A visit from the Book Arts Bunch

The Book Arts Bunch (BAB) is an Indianapolis based group of book artists and enthusiasts organized by Jack Cooney for the last 10 years. This group is just one more way to stay in contact with professionals in the field and to discover the great resources that we are for one another. I first met Jack around the time the group began assembling and was instantly charmed by his enthusiasm for all things books and history. I love joining the group any chance I can get up to Indianapolis for their meetings. So it was with great enthusiasm that I suggested…

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Steamroller Print

This August I will be participating in my first steamroller printing event put on by Walnut Ink Press! More event information is on their Kickstarter page. Here are the event details: DATE: Saturday, August 23, 2014 TIME: 11:00am-5:00pm *There will be assigned printing time slots for each artist LOCATION: Walnut Ink Projects, 607 Franklin St, Michigan City, Indiana 46360 So what is a steamroller printing event? The picture above is helpful but I will explain. This will be a day long event during which very large wood blocks will be printed with the use of a steamroller. A 3' x…

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Open Studios Tour Recap

To begin, I want to thank EVERYONE who came by my studio during the tour, and another big thank you to everyone who attended any part of the rest of the tour. Without people touring, it would be a pretty bad event! The first day of the tour was Saturday, June 7th. I spent all morning running around making sure I had everything I needed, but once the first visitors arrived, I finally relaxed. Quickly, I realized the wonderful thing about events in town: you discover and meet all of the great people that are all around you. Some of…

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Open Studios Tour

THIS WEEKEND! I will be one of 40 artists participating in the Bloomington Open Studios Tour. This is a unique chance to see how artists do what they do! Full color booklets with maps and artist descriptions are available around town (galleries, etc) and will be at each artist location. You can also find all the maps and information online at: http://www.bloomingtonopenstudiostour.com/index.php Visit my event page for a few more photos and info. Due to my involvement with the tour, I had the pleasure of talking with WFIU's Yaël Ksander about my work and the tour. Have a listen on…

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Don’t Take Your Guns to Town

Catalyzed by a familiar starting point, this book project was begun as a planned assignment between myself and Kristin of Space Paste Press. After the success of our 2011 Intellectual Collaboration projects that took one month from conception to completion, we wanted to try the same idea with a longer time frame. The goal was to end up with finished pieces as opposed to the one month book sketches. The end result was something that should be "exhibit ready" so that the time spent on these projects would hopefully yield even more benefit than the prior learning experiences. With all…

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