Now I leave you with some photos of our fantastic event!

The Saskatchewan chapter of the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG) will have 100s of artist books on display by artists around the world.  Artists’ books are books or book-like objects where the book is intended as a work of art in itself.  This is your chance to see our collections up close and personal!  Light snacks and refreshments will be provided as well as door prizes.  Unique handmade papers and books are also for sale!

Dates: Saturday Nov. 5^th & Sunday Nov. 6^th

Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, come & go

Place: 42 McMaster Place, Regina

Tickets are limited!: $15 each, to purchase contact Robin @ 543-8971 or robinc@accesscomm.ca

All money raised from the event will be put toward past and future CBBAG SK education events!

Event Poster

Click here for the Altered, Addled, and Alphabetical Invitation

Lise Melhorn-Boe is a contemporary Canadian artist who produces what she terms bookworks: original meldings of textiles, texts, and the book form. Produced as single works or in limited editions ranging from one to 750 books per edition, Melhorn-Boe’s creations use the book form to create an accessible site of interface between the voices in the text and the reader.  In this presentation Lise will talk about her history as a book artist and will show photos and have actual examples of a number of her books available for viewing.  Lise makes one-of-a-kind books as well as limited editions.  Lise also works in schools through the Ontario Arts Council’s Artists in Education program.  Lise especially enjoys teaching pop-up bookmaking techniques to young people.

About Lise:

Instructor: Lise Melhorn-Boe check out her website for info on her and her beautiful work! http://www.lisemelhornboe.ca

Friday, Sept. 23 – Artist’s Talk with Lise – details TBA

Sat., Sept. 24 & Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011
Workshop location: River Park Centre, Lumsden, SK
Fees: $150 for CBBAG members ($175 for non-members)
Limit of 12 participants

This workshop will explore the relationship between text and images in the artist’s book. We’ll talk about which comes first—does it make a difference? Through a series of exercises, we will examine ways of using text to create movement in a book. Looking beyond image as illustration for text, we will explore how images can modify or contradict the text. For the second day, students should bring a short text and or images with which they would like to play.

About Lise:

Lise Melhorn-Boe has been making and exhibiting books and sculptural bookworks for over twenty-five years. She has exhibited widely across Canada and the United States as well as Europe and South America and her work is in several public collections. She teaches bookmaking classes for adults and children. She is a member of the White Water Gallery, an artist-run centre in North Bay, The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild and CARFAC Ontario.

Born in Noranda, a mining town in north-western Québec, Lise attended high school in Copper Cliff, Ontario. Her mother, Pauline Gillmore Melhorn, was a painter who encouraged Lise’s desire to draw and paint and make things as a child. She even was lucky enough to have private art lessons for a while with a wonderful painter from South Africa, named Nan Rowley. Lise studied architecture for a year and two weeks at Carleton University, because her father wanted her to be a lawyer or a doctor! (It made sense at the time.) She then came to her senses and studied art at the University of Guelph and later received M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit. She has also enjoyed the opportunity to take workshops through the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, to learn specific book-making techniques.

NOTE: Registration priority goes to current CBBAG members, after that, non-CBBAG members will be registered on a first come first served basis. Registration Deadline: September 7th!

To register contact Robin Canham @ robinc@accesscomm.ca, then mail a cheque made out to Robin Canham to:
42 McMaster Place, Regina, SK   S4V 0B4

Thank you to the CBBAG National Education Committee for a grant which made organizing this workshop possible.

Recently an old Chandler and Price letterpress was stumbled upon so the Regina group Articulate Ink is holding a fundraiser to help save this beautiful press and restore it back to working glory!

Details about the fundraising event on Aug. 26th, 2011 can be found on the Articulate Ink blog at:

http://www.articulateink.ca

Martha Cole was recently featured on “World of Threads” which is a website that runs a series of interviews with textile artists. Here is a chance to see what Martha’s been up to lately!

http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/artist_interviews/029_martha_cole_11.html

http://www.saskcraftcouncil.org/gallery/2011/dimensions-awards.php

Congratulations Cathryn on this prestigious award!

“Stone on Stone” by David G. Miller, a book of photographs with an
introduction describing the history and construction technique of dry stone
walls. Limited edition of 20.

“Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, a facsimile edition of a copy from the late
1800s, with laser printed text and tipped-in archival inkjet illustrations.
Limited edition of 16.

“Snowy Owl” by Cathryn Miller, archival inkjet printed accordion book with
an original poem. Limited edition of 24.

“Abracadabra” by Cathryn Miller, a flip book that plays with letter forms
and colours. Open edition.

All four of these books, plus notebooks, journals and sketchbooks,
calendars, and cards will be available at the Artisans’ Craft Market from
November 19th through the 21st.

See attached invitation for details.

A pair of Byopia Press books (“Snowy Owl” and “1 2 3″ by Mary Romanuck) are
a prize in the raffle.