ARTIST BOOKS FIRST WORD I am working on a book project for the Millennium. The NEWS book will be called '~irsiword' and it will be part of a Unica T has moved to Niddasltrasse 76, D-60329 series of books published by Gefn Press in London. Frankkrt am Main, with a new phone and fax. The I want to make a book based on the first word uttered telephone number is: 49-69-2424-9232 and the fax is: by a child. It is widely believed that most children begin 49-69-2424-9229. Their e-mail address is still: their relationship with language by naming their parents [email protected] but I have found that many children will try to name anything which interests them. Bird Tree Plane Colour Genie Shenk's book Public Space & The Individual: are a few words which I have already collected f?om One & Everyone, in which she engaged other artists and mothers. My plan is to collect 2000 FIRST WORDS. A the community to collaborate in her inSITE project, has word for each year since the birth of Christ. The been reviewed in Fiberarts for Summer 1998 by Dim 'children' in question can be grownups now as long as Burdick Gage. their fust word is either remembered or documented. If you would like to participate in this project, please New and Old Book Websites: send me the FIRST WORD spoken by your child or your Bookburning: http://w3.nai.net/-bbliopeg/newfar.htm grandchild or any relation or friend. Please include their names and birthdates and a current photograph of each Wellesley College 1994 women book artists show: person. Send me the FIRST WORD in the original http:llwww.wellesley.edu/exhibits.html spoken language with if possible an English translation. Please tell your fiiends. I welcome all contributions. Exhibits: Colophon Page has a new exhibit of Carousel All information sent to me by email - photos should and Pop-up Books by Carol Barton: be compressed in Jpeg format not over 200k or by mail http://colophon.corn/ga1Iery/minsky/popup.htnn to Liliane Lijn 99 Camden Mews London NW1 9BU and Tunnel Books at: England. Inttp://colophon.com/gaIlery/minsky/tunnel.htm Many thanks for any help you can give to this project. Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes Liliane Lijn [email protected] http://colophon.com/gallery/womenofthebook Lynne Avadenka: Nov 15,1998 ARTISTS' BOOKS PRODUCTION http://www.jtsa.edu/jww/mainframe.html GRANTS .These awards are designed to assist artists Picturing Childhood website and video online: working in their own studios with the publication of http://www.iibrary.ucla.edu/libraries/speeia/ smaller scale projects. Funds cover production costs up childhood/index.html to $750. These grants are not intended for re-issuing already published material or as partial fbnding for a .Artist Ted Clausen interviewed Boston Public Library larger project. Submit: an application fonn, a structural employees about their work, excerpting quotations dummy, resume, 6 - 10 slides of recent work, and SASE which were found on mirrored plaques throughout the for return of materials. Contact: Women's Studio first floor of the new wing of the Boston Public Library Workshop, P.O. Box 489, Rosendale, NY 12472. in Copley Place through March 1998. Nov 15,1998 BOOK ARTS GRANTS .These awards CALL FOR ENTRIES enable artists to produce a limited edition bookwork. Call for Submissions: International Copy Art Working intensively in our studios for six weeks, Archive, under the direction of Reed Alternus since selected artists are involved in all aspects of the design 1992, contains contemporary art and documents and production of their new bookworks. We provide collection specializing in art made with copiers. technical advice and, when possible, help with Features prints, bookworks and magazines. Submissions editioning. On-site housing is provided for visiting of works and documents are invited for the archive from artists. Each artist is responsible for their own meals, but specialists in the area of copy and electrographic art. on weekdays everyone gathers for potluck lunches. The Will be used for subsequent exhibitions. Send to grant includes a stipend of $1,800 for six seeks, Archivemeed Altemus, 16 Blanchard Rd., Cumberland, materials up to $450 and access to all studios. Contact: ME 04021 USA. The bibliography is located at the Women's Studio Worksho~,P.O. Box 489, Rosendale, Leonardo Website: NY 12472. http://www.mitpress.mit.edu/leonardo/isast/ spec. projects/electrobib.html COURSES Multiples with works by the artists who are partners in Arizona Workshops offers a Getaway Work Session this bookstore: Jan Voss, Runa ahorkelsdottir, Hetty for Special Projects & Private Instruction including van Egten. Included are Edition Hansjorg papermaking, marbling, bookbinding and printing. These MayerEdgeware Press, London, Edition Hundertmark, are Private Workshops offered by Pequefio Press, P.O. Cologne, Guy Schraenen, Antwerp, Wiens Laden und Box 17 1 1, Bisbee, AZ 85603 and Pat Baldwin. Verlag, Berlin, Rainer Verlag, Szentkatalin + Stop Over Press, Reykjavikmew York. §as Colby's Studio in the Sky has moved to 2817 Ellsworth St., Berkeley, GA 94705. (510)594-2212 or Essential Media, based in Venice, California, e-inail: [email protected]. No New Mexico specializes in the best of alternative culture and workshops will be held in 1998. underground (books, underground music, cult videos, 'zines, comix and assorted oddities). Sales aret all at The directors of "Paper and Book Intensive" ((PBZ) discounted prices and they offer secure online ordering. are taking proposals forclasses in ali fields for both Complete catalog is available on the web at: 1999 and future years. http:llwww.essentiaImedia.eom Paper & Book Intensive, a concentrated working or in print for $2 fiom Essential Media, P.O. Box session for practitioners and serious students in 661245, Los Angeles, CA 90066 USA. conservation, papermaking, and the book arts is going into it's 16th. year. Daily class sessions are combined Wiens Laden & Verlag in Berlin has changed its with discussions, lectures, and shared meals to promote address to: Linienstrasse 158 (Hof), D-10 1 15 high levels of creative exchange and inspiration both BerlidMitte, Germany. e-mail: [email protected]. within and among the classes. PBI's program is divided Open Tuesday through Friday from 2 - 7, and Saturday into two four-day sessions, with five insmictors and fkom 12 - 5. workshops in each. Classes are limited to10-12 participants. Florence Loewy Librairie & Editions is at 46 Av. Session I consists of 112-day classes, that is, each Rene Coty, 75014 Paris, France. Her website is: instructor teaches a morning group and an afternoon http://www,florenceloewy.com and e-mail can be sent group over a four-day period, with each class session to [email protected] lasting three hours and covering the same material for Sixtus Editions (Didier Mathieu) has issued his latest both the morning and the afternoon. Session 11 will also catalog raisonne of Contemporary Artists' Books on be four days long, but instructors will meet with only one CD-Rom, which is a delicious tour through this group of 10-12 participants for the full four days (six incredible printer's output with artists and writers, as hours each day). well as his own bookworks. Write to Didier Mathieu, Session II will be devoted to workshops whose subject SixtusEditions, 5 rue Labordere, 87 100 Limoges, matter demands long periods of uninterrupted France. The languages are either French or English. work-time, whereas Session I will consist of classes Enjoy! whose concepts or projects lend themselves to shorter work periods with time for thinking or independent work Printed Matter has a new catalog for 199711998 and a in between. new Director, David Platzker. The catalog is printed on For more information on PBI, the 1998 session is newsprint, reminiscent of the kind of catalog created 20 covered on it's own home page at years ago, or even Art-Rite which was a magazine on http://www.slis.ua.edu/pbi.htm1 newsprint during those days. It's packed full of news as Next year (1 999) PBI will be held at Haystack Mountain well as reviews of an amazing number of bookworks. School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine, during the first And now you can JOIN Printed Matter! Get a copy of weeks of May. Proposals should contain a full class the catalog and read it! 77 Wooster St., New York, NY description, along with a possible list of specialized class 10012. supplies and appropriate equipment, and your resume.Please send you proposals immediately Didier Lecointre is an important French dealer in to:Wiiliam Drende1,PBI Co-Director, 747 N. Wabash Architecture, Photography, Typography and #302, Chicago, 11. 6061 I. Avant-gardes of the 20th century at 9 rue de Tournon, 75006 Paris, France. They issue beautiful catalogs as well. Artist Book Dealers YYZ Artists' Outlet in Toronto has books on the Boekie Woekie, books by artists, Berenstraat 16, NL cutting edge of contemporary art including 10 16 GH Amsterdam has a new list of Books, Prints and Symbolization and Its Discontents by Jeanne Randolph adBy the Skin of Their Tongues: Artist Video Scripts, Clay, Granary Books, 568 Broadway, New York, NY edited by Nelson Menricks and Steve Reinke. 10012. Randolph brings together her background as a practicing psychiatrist and her personal experiences with A Museum in a Museum: A Collection of Artist artists in eye-opening discussions of contemporary art, Books at the Neues Museunn Weserbug Bremen in including Zvi Goldstein, Vera Frenkel, Robin Collyer, Germany, curated by Guy Schraenen. 27 February - 2 Nicole Jolicoeur, Ian Can-Harris, among others. $22.95 August 1998. Henricks & Reinke have created an anthology of BooPralteeture: Artists' Boob L Book Furnishings, scripts from leading Canadian video artists such as Colin curated by Carol Barton (books) and Louise Ellis Campbell, Vera Frenkel, Gary Kibbins, Tom Sherman, (fiunishings) incudes work by Laura Davidson, Sue Lisa Steeler and the Tariagsuk Women's Collective, Hensel, Karen Wirth, Barbara Tetenbaum, Ann Siberell including the editors themselves, among others. $24.95 and others, while the furnishings were done by sculptors, For more information and catalog, contact YYZBooks, architectures, furniture artists and metalsmiths from 1087 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. M6J 1H3, Canada. Virginia and Washington, DC. 15 May - 20 f une.

Juan 9. Agius: Books & Multiples has a new catalog Book As Art X. National Museum of Women in the on Rubber Stamp Art Books (one from Ulises Carrion, Arts, Washington, DC, from 15 June 1998 through 16 in 2nd edition (1995) using the original rubberstamps), January 1999. available from Juan J. Agius, c.p. 5243, 1211 Geneve Forty imaginative, one-of-a-kind and limited edition 1 1, Swiytzerland. e-mail: [email protected] artist's books are presented in Book as Art X. A parade of eccentric characters appears in the Library and ARTISTBOOK READER Research Center's newly acquired volumes: Scrooge and San Diego Book Arts Hot Sheet is published four times the Ghost in Ida Applebroog's vividly illustrated edition a year on the Summer and Winter solstices and Vernal of Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol, Napoleon and Autumnal Equinoxes as part of $10 membership of Bonaparte as an unexpected lover in Audrey the San Diego Book Arts, which includes juried shows, Niffenegger's bizme tale The Adventuress, and an shows to see, workshops, and other news of meetings, Indian father who remains unperturbed by approaching etc. For more information, contact Candy Kuhl, 2400 tigers while hiking in the mountains of Kashmir, in Kettner Blvd., #209, San Diego, CA 92101. Shireen Holman's bittersweet Memories of My Father. (6 19)696-7230. Also exhibited will be books of paintings by Ursula Sternberg, Jan Owen's War Requiem inspired by Benjamin Britten's music, and books by artists from Italy, Elisabetta Gut and Angela Lorenz. .nmwa.org/calwtda hd.htnrMunl998 CURRENT Women af the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes, Artists Recordworks. 871 Fine Arts, 49 Geary St. curated by Judith A. Hoffberg. Bookworks from #513, San Francisco, CA 94108. 9 July - 8 October Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Italy, England, 1998. and South Afi-ica, besides the United States. This show is available for travel to any and all venues through the Pyramid Atlantic, A Study in Collaboration - Federal year 2000. Contact Umbrella, P.O Box 3640, Santa Reserve Board, 1 June - 4 September. Curator: Mary Monica, CA 90408 or [email protected] or Anne Goley, Director, Fine Arts Program, Federal view a good part of the exhibit Reserve Board. Gallery Reserve Board. Gallery is in the http:l/colophon.corn/gaillery/womenofthebook Federal Reserve Building, C Street between 20th and 21st Streets, N.W., Washington D.C. 20551. Phone: A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: (202) 452-3686. Adventures in Writing 1960-1980, curated by Rodney Phillips and Steve Clay, is at the New York Public Shape-shifting: Transformation in the Art of the Library through 25 July. About 80 presses and Book, 8 July - 1 August 1998 at University of magazines are on display, documenting the various Pennsylvania, Van-Pelt Dietrich Library in Philadelphia. trends in American poetry including The Beats, The San Curated by Magaret Sunday, it features 42 book artists Francisco Renaissance, New York School, Black from North America . Mountain, Ethnopoetics, Deep Image, and Language Writing. A book will accompany the show, to be The Academy of the Sword: Itlustrated Fencing published in May. For more information, contact Steve Books, 1500 - 1800 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through summer of 1999. CANADA - 21 September 1996, curated by Stephen Perkins, is Art of the Book '98 at the Canada Trust Gallery, accompanied by a Catalogue edited by Perkins, which Toronto Reference Library. 11 June - 25 July 1998. covers AssembIing Magazines, Books, Audio Travels throughout Canada unrii the end of 1999. Compilations. Artists' Books, Artists' Magazines and documenration. There are contributions by Birger Jesch, Ontario Bookworks '98. Ontario Crafts Comcil, Baht Szombathy, Edgardo-Antonio Vigo, Jaroslav Toronto. Supek, Chuck Welch, Albrechdd., Geoff Hendricks, Jack Hirschann, Michael Leigh, Tim Mancusi, Bern Japanese Bookbinding. Japanese Paper Place, Porter & Horacio Zabala, as well as a bibliography of Toronto. Assembiing Magazines 1969 - 87 by Geza Perneczky. For a copy, contact Subspace, 1816 E. College St., Iowa Cease and Desist: Artist's Boob by Affiliates of the City, I A 52245 or e-mail to Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. 30 May - 3 1 [email protected] July 1998 at Art Metropole, Toronto. Canada. Adifacts of the Eternal Network at the University of NEW ZEALAND Iowa, Museum of Art 6 September - 23 November 1997 Inn Safe Keeping: Treasures of Special Collections. includes a checklist as well as a well-documented An exhibition at the Auckland Centraii City Eibra~y brochure with a long essay by Stephen Perkins.. For including manuscripts, photographs, historic maps, more information contact the University of Iowa printed books and ephemera. Included are thee Museum of Art, 150 No. Riverside Dr., lowa City, IA illuminated medieval manuscripts from the 15th century, 52242- 1789. one a richly decorated Missal from France, a 1492 English language printing of GeoMey Chaucer's The Peter Downsbrsugh: Artist Boob at the Maison Canterbuv Tales, Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), a Levanneur, Centre National de k'Estampe el de IfArt rare black and white edition of William Blake's Europe: Imprime in Chatou, France from 28 March - 28 May A Prophecy (17941, John Lewin's exceedingly rare Birds 1998. of New South Wales (1813). These last four are unique to Special Coitections, being the only copies in New Another View: Book & Print Making, works by Zealand. Katherine Venturelli & Teny Chastain from 10 April - hems of New Zealand interest will include the original 30 May at Sightings Gallery in San Francisoc, CA. score and lyrics of Thomas Bracken's God Defend New Bibliomancy. An exhibition of holograms by Susan Zealand, the rare Ko Te Katekihama 111, the first work Gamble and Michael Wenyon. Wenyon & Gamble have printed in New Zealand (1 830). a holograph copy of the been artists-in-residence at the Athenaeum during 1997 Treaty of Waitangi, dated 1840, the Report of the and 1998, and have prepared a collection of more than Formation and Establishment of the New Zealand 50 images of books from the shelves of the Library. The Temperance Society, the first English language work exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalog, printed in New Zealand (18361, and an issue of The with an essay by Norman Bryson. The word Auckland Times, a suppressed newspaper of the 1840s. "bibiiomancy" is defined as the act of using a passage The exhibition is on the Heritage (2nd) Floor, Auckland chosen at random from a book, often the Bible, to Central City Library, from 17 July until 24 October provide enlightenment about problems or questions. 1998. Hours of opening: 9.30-5.00 prn Monday to The physical body of the book thereby acquires Friday; 10.00-4.00 pm. prophetic powers. 12 February - 25 April 1998 at the Athenaeum Gallery in Boston. Pia Pizzo: Silent Journey at the Long Beach Museum of Art , 10 July - 13 September. Japanese Mind: Unique Books and Works on Paper, 18 April - 10 July 1998. A~tworks/ookarts, Santa RECENT Monica, CA. Book Arts: Emily Martin & Joan Soppe. McAuley Gallery, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA. 9 Shipwreck Stories/)F"acts& Fictions: Charles Hobson March - 2 April 1998. at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA from 14 March - 7 June. Paper+: Works on Dieu DonnC Paper, 18 April - 29 May 1998 at Dieu Donne Paper Mill in New Vork City. Dan Rose: A Retrospective of Artist Books and Objects at the Fisher Fine Arts Library and the Kroiz Assembling Magazines: International Networking Gallery, Architectural Archives, University of Collaborations, an exhibition at Subspace, Iowa City, 7 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 17 April - 3 July 1998.