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Hello Bookmakers,
Happy New Year! The new year is a time when we think about renewing our annual membership to the guild and making resolutions for the year. But, instead of resolutions, how about setting a personal theme for 2024. I was reading an article in the Bound and Lettered magazine: volume 18, number 3, and the author took part in a series of 100-day challenges, and she set a theme for each year of the challenge. This got me thinking about my book arts practice and setting a theme for the year. Perhaps I could focus on a color I would like to work with to create a series of books or, filling one page a day in one of my many blank Coptic books. The theme would be the art of the blank page, I could write, sketch, doodle, write an observation etc. each day or I could make it easy on myself and say once a week. What will your theme be for 2024? The possibilities are endless.
I would like to remind you about two upcoming events in January. First, Designs on paper: Mark Making class on Saturday, January 20th and the NBG Annual Meeting will be Sunday, January 21st. Keep reading the newsletter for information about both events.
After a short break Open Studio is open again on Wednesday, January 10th. There are several opportunities to connect with each other this month and I hope to see you in January.
Corlis Taylor
NBG President
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Northwoods Book Arts Guild
Annual Meeting
Sunday, January 21, 2024
1 - 3pm
In-person only
Lions Club Building, Tanana Valley Fairgrounds
1800 College Road
Join your fellow bookmakers and friends in celebrating another year of bookmaking success in Fairbanks and beyond! The gathering will feature a short business meeting and membership drive, followed by our traditional NBG Auction with its emphasis on bookmaking tools and materials. There are always rare and surprising finds!
Silent Auction - a myriad of surprises
Outcry Auction - a very few choice items
The ever-favorite “Scarf Emporium”
We need your help!!
Donate tools and materials that you no longer need -
they will become treasures to someone else!
Please bring your auction items to Open Studio
on Wednesday, January 10, or 17,
or to the meeting on the 21st.
Join or renew your NBG membership for 2024
Everyone is welcome to this festive event - bring your family and friends - they will enjoy learning about our dynamic Northwoods Book Arts Guild!
Benefits of NBG Membership
It’s a new year and time to renew our membership to the guild or become a member for the first time. Membership in the Northwoods Book Arts Guild provides a connection to other bookmakers and opportunities to learn and grow in the art of bookmaking. What are the benefits of paying your membership fee? The two biggest membership perks are taking classes at a reduced rate and purchasing bookmaking supplies at our Paper Birches store. Additional benefits include using our library, participating in guild shows, special projects and participating on the Board.
We offer a flexible membership fee structure:
$15 Student Membership
$30 Regular Membership
$100 Apprentice Level Donor
$250 Journeymen Level Donor
$500 Master Level Donor
$1000 Patron Level Donor
We use your membership fees and donations in a variety of ways: funding for exhibitions, service projects, meeting activities, room rentals, studio equipment, tools, letterpress supplies, and publication expenses to name a few.
Please consider renewing your membership/donation this month at nwbookarts.org and enjoy all the benefits of membership.
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NBG Workshop
Designs on Paper: Mark Making
Instructor: Corlis Taylor
Saturday, January 20, 2024
11:00am - 4:00pm
Workshop Fees: Members $100, Guests $125
Materials Fee: $15
Workshop Limited to 7 participants
Early registration is appreciated.
This class will focus on using several techniques to layer color, texture, and pattern on paper. Paints, inks, stencils, stamps, brushes, brayers, jelly plate and masking are a few of the media and tools that will be used to make and combine marks on various papers. You will leave class with a variety of embellished papers ready to use as endpapers, guards, pages or covers. Instructor will provide papers, paint, jelly plates and stencils. You are also welcome to bring tools of your own for experimentation.
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NBG Workshop
Layered Accordion
Instructor: Connie Stricks
Saturday, February 24, 2024
9:30am - 4:30pm
Workshop Fees: Members $105, Guests $140
Materials Fee: $25
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This small but elegant book structure is a combination of simple devices—accordion folds, windows, and the pamphlet stitch. It is constructed in layers and woven together, giving it visual and sculptural complexity. Your choice of collaged additions provides personal imagery. Cover boards, wrapped with paper, complete the project. The model constructed at the beginning of class will provide the basis for understanding the mechanics of the structure and becomes a reference for our second book and for using this structure for future projects.
Tools & Materials
Participants Bring*: Awl, bone or Teflon folder, cutting mat with grid (18” x 24”), fine line pencil and eraser, glue papers, scoring tool, rulers (two 2” x 18”; one 3” or 3.5” x 18” -plastic quilters rulers are recommended), bumper, small needle nose pliers, steel measuring rules, X-acto knife or utility knife with extra blades, scissors
Instructor will supply: Paper, board, double sided tape and adhesive sheets, needle piercing board, PVA glue, glue sticks, waxed linen thread
*Please contact the instructor if you do not have any of these tools and materials.
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Book Repair Inquiries
Lately, we have received quite a few inquiries about restoring or repairing damaged books. Fortunately, there is a protocol in place to address these requests. Community outreach is an important part of Northwoods Book Arts Guild’s mission and one facet of this outreach is the NBG Book Repair Team, six dedicated members who volunteer twice a month at the Literacy Council. The team typically repairs books that are donated to the Literacy Council to be sold in the Forget-Me-Not Book Store, but they also undertake special book repair requests from members of the public. The money generated from special book repairs goes to the Literacy Council to support their valuable work in our community.
Jackie Stormer, our liaison at the Literacy Council, handles all questions and requests for book repairs. Please email her at jackie@literacycouncilak.org. She will communicate with you and the Book Repair Team about your request and then give you a quote for the cost of materials and repairs.
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Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival
April 11 - 13, 2024
Newport, Oregon
This annual conference for paper and book artists takes place on Oregon’s coastal town of Newport and nearby communities. One and two-day workshops will be offered by the 2024 roster of instructors: Casey Newman, Chris Bentley, Connie Stricks, Glenda Goodrich, Iris Sullivan Daire, Margo Klass, Pietro Accardi, Randi Parkhurst, Rose James, and Sandi Reinke.
January 17 - workshop schedule is available
January 27 - registration opens at 9am
Registration link: https://coastarts.org/newport-paper-book-arts-festival/registration/
To make sure you are the first to hear about all Festival Information sign up for the NPBAF email list at: coastarts.org/subscribe.
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Focus on Book Arts
June 26-30, 2024
Monmouth, Oregon
Focus on Book Arts is a conference of book and paper arts in Monmouth, Oregon. FOBA offers five days of workshops, along with a Trade Show, Artists’ Fair, Faculty-Staff Exhibition, and several evening events. Workshops are taught by professional instructors in bookbinding, printing, decorative papers, paper making, book art, and more.
Flyer for FOBA available here.
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NORTHWOODS BOOK ARTS GUILD
CALENDAR
NBG Open Studio &
Boreal Book Arts Showcase Hours
Wednesdays, 12-2pm
Starting January 10th
NBG Meeting
Coptic Binders
Thursday, January 11, 2-4pm
NBG Meeting
FAAM Project Meeting
on Zoom
Thursday, January 18, 5:30-6:30pm
NBG Workshop
Designs on Paper: Mark Making
Saturday, January 20, 11am-4pm
NBG Annual Meeting
Sunday, January 21, 1-3pm
NBG Meeting
Coptic Binders
Thursday, February 8, 2-4pm
NBG Workshop
Layered Accordion
Saturday, February 24, 9:30am-4:30pm
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Learn about and support Northwoods Book Arts Guild!
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