Tag Archive: book arts

Radha Pandey’s “Taxonomy of Shapes”

Apr 10, 2015

In the first part of this series, we met AIE Artist’s Book Resident Radha Pandey, an Indian-born book artist and papermaker whose love of materials, technical precision, and fascination with nature drive her work. She continues to explore human relationships to the natural and manmade world in her newest book, Taxonomy of Shapes. “What would… View Article

Alumnae Spotlight: Irene Chan, Ch’An Press

Aug 11, 2014

Washington DC area artist Irene Chan first came to WSW in 1996 as a studio intern, then returned two years later as an Artist’s Book Resident to produce Cè, a sculptural book inspired by Chinese philosophy. In the years since, Irene has cultivated a multidisciplinary conceptual practice, working at the intersection of print media, papermaking, installation, storytelling performance, and… View Article

SAI week 1: 10 bound books

Bound to please right from the start: In class at Summer Art Institute 2014

Jul 28, 2014

When the first 2014 Summer Art Institute course hit the WSW studios on July 7, this archivist found herself charging into Full-Tilt Bookbinding with a bravado that belied her fear of being bound to flounder. But Susan Mills (whose recent residency resulted in 26 plants from the property molded into 26 types of handmade paper collated into an edition of… View Article

ConFab: Librarians make art. Artists make libraries.

Jun 16, 2014

What if the librarians who collect WSW’s Artists’ Books in any number of august institutions across this land spent a day making Artists’ Books? On the 1st of May, WSW traveled to Washington, DC to stage such a day as part of what we found to be a  FAB-ulous CON-ference (the 42nd conference of ARLIS/NA, the… View Article

Getting Lost with Sarah McDermott

Mar 18, 2014

Over the next few weeks, we’re tracking our resident Sarah McDermott’s artist’s book project (currently untitled). This is the first post in the series.  When Art-in-Education Artist’s Book Resident Sarah McDermott recently returned to the suburban Washington D.C. area where she grew up, she was struck by all the natural, lush, green space juxtaposed against… View Article

Required Reading: Winter In the Studio Wrap Up

Feb 24, 2014

It’s been a snowy, bitter winter here in the Hudson Valley, and our artists-in-residence have been creating up a storm inside the workshop, too. In case you’ve missed anything from the In the Studio series this winter, here’s your required reading to catch up on before spring starts peeking around the corner. Hudson Valley-based artist Lindsay Stern worked… View Article

Merike van Zanten: Thinking Outside the Book

Feb 13, 2014

Holland-born book artist Merike van Zanten loves a good challenge. So after a career in business and banking, she “came to her senses” and pursued a fine art education—at age 42. “I was twice the age of everyone else,” she says. “I was like everybody’s mother!” After a year of foundational coursework to learn basic… View Article

Twentysix Plants: Susan Mills in the Studio

Feb 03, 2014

In Susan Mills’ newest artist’s book—comprised of 26 sheets of paper hand-made from 26 different fibers—no two pages are alike. Some sheets are coarse, like peony; others, like rhubarb and leek, are smooth and even. Burdock resembles a healthy smoothie stippled with variegated greens, while kenaf has delicate hairlike fibers running throughout. Susan spent her Artist’s… View Article

Mirabelle Jones & the Artist’s Book as Activism

Jan 16, 2014

In 2011, workspace resident Mirabelle Jones began collecting the stories of 22 anonymous survivors of sexual assault. She broke the narratives down into three parts, keeping each part in a colored glass jar. In a green jar: the beginning of each experience. In a red jar: words and phrases describing the assault. In a blue… View Article

Required Reading: Fall In the Studio Wrap Up

Dec 04, 2013

Since launching our In the Studio series this autumn, we’ve been delivering glimpses into our resident artists’ projects and processes. With winter approaching, here’s a fall In the Studio wrap-up in case you’ve missed anything: Cheryl Paswater, a New York City-based painter by training, discovered that chine colle was the secret to translating her bold,… View Article