Bookbinding Now is a New York-based community podcast posted every other Wednesday. Bookbinding Now is hosted by Susan Mills in conjunction with Full Tilt.

99.  Mark Cockram is a designer bookbinder based in London;

Abby Schoolman guest hosts.

Direct download: Mark_Cockram.mp3
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98.  Robbin Ami Silverberg is an artist and founding director of Dobbin Mill, a hand-papermaking studio, and Dobbin Books, a collaborative artist book studio located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Guest host is Elizabeth Whalley.

Direct download: Robbin_Ami_Silverberg.mp3
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The Mills College book art department is currently under review. Mirabelle Jones and Kate Robinson are graduates of Mills' MFA in Book Art and Creative Writing program and are encouraging people in this brief appeal to join with them in support of book art at Mills.

 

Direct download: SaveMillsBookArt.mp3
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97.  Daniel E Kelm operates The Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton MA where he designs and produces artist's books, interpretive fine bindings and book sculptures.

Direct download: Daniel_Kelm.mp3
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96.  Joan K. Davidson founded Furthermore a philanthropic program that supports the publication of printed and illustrated books. Since its inception Furthermore has assisted more than 1000 publishing projects with grants that total almost $5 million.

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95.  The Pine Tree Scholars program introduces Columbia and Barnard students to the crafts associated with fine book production, such as typography, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking, as well as to the rare and art book trades.  The program is run by Teresa Harris, Curator of Avery Classics at Columbia's Avery Art & Architecture Library; Karla Nielsen, Curator of Literature in Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library; and Shannon O'Neill, Associate Director of Archives & Special Collections at Barnard College.

Direct download: Karla_Nielsen.mp3
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94.  Heléne van Aswegen is an art and book specialist in the Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University, in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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93c.Repositioning the Archive

 

This three-part series investigates how the archive is repositioning, both as archival collection and as artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and is presented here in conjunction with their Summer Appeal.

 

Panel 3: “Artists Activating the Archive”

This panel examines the ways in which creative writers, visual artists, and performers are using archives as a catalyst in their own work and re-contextualizing archives as artwork. This panel focuses on the evolving collaboration between archival professionals and artists and how this new work is changing archives and art. Moderator: Marvin J. Taylor, New York University, Director & Curator, Fales Library

 

The panelists - D. Graham Burnett, Performance artist and writer, New York

Donald Daedalus, Visual artist, New York and past Center for Book Arts Scholar

Emilio Chapela Perez, Visual Artist, Mexico City

Lytle Shaw, Poet and Professor of English, New York University

Matt Wolf, independent filmmaker, New York.

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93b.Repositioning the Archive

 

This three-part series investigates how the archive is repositioning, both as archival collection and as artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and is presented here in conjunction with their Summer Appeal.

 

Panel 2: “Innovative Practices of Presenting Archives to the Public”

This panel considers the ways in which archivists and curators are changing their presentation of archives as material culture to respond to new content and new users, including artists and the general public.  Moderator: Marvin J. Taylor, New York University, Director & Curator, Fales Library

 

The panelists - Andrew Blackley, Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, Archivist, and Artist

Ben Vershbow, New York Public Library, Director, NYPL Labs

Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc, Founding Director.

Direct download: Repositioning_the_Archive2.mp3
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93a.Repositioning the Archive

 

This three-part series investigates how the archive is repositioning, both as archival collection and as artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and is presented here in conjunction with their Summer Appeal.

 

Panel 1: “Understanding Archives and Recent Shifts”

This panel takes a historical and theoretical approach to discussing the history, theory and practice of archives as well as the way in which most people understand archives as material culture in relation to a lived history. Moderator: Marvin J. Taylor, New York University, Director & Curator, Fales Library

 

The panelists - Jonathan Berger, 80WSE Gallery, Director and Artist

Ann E. Butler, Bard College, Library & Archives, Center for Curatorial Studies, Director

Glenn E. Wharton, New York University, Clinical Associate Professor of Museum Studies.

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92.  Christopher Davenport of Pocket Knife Press records stories of ecology, place, and people through hand pulled paper and the artist book.

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91.  The Chinese Photobook is a publication (Aperture 2015)  and a traveling exhibition  curated by Martin Parr and WassinkLundgren. Ruben Lundgren of WassinkLundgren comments.

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90.  Claire Van Vliet of the Janus Press delivers a Spring 2015 Visual Art Lecture at Bennington College in Vermont.

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89.  Don Rash is a longtime hand bookbinder, calligrapher and letterpress printer.  He founded and is instructor of the School of Formal Bookbinding in Northeast Pennsylvania.

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88.  Bywater Bros. Editions has been publishing contemporary limited and unlimited edition artist books since 2000. Based outside of Toronto, Bywater Bros. works in collaboration with established and emerging artists to create original artworks for all levels of the collecting community.

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87.  Joe Whitlock Blundell is design and production director of The Folio Society, based in London. Elizabeth Howard guest-hosts.

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