The Handmade/Homemade satellite exhibit at Pace University, New York City, is now up in Birnbaum Library. The exhibit includes work by the following artists:
Amber Atiya
Demian DinéYazhi’
Christine Leclerc
Rasheedah Phillips
a rawlings
Kate Schapira
Jared Stanley
Juniper White/Dwell Press
Deborah Poe, in collaboration with Renée D’Aoust and Selah Saterstrom
The ninth-annual exhibit includes work about climate, environment, and ecology, especially with work that engages historically under-represented communities, including communities of color and immigrant, refugee, and indigenous communities. This mini-exhibition includes handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions, and broadsides.
The New York City exhibit takes place the month of April in the Birnbaum Library. Brendan Plann-Curley (Pace NY) manages this year’s NYC satellite exhibit.
Handmade/Homemade in the Anthropocene: 2017 Exhibit
November 27, 2016
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Jill Magi for the use of her art for the Handmade/Homemade site (above)—“Tongues”, 2007.
Pace University, Pleasantville—with a satellite exhibit at Pace University, New York City—welcomes the following artists and writers for the ninth annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit:
Amber Atiya
Demian DinéYazhi’
Christine Leclerc
Rasheedah Phillips
a rawlings
Kate Schapira
Jared Stanley
Juniper White/Dwell Press
Deborah Poe, in collaboration with D.D. Baldwin, Renée D’Aoust, Marilyn McCabe, Selah Saterstrom
The ninth-annual exhibit will include work about climate, environment, and ecology, especially with work that engages historically under-represented communities, including communities of color and immigrant, refugee, and indigenous communities. This mini-exhibition includes handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions, and broadsides.
The Pleasantville exhibit takes place during the month of March in the Mortola Library. The New York City exhibit takes place the month of April in the Birnbaum Library. The exhibits are curated by Deborah Poe. Brendan Plann-Curley assists with the Birnbaum Library exhibit.
The following events accompany this year’s exhibit:
Pace University Bookmaking Workshop/Demonstration
Poet and artist Kate Schapira provides a bookmaking workshop Tuesday, March 2nd 1:50-3:15 in Kessel Conference Room A/B.
Pace University Reading
A reading takes place Tuesday, March 2nd during Pace University’s common hour from 3:25-4:25PM in Miller 10. Readers includeAmber Atiya,Demian DinéYazhi’, and Kate Schapira.
Please visit this page for further information. For additional questions on the events, please email dpoe@pace.edu.
Handmade/Homemade Exhibitors: 2017
November 27, 2016
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Jill Magi for the use of her art for the Handmade/Homemade site (above)—“Tongues”, 2007.
Amber Atiya is a multidisciplinary poet whose work incorporates elements of performance, book arts, and visual art. She has received residencies and fellowships from Poets House and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her poems have appeared in various journals including PEN America, Boston Review, and Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, and is forthcoming in the inaugural Bettering American Poetry Anthology. A proud native Brooklynite, she is the author of the chapbook the fierce bums of doo-wop (Argos Books, 2014) and is a member of a women’s writing group that will be celebrating 15 years in 2017.
Renée E. D’Aoust’s book Body of a Dancer (Etruscan Press) was a Foreword Reviews “Book of the Year” finalist. D’Aoust is the Managing Editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and she teaches online at North Idaho College and Casper College. Please visit www.reneedaoust.com and follow her @idahobuzzy where she tweets about her mini dachshund Tootsie.
Rasheedah Phillips, Esq. is the Managing Attorney of the Housing unit at Community Legal Services, a mother, writer, the creator of The AfroFuturist Affair, the co-creator of Black Quantum Futurism multimedia arts collective, and a founding member of Metropolarity Queer SciFi collective. In 2014 she independently published her first speculative fiction collection, Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales), followed by an anthology of experimental essays from Black visionary writers called Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice Vol. I in 2015. As part of BQF Collective, Phillips was a 2015 Artist-in-Residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange, is a 2016 A Blade of Grass fellow, and has exhibited or performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Black Oak House Gallery, Temple Contemporary, Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, WORM! Rotterdam, and more Phillips has work appearing in the book “Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist Struggle” and “Unveiling Visions: The Alchemy of the Black Imagination” exhibition catalogue, and has had work published in the Temple University Political and Civil Rights Journal, Atlanta Black Star, and other publications.
Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too (Stockport Flats), Elements (Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). Her writing has appeared in journals like Denver Quarterly, Court Green, Colorado Review, Yellow Field, Touch the Donkey, and Jacket2. Her visual works—including video poems and handmade book objects—have been exhibited at Pace University (New York City), Casper College (Wyoming), Center for Book Arts (New York City), University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson), University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writers House at Brodsky Gallery (Philadelphia), and ONN/OF “a light festival” (Seattle), as well as online with Bellingham Review, Elective Affinities, Peep/Show, Trickhouse, and The Volta. Associate professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, Deborah directs the creative writing program and founded and curates the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit. Her contribution for the 2017 exhibit features work by D.D. Baldwin, Renée D’Aoust, Marilyn McCabe, and Selah Saterstrom.
a rawlings’ performance practice seeks and interrogates relational empathy between bodies, be they human, more-than-human, other-than, non. Meditating on languages as inescapable lenses of human engagement, her methods over the past fifteen years have included sensual poetries, vocal and contact improvisation, theatre of the rural, and conversations with landscapes. As a writer-activist, rawlings’ literary output includes Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006) and o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015). Wide slumber received an Alcuin Award for Design; the book was adapted for stage production by VaVaVoom, Bedroom Community, and Valgeir Sigurðsson in 2014. She has also penned libretti for Davíð Brynjar Franzson (Longitude) and Gabrielle Herbst (Bodiless). rawlings is the recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship (Canada, 2009) and held the position of Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence (Australia, 2012). During the latter experience, she created Gibber, a digital publication showcasing sound and visual poetry from Australian bioregions. Written while undergoing breast-cancer treatment, rawlings’ work Áfall / Trauma was shortlisted for the 2013 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights, and is forthcoming from Broken Dimanche Press and BookThug.
Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels Slab, The Meat and Spirit Plan and The Pink Institution. Her forthcoming collection of essays, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics is forthcoming in 2017. She teaches and lectures across the United States, and is the editor of the Denver Quarterly.
Jared Stanley was born in Arizona, grew up in Northern California, and lives in Reno, Nevada. A poet, writer, and interdisciplinary artist, He is the author of three collections of poetry, Ears,The Weeds, and Book Made of Forest. Stanley has received Fellowships from the Center for Art + Environment and the Nevada Arts Council, and teaches writing and interdisciplinary art at Sierra Nevada College, where he co-directs the SNC Poetry Center. Recent collaborations include It Calls From the Creek,Surrender, and The Plain Sense of Things. jared-stanley.info
Kate Schapira is the author of six books of poetry–most recently Handbook For Hands That Alter As We Hold Them Out (Horse Less Press) and a collaboration with Erika Howsare, FILL: A Collection (Trembling Pillow Press). Her 11th chapbook-published-by-someone-else, Someone Is Here, appeared in 2015 with Projective Industries, and she also has a kitchen-table imprint for her own work, In Hand Books. She lives in Providence, RI, where she writes, teaches, runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series, and periodically offers Climate Anxiety Counseling.
Gratitude to Sarah Clark, Renee D’Aoust, Karin Rosman, Sean Singer, Jessica Smith, Linda Russo, JenMarie Macdonald, Amaranth Borsuk, Scott Helmes, and Monica Hand for their suggestions on potential 2017 exhibitors.
Handmade/Homemade at Seattle University
December 14, 2015
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Jill Magi for the use of her art for the Handmade/Homemade site (above)—“Tongues”, 2007.
Deborah Poe is the founder and curator of the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit that is featured on the campus of Pace University in New York. During her sabbatical this year, Dr. Poe brings a special event to the Seattle University campus as part of her work as a 2016 Distiniguished Visiting Writer through SU’s Creative Writing Program.
Event
Deborah Poe hosts a special afternoon at Seattle University. Guest writer/artist Amaranth Borsuk will talk about handmade aesthetics and their connection to new media. Guest writer/artist Kaia Sand will talk about working across genres and media, dislodging poetry from the book into more unconventional contexts. Deborah will read from new work. We will show multimedia work by the speakers as well as the students of Poetry off the Page: Creating Multimedia Poetry.
1 March 2016, Seattle University Student Center (STCN), Room 160, 3-4PM.
Presenters
Amaranth Borsuk is a poet, scholar, and book artist interested in textual materiality across media. Her books include As We Know, with Andy Fitch (Subito, 2014); Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012); and Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012), created with Brad Bouse. Her intermedia project Abra: A Living Text, a collaboration with Kate Durbin and Ian Hatcher, has just been published as an artists’ book and iOS app, thanks to an NEA-funded Expanded Artists’ Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. A trade edition is forthcoming from 1913 Press. Other collaborative digital projects include an erasure bookmarklet,The Deletionist, with Nick Montfort and Jesper Juul, and Whispering Galleries, a site-specific LeapMotion interactive work for the city of New Haven. Borsuk currently teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics and the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell. www.amaranthborsuk.com
Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections “Keep,” the last will be stone, too (Stockport Flats), Elements (Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). Her work has appeared in journals like Denver Quarterly, Court Green, Loose Change, Colorado Review, and Jacket2. Her visual works—including video poems and handmade book objects—have been exhibited at Pace University (New York City), Casper College (Wyoming), Center for Book Arts (New York City), University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson), University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writers House at Brodsky Gallery (Philadelphia), and ONN/OF “a light festival” (Seattle), as well as online with Elective Affinities, Peep/Show, Trickhouse, and The Volta. Associate professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, Deborah directs the creative writing program and founded and curates the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit.
Photo: Elizabeth Bryant
Kaia Sand writes investigative poetry that is often experiential and material. She is the author of three poetry collections—Interval (Edge Books), Remember to Wave” (Tinfish Press), and A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Money that Lost Its Puff (forthcoming, Tinfish Press), which includes a magic show she created about the global financial crisis. Sand co-authored Landsapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space; and created poetry sign projects as well as a series of poetry walks. She served in a residency with artist Garrick Imatani at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center, commissioned by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, where they explored surveillance police filed on political activists. Sand built a poetic series, “She Had Her Own Reason for Participating,” sledgehammering copper cards. This past autumn, she served in a Despina Artist residency at Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro. This winter, she had a solo exhibition at the Cascade Gallery, Portland Community College. More info: http://kaiasand.net/
Further Information
Please visit this page for further information. Visit the Seattle University website for directions to the Seattle University campus. For additional questions on the event, please email dpoe@pace.edu.
Handmade/Homemade Exhibit 2015, Northeast by Northwest, Exhibitors
November 18, 2014
Sharon Alexander, language poet and artist
Visual art down to paper—it’s possible to paint with it—collaboration, book works, typography, collections, layering… and posing the question—“who is behind this?”
Remaining resourceful in coordination—reoccurring frontiers; book art—convenient and beautiful medium—small spheres in decision and direction.
Maureen Cummins is a native New Yorker who has cranked presses from California to the Eastern Arctic and produced over 30 limited edition book projects. Her “re-created” books are based on subject matter as diverse as slave narratives, the Salem witch trials, turn of the century gay love letters, and records from McLean Hospital, the oldest mental hospital in the United States. She is represented in over one hundred permanent public collections and has received over a dozen grants and funded residencies, including the prestigious Pollock-Krasner award.
Photo: Salem Lessons
Jody Gladding’s newest poetry collection is Translations from Bark Beetle (Milkweed Editions, 2014). Her other books include Rooms and Their Airs (Milkweed Editions) and Stone Crop (Yale University Press). Recent poems have appeared in ecopoetics, Orion, Terrain.org, and other journals. She lives in East Calais, Vermont, teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and translates French. Her work includes object poems and site-specific installations that explore the places where landscape and language converge.
Michael Kalish studied sculpture at Brown University (with Richard Fishman) and blacksmithing at Rhode Island School of Design in the mid 80s, winning ‘best of show’ at his senior student exhibit at Brown. Armed with this honor and his degree in Cognitive Science, he embarked on an academic career with too little attention to art. He moved to Australia in 1995, where he hand-built an adobe fireplace in his rammed-earth block house on a hectare of bush outside Perth. He has been in Syracuse since 2013, where he may be found working in the studio or the laboratory.
Deborah Poe is the founder and curator of the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit whose work for this year’s exhibit is in collaboration with Lee Gough, Claire Hero, Brenda Iijima, Julie Joosten, Layli LongSoldier, Melanie Noel, Hassen Saker, Kate Schapira, and Meredith Stricker.
Marthe Reed is the author of five books: Nights Reading (Lavender Ink), Pleth, a collaboration with j hastain (Unlikely Books), (em)bodied bliss (Moria Books), Gaze (Black Radish Books) and Tender Box, A Wunderkammer (Lavender Ink). She has published chapbooks as part of the Dusie Kollektiv, as well as with above/ground press and Shirt Pocket Press. Her collaborative chapbook thrown, text by j hastain with Reed’s collages, won the 2013 Smoking Glue Gun contest and will appear in Spring 2015. She is Co-Publisher of Black Radish and Publisher of Nous-zōt chapbooks.
More than 400 of Bertha Rogers’s poems have been published in literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, and in several collections, most recently Heart Turned Back (Salmon Poetry, Ireland); and the forthcoming Wild (Salmon Poetry, Ireland). Her translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf, was published in 2000 (Birch Brook Press); her translation of the Anglo-Saxon riddle poems from the Exeter Book, Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things, is forthcoming. Her visual art, including artist’s books, has been shown in more than 200 juried and invitational exhibits throughout the USA and abroad; and is included in the Ransom Center at the University of Texas, and many private collections. A teaching artist for many years, in 2007, she received the NYS Association of Teaching Artists Distinguished Service to the Arts in Education Field Award; she has also received fellowships and awards from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; and the AE Ventures Foundation, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Hawthornden International Writers Retreat in Scotland, Caldera, and others. She is the founding director, since 1992, of Bright Hill Press and Literary Center in New York’s Catskill Mountain Region.
Photo: Bears Book
Kaia Sand is the author of three poetry collections—interval, a Small Press Traffic book of the year and published by Edge Books; and–published by Tinfish Press–Remember to Wave and the forthcoming A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff. Her poetry is investigative and documentary, frequently incorporating research. She also moves poetry outside the book and into other contexts such as art spaces, walks, and a magic show, and co-authored a book on that subject, Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space. She has had her poetry most recently exhibited at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston as part of the Antena Exhibition and North Portland Branch of the Multnomah Public Library. She is the resident poet at the Portland State University Honors Program and also teaches a summer writing workshop in County Cork, Ireland. In collaboration with Garrick Imatani, she is artist in residence at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center, commissioned by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Aseel Sawalha was born and raised in Palestine, where she learned traditional handicrafts and developed an interest in fine arts. She attended Yarmouk University, Jordan, for her BA (English) and Masters (Anthropology). Moving to the US, she earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2002). As a college professor, first at Pace University and now at Fordham University, she resumed her pursuit of visual arts.
For Bonnie Thompson Norman books are a passion and a profession. She has been proprietor of The Windowpane Press, a letterpress printing and book arts studio, for nearly thirty years and works part-time as a hand bookbinder in a commercial bindery. Evenings and weekends, she teaches classes in printing and bookmaking. Her studio has many things found in a traditional print shop and bindery as well as a wonderful library. The works produced at The Windowpane Press reflect concerns about timeless and/or contemporary issues, offering challenging questions, provoking puns and inspiration in the form of broadsides and artist’s books. These pieces are included in institutions and collections throughout the United States and in New Zealand, France and England.
Photo: Vital Signs
Elsi Vassdal Ellis creates books in a well-equipped studio outside Bellingham on 20 acres of what was once part of the Buckholtz Homestead. Born in Fallon, Nevada, she spent her formative years in Iowa City, Iowa, before settling down in the Pacific Northwest. Since 1983 she has produced over 95 editions and 120 unique books employing a variety of reproduction techniques and materials. Her work is permanently housed in many public collections including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York City Public Library, Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Grabhorn Collection in the San Francisco Public Library, and Arts of the Book Collection in the Yale University Library. Western Washington University has been her professional home since 1977 where she holds the rank of full professor, is chair of the Department of Design, and teaches courses in design production and (occasionally) book arts.
Danielle Vogel is a book artist and cross-genre writer who grew up along the south shore of Long Island. Her visual work—which investigates the archives of memory stored within language—has been exhibited most recently at RISD Museum, The University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, and Abecedarian Gallery in Denver, Colorado. As a writer, Danielle explores the bonds between language and presence, between a reader and a writer, and how a book, as an extended architecture of a body, might serve as a site of radical transformation. She is the author of Between Grammars (Noemi 2015), the artist book Narrative & Nest (Abecedarian Gallery 2012), and lit (Dancing Girl Press 2008). She is currently a visiting writer teaching at Brown and Wesleyan Universities.
Student Exhibitors: Sania Azhar, Jenna Bassi, Aymer Chaux, Heidi Clorofilla, Alec Gutierrez, Jamie Leotta, Shawn Murrell, Cassie Pacenka, Rob Rizzitelli, and Aisha Shillingford.
Handmade/Homemade Exhibit 2015: Northeast by Northwest
November 18, 2014
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Jill Magi for the use of her art for the Handmade/Homemade site (above)—“Tongues”, 2007.
Pace University, Pleasantville—with a satellite exhibit at Pace University, New York City—welcomes the following artists and writers for the seventh annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit, Northeast by Northwest:
Sharon Alexander
Maureen Cummins
Jody Gladding
Deborah Poe (with Lee Gough, Claire Hero, Brenda Iijima, Julie Joosten, Layli LongSoldier, Melanie Noel, Hassen Saker, Kate Schapira, Meredith Stricker)
Aseel Sawalha
Marthe Reed & Michael Kalish
Bertha Rogers
Kaia Sand
Bonnie Thompson Norman
Elsi Vassdal Ellis
Danielle Vogel
This mini-exhibition includes handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions, and broadsides by artists from the northeast and northwest regions of the United States. The Pleasantville exhibit takes place February 27-March 26 in the Mortola Library. The New York City exhibit takes place April 1-May 5 in Birnbaum Library. The Birnbaum library hours can be found here: http://www.pace.edu/library/. The exhibits are curated by Deborah Poe.
The following events accompany the seventh annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit and Satellite Exhibit:
Pace University Bookmaking Workshop/Demonstration
Poet and artist Jody Gladding provides a bookmaking workshop Monday, May 4th. The bookmaking workshop will take place from 6-7:30PM. The workshop takes place in the Birnbaum Library “Fishbowl” on Pace University’s New York City campus.
Pace University Reading
A reading takes place Monday, May 4th, 8-9PM. Readers include Jody Gladding, Marthe Reed, and Bertha Rogers. The event takes place in the Bianca Room on Pace University’s New York City campus.
Please visit this page for further information. Visit the Pace University Web site for directions to the New York City campus. For additional questions on the events, please email dpoe@pace.edu.
Works from the 2014 Exhibit
May 27, 2014
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Jill Magi for the use of her art for the Handmade/Homemade site (above)—“Tongues”, 2007.
In order of appearance:
Various pieces (from left to right, top to bottom): Lee Gough Manmade/Machine-made, Close Drawings; Robbin Ami Silverberg Staff 6; Janice Lee Red Trees; Kate Van Houten (Estepa Editions) a tea cup; Caren Hegna Passage.
Lee Gough Manmade/Machine-made, Close Drawings, Robbin Ami Silverberg Staff 6, and Janice Lee Red Trees
Lee Gough Manmade/Machine-made, Close Drawings
Lee Gough (Little Red Leaves) Future Occupations
Caren Hegna Passage
Kate Van Houten (Estepa Editions) On Foot
Megan Burns Unica
Kate Van Houten (Estepa Editions) On Foot
Megan Burns Unica
Jody Gladding stitch
Janice Lee Red Trees
Caren Hegna Passage
Linda L. Ryan Breathing Freely From the Heart
Kate Van Houten (Estepa Editions) a tea cup
Jody Gladding crossroad
Handmade/Homemade Exhibitors: 2014
January 22, 2014
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Jill Magi for the use of her art for the Handmade/Homemade site (above)—“Tongues”, 2007.
Megan Burns is the publisher at Trembling Pillow Press (tremblingpillowpress.com) and edits the poetry magazine, Solid Quarter (solidquarter.blogspot.com). She has been most recently published in Jacket Magazine, Callaloo, New Laurel Review, Trickhouse, and the Big Bridge New Orleans Anthology. Her poetry and prose reviews have been published in Tarpaulin Sky, Gently Read Lit, Big Bridge, and Rain Taxi. She has two books Memorial + Sight Lines (2008) and Sound and Basin (2013) published by Lavender Ink. She has two recent chapbooks: irrational knowledge (Fell Swoop press, 2012) and a city/ bottle boned (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her chapbook Dollbaby was just released from Horseless Press.
Poet Jody Gladding lives in Vermont, translates French, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her newest book of poems, Translations from Bark Beetle, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Stegner Fellow, a Yale Younger Poet, and the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. Her work also includes site-specific installations that explore the interface of language and the environment. Photo credit: Emma Norman.
Lee Gough was born in Pennsylvania and is a poet and multi-disciplinary visual artist working in printmaking, drawing, animation and most recently, letterpress. She is the author of Mary and Shelley’s Fair Copy Book (Potes and Poets, 2000), and a chapbook Future Occupations, (Little Red Leaves Textile Series, 2012) as well as many informal artist’s books. Her work has been published in many places, most recently in Antennae 11, while her prints and drawings are in many individual and public collections, including at the University of Hawaii, Hilo and Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België. Other visual work has also been shown in Peru, India and Australia as well as many places in the United States. In 2004, she was a Puffin Foundation grantee for her linocut portfolio series, The War Went Well.
Lee makes artists books as a way to link her visual and written work. She is interested in alternative publishing and education economies and forms of critical exchange, new forms of reading and finally, new ways to recycle things that aren’t normally thought of as book media. She is also almost a zero-waste zealot and thinks more people should makes books from trash. She is a recent transplant from Brooklyn to upstate New York. In addition to sometimes teaching drawing and printmaking, she also works in farmers’ markets. leegough.net
Growing up as a Wyoming native has influenced Caren Hegna’s attitudes and approach to living and creating: She is an explorer, a dabbler and has come to see herself as a jack-of-all-trades in the realms of art, work and thought. Drawn to the obscure, she finds herself collecting odd and disparate elements, skills and ideas that tend to sift themselves into whatever she does through a sort of accidental alchemy.
Hegna has attended a variety of courses from survival in the out-of-doors, anthropology and cabinet making, to women studies and studio classes at Casper College, the University of Wyoming and the National Outdoor Leadership School. She continues to learn wherever she is.
For the last twelve years Hegna has occupied herself as an artist and an independent contractor in construction, woodworking and landscape design. She lives along the Oregon Trail near Casper, Wyoming with her husband, Jim Doherty and dog, Clyde. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across Wyoming, the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, and can be seen in private collections.
Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), andDamnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), a book-length meditation on the films of Béla Tarr, as well as several chapbooks: Red Trees, Fried Chicken Dinner, The Other Worlds, and The Transparent As Witness (a collaboration with Will Alexander). She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is Co-Editor of [out of nothing], Reviews Editor at HTMLGIANT, Editor of the new #RECURRENT Novel Series for Jaded Ibis Press, and Founder/CEO of POTG Design. She currently teaches at CalArts and can be found online at http://janicel.com.
Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too (2013), Elements (2010), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (2008), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (2012). Her visual work—including video and handmade book objects—has appeared with Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (New York City), University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Poetry Off the Page Symposium (Tucson), the Handmade/Homemade Sister Exhibit at Brodsky Gallery (Philadelphia), and ONN/OF “a light festival” (Seattle). Online exhibits of her visual and text work include Lex–ICON, Yew Journal, Elective Affinities, The Volta’s Medium, and Trickhouse. Deborah Poe is assistant professor of English at Pace University and founder and curator of the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit.
Exhibiting at Casper College only.
Linda Ryan has studied art at the Internationale Sommerakademie für bildende Kunst in Salzburg, Austria, and participated in the Institute for Public Art and Design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
A recipient of a Wyoming Arts Council Individual Artist grant for travel to Greece and Turkey, Ryan has twice been a recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship.
Ryan has been active in arts advocacy, co-chairing the Arts 500 Advocacy group in Wyoming for 3 years and serving two terms on the Board of Trustees for the Nicolaysen Art Museum. She recently received the Tom West Award from the Nicolaysen Art Museum, and has been named to a number of “Who’s Who” listings, including In America, In the World, American Women, and American Educators, as well as Strathmore’s Who’s Who and America’s Registry.
Ryan lives in Casper, Wyoming where she enjoys life with her husband, Louie Kistler and dog, Breve.
Robbin Ami Silverberg is founding director of Dobbin Mill, a hand-papermaking studio, and Dobbin Books, a collaborative artist book studio. Her artwork is divided between artist books and installations. The work conceptually focuses on word cognition and interlinearity, with an emphasis on process and paper as activated substrate.
Silverberg has exhibited and taught extensively in the US, Canada, South Africa, South Korea, Mexico, and Europe. Her artwork is found in numerous collections, such as the Museum Meermanno,The Hague, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, and Yale University’s Art of the Book. She is an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute and on the boards of the Center for Book Arts, Ampersand Foundation, Booklyn Artist Alliance & Alma on Dobbin. Photo credit: Staffs, 2007, Robbin Ami Silverberg
Unique book objects
Medium: 19th century vintage bobbins, archival inkjet text of misogynist proverbs printed onto Dobbin Mill paper & spun into thread.
Kate van Houten is an American artist living in Paris. After studying sculpture in Italy she came through Paris intending to return to New York. She was broke and Paris was thrilling – who cared about the difficulties. Her maid’s room was small. The work got smaller. It reminded her of Giacometti’s crisis and major decision to move out and on when he saw his work go into small matchboxes. She sought out S.W. Hayter, painter and printmaker at the Atelier 17. Here was a serious workplace and a new approach where she was introduced to printmaking (and to her future husband). Through the years, and not having returned to NYC, other than a stint at Pratt Graphics and an NEA grant at the Women’s Studio Workshop, the artist continued printmaking and began painting. Two residencies at DANAE in France stimulated an approach to installation pieces using her new sculpture as focal points. Other Horizons was recently exhibited in American University of Paris gallery and at the LADS Gallery in Osaka, Japan. She works carving stone more than on canvas, but, has not done with the press for monotypes.
The first One-of-a-kind books documented her paintings in small cloth reproductions under a canvas cover. Working with the multiple, as she had done for many years as a printmaker, expanded to producing editions of books. This is an ideal space for collaborations between artists, writers/poets, translators and artisans. ESTEPA EDITIONS, her independent press was created in 1996. Each edition, whatever its size, is designed with a certain simplicity and much of the work is done from her studio in the Paris 11th arrondissement.
Prints and artists’ books are in several private and public collections including; Musée Municipale de la Ville de Paris, Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, France. Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, Bibliothèque Royale de la Belgique. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Free Libraries of Boston and Philadelphia, The New York Public Library. Graphisme Sammlung de ETH, Zurich. Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany. Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgique. Collection Doucet, Paris, France. Ville de La Roche sur Yon, France. Victoria & Albert, London. Stanford University, California. Scripps, New York. Bibliothèques Municipaux in France: Issy-les Moulineaux, Dijon, St. Quentin, Courbevoie, Quimper et Rennes.
Photo credit: On Foot.
Handmade/Homemade Exhibit 2014
January 16, 2014
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Jill Magi for the use of her art for the Handmade/Homemade site (above)—“Tongues”, 2007.
Pace University, Westchester—with a sister exhibit at Casper College of Casper, Wyoming—welcomes the following artists and writers for the sixth annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit:
Megan Burns
Jody Gladding
Lee Gough
Caren Hegna
Janice Lee
Deborah Poe (Casper College only)
Linda Ryan
Robbin Ami Silverberg
Kate Van Houten
This mini-exhibition includes handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions, and broadsides. The exhibit takes place the entire month of March (this year from March 4th) in the Mortola Library at Pace University, Westchester.
The Handmade/Homemade Sister Exhibit, an exhibition in conjunction with the Equality State Book Festival, takes place at Casper College’s Mildred Zahradnicek Gallery, August 25 – October 23, 2014. The exhibit is curated by Valerie Innella Maiers.
The following events accompany the sixth annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit and Sister Exhibit:
Pace University Bookmaking Workshop/Demonstration and Opening/Reading
Poet and multi-disciplinary visual artist Lee Gough provides a bookmaking workshop Tuesday, March 11th. The bookmaking workshop will take place from 1:50-3:15. Gough will read from new work after the workshop, at 3:30. Both events take place in Butcher Suite of Kessel Student Center.
Casper College Sister Exhibit Reception and Artist’s Talk
Casper College’s reception, with an artist talk by Deborah Poe, takes place Thursday, September 11th, at 12:30 in the Visual Arts Building, Room 102. Lunch will be served.
Please visit this page for further information. Visit the Pace University Web site for directions to the Westchester campus. Visit the Casper College Web site for their address. For additional questions on the events, please email dpoe@pace.edu.
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Jill Magi for the use of her art for the Handmade/Homemade site (above)—“Tongues”, 2007.
| Opening Reading: Carlos Soto Román and Brian Teare May 17, 2013 7-8:30 pm Musehouse: A Center for Literary Arts welcomes the following artists and writers for the Handmade/Homemade Sister Exhibit, curated by JenMarie Macdonald: Thomas Allen This mini-exhibition includes handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions, and broadsides. Carlos Soto-Román was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He is the author of “La Marcha de los Quiltros” (1999), “Haiku Minero” (2007), “Cambio y Fuera” (2009), “Philadelphia’s Notebooks” (2011) and the forthcoming chapbook “Con/Science” (2012). He is a translator and the curator of Elective Affinities, a cooperative anthology of contemporary U.S. poetry. He is also a pharmacist and holds a Master’s degree in Bioethics. He lives in Philadelphia, PA. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts and the American Antiquarian Society. He’s the author of four full-length books, The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-Award-winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses. He’s also published seven chapbooks: Pilgrim, Transcendental Grammar Crown, ↑, Paradise Was Typeset, Helplessness, [ black sun crown ], and SORE EROS. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s now an Assistant Professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books. |
Handmade / Homemade Exhibit 