Keith Smith’s Single-Sheet Sewing, a Workshop with Marcia Moore Sunday, May 19, 2024, from 10 am to 1 pm Mountain Time In Person; Santa Fe Community College, Room 700 $60 for BAG members; you must be a member to participate A perfect solution for unusual materials! Want to make your books from metal, wood, or glass—but don’t want to use an accordion or stab-bound structure? This workshop is for you. Join Marcia Moore …
Listed below are a few classes of particular interest to BAG members at Santa Fe Community College for Summer 2024. Registration begins Tuesday, April 9, at 8 am. To see the full list of Arts Studio classes, visit https://sfccssb.sfcc.edu/PROD/pw_pub_sched.p_listthislist?term_in=202410&subj_in=ARTS Arts 1610, Drawing I with Steven Eckert, Wednesday and Friday 10 am to 3 pm Arts 2610, Drawing II with Jared Weiss, Tuesday and Thursday 10 am to 3 pm Arts 2614L, Drawing & Painting Advanced …
Saturday, June 22, and Sunday, June 23, 2024, from 10 am to 3 pm Santa Fe Community College, Room 700 $160; must be a current BAG member to participate Saturday: Overview of project and inspiration; begin collages, integrating text and image Sunday: Finalize collages; review potential book structures; share work Register here: https://santafebag.org/register-for-a-workshop-with-rosemary-rae/ In this two-day workshop we’ll explore the conversation between text and images. We will dive into the hands-on creation of …
An Artist Talk and a Workshop with Peter and Donna Thomas Artist Talk, free and open to the public: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 6 pm to 7 pm in Room 700, Santa Fe Community College Workshop, $35 per attendee; must be a BAG member to attend: 7 pm to 9 pm (immediately following the Artist Talk) ONLY TWO SPOTS LEFT! More information on the workshop will be sent with paid enrollment Register here: https://santafebag.org/register-for-a-workshop-with-peter-and-donna-thomas/ The Santa …
Capturing a Moment: a Five-Step Approach to Travel Journaling, a Workshop with Judith Cassel-Mamet This workshop is full. To get on the waitlist, email sue.surprise55@gmail.com. Sunday, April 14, 2024, from 10 am to 1 pm Mountain Time Santa Fe Community College, Room 700 (probably) $70 for BAG members; you must be a member to participate Plus $20 materials and tools fee, payable directly to Judith (see below) The only supply you need to bring is a personal journal …
Call for Vendors: Libros & SF BAG “Anything Goes” Show in Albuquerque This July “Anything Goes” is a mixed-media show open to members of Libros New Mexico Book Arts Guild and Santa Fe Book Arts Group. It will be held Friday, July 5, through Saturday, July 13, 2024, at the Tortuga Gallery, 901 Edith Boulevard, Albuquerque, NM 87108. The show is open to members in good standing only. This is a collaborative show and any …
Ekphrastic Poetry Salon with David Rachlin, In Person In this salon, David will introduce you to poetry that has been inspired by works of art. Before you write your own poems, he will offer an observation exercise and a small-group-writing activity to get you started. After that, using a wide variety of posters, art postcards, and books, the participants can choose the art they wish to use as inspiration for their own work. The last …
Introduction to Coptic Stitch Binding Salon Coptic sewing is a bookbinding method that reportedly originated in the 2nd Century AD. Once completed, the Coptic bound book opens flat, ideal for sketching and note-taking. Linda Zwick will guide participants through a Coptic stitch binding of a small, simple book (4” x 6”). Participants can use it as a template for future stitched Coptic bindings. In-Person Session—Saturday, March 16, 2024, 1 pm to 3:30 pm Mountain Time, …
On Saturday, October 28, Marcia Moore and Brooke Remmert presented the "Make a Book, Read a Book" workshop at the Main Library. Here are some photos by Brooke of the event. Remember, the Celebration continues through March 2024! Check the BAG website and newsletter for more details soon.
Mail Art–12 in ’23: Color Each month you will create a 4×6 postcard (using cardstock) that focuses on one color. Then email Linda Zwick (lindazwick55@yahoo.com) with your address before the third Saturday of the month. She will email you the name and address of your recipient the next week. You have the entire month to work on your card. Please mail it to your mail art recipient by the end of the month. (For example, …
Recently we said goodbye to a dear friend, Douglass Rankin. Douglass was a potter, poet, photographer, printmaker, pastepaper marker, postage stamp collector, mail art maker, journal keeper, book artist, beekeeper, butterfly counter, bird and fish watcher, cat lover, gardener, cook, hiker, star gazer, traveler of paths least traveled, wife of Will Ruggles, and most of all, a great book arts friend. We miss you, Douglass! The photography in the slideshow tribute was supplied by Gail …
Today at the end of the BAG meeting Sally Blakemore will demonstrate two more paper engineering projects. This is part of an ongoing series for those working on the “Santa Fe Origins” collaborative book, and anyone interested in paper engineering. First are the animated tabs and pulls. This mechanic operates with multiple slots through the front that contain items that lift when the tab is pulled down. Use it for any kind of reveal-and-conceal idea; …
Thanks to BAG members Sally Blakemore, Barb Macks, Helen Fabel, and Lynn Grimes, Santa Fe kids are going to look at bugs in a whole new way. Recently the four artists decorated two windows at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum: one with Nature Bugs and one with Urban Bugs. “The installations are a wildly diverse experiment using materials as inspiration,” said Sally. “We created a Mylar ‘waterfall’ filled with bugs made from repurposed cookbooks from …
BAG President Linda Zwick challenged members to create faux postage stamps. (The U.S. Postal Service used to allow creation of custom postage stamps through approved third-party vendors, but ended the program in June 2020.) You can view the submissions in a video by clicking here.
Sally Blakemore, BAG's Artist-in-Residence, will be demonstrating pop-up engineering at the BAG member meeting on Saturday, April 10, 2021. She will do this because it's fun, but also to help those who are interested in being part of the "City of Mud" large pop-up book project. Here are two of Sally's designs. Click on the image to open in a new tab.
BAG member Austa Oliver created a greeting to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the pandemic. "I want to wish all BAG members well as we have just finished a year of hibernating," explained Austa. "I made the word cloud (below) at the beginning…on 3-12-2020. And on 3-12-2021, I decided the part about changing my age number! Just a thought, as we all think about how long this has all been going on." See Austa's artwork …
What a talented, loving bunch of people are BAG members! We received photos of more than 50 valentines from these artists: Ruth Anna Abigail, Monica Andersen, Tracy Armagost, Ashisha, Sally Blakemore, Kim Burkholder, Jill Cowley, Andrea Cypress, Freya Diamond, Liz Faust, Julie Filatoff, Leah Gibbons, Cathleen Higgins, Marjie Kamine, Cynthia Leespring, Elizabeth McKee, Pat Moses, Mavis Murphy, Gail Murray, Austa Oliver, Victoria Rabinowe, Douglass Rankin, Helen Spielman, Susan Surprise, Kim Walter, and Amy Thompson West. Click …
At the December 2020 membership meeting, Kim Burkholder led us in an exercise to create a "Word Cloud" by submitting words/terms of what comes to mind when we think of BAG, or what we are thankful for about BAG. She used the tool at Menti.com, and the larger the word and more centrally located, the more people submitted it. Below is a screenshot; click to enlarge. You can also see it by clicking here. [caption …
