Are you participating in The Sketchbook Project?

May 172012
 

The Sketchbook Project

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This is a great project you can be part of!

The Sketchbook Project is a traveling exhibition of artists’ sketchbooks (which also gets permanently housed at the Brooklyn Art Library, and will be digitally archived. You can participate and share your work with the world! They even send e-mails and texts about your book’s journey. You sign up, pay the small fee, get a sketchbook, fill it up, send it back, watch it travel the country! This little video infomercial about it explains everything in 96 seconds and is fun to watch.

Chapbooks for Poetry and Self-Publishing: Learn how this Saturday

May 142012
 

 

Poetry Chapbooks

Chapbooks are a form of self-publishing popular amongst writers, poets, and ‘zine makers. They’re typically small and have few pages, but they’re a great form for getting the work of the creative arts into a living form and out into the world. Self-publishing in this day and age is gaining momentum as people take charge of content that would otherwise have been filtered out by very large publishing houses.

This Saturday from noon-3:30, Kassie Arcate of Mother Hen Press will teach you how to make this book form at her Introduction to Bookmaking and Non-Adhesive Binding Techniques Workshop. $45 includes all materials. You can sign up here.

Image from blythewoolston.blogspot.com.

The Book Surgeon

Feb 232012
 

Artist Brian Dettmer takes pre-existing books and turns them into sculptural objects by carving into them and revealing images already inside. No pages are rearranged, he just incises and cuts around.

View 15 of these amazing piecesHERE.

X-actos and glue anyone?