SPEAKING TO THE IMAGINATION: THE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST'S BOOK
Dates: Now through October 24, 2019
Location: Gerald Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Contact: John Macker, [email protected], 505-954-5700, www.petersprojects.com
Speaking to the Imagination exhibition features handmade artists’ books and works on paper from local, national, and international artists and writers of note. Each work on display reflects a compelling artistic vision combining words and art, as well as a distinctive take on book artistry.
Individual works by writers and artists: Jim Dine, Dale Harris, Helen Hiebert, Carol Mothner, Miriam and Isabel Sagan, Kent Rush, Leon Loughridge, Margy O’Brien, Cynthia West, Vicki Bolen, Richard Wolfson, Kate Breakey, James McElhinney, and Susan Linnell.
Collaborative Books:
BOOK OF SEASONS: Vicki Bolen, Geraldine Brussel, Donna Dowell, Marianne Deery, Esther Feske, Dale Harris, Christine Herman, Frank Melcori, Trish Meyer, Carrol Moxham, Sally Moore, Sophia Petropulos, Judith Roderick, Amy Sproul, Kent Swanson, Mary Sweet, and Linney Wix.
IMPRINTS OF HOME: Vicki Bolen, Esther Feske, Dale Harris, Christine Herman, Frank Melcori, Trish Meyer, Carrol Moxham, Margy O’Brien, Kent Swanson, and Mary Sweet. Imprints of Home is a collaborative work of original prints and poems created in 2014 in Albuquerque.
BOOK OF CRANES: Vicki Bolen, Geraldine Brussel, Deborah Cole, Dale Harris, Stephanie Lerma, Lou Liberty, Margy O'Brien, Ginger Rice, Judith Roderick, Mary Sweet, Linney Wix, and Richard Wolfson. Book of Cranes is an accordion book 24 in. x 32 in. x 5 in. It is 16 ft. open, extended, with original art, calligraphy, and poetry on handmade paper contained in a clamshell box.
AUGUST 31: WRITING CONTEST DEADLINE
David Morrell Award for Unpublished Fiction and Anne Hillerman Award for Unpublished Non-Fiction. Winners will be announced at the Albuquerque Museum Foundation’s “A Celebration of Writing” on Friday, November 8, 2019, 3:30 p.m., at the Albuquerque Museum Auditorium. Click for details.
SEPTEMBER 14: JANET BRENNAN PRESENTATION
Author and publisher Janet K. Brennan will be giving a presentation on September 14, 8 a.m., at the Albuquerque Hotel in Old Town Albuquerque at a writing conference hosted by SouthWest Writers in conjunction with Military Writers Society of America. She will be speaking on “Character Development in Historical Fiction.” She will also be mentoring throughout the conference on the same subject as well as on publishing, writing poetry, writing music, and how to get from here to there. The conference runs from Thursday, Sept. 12, to Sunday, Sept. 15.
SEPTEMBER 15: NANCY BARTLIT SPEAKS ON "CULTURAL CONFLICTS"
NMBA member Nancy Bartlit will speak on “Cultural Conflicts: When Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the Land of the Rising Sun,” to Friends of the Coronado Historic Site, on Sunday, September 15, 2019, at 2:00 p.m., at DeLavy House, 151 Edmund Road, Bernalillo, nm NM 87004. For more information, contact Barbara Harris at [email protected] or call 815-978-5327.
