Artist Books

My thanks to Rich Barlow for guiding you through your Mapping project critiques last week. I hope you all joined in the conversation and got a lot out the discussion.  If you haven't written your one paragraph blog on a class map project of your choice, you need to do so now.  And remember to bring your map assessment forms and the questions you formulated for Barrett's Ch. Six Writing about Art to class.
We will be heading out by 12:30 during class tomorrow to the Minnesota Center for Book Arts for a tour and a presentation on artist books by MCBA Director Jeff Rathermel.  MCBA is located in the Open Book Building at 1011 Washington Ave South in Mpls and you can park in the spaces  marked Open Book or MCBA in the lot to the east of the building.  Besides MCBA, with studios open to the public up and downstairs and a studio store, the building houses The Loft Literary Center,  and the Coffee Gallery, so bring money if you want to purchase book making supplies and/or coffee, and give yourself some time to poke around.
This week's cool sites...for those of you still in the process finalizing your selection of artist as the subject of your Design/ Artist Book Project, you might want to check out the Art 21 website. They now have their first five seasons streaming online, loaded with interviews with many interesting artists/designers you may want to consider.  For those of you interested in pen pals and interactivity, you may like lookatbook, a mail art book project between artists in Brooklyn and Berlin and Ben Fry's amazing The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, an interactive guide to the evolution of Charles Darwin's volumes by the same title.  And for some good old DIY info in the book arts category, check out Arts, Books, and Creativity and take a look at other book making resources I've marked for you on www.delicious.com., searching bookarts and bookmaking or CVAOAD as your tags. Sorry, no mystery  photo this week.  Cheese or Font is my gift, instead, especially for you budding foodies and typeographers out there... Good luck!