NBG NOVEMBER 2025 Newsletter

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Newsletter

NOVEMBER 2025

Greetings Book Artists,

The year has flown by and the NBG Annual Meeting is close at hand! This will be our last program meeting of the year. I am looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible. This exciting event will include our 4th Annual Tiny Book Party, Bookmakers Auction, and will feature a bookmaking activity by Katie Sanders. We will also elect new officers and welcome new board members. You will find lots more information and all the details about the Annual Meeting below. This will be a great opportunity for you to RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP for 2026! Please bring cash or check.

We continue to have Open Studio on Wednesdays from noon - 2:00pm. Come check out a book from the library or return books, purchase supplies from Paper Birches, use the paper cutters or just come for a visit and have your bookmaking questions or dilemmas answered.

Thank You for being involved and interested in the Northwoods Book Arts Guild.

Corlis Taylor

NBG President

ANNUAL MEETING

Saturday, November 8, 1-4pm

Lions Club Building,

at the Tanana Valley Fairgrounds

Suggested Donation: $5

4th Annual Tiny Book Party

Hands-On Activity:

Tab and Slot Binding with Katie Sanders

Join us to learn this exciting and flexible structure with potential for many variations.

Bring the following tools:

knife, bone folder, scissors, small cutting mat, ruler, metal edges,

glue stick, double-stick tape, ballpoint pen & scoring tool

(Optional:decorative paper scraps, colored pencils)

Bookmakers Auction

Organized by NBG’s Advisory Council.

Surprises and treasures for everyone!

Bookmaking tools

Studio equipment

Papers and boards

Paint and other media

Bookmaking ephemera

The (always fun) Scarf & Bag Emporium

Special Auction Table:

Small and Tiny Book Collection

A Special Display - and SALE - of an exciting collection of

Small and Tiny Books donated to NBG.

You are welcome to bring donations in all categories to the event.

For More Information: Margo

COMB BINDING OPPORTUNITY: Oralee Nudson will have her durable ibiMaster 500 comb binding machine available for members to make a custom journal or rebind an existing book. Some paper and cardstock will be available.

For More Information: Oralee

NBG WORKSHOP

Hedi Kyle’s Storage Book with Margo Klass

Saturday, November 15, 10am - 4pm

In-person at NBG Studio

Members $120 Guests: $150

Materials fee: $20

Waitlist only

All skill levels welcome

Designed to hold ephemera, Hedi Kyle calls this structure her Storage Book. Its framed, window-like pages are made of double layers of mylar which hold their contents in place so that both fronts and backs are visible. The central images of the entire text block form an overlapping, composite image when the book is opened and seen as a codex structure. When the structure is fanned opened around its spine, the images magically become individual, floating compositions. Soft covers with attached title plate on the front and colophon inside the back complete the structure.

Join the Waitlist

REPORT FROM THE FIELD

"Fall Leaves" by Carley Dunn, photo by Ree Nancarrow, after making models for Meander Books

Beginners Cohort

Hosted by Vanessa DeWolf, five bookmakers experimented with a variety of foldable forms with a focus on the meander structure at our October meeting.

Beginners Cohort is a Special Interest Group, a supportive learning opportunity for all our members. We meet twice a month. Our November meetings are on Fridays, the 14th and 21st, 6-8pm. Materials and tools are supplied. Please join us!

For more information and to join the email list: Vanessa

November at Roaming Root

Prints by Yumi Kawaguchi

First Friday Opening

November 7, 4-7pm

The Folk School Print Sale

Saturday, November 29, 10am - 3pm

The Folk School invites Fairbanks printmakers to be a part of their third print sale! You DO NOT need to have taken a class or been involved with The Folk School to participate. Artists who submit prints for the sale will receive 60% of the sale price, the other 40% will go to The Folk School to support the Community Print Shop.

We welcome up to 30 prints per artist, handmade prints only, no reproductions.

We would love your handprinted cards and clothing, as well as cyanotypes!

We suggest that all work on paper be packaged in clear plastic sleeves to avoid damage.

Artists do not need to be present the day of the sale.

Please submit prints by November 25

Print may be dropped off at these Open Shop times:

Thursdays, November 13 and 20, 5-9 pm

Monday November 24, 4-7pm

Tuesday November 25, 4-7pm

Contact Sara Tabbert with questions or for more information

Print Submission Form

NORTHWOODS BOOK ARTS GUILD

CALENDAR

NBG Open Studio & Boreal Book Arts Showcase

Every Wednesday, 12-2pm

(Sunday Open Studio hours paused)

NBG Annual Meeting • Tiny Book Party • Bookmakers Auction

Saturday, November 8, 2025, 1-4pm

Lions Hall (Tanana Valley Fairgrounds)

NBG Workshop • In-Person • NBG Studio

Hedi Kyle's Storage Book with Margo Klass

Saturday November 15, 10am - 4pm

NBG Letterpress Studio

Letterpress Sessions

By Appointment with Bruce Campbell

NBG SIGS- Special Interest Groups

Coptic Binders Meet Up

Fridays 1-3pm in NBG Studio

November 7, December 5

Beginners Cohort

Two Fridays 6-8pm in NBG Studio

November 14 & 21

All Members Welcome. Drop-in & free

Art-O-Mat Location

November

Peony Patch Uprooted (825 First Ave)

Learn about and support Northwoods Book Arts Guild!