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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
Black Ink fundraiser & exhibit
TRVE Brewing Co.
227 Broadway #101, Denver, CO 80203
Friday, March 1, 2024
TRVE Brewing Co.227 Broadway #101, Denver, CO 80203
6 PM — Midnight
Event held on Friday, March 1, 2024
From 6 PM — Midnight
TRVE Brewing Co.227 Broadway #101, Denver, CO 80203
Prints will be on display March 1 through March 31, 2024
One-night event is not to be missed! An evening of affordable art and amazing beer at TRVE Brewing Co. This fundraiser gives 100% of profits from prints sold and goes right back to Mo’Print. So buy a beer or three, and remember to tip your bartender.
Letterpress Poetry Broadside Event Presented by Denver Quarterly in collaboration with Gazelle & Goat:
Eric Raanan Fischman and Emily Pěrez
Sunday, November 19, 2023 from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
University of Denver
Please invite your friends, family, and colleagues to this reading and discussion. Copies of the letterpress printed broadsides will be available for purchase at the event or can be purchased below for shipment.
The letterpress broadsides were produced in a collaboration between Denver Quarterly and Rhiannon Alpers of Gazelle and Goat Press for the autumn session poetry event held in November of 2023. Poems were selected by Denver Quarterly editors. Poets participated in letterpress printings at Gazelle and Goat Press thanks the generous contributions of Denver Quarterly. The broadside was produced in an edition of 60 signed and numbered prints.
Denver Arts Week celebrates The Mile High City's arts and culture scene with hundreds of events around the city. Stay tuned for the 2024 dates.
Explore vibrant art districts, check out museum exhibitions and outdoor sculptures, indulge in the performing arts, be inspired at film and literary events, and even buy some art of your own!
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
Helping to steer loved ones to comfort and stability, we take journeys across sea and sky in this episode of Artist’s Books Unshelved.
Our featured books from the Artist Book Collection today are “Send a Rescue Ship” by Lisa Onstad, and “A Thousand Starlings” by Rhinanon Alpers.
Featured Artist's Websites:
Lisa Onstad: https://www.lisaonstad.com/
Rhinanon Alpers: https://www.rhiannonalpers.com/
Artist’s Books Unshelved is an ongoing video series exploring selected pieces from the Cynthia Sears Artist’s Books Collection, where we will be diving into various Artist Books, explaining their meanings and sharing bits of the creative process from the Artists themselves.
Tune in on our YouTube and Facebook pages at 11am every 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month for a new episode!
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.”
Click the image to read more…
RMC is excited to announce that we will be holding a traveling exhibition, which will run March-July 2023. This is an OPEN exhibit, and your books will travel to three different states: Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado!
This is a juried exhibit, with 1st and 2nd Prizes, as well as a People's Choice Award! We will be photographing all submissions and displaying them in a printed catalog, as well as on our website! All participants will receive a printed catalog automatically.
More details to come!
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
Flourish – an exhibition curated by Alicia Bailey, Director of Abecedarian Artists’ Books, for the Crested Butte Center for the Arts and the Mountain Words Literary Festival.
Exhibition Dates:
May 17 – June 8, 2022 held in the Kinder Padon Gallery
Exhibition Opening:
Saturday, May 21, 2022 from 5 – 7 pm in the Kinder Padon Gallery
CODEX VIII Words on the Edge \\ Exhibitor
The CODEX International Book Fair includes hundreds of individual artists' tables as well as booksellers/galleries that represent other artists. The fair also includes vendors of book art materials and tools, academic programs with student work, and nonprofits and organizations that specialize in the field. The work that is shown is all within the realm of artist's books, book arts, and fine press books. There are experimental book structures and explorations of the conceptual use of the book as well as finely crafted, letterpress printed editions with beautiful illustrations. Mostly limited edition artwork in book form. The fair draws an international crowd of artists, printers, bookmakers, designers, poets, writers, collectors, dealers, curators, academics, and more.
Inaugural Exhibition | Momentum
Momentum, an exhibition curated by Alicia Bailey, Director of Abecedarian Artists’ Books, featuring the work of six significant regional artists exploring aspects of hand papermaking, letterpress printing and book arts. Included in the exhibition are Aaron Cohick (Colorado Springs), Alicia Bailey (Aurora), Gail Watson (Black Hawk), Helen Hiebert (Edwards), Leon Loughridge (Denver) and Rhiannon Alpers (Denver).
Exhibition Opening:
March 5, 2022 from 5-7pm
Free and open to the public
Curator Talk:
April 2, 2022 from 4-6pm
Open case talk with Alicia Bailey and some of the artists. This is also the last day of the exhibition.
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
Reimagined: The Artist’s Book
Feb. 26 – May 14, 2022
What happens when the worlds of art and books intersect? The resulting spectrum ranges from innovatively designed books to unique and beautifully sculpted artist books. Imagine an artist looking at the very concept of printed material, such as a book, and seeing the raw material for a new and exciting work of art. The objects in this exhibition interpret the concept of the book, exploring altering book structures into sculpture or sculptural objects whose only reference to book-ness might be the inclusion of words. The creative force of the featured artists is demonstrated by their ingenuity in reimagining book forms, decorating in new ways and using unconventional materials.
The William D. Cannon Art Gallery is a program of the City of Carlsbad’s Library & Cultural Arts.
This international, juried exhibition features 29 works by 23 artists from the United States, France and Egypt. Works were selected by Sha Towers, founder and curator of the Baylor Book Arts Collection, with Alicia Bailey curating. Examples of both Sha’s and Alicia’s work are included in the exhibition.
On Exhibit:
Regis University Sayton Memorial Library, Feb 1-28, 2022
Tallyn’s Public Library, March 1-31, 2022
LOCATION: Online
EXHIBITION DATES: November 2021 - January 2022
The 107th Annual Exhibition represents the past year of struggles and challenges to continue and prove that nothing can quash the creative spirit.
As always I am delighted and honored to lead this group of fine artists. It is with great pride that I acknowledge each of our participants in this our 107th Annual Exhibition. It is a beautiful and inspired representation of our members’ expertise, skill and vision. As we emerge from quarantine, it has become even more important to address events that have become rituals to CSP.
LOCATION: Minnesota Center for Book Art, MCBA Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
EXHIBITION DATES: June 11–October 17, 2021
Solastalgia: Book Art and the Climate Crisis, curated by Director of Exhibitions & Artist Programs Torey Erin, features expansive and experimental works by twenty local, national, and international artists addressing the paradoxical nature of grief, despair, beauty, elegy, regeneration, and loss that we are facing as we confront one of the most defining issues of our time.
This exhibition is produced in partnership with EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss.
LOCATION: Art Students League of Denver, Denver CO
EXHIBITION DATES: September 30–November 7, 2021
Curated by Abecedarian Artists’ Books / Alicia Bailey
This exhibit will feature artist books that push the boundaries of paper and space. Featured books include components beyond opening the book cover and turning pages. This national, juried exhibition features 29 works by 26 artists; held in conjunction with the Movable Book Society’s 2021 conference in Denver, Colorado. Works were selected by Teresa Burk (Head Librarian ACA Library of Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta) and Elliot McNally (archivist at The Coca-Cola Company Archives). Click the image to read more.
LOCATION: Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, California
EXHIBITION DATES: November 14–December 15, 2020
Exhibition Information
The California Society of Printmakers’ 106th Exhibition highlights a wide variety of printmaking techniques and an even greater variety of ways that CSP members use the methods to create meaningful works of art. The gallery is open to the public for limited hours and numbers of people. Please see their website for details - http://www.piedmontcenterforthearts.org/
Take a virtual visit through Rhiannon Alpers' studio at 1890 Bryant and her home studio space on this short 30-minute video.
While the San Francisco Center for the Book online workshops and events are on hold during the pandemic, they want to connect with the community at large. To that end, they are excited to launch a new online series of half-hour studio visits with SFCB Staff, Instructors, and community members where they visit studios to share a peek inside.
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