The celebrated exhibition, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints closes July 4 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. If you’re in the Seattle-area and haven’t been to the show, which includes Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, now is the time.
Marquand produced the exhibition catalogue, featuring prints from renowned ukiyo-e artists of the 18th and 19th centuries.
“New Year/Fresh Eyes,” opens at Artxchange Gallery. Nine artists from around the world are featured, and the selected works encompass a range of media.
Gallery 4 Culture opens the new year with “White Lines (don’t do it),” a solo show of photographic works by Jesse DeLira. This series of black-and-white photographs “documents sweeping, graceful lines of chalk glyphs laid onto soulful urban surfaces.”
Suspended abstract works on paper and in ceramic by Nicholas Nyland are feature at SOIL.
Sara Tabbert woodcuts are on display at Collum Gallery. This new work incorporates the beauty of natural forms of wood, water, ice, and stone into a series based on a trip along the Great Northern Railway.
On June 18 and 19, Jeremy, Brynn, Jeff, John and Zach from the Seattle office attended a hands-on workshop at the Tieton bindery and book arts studio. Learning four different stitches for binding and several techniques for making hard cases using various types of book cloth, each student assembled four or five practice books during the session.
Here are some photos by John Hubbard showing their progress. From left to right, top to bottom:
Continue reading: “Field Trip: Bookbinding Workshop in Tieton”
In my recent conversation with MFA Houston’s bookstore manager Bernard Bonnet, he mentioned that there is at least one bookstore per block in Paris. I thought he was exaggerating, but while I was in Paris last weekend I made a point of testing his claim on a morning walk from Place de la Concorde to Luxembourg Gardens.
In St. Germaine there are even more than that, and each shop has its own delightful and seductive window display. It reminds me of how much we lose when bookstores disappear: in service, in taste, and in imaginative connections that trigger that familiar desire to buy a good book, curl up in a chair by the window, or head for a café to lose yourself in the pages. Parisians are rich in many ways. –EM
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