burning man - and they will also have their
> annual Santa Con event with costumes you never knew Santas dressed in
> (http://www.independent.com/news/2008/dec/24/fishbons-art-participatory-cele
> bration/).  To decorate the trees I'm working up some ideas that use paper:
> kirigami (http://rhodiadrive.com/2007/11/13/kirigami/), quilling, origami,
> and others.  I thought this paper snow flake might be of interest to this
> group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausJdGcgs0k
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausJdGcgs0k&feature=player_embedded>
> &feature=player_embedded
>
>
>
> I am also going to be doing a doll/puppet thing that has always been
> successful, this time using the holiday theme.  It is so simple it is
> magical: cross two sticks together and wrap them so they don't move too
> much.  Now start putting fabric and broken jewelry parts on.  I am always
> amazed at how this simple beginning gives permission to go in any direction:
> if you are a seven year old boy, it becomes a super-hero with the addition
> of a cape.  If you are a girl, a crown or wings is all you need to be a
> fairy princess.  My daughter and I used to make these dolls in the field by
> crossing two sticks, wrapping with grass, and adding acorn heads, moss hair,
> stone jewelry, and pod bodies. The folks at Fishbon made some bizarre and
> wondrous things and thought this workshop was one of the best ever.  At
> Arrowmont recently I had a table of fabric and paper and some glittery stuff
> and people were off and running: one woman did a dragon it took her three
> days to finish while others turned out several doll/puppet beings in an
> hour.
>
>
>
> If you are local and want to give me scraps of fabric and broken watches,
> jewelry, etc. that would be great.  I have enough paper for all the things I
> want to do, but if you have ideas for paper ornaments please pass them on to
> all of us.
>
>
>
> Jill
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

I will be happy to give some specifics about the art projects at Fishbon's
Xmas tree fair as soon as there is a schedule.



Lori, it is so nice to have a link to what you are doing in Ojai.  I will be
in Ojai on November 20th because there is a letterpress group just starting
up and the convener is Norman Clayton of Classic Letterpress in Ojai. Since
it is the first meeting and several printers have just moved to the area I
will tell them about Made in Ojai.



Jill







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Hi Jill,

Your email peaked our interest when you mentioned Letterpress in Ojai.
My husband, Andy and I are interested in Letterpress, so we're curious
about this group you mentioned that is starting up.
Who are the participants....Master Printers?

As I'm mentioning this to Andy, he is interested to know what you did
with the Last Rites cabinet that he gave you?

Any info on the letterpress group would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sharon and Andy Engel
Ojai





On Nov 7, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Jill Littlewood wrote:

> I will be happy to give some specifics about the art projects at
> Fishbon's
> Xmas tree fair as soon as there is a schedule.
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>
>
> Lori, it is so nice to have a link to what you are doing in Ojai.  I
> will be
> in Ojai on November 20th because there is a letterpress group just
> starting
> up and the convener is Norman Clayton of Classic Letterpress in
> Ojai. Since
> it is the first meeting and several printers have just moved to the
> area I
> will tell them about Made in Ojai.
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> Jill
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Hi, Jill. Not being a "letterpress person," I'm not acquainted with Norman, but
I love hearing about all these creative things going on.

And I appreciate you spreading the word about Made in Ojai! We just had our
second book arts show on Saturday and it was really great. We just do it for a
few hours, and it's mostly me and one other artist, but between us we have a LOT
of art journals, round robin books, altered books, and handmade books. We had a
station for beginning your own altered book, along with refreshments and
wonderful live music.

We are planning to do it again in conjunction with a new citywide event in March
called WordFest. It's going to be a week-long book and author's fair, with
workshops and events. I'll post more info about that here when I have it. Right
now, you can go here for the basics: http://ojaiwordfest.blogspot.com.

Roberta Raye, the owner of Made in Ojai, is the originator of this idea and one
of the event's coodinators. Norman may already know about it, but I'll give her
his name just in case.

We have a NEW web site for the store too: http://madeinojai.com/, as well as a
facebook page where we announce events and such.

So, that's probably more info than you wanted, but you asked for it!

;-)

Lori

--- In bookartsconnection@yahoogroups.com, "Jill Littlewood" <jill@...> wrote:
>
> I will be happy to give some specifics about the art projects at Fishbon's
> Xmas tree fair as soon as there is a schedule.
>
>
>
> Lori, it is so nice to have a link to what you are doing in Ojai.  I will be
> in Ojai on November 20th because there is a letterpress group just starting
> up and the convener is Norman Clayton of Classic Letterpress in Ojai. Since
> it is the first meeting and several printers have just moved to the area I
> will tell them about Made in Ojai.
>
>
>
> Jill
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Hi, Jill. Not being a "letterpress person," I'm not acquainted with Norman, but
I love hearing about all these creative things going on.

And I appreciate you spreading the word about Made in Ojai! We just had our
second book arts show on Saturday and it was really great. We just do it for a
few hours, and it's mostly me and one other artist, but between us we have a LOT
of art journals, round robin books, altered books, and handmade books. We had a
station for beginning your own altered book, along with refreshments and
wonderful live music.

We are planning to do it again in conjunction with a new citywide event in March
called WordFest. It's going to be a week-long book and author's fair, with
workshops and events. I'll post more info about that here when I have it. Right
now, you can go here for the basics: http://ojaiwordfest.blogspot.com.

Roberta Raye, the owner of Made in Ojai, is the originator of this idea and one
of the event's coodinators. Norman may already know about it, but I'll give her
his name just in case.

We have a NEW web site for the store too: http://madeinojai.com/, as well as a
facebook page where we announce events and such.

So, that's probably more info than you wanted, but you asked for it!

;-)

Lori

--- In bookartsconnection@yahoogroups.com, "Jill Littlewood" <jill@...> wrote:
>
> I will be happy to give some specifics about the art projects at Fishbon's
> Xmas tree fair as soon as there is a schedule.
>
>
>
> Lori, it is so nice to have a link to what you are doing in Ojai.  I will be
> in Ojai on November 20th because there is a letterpress group just starting
> up and the convener is Norman Clayton of Classic Letterpress in Ojai. Since
> it is the first meeting and several printers have just moved to the area I
> will tell them about Made in Ojai.
>
>
>
> Jill
>
>
>
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>
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Hi Sharon,



I haven't done anything but appreciate the wonderful cabinet from you guys.
It is all part of the larger Cabinet of Curiosities, which has a way of
growing so large as an idea that I don't know where to begin.  I am still
gathering.



I don't know what the inclusion boundaries are for this letterpress group.
The original invitees all went to the LA Printers Fair - you can get a taste
of that by going to the website of the International Printing Museum:
www.printmuseum.org <http://www.printmuseum.org/> . To see the Fair in
action, go to this YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGx9KtxH7QQ  The
best thing would be to ask Norman Clayton of Classic Letterpress:
letterpress@...



Jill









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Lori,



It is great to hear all the things that are percolating in Ojai.  If you
and/or Roberta aren't already dialed into the book arts show in Ventura let
me be the first to tell you about it.  Ines Monguio has done it every two
years at the Artist's Union Gallery; the most recent show just came down.
Your books sound perfect for this.



Jill



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Jill, I've had books in the last two shows. One of mine this year was the
accordion book with the round pages made from maps that they hung from the
ceiling. Thanks for the heads-up, though!

Also, I have been cleaning out and have a large box of fabric (lots of pretty
amazing upholstery samples) and a bag of buttons I'd love to give you. I'm going
to let my class go through the fabric tomorrow, but then it's yours.

Do you want to pick it up when you come to Ojai? And are you interested in yarn
and fiber stuff? I need to clean that out too!

You can e-mail me directly at lori@...

Lori

--- In bookartsconnection@yahoogroups.com, "Jill Littlewood" <jill@...> wrote:
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>
>
>
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> Lori,
>
>
>
> It is great to hear all the things that are percolating in Ojai.  If you
> and/or Roberta aren't already dialed into the book arts show in Ventura let
> me be the first to tell you about it.  Ines Monguio has done it every two
> years at the Artist's Union Gallery; the most recent show just came down.
> Your books sound perfect for this.
>
>
>
> Jill
>
>
>
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Amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGUqe9u56Xo

Magical. Just makes me want an iPad even more!

Lori

--- In bookartsconnection@yahoogroups.com, "Diana" <pasadenadi@...> wrote:
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> Amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGUqe9u56Xo
>

This looks like fun - anyone want to do it/organize it?



http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bkmks8/project.htm



You make 100 bookmarks, signed and numbered, and give them away. A fine
project for one artist, but also collaboratively: I could see two or three
people making 200 or 300, each adding a bit.



This came from a discussion on bookarts-listserv that also had a lovely 10
minute talk about libraries from the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vy3y9



Jill





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