Visit the Workshops Schedule page for more information, and a complete listing of 2008 classes.
August 23 & 24
August 26 and September 2, 9, 16 with Exchange Party September 23
September 3, October 8, November 5 and December 3
Workshop for adult / child pairs.
September 6 & 7
September 8 - 10
October 4 - 7
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The biggest event of the year has just gotten bigger and better!
Since BookWorks opened its doors in 2004, BookOpolis has been THE defining September event. BookOpolis has introduced scores of people to the art and craft of artists’ books, contemporary fine press and print. It has attracted an outstanding national (and international) scoop of artists working in letterpress, print and the book form. Dedicated followers and new visitors of BookOpolis look forward to experiencing a new annual collection books and prints that have been received.
Initially, BookOpolis was an experimental one-night weekend happening. Last year it grew to include an extended exhibition of selected work from the big weekend event. Also, fourteen regional book artists introduced Interlude Editions with “Whisper” a small book edition created.
This year we’re building on it all and BookOpolis 2008 will be a two-night all-out weekend blast including the extended exhibit of selected works, a purchase prize and the new Interlude Edition ‘Small Book Edition’ (InterludeEditions.org).
Friday night, September 26, we’ll kick off with an evening reception from 6 – 9 PM. Come to experience the artists’ books and prints that signify BookOpolis 2008. Interlude Editions ‘Small Book Deluxe Edition’ will be auctioned and a line-up of local writers will read poetry with musical accompaniment.
Saturday night, September 27, is the first annual ‘Printers’ Ball” with open gallery hours and demos from 5 – 7 PM. After 7 PM we’ll begin printing screens designed by artists in and around Asheville including Bill Fick, Katherine McGinn, Lauren Scanlon, Matt Liddle, and others.
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Artists, please send up to two entries for BookOpolis ’08. Download a form to accompany the work and include return postage and packing for safe return of your work. Work will be received September 14 – 19 at Bookworks.
Please send recent work only, editioned artists’ books, prints, broadsides, altered and sculptural books are welcome.
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Frank Brannon, Jr.
Interlude Editions is a residency program hosted at Asheville BookWorks for artists working in print, paper and the book form. Throughout the month of August, Frank Brannon is letterpress printing the text of his project, “The Paste Papers of Louise Lawrence Foster’” by Cathleen A. Baker, a paper conservator at the University of Michigan. Larry Lou has been making unique and historical paste paper patterns for many years.
The edition size is eighty-two books. Sixty will be printed on handmade paper Frank produced specifically for the book, making 300 18’ x 24’ sheets from cotton rag. For the design of the book, Frank considered the nature of the book – a sample book. “Simply, I wish to include the largest samples possible and not have the samples sit too closely to the gutter of the book, affecting how it lays open.” He settled on a landscape format that fits nicely on the Vandercook 20.
There is a small exhibit of his project on view in the studio. Frank currently teaches Letterpress Printing and Papermaking classes at Asheville Bookworks and Penland School of Craft.
Frank Brannon is a 2005 graduate of the MFA in Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama and is proprietor of SpeakEasy Press (www.speakeasypress.com). He resides in Dillsboro, NC.
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BookWorks wishes to thank Bill and Vickie Stewart of Vamp & Tramp for a fantastic presentation on August 7, 2008. We had a large turnout of folks excited to see contemporary artists’ books that are being made nationally and internationally. We thank Vamp & Tramp for making BookWorks part of their traveling tour and hope that they come back soon.
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