New Altitudes - NAHP Annual Member’s Showcase
Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct 17th @ 6:30 - 9:00  

Held on the University of Denver Campus
Anderson Academic Commons,
2150 E Evans Ave, Denver, CO 80208

The NAHP Members' Showcase Exhibition annually features paper and paper art made by our members. This year's theme is NEW ALTITUDES, to showcase work that launches the hand papermaking discipline into new heights, enabling us to view a broader world of art and community from above.

The Colorado Paper Collective Showcase
Friday Reception from 5:00 - 9:00 pm 

*One Night Only*
Location: StudioWed, 821 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, 80204

Formed in 2017, the Colorado Paper Collective is an informal organization of Colorado artists and paper lovers who meet to promote paper-inclusive artwork in Colorado. Participating Artists include Rhiannon Alpers, John Cunningham, Shelly DeChantal, Nancy Eastman, Joyce Gold, Chris Leatherwood, Susan Mackin Dolan, Bonnie Ferrill Roman, Naomi Salzman, and Karen Eberle Smith.

Biennial of the Americas (@thebiennial) and Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum (@blackcube.museum) for a series of free community programs activating artist Rachel Hayes’ (@rachelbhayes) installation “Horizon Drift” through music, dance, photography, and more.⁠

Unleash your creativity with ASLD and Rhiannon Alpers! Inspired by the triangle patterning in “Horizon Drift,” we’ll be making vibrant paper triangle pieces for participants to take home.⁠

Please join us for the first annual South Denver Artists (SoDA) OPEN STUDIO TOUR happening Saturday, September 28th & Sunday, September 29th from 10am to 4pm. The self-guided tour invites you to visit eight studios featuring the work of over a dozen area artists. Take a peek at their unique workspaces, learn about their art practice and perhaps bring home an original work of local art.

Follow the TOUR MAP to visit them all.

The Art of the Book
Exhibition Dates: August 17 - October 12, 2024
Minnesota Center for Book Arts

The MCBA Prize, presented by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, honors excellence in new work from across the dynamic spectrum of book art. The international competition will culminate in an exhibition in MCBA’s Main Gallery of 20–30 selected semi-finalists and a live virtual event revealing the winner.

The Art of the Book
MAY 1 - MAY 30, 2024
Seager Gray Gallery presents their 19th annual Art of the Book Exhibition. This signature annual exhibition draws both artists and collectors across the globe featuring exquisite handmade letterpress books, altered books and book-related materials.

PULP: Book & Paper Arts
Sebastopol Center for the Arts

April 4 - May 5, 2024
Opening Reception April 6, 2024 from 2 - 5pm

Juror: Donna Seager of Seager Gray Gallery

Printed Page IV 

March 28 - April 21, 2024

Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Colorado 80204. 

Gallery hours Thursday 12-5pm, Friday 12-9pm, Saturday 12-5pm, Sunday 1-4pm

The exhibition includes work by 23 artists from throughout the United States who include traditional printmaking techniques in their artists' book works. Selections were made by Amanda C. Clark, Dean of the Library at Whitworth University in Spokane Washington.

Artists in the exhibition are Bug Karplus, Carrie Scanga, Casey Jay Gardner, Elisa Lanzi, Ellen Knudson, Heather Doyle-Maier, Jane Ewing, Joan Iversen Goswell, Julie Baugnet, Karen Baldner, Katherine Venturelli, Laurel Moorhead, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Naomi Velasquez, Patricia Dahlman, Ren Barnes, Rhiannon Alpers, Sarah Hulsey, Sara L. Press, Stephanie Smith, Tatiana Potts, Thomas Parker/ Mary Agnes Williams & Tom Virgin.

Changing Landscapes: Transformative Observations Through Printmaking

Exhibition Dates: March 22 - April 26, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, March 22 5-7pm, with an Artist Talk from 6-6:30pm

Union Colony Civic Center
Tointon Gallery
651 10th Ave, Greeley, CO 80631
Gallery Hours: M-F 9am-5pm; Sat 9am-2pm

Featured Artists include: Rhiannon Alpers, Jennifer Ghormley, Theresa Haberkorn, Johanna Mueller, Ashley Nason, Sarah Wallace Scott and Melanie Yazzie.

Uncommmon Collective: Colorado Printmakers

Opening Reception: March 1, 2024 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art
150 E. Main St, Trinidad, CO, 81082

Power to the Print
Exhibition Opening: March 8th from 6-10pm
Exhibition Dates: March 5 - April 2 2024

BRDG  Project located at 3300 Tejon St.Denver, CO 80211

This, the 109th Annual Members’ Exhibit for the California Society of Printmakers, is held at the Piedmont Center for the Arts. The exhibit will run from Oct 8 - 29, 2023, and is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays.

The California Society of Printmakers is a non-profit arts organization promoting the practice and appreciation of fine art contemporary printmaking, with the mission to both support the integrity of traditional printmaking and to provide a home for artists exploring new directions in contemporary print methods. Currently, the CSP has a membership of approximately 250 artists, and though the majority of members live and work in Northern California, membership is open to printmakers throughout the world.

MUTUALISTIC  MUSINGS
August 17 - September 10, 2023
Mutualistic Musings, a solo exhibition by Rhiannon Alpers, explores the relationship between women naturalists and the specimens they study. The body of work portrays this interplay through layered, sensory artworks including artist books, handmade paper, and monoprints.
Click here for more information and details about the work in the exhibition. 

Artist Reception: August 19, 2023, 3 - 5pm 
First Friday: September 1, 5 - 9pm
Last Look: September 10, 1 - 4pm 
Third Friday Collectors’ Night: August 18, 6 - 9pm

Spark Gallery  |  900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204
Gallery Hours: Thurs - Sat 12 - 5pm, Fri 12 - 9pm & Sun 1 - 4pm
Website: www.sparkgallery.com

The Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers presents a member exhibition at the Philadelphia City Hall

“Blue is many things; a color with lots of variety, a mood, a style of music, a political party. Everyone, even the nonsighted, possesses a special receptor that senses blue light. Blue light sets our circadian rhythm, our waking hours regulated by blue.”

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Curated by director of Abecedarian Books, Alicia Bailey, Westward Bound will showcase artist books that include original content by the artists. Either unique or editioned, traditionally bound or sculptural, included works will reflect on contemporary or historical viewpoints and concerns of the region most broadly referred to as the American West. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with American Academy of Bookbinding.

Our Annual SPARK Member Show will be held
January 5 - January 29, 2023

Rhiannon Alpers • Barbara Baer • Alicia Bailey • Deborah Bryon • 
Bill Ballas • Barbara Carpenter • Joyce Coco • Madeleine Dodge • Sally
Elliott • Mike Herburger • Michaele Keyes • Tom Linker • Gary Manuel • Kathryn
Oberdorfer • Phillip Potter • Kim Putnam • Elaine Ricklin • Emily Roan •Susan
Rubin • Annalee Schorr • Sue Simon • Robert St. John • Katie White

Small Works Members' Exhibition

December 1 - December 18, 2022

Artist Reception & First Friday: Dec. 2, 5 - 9 pm
Last Look: Dec. 18, 1 - 4 pm

Buy local art by our members this Holiday Season. Our members have put together a selection of works tailored for the gift-giving season. Small, affordable and diverse artworks ... All items in this show are available for purchase and takeaway.

How is the world, society, nature, and even humanity transformed by reading, literature, and art? What is the driving force that causes the transformation, and what emerges on the other side? This year’s annual The Book As Art exhibition explores these questions visually through beautifully made volumes, sculptural and conceptual interpretations, and one-of-a-kind approaches to the book format.

further afield

September 1 - September 25, 2022

First Friday: Sept. 2, 5 - 9 pm
Artist Reception: Sept. 10, 2 - 5 pm
Last Look: Sept. 25, 1 - 4 pm

SPARK Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204

Further Afield is a two-part exhibit highlighting my ongoing explorations of nature and women naturalists through the medium of artist books. The first series showcases artists' books and accompanying broadsides, entrenched in the history and visual sensibility of cabinets of curiosities and early women in the field of science. The second is a body of wooden board books exploring surface, mark making, and historical influences on the form.

Faculty Exhibition for the instructors of the FOBA 2022 five-day conference held in Forrest Grove, Oregon. Artists include experts in the Book and Paper Arts field, teaching courses from one to three days during the conference.

This conference is held biannually, and currently attracts over 200 people from around the world to create, inspire and make through the world of book and paper arts.

Exhibition Dates:
July 1 - August 27, 2022

Exhibition Location:
Valley Art Association
2022 Main Street
Forest Grove, OR 97116

SPARK Gallery Member Show 02 is the second part of our annual exhibition.

Rhiannon Alpers • Judy Anderson • Alicia Bailey • Mike Herburger • Kim Putnam • Susan Rubin