The 12th annual Celebration of the Book features shining examples of the book-arts craft and offers free, hands-on workshops to create your own. In the hands of an artist, books become more than sheets of paper between two covers. Pages pop up. Weavings appear. In Albuquerque artist Marilyn Stablein’s hands, packages of sewing notions are reimagined into pages for her work, Inflation:A Biased View. (See it here: http://centerforbookarts.org/artistmember/bio.asp?artistID=1875.)
Co-sponsored by the Press at the Palace of the Governors and the Santa Fe Book Arts Group, the displays and activities will be held from 10 am to 4 pm, Thursday, October 21, through Sunday, October 24, in the John Gaw Meem Room and the Learning Center of the New Mexico History Museum, 110 Washington Ave.
The displays and workshops are free with museum admission. (Children 16 and under free; NM residents free on Sundays.)
On Thursday and Friday, masters of the book-arts craft will offer activities for school groups, but everyone is welcome to participate. Calligraphy, simple book structures, poetry writing and pop-up cards are some of the activities planned.
For more on the Santa Fe Book Arts Group, go to http://www.santafebag.org/, or contact Ava Fullerton at (505) 982.2846 or Jean Stratton at (505) 989-7577. For more on the Press at the Palace of the Governors, contact Tom Leech at (505) 476-5096.
