Gift-givers take note. The Urban Craft Uprising Winter Show, featuring dozens of vendors including Constellation & Co., Little Otsu, and R+L Goods, will be held the weekend of Dec. 2 at the Seattle Center.
Across the Cascades in Tieton, the sixth annual Holiday Crafts & Antiques Bazaar takes place Dec. 2 to 4, offering antiques and handmade goods, including journals, albums, and gifts from Paper Hammer. Click here for complete details.
Make plans to attend this week’s Chen Qi: Homage to Paper exhibition opening, a part of Seattle’s First Thursday artwalk.
Chen Qi has received numerous awards including the Golden Award of the 13th China Print Art Exhibition and the Lu Xun Printmaker Award by Chinese Artists Association. His prints have been collected in public institutions including the China National Art Museum, the British Museum, the Shanghai Museum, and the New York Public Library. Before Chen Qi travels to Seattle for the opening of Homage to Paper, he will present lectures at the University of Michigan and Stanford University.
Chen Qi, born in 1962, is a professor of printmaking at Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing and works primarily with woodblock and water-based inks. Early in his career, Qi’s intricate and realistic work was characterized by his remarkable precision in registering various cuts and colors. He has always chosen topics steeped in Chinese culture: 24 agricultural seasons, classical Ming furniture, ancient instruments, fans, worm-eaten paper, lotuses, and water. Qi spends several years developing each series—he devoted 10 years to his Lotus Series, which contains 20 different views of lotuses.
Beginning with his Water Series and continuing with his Worm-Eaten Paper Series, Chen Qi has astonished the world with his ability to create and control huge images. For many of Qi’s recent works, paper is made to his specifications in an ancient paper capital in Anhui Province, China.
Chen Qi: Homage to Paper opening reception is this Thursday, November 3, 2011, 5–7 p.m. Open Fridays, 2–6 p.m., Saturdays, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., and by appointment until December 23. Paper Hammer Gallery shares space with Marquand Books at 1400 Second Avenue in downtown Seattle.
Each year, El Día de los Muertos celebrations are planned throughout Mexico and abroad as a means of remembering and honoring deceased loved ones. In many parts of the world, including Eastern Europe, Japan, Nepal, and the Philippines, families commemorate loved ones in similar celebratory festivals. El Día de los Muertos is thought to have originated 2,500 to 3,000 years ago, and the festivities developed from the traditions of Olmec, Aztec, Maya, Zapotec, and other pre-Hispanic civilizations in Mexico and Mesoamerica.
This Sunday, Oct. 30, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., prominent Oaxacan artist Fulgencio Lazo will travel to Central Washington to craft a 25-by-30-foot sandpainting at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse Gallery for Mighty Tieton’s second annual Day of the Dead Celebration. Combining his original vision with customary Oaxacan techniques, Lazo is producing a unique sandpainting for the event using hundreds of pounds of sand.
From sketching to color application, building the sandpainting necessitates a group of 15 volunteers and takes two days to complete. Through a Kickstarter campaign, Mighty Tieton has raised enough financial support to purchase basic supplies for the installation, including material costs and compensation. In addition to sugar skull building and pan de muerto (dead bread) baking, other family festivities scheduled throughout the day feature food, music, crafts, and storytelling. A giant Guatemalan kite crafted by Maya kite-makers will also be on display.
For details about supporting the project on Kickstarter and information about incentives offered to financial backers, including a handcrafted sugar skull and print from Fulgencio Lazo, click here.
The festival, exhibition, and craft activities are open to the public with a suggested donation of $3. A video of last year’s sandpainting event in Tieton is below.
The exhibition will be on display from Oct. 30 to Nov. 13, Friday through Sunday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. and by appointment.
This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Paper Hammer will join vendors including Lades and Gentleman, Iacoli and McAllister, and the Iron Curtain Press at the City Arts Festival Pop-Up Market at FRED Wildlife Refuge in Capitol Hill. Full details are listed here. Please stop by and say hello.
Also this Friday, Marquand Books, Mighty Tieton, and Paper Hammer founder and Creative Director Ed Marquand will receive the 2011 Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award at a gala dinner at the Bullitt Cabaret at ACT Theater. In addition to a meal, the event will feature a conversation between Ed and former Seattle Times art critic Sheila Farr. Full details and tickets are available here.
The annual Frankfurt Book Fair began yesterday and runs through Oct. 16. More than 7,500 exhibitors from 110 countries around the globe will be in attendance. If you are planning to be in Frankfurt this week and would like to connect with Marquand Books at the fair, please email Managing Director Adrian Lucia at adrianl@marquand.com.
Garnering attention for arrangements ranging from Bach’s “Sonata for Viola Da Gamba and Piano” to Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me A River,” the Portland Cello Project has won acclaim playing 800 works not often or never before performed on the cello in venues across the United States. The group, launched in 2007, is composed of a changing roster of players. Their shows, as momentous and fluid as their music, move from intimate performances with four to six cellists to large arrangements featuring a choir, woodwinds, percussion, and horns. The Project’s mission is three-fold: to connect, innovate, and collaborate.
The Portland Cello Project actively partners with talented independent musicians, many with roots based in the Pacific Northwest, including The Dandy Warhols and Eric Bachmann of Crooked Fingers.
Tomorrow night, the Portland Cello Project travels to Tieton for a performance at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse at 608 Wisconsin Ave. All proceeds benefit Tieton Arts and Humanities, supporting the not-for-profit organization’s community and arts programming and initiatives. Tickets are $10.00 and are available online through Brown Paper Tickets. The performance starts at 7 p.m. and children are welcome.
“You Aren’t Here: Artists’ Maps of Personal Spaces,” a selection of pieces by 6 artists who use cartographic images and concepts in their work. The artists produce works on paper that map the terrain of the self. Works include altered atlases, sculptural wall hangings, and flat pieces that map a range of milieus: cities reimagined, moods recorded, dreams analyzed, and borders disputed.
Opening reception is this Thursday, October 6, 2011 from 5-7 p.m. Open Fridays from 2 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment until October 29. Paper Hammer Gallery is at 1400 Second Avenue in downtown Seattle.
This weekend, join Trimpin, editor Anne Focke, and Ed Marquand at Elliott Bay Books in Capitol Hill. The trio will discuss Trimpin: Contraptions for Art and Sound. The artist will sign copies of the 208-page hardcover retrospective produced by Marquand Books. The event takes place Saturday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m.
In 2010, the American Library Association (ALA) reported that 348 books had been challenged by individuals for their content. While many others go unreported, the United States Office of Intellectual Freedom has processed more than 11,000 official content challenge requests since 1982, promoting the ALA to launch the annual Banned Books Week each September. The event draws attention to censorship and brings awareness to the importance of intellectual freedom.
Photo courtesy of bannedbooksweek.org
Maintaining an endorsement from the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, Banned Books Week starts this Saturday, Sept. 24 and runs until Oct. 1. As a part of the festivities, hundreds of bookshops and libraries across the country will cultivate the public’s censorship awareness by displaying a selection of books that have been challenged. In many cases, challenged writing featured in the 2011 Banned Books Week was successfully kept in the collection of libraries and schools, thanks to advocacy by readers, booksellers, and teachers.
Sponsored by a number of organizations including the American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; American Society of Journalists and Authors; and Association of American Publishers, 2011 Banned Books Week events are scheduled across the country. In addition, a virtual read-out encourages book lovers from around the world to post YouTube videos of themselves reading portions of challenged books.
The celebrated exhibition “Pissarro’s People” showcases almost 100 works from throughout Camille Pissarro’s lauded impressionist career, including nearly 40 paintings and several works on paper. Closing Oct. 2 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., the show travels west, opening Oct. 22 at the Legion of Honor at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The New York Times has posted an online slideshow featuring exhibition highlights. Designed by Jeff Wincapaw and distributed by Prestel, Marquand Books produced the “Pissarro’s People” exhibition catalogue.
Full details and ticket information about the show’s San Francisco opening are available here.
Marquand Books and Paper Hammer are included in this year’s Seattle Design Festival. This Saturday, Sept. 17, 10 a.m. — 4 p.m., our downtown Seattle design studio, gallery, and retail space, Paper Hammer, will host an open house for festival attendees. At 2 p.m., Marquand Books founder and Creative Director Ed Marquand will speak about the work Marquand Books produces and discuss our book arts studio in Tieton, Washington:
In 2005, Ed Marquand started “Mighty Tieton,” an entrepreneurial venture of urban and rural designers, architects, artists, and creative individuals, working in the Central Washington town of Tieton, fifteen miles west of Yakima. Mighty Tieton’s goal is to help revitalize the economy of the town and region by combining creative and professional skills with local resources to build successful businesses involving art, design, hospitality, and recreation. Several artisan businesses have started under the Mighty Tieton banner.
Marquand Books designs and produces illustrated fine art books for museums, collectors, artists, and architects. There’s no studio quite like it — a hybrid of publisher, design firm, and book packager. Marquand also runs a book arts studio in Tieton, Washington, where they produce handmade books.
There are dozens of exciting events scheduled throughout the festival, including a presentation and moderated discussion, Beyond Boundaries: Three Transcendent Design Practices, on Monday, Sept. 19, at the FRED Wildlife Refuge on Capitol Hill. The panel consists of several professionals with architectural backgrounds from across the country that have formed conceptual projects, combining aspects of art and architecture. The following artists’ collectives will be featured at the event:
Humanities Washington is hosting its annual Bedtime Stories fundraiser on Sept. 30 at downtown Seattle’s Fairmont Olympic Hotel. The non-profit arts organization has hosted Bedtime Stories for more than a decade. This year, authors are invited to write on the theme “12:01 a.m.” Poet and MacArthur Fellow Heather McHugh and National Book Award Winner Charles Johnson will be in attendance along with these well-known novelists:
Garth Stein (“The Art of Racing in the Rain”)
Jamie Ford (“Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”)
Stephanie Kallos (“Broken for You”)
Jim Lynch (“Highest Tide, Border Songs”)
Ed Marquand is sponsoring a table and has space available. Contact him for details at edm@maraquand.com. Click here for complete event details.
Marking the end of festival season in Seattle every Labor Day is the Bumbershoot Music and Arts festival. More than 100,000 people gather at the Seattle Center for the 3-day spectacle of music, film, food, and art exhibitions. This year, 5 innovative shows curated and executed by several Northwest-based artists are on view in the Seattle Center Pavilion.
Bumber by Number
Re-imagining the hook “everybody can be an artist” that made paint-by-number kits a cultural phenomenon, Seattle artist Ryan Feddersen has executed a fully-interactive paint-by-number version of Édouard Manet’s “The Picnic” (“Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe”) to be filled in by audience contributions over the course of the weekend. Curated by Seattle artists Marlow Harris and Jodavid, the exhibition will also display oversized paint-by-number banners and vintage kits reworked by several local artists including Joey Bates, Aaron Huffman, Nancy Guppy, and Joey Veltkamp.
Expedition
Curator Leslie Lyons will collect and arrange words and images from participants throughout the festival. Bumbershoot attendees will be given 45 – 60 seconds to narrate themes including friendship, birth, and magic. A video, “Expedition,” will be produced from the footage.
Skaters Gauntlet
Lauded local artist W. Scott Trimble has assembled an impressive sculptural obstacle course featuring a 360-degree skate pipe, quarter pipe, ramps, and more. Unfortunately, the installation is for viewing, not riding, pleasure.
The Magic Show
Mysterious photography, video, and sculpture examining transformation, illusion, and levitation from artists based in the Pacific Northwest and across the country will be on display throughout Bumbershoot. An engaging multimedia concept from curator Kathy Lindenmayer.
Flatstock
More than 75 poster artists are included in “Flatstock 31,” the ninth consecutive Flatstock exhibit hosted at Bumbershoot. In addition, the limited-edition book “Rock Paper Show,” produced by the American Poster Institute, will be on display, as well as a Flatstock retrospective.
Marquand Books Studio is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring the work of lauded photographer Hector Acebes. Opening during September’s First Thursday Art Walk in downtown Seattle, Hector Acebes: Portraits in Africa, 1948–1953 features selections from the artist’s extensive travels throughout Africa in the 1940s and 50s. Acebes established a career as a lecturer and professional filmmaker; his work is included in museum collections and galleries in the United States, South America, and Europe.
Acebes was the subject of a traveling museum retrospective organized by Spelman College. His large-scale portraits of rural Africans are remarkably contemporary in feel. Bold, strong, and graphic, his photographs connect emotionally in ways that set his work apart from other explorer/photographers of that era.
Marquand Books produced Hector Acebes: Portraits in Africa, 1948–1953, a 144-page monograph with more than 90 duotone portraits, with text by Isolde Brielmaier and Ed Marquand. Copies will be available at the exhibition opening.
Born in Manhattan in 1921, Hector Acebes was educated in Spain and Columbia before returning to New York City for high school, where he began to study photography. Acebes refined his photographic skills throughout his time as a student at MIT, where he completed an engineering degree. Now 90, Acebes currently resides in Bogota, Colombia with two daughters.
Hector Acebes: Portraits in Africa, 1948–1953
Opening reception Thursday, September 1, 2011 from 5-7 p.m.
Open Fridays from 2 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment until October 1.
Marquand Books Studio | Paper Hammer is at 1400 Second Avenue in downtown Seattle.
Opening September 1 in the Japantown area of Seattle’s International District south of downtown is Dirk Park’s Prole Drift gallery. With an established arts pedigree as co-director of Miami’s Art Aqua Art Fair and co-founder of Pioneer Square’s Platform Gallery, Japantown’s bargain rental prices and undeveloped empty storefronts presented Park with the opportunity to begin a new space to showcase art.
The gallery’s name is a shortened version of the term “proletarian drift,” coined in the early 1980s by cultural historian Paul Fussell. The phrase refers to incidents in which upper-class cultural trends and styles become common with working- or middle-class individuals (small-batch whisky, designer jeans) and can be applied in the reverse (punk, Mockney).
In addition to strong local exhibitions at SAM (Beauty and Bounty: American Art in an Age of Exploration), Bellevue Arts Museum (Michael Cooper: A Sculptural Odyssey), and the Tacoma Art Museum (Dale Chihuly’s Northwest), a series of late summer festivals, openings, and art walks are scheduled for August and September, including this weekend’s 10x10x10xTieton opening. Here are some highlights from across Washington State:
This Saturday, August 13, from 12–5 p.m., Mighty Tieton presents the opening of the annual 10x10x10xTieton juried art exhibition at Mighty Tieton Warehouse on 608 Wisconsin Ave. Additionally, a reception for the 10x10x10xTieton exhibit is being held August 27 during Tieton’s Highland Community Days Celebration.
The gallery will be open Fridays through Sundays from 12–3 p.m. until October 2.
A group of five dilapidated houses in Seattle’s north Capitol Hill neighborhood are given a second life in the Mad Homes exhibit. Closing this Sunday, the homes are slated to be demolished and replaced with new development. With permission of their current owners, 13 local artists have re-imagined the interiors and exteriors of the spaces into a series of smart and whimsical installations.
Artists Troy Gua, Julia Haack, Meg Hartwig, Luke Haynes, Amanda Manitach, Ryan Molenkamp, Allan Packer, and Jason Puccinelli in collaboration with Elizabeth Potter, Sutton Beres Culler, Laura Ward, and Allyce Wood were given a unique venue to work without any restraints that might be encountered in traditional gallery environments.
Located on Bellevue Avenue East in north Capitol Hill, one house is encased in plastic wrap and another’s interior/exterior is wrapped and wound with 4,000 yards of red polypropylene straps. A third house has a living room filled with variants of Venus.
The Mad Homes project was conceived by MadArt, a nonprofit creating site-specific installations around Seattle. MadArt’s mission is to foster community involvement with public and local artists, and to “discover art in unexpected ways.” The third year since its initial installation, MadArt launched the “Window Art Project” in Madison Park (2009) and “MadArt in the Park” in Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park (2010). The project is the brainchild of gallerist and University of Washington School of Art board member Alison Milliman. Milliman developed the concept while living in Australia in 2006, where she was inspired after finding art inventively displayed in local store windows around Melbourne.
Mad Homes is located on 711 Bellevue Avenue East in Seattle. Open to the public through Sunday, August 7, panoramic views of the homes are posted here.
REI Flagship Store, South Lake Union—Join Seattle Art Musuem’s Patricia Junker (the Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art at SAM) for a chat tomorrow night about the exhibition Beauty and Bounty: American Art in an Age of Exploration. Marquand Books produced the exhibition catalogue, which explores Sanford Gifford, Carleton Watkins, and Albert Bierstadt’s landscape paintings and photography from the 19th and early 20th century.
Free registration is available on the REI website.
Have you been hoping to visit Tieton, the Central Washington town that’s home to Paper Hammer Studios and Marquand Editions? Consider a road trip this weekend. It’s cherry season in the Yakima Valley and, fruit, flowers, and local bounty will be available at the town’s Farmer’s Mercado this Saturday, July 23 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in Tieton Park.
Also this weekend in Tieton, visit the Journey Stories exhibition at the Dilley Building on the corner of Maple and Wisconsin Streets, across from Tieton Park. Produced by the Smithsonian Institution, the traveling exhibition observes how individuals and families have moved to where they end up. Through August 28, 2011.
Planning a future Tieton excursion? Summer 2011 Mercados are scheduled for August 6, 20 and 27; September 3 and 17, and October 1. Additionally, LiTFUSE: A Poets’ Workshop will be held September 9 through 11. Click here for registration details.
This Wednesday, July 13 at 7 p.m., the venerable Elliott Bay Book Co. in Capitol Hill will host a talk with author Grant Hildebrand and George Suyama. The two will discuss the new release Suyama: A Complex Serenity, produced by Marquand Books and distributed by the University of Washington Press.
Marquand Books Studio is proud to host a First Thursday reception for Vashon Island-based artist Miranda Newbauer Hudson. Opening July 7, the exhibition will be the first public showing of Hudson’s hand-crafted sculpture and vibrant acrylics.
About Miranda:
I grew up in Brooklyn, NY, people-watching throughout the five boroughs. My fellow students from Brooklyn Technical High School and my family opened my eyes to the world. I roamed Providence, RI at Rhode Island School of Design. I have created things my whole life, concentrating more continuously the past few years on painting and sculpture. I live on Vashon Island with the fantastic four: my husband and three children, who are constant sources of inspiration.
I work in acrylic and ink—thickly layered on plywood—and baling wire, shaped and bent by hand. Sculptures range from two inches to ten feet tall.
With paint and ink, I scrape and pour and see what happens. With wire, I make elaborate plans, sometimes involving hundreds of tiny pieces that require tedious, repetitious work. My pieces usually turn out differently than how I originally intended, but that is when the magic happens.
Opens Thursday, July 7 from 5-7 p.m. Open Fridays from 2-6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11-6 p.m. through August 27 at Marquand Books Studio | Paper Hammer. 1400 Second Ave. at Union in downtown Seattle.
The subject of Peter Esmonde’s filmTrimpin: The Sound of Invention, Trimpin is a Seattle sound artist, kinetic sculptor, musician, and composer whose work has been profiled, and exhibited around the world. Nonetheless, access to his work is limited. Notable local installations of Trimpin’s work include EMP’s towering cyclone of guitars and a contraption along a moving sidewalk at Sea-Tac Airport. The Seattle Timesrecently featured a profile on the artist and book.
The highly anticipated exhibition Pissarro’s People opened last Sunday at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.
Marquand Books produced the exhibition catalogue, designed by Jeff Wincapaw and distributed by Prestel Publishing. Curated by scholar Richard Brettell, Pissarro’s People includes about 50 works on paper and 40 oil paintings by the impressionist master.
Runs through Oct. 2. Special lectures and programs are scheduled throughout the summer and fall. For more info click here.
Marquand Books Studio is pleased to host a reception in conjunction with the 2011 Society of North American Goldsmith’s conference. Sondra Sherman: Found Subjects is a series of jewelry pieces inspired by books. Each piece responds to metaphorically resonant and aesthetically substantive aspects of selected book titles or bindings. The books have subsequently been altered to create a presentation box for the piece when not being worn. Each piece is presented in an altered book on lectern type tables created especially for the works.
Sherman is Head of Jewelry and Metalwork at San Diego State University, CA. She has been the recipient of various awards including a Tiffany Foundation Emerging Artists Award, two RI Council on the Arts Individual Artists Fellowships, PA Council on the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship, NEA Regional Artists Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship for study abroad. Sherman received the Diplom Degree from the Academy of Fine Art, Munich, Germany.
Opening reception Thursday, May 26 from 5-7 p.m. Also open for June’s First Thursday, June 2 from 5-7 p.m., Fridays from 2-6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11-6 p.m. Through July 2.
Marsha Burns’s art in the late 1970s epitomized a sublime elegance, quietude, and craftsmanship that could only exist within the magic of perfectly composed and printed photographic images. In the 1980s, Marsha was regularly invited by the Polaroid Collection to shoot with their room-sized camera that produced unique 20” x 24” prints. She invited street kids, punks, friends, and strangers to sit for portraits that are as striking and haunting today as they were thirty years ago.
In the 1990s and 2000s she and her husband Michael Burns traveled extensively and shot more street portraits and fragments, segments, and details that captured the unexpected richness of textures and reflections. Always surprising, elegant and evocative, her work has never stopped, as any of those who are lucky enough to receive her frequent single image e-mail blasts can attest.
Burns’s photographs are in many museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Seattle Art Museum; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
Opening event at Marquand Books Studio | Paper Hammer
First Thursday, May 5
1400 Second Ave. at Union
5-7 p.m.
On view Fridays from 2-6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11-6 p.m. through July 2. Also by appointment.
We’re gathering handmade journals, albums, ephemera, vintage home and other goodies for the Remodelista Seattle Market this Saturday. Paper Hammer is thrilled to join artisan vendors like Ladies & Gentlemen, Mato Creative and glassybaby at Henrybuilt in Georgetown for the first-ever Seattle event. Hope to see you then.
Date & Time: April 30, 11 am to 4 pm. Location: Henrybuilt in Georgetown, 4634 Ohio Avenue South, Seattle, 98134
Sound artist Trimpin continues his Stanford residency this week, appearing in conversation with electronic composer Paul DeMarinis. Trimpin: Coincidence, Music, Memory and Meaning is presented in conjunction with the Stanford Lively Arts festival. Copies of the Marquand-produced book, Trimpin: Contraptions for Art and Sound, designed by John Hubbard, will be available. Click here for more info.
The Dallas Art Fair invited Ed Marquand to join other artists and galleries in creating a window for the Dallas Neiman Marcus. Ed is in town for the fair, leading a talk Sunday, April 10 with University of Texas Press editor Allison Faust called, “How Do Books Make Art ‘Art’?” Ed talks about the window and how “books make art” in a video interview streaming on the Art This Week podcast, available here.
Art Chantry will be on hand for the April 7 opening featuring his bright, bold series of work both on display and for sale.
Also featured will be posters done by students and professionals promoting his many lectures and events over the years. Many of these posters echo Chantry’s own work.
Thursday, April 7 Paper Hammer | Marquand Books Studio 5-8 p.m. 1400 Second Avenue at Union
Born in Seattle, Art Chantry is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he made for bands from the Pacific Northwest such as Nirvana, Hole, and The Sonics. He is also notable for his well-known work in logo design.
Chantry advocates a low-tech approach to design that is informed by the history of the field. His work has been exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Louvre. (Wikipedia)
Scores, sketches, and small work from sound artist, kinetic sculptor, musician, and composer Trimpin will be featured at Marquand Books Studio/Paper Hammer from 5-8 p.m. during February’s First Thursday Art Walk.
Marquand Books is celebrating sending the files for the book, Trimpin: Contraptions for Art and Sound, to the printer. A limited-edition slipcase for the book, titled “BookBeatBox,” will be featured and available for purchase, with proceeds supporting the book’s publication. The artist will be in attendance.
Trimpin has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and has been the subject of a full-length documentary film and a profile in The New Yorker magazine. He has been included in hundreds of shows, performances, and new music festivals.
Marquand Books Studio/Paper Hammer Thursday, February 3 from 5-8 p.m. 1400 Second Avenue (at Union) in downtown Seattle
Marquand Books Studio recently installed an exhibit featuring select titles from the past many decades of publishing by the University of Washington Press. The First Thursday event was a good example of how books can easily transition to center stage in an appropriate gallery space. Thanks to Jeremy Linden and Ashley Saleeba for the following photos:
Tribute to University of Washington Press is open to the public Saturdays in January from 11-5 p.m. at Marquand Books Studio/Paper Hammer. 1400 Second Ave. at Union in downtown Seattle.
The University of Washington Press is more than 90 years old and has published and distributed thousands of titles, many that have made significant contributions to our culture. The Press’s importance nationally and regionally is well known in the publishing and book selling world—particularly in the fields of Native American history, art and culture; Northwest and American art; African American art and history; Asian studies; architecture; and regional history and issues.
Marquand Books Studio is proud to honor the Press by exhibiting a selection of some of UWP’s most important and beautiful titles from its many decades of fine publishing. Please join us during the First Thursday Art Walk January 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. for this important tribute.
Marquand Books Studio/Paper Hammer is located at 1400 Second Avenue in downtown Seattle.
Randy Hayes’s exhibit will be open this Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marquand Books Studio space, adjoining Paper Hammer. Selections from Kyoto Views will then be open at the Mississippi Museum of Art from February 19 through July 17:
Mississippi-native Randy Hayes’ recent interest in Japan actually began on the Mississippi Gulf Coast after finding a Japanese style house heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina. At the time he was working on a series that compared the area with ruins in other parts of the world. The diptych Pass Christian/Kyoto from the Ruins series was the impetus for Kyoto Views. This body of work is based on the artist’s photographs of Kyoto. Hayes incorporates an array of imagery from East and West, often borrowing from traditional Japanese printmaking aesthetics, and elegantly combining layers of images in oil on photographs.
Marquand Books Studio is located at 1400 Second Ave. at Union in downtown Seattle.
Please join us for the opening of Paper Hammer, our new shop featuring modern journals, paper goods, hand-crafted furniture, fine art books, and vintage objects. The Marquand Books studio and art space will be open alongside Paper Hammer.
We’ll have grab bags with handmade surprises for the first fifty people through the door. Mighty Tieton Events will hold a raffle to win a weekend in Tieton.
Thursday, December 2, at 5 p.m. 1400 2nd Avenue at Union.
Once again, Printed Matter did a formidable job in presenting this year’s NY Art Book Fair last weekend at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. For the fifth year in a row, it was free and open to the public, with more than 16,000 people in attendance. About 200 international booksellers, rare book dealers, artists, and publishers from 20 countries offered up their wares. This is truly the best art book fair there is, with an overwhelming amount of participants and programming: project rooms, readings, workshops, screenings, performances, and panels throughout the entire weekend.
If you’ve not yet been to the NY Art Book Fair, plan on it for next year!
December’s First Thursday is opening night at Paper Hammer, a shop featuring modern journals and paper goods, hand-picked housewares, and select vintage objects, all perfect for holiday gifts. The venerable Randy Hayes is hanging a new series inspired by Kyoto; Tieton Farm and Creamery is bringing fresh, artisan goat cheese; and Tieton Cider Works is providing libations. We will also be showing off the furniture design and construction work of Kerry Quint from Mighty Tieton Construction. We’ll have grab bags with handmade surprises for the first fifty people through the door.
In addition to the exhibition exchange between Seattle’s Gallery 110 and Portland’s Gallery 114 and Timothy Sicilianoo’s Dongguan Highways Hot Pink at Catherine Person Gallery, iocolor is hosting an open house during tomorrow’s First Thursday.
It’s the perfect change to check out our sister company’s new digs in Pioneer Square. All those exposed bricks and high ceilings make one gorgeous space, be sure to stop in tomorrow evening.
5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, October 7th. Libations and eats at 6
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Cal Anderson Park sits a stone’s throw from the new Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. The heart of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, the park is always bustling in the summer with kids playing in the fountain and people reading, napping and walking dogs. It’s the perfect venue for the freshly installed MadArt In the Park exhibit. Sponsored by the Seattle Parks Department and 4Culture, Cal Anderson is hosting six local visual artists commissioned to create site specific installations:
Victoria Adams has earned critical acclaim and developed a passionate following for her beautiful, Northwest-inspired landscape paintings. Celebrate the recent opening of her one-person exhibition on July 15 at 5:30 pm at the Tacoma Art Museum. Events for the evening include a lecture, gallery walk, and signing of the Marquand-produced book by the artist.
There are a lot of good reasons to submit art to 10 x 10 x 10 x Tieton, Mighty Tieton’s inaugural juried exhibition, before the July 5 deadline. The theme? Small is big. Which is a lot like Tieton, a little town over the Cascades in Washington State that’s home to our letterpress studio and a plethora of other compelling projects and artists.
Ed Marquand, Gail Gibson of Gail Gibson Gallery and Greg Kucera of Greg Kucera Gallery form the jury. All entries will be featured in a color catalogue of the exhibit. For an application and full details, download a PDF of the prospectus here.
Bringing together editors, designers, curators, publishers, and printers, the biennial The National Museum Publishing Seminar is a rare chance for everyone from our small professional world to be in (almost) one room together. It’s always both fun and engaging.
D.A.P. Executive Director Sharon Gallagher and Ed Marquand made a splash at The Standard Hotel in NYC on May 26 during a BookExpo America party. Sharon is wearing an “artist’s book skúta” in honor of a new exhibition in New York State featuring a project by Skúta Helgason:
This Friday night’s SAM Remix at Seattle Art Museum promises to be especially action-packed. A few highlights:
-Artist talk and book signing with Roy McMakin (9 pm) -Rare screenings of Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes, shown on MTV in the 1980s (9 pm and 11 pm) -Fascinating tours with members of Seattle’s arts and music communities, Seth Aaron Henderson of Project Runway, and more (every 15 minutes from 8:30 to 11 pm) -Musician Sean Nelson performing live in the galleries -SAMtrax playlist curated by Kevin Cole of KEXP -Factory T-shirt silkscreening
It’s rumored the event will sell out, so if you’re in the Seattle-area be sure to buy tickets on-line here. The entire museum, including the exhibitions, love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death — Andy Warhol Media Works and Kurt, will be open from 8 p.m.-12 a.m June 4. The first 100 people wearing wigs get in free!
Richard Hugo House, the Seattle-based non-profit center for writing, will host panels and workshops on the changing landscape of publishing this weekend. The conference, called “Finding Your Readers in the 21st Century,” is an opportunity for writers to examine how the Web, blogs, and social media can assist in the publishing process.
Presenters include PEN/West Fiction Award winner Stacey Levine, veteran editor Alan Rinzler, and Third Place Books buyer Vladimir Verano. A small press fair is planned, including publishers and literary magazines like Tin House and Counterpoint/Soft Skull.
A full schedule and registration information are available at Hugo House’s Web site.
Co-Presented by the School of Visual Concepts, the documentary Typeface shows in Seattle this evening at Northwest Film Forum at 7 and 9 p.m. Jim Moran, director of The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, will introduce the film.
Seattle’s venerable Elliott Bay Book Company officially opened shop in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood Wednesday. The store, which moved from its beloved Pioneer Square location after 37 years due to financial woes, is reinventing itself in one of Seattle’s most vibrant neighborhoods.
In major cities worldwide during the pre-burst bubble, many independent, street-level retail businesses were priced out of the cool neighborhoods they helped establish. Corporate conglomerates selling luxury goods drove commercial rent into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Many of these shops are simply environmental installations-as-advertising. While Nike, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Gucci, and others of their ilk still drive many rental markets, it’s shifted a bit here in NYC, where desirable shopping districts such as Soho and Nolita are full of empty storefronts.
Recently in New York City, a record 483 galleries and artist projects participated in 11 concurrent art fairs—the Armory show being the biggest. Dealers at this fair reported increased sales from last year and were confident the art market had rebounded.
However, the talk of the week was the “Independent,” a brand new art fair co-founded by New York gallerist Elizabeth Dee and the London-based Darren Flook held at the former Dia Center for the Arts building in Chelsea.
Billed as “... part consortium, part collective”, it gathered about 40 international galleries, nonprofit spaces and publications together under one roof. Each exhibitor had an unbound area to show its works, rather than the standard walk-in cubicle trade-show style architecture of most art fairs.
