LINKS
ALICE'S CURRENT and UPCOMING EXHIBITS, SHOWS, WORKSHOPS
TUNNEL BOOK WORKSOP
Delaware Valley Chapter, Guild of Bookworkers.
When: Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 10 a.b. to 5 p.m.
Where: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust ST. Philadelphia PA
Cost: $100 for members, plus $10 materials fee paid directly to the instructor
For details and sign-up, see the PDF form»
Contemporary Book Arts
Saint Anselm College, NH, January 20 - March 16, 2016
Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair
Saturday, April 9, 2016, from 9:30am to 6pm.
St. Vincent Ferrer parochial school on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 65th Street
Alice's work at Abcedarian Galleryin Denver
Steve Miller, Univ. of Alabama »
Alice at Vamp and Tramp booksellers
Delaware valley Chapter, GBW site »
Alice on the New Yorker Book Bench blog
Ongoing:
New York, NY
Alice Austin is a Philadelphia printmaker and book artist.
She has worked as a book conservator since 1999 at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first library in the U.S., founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin.
She is on the faculty at the University of the Arts, teaching book structures, and also teaches workshops at the Center for Book Arts, NYC, and other locations. She earned a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts, and has been an active member of the Guild of Book Workers since 1998.
She has been awarded several artist residencies in Europe and Japan, some of which involve teaching and exhibiting. Her work is widely held in museums, private, public and special collections worldwide.
Her art work is also featured in the books 500 Handmade Books, Magic Books and Paper Toys, 1000 Artists' Books and Making Handmade Books. Her artist books have been reviewed in Fine Books magazine and on-line in the New Yorker magazine's Book Bench blog.
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All skill levels welcome - no bookbinding experience necessary.
Registration begins on 1st January 2016, first come, first serve basis.
When: Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 10 a.b. to 5 p.m.
Where: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust ST. Philadelphia PA
Cost: $100 for members, plus $10 materials fee paid directly to the instructor
For details and sign-up, see the PDF form»
The tunnel book sets a stage by enticing the viewer to look through expanding layers or scenes. The series of layers, or panels, are connected by two concertinas on opposite sides. The method of attaching panels varies and we will discuss the different options. We will also construct a cover to attach to our book. Materials will be provided for the books but students have the option to bring postcards, drawings, prints, photographs or other collage material that they would like to cut up and incorporate in their books. When thinking about subject matter - think about a progression of horizontal images. The panels are cut in different ways to allow a view to the solid back panel. The size of the tunnel book will be 5.5 inches high by 7 inches wide and there can be eight panels total. Bring some decorated paper or your favorite book cloth for the book cover if you like. There will be a few colors of book cloth available.
Alice exhibiting at the
Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair
Saturday, April 9, 2016, from 9:30am to 6pm.
St. Vincent Ferrer parochial school on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 65th Street
And the link:
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6834
Sculptural Books: Book Structures from the Medieval to the Modern
Austin discussed her exploration of different book structures, both historic and modern. Her unique books satisfy a curiosity of book binding history while her editions celebrate pattern and color.
Alice traveled to the Awagami Paper Factory in Japan in July-August 2015 as a Resident Artist to explore Japanese paper-making and indigo dyeing methods.
See my newest book about pie!
Alice was awarded a fellowship to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo, Ireland in September - October, 2014.
Alice interviewed on Isseylingo.com» in chinese and english.
Alice spent November, 2013 in Venice, Italy as a recipient of an Emily Harvey Foundation fellowship. Below are photos and videos from her stay in Venice.
I started with the idea that maps are not too useful in Venice. Using a substrate of US nautical maps, I printed, drew and painted maps of Venice and then folded the long maps in a manner to convey the feeling of wandering and being lost. I included a grid map of Philadelphia, abstracted, to contrast with the meandering streets of Venice. The maps are sewn into a folded cover of handmade paper.
Etching at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica
Maps: From the Local to the Global
Anderson Academic Commons, University of Denver, March – August 2013
http://library.du.edu/site/headline/MapsFromLocaltoGlobal.php
The Rome Project (Upper Level)
This exhibit features a compilation of works from Alice Austin, a Philadelphia printmaker and book artist. The famous Nolli map of Rome inspired her detailed and creative interpretation. What is the Nolli Map? – It is an ichnographic plan of Rome from 1736 surveys of Giambattisa Nolli, an Italian architect. Nolli used the survey to engrave 12 copper plates into an elaborate and comprehensive ground plan, commonly recognized as building footprints, of Rome, Italy.
Paper making at the Hobl+Sohn paper works in Steyrermuhl, Austria in September, 2012 during Alice's stay as the Resident Artist withARThaus4.
An interesting blog post about flexagons from the Center for Book Arts - who knew that flexagons were "discovered", and noted physicist Richard Feynman was involved?
Alice will be teaching Four Fantastic Folds about flexagons at the Center for Book arts in New York, June 15, 2013.
Inspired by the 1748 Giambattista Nolli plan of Rome, these two books consist of prints, sketches and notes from Alice's residency at the American Academy in Rome, ink cover on natural vellum cover.
See the blog entry for the Rome Project »
“Venice Studio View” and "Ca d'Oro" are tunnel books inspired by the feel of Venice, a city built on water, full of narrow canals and tight spaces. The light play on buildings and water is evoked by using etchings, one for the background, and one cut to make two other layers. Linoleum prints, based on the pattern of an iron window grill, make the foreground and sides. The tunnel book is housed in a handmade paste paper covered box with a magnetic closure.
Edition of six.
"Nolli," an exploration of the textural layers of Rome, by Alice Austin and Jon Snyder, was inspired by the Giambattista Nolli map of Rome, 1748. The book was folded from one sheet of paper which was printed offset lithography in six colors, which required six runs through the Heidelberg Kors press, at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
See the blog entry for the Rome Project »
September, 2012
Photos of the books in the show»
With links to the Oberlin College online exhibit of the show.
