123. Susan Joy Share has worked with book art for 40 years, first in Brooklyn and then, since 1997, in Anchorage, Alaska. Guest host is Paula Beardell Krieg. Susan's 2013 video is here.

122.  Nicholas Yeager is a rare books librarian, historian of the book, scribe, motorcyclist, inventor of Zorbix and the travel researcher 'Motoscribendi'.

121.  Oakland-based Keri Schroeder publishes  the new podcast series Books in the Wild- exploring books in their natural habitat.

120.  San Francisco Bay Area bookbinder John DeMerritt has been binding books professionally since 1986. He specializes in small editions and boxmaking.

119f.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.

Reflections on Diamond Leaves: Artists' Books in China Now

Marshall Weber is an artist and curator.  In 2012, he co-curated the first "Diamond Leaves Triennial" exhibition at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing with Chinese artist Xu Bing.

119e.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.

My Mighty Journey

Gaylord Schanilek established his press, Midnight Paper Sales, in 1980.

119d.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.

Netting the Small Fry

Sue Anderson and Gwen Harrison have worked collaboratively to create limited edition artists’ books for over ten years. Although many of their books focus on Australian historic sites and their stories, with a particular interest in institutionalization of certain groups of people, the works often reflect dramas that are universal.

119c.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.

Codex 2017 Symposium - Keynote Speaker

Lu Jingren has designed more than one thousand books, and is considered one of China's most influential book designers and illustrators. Lu Jingren's finest and most inventive works provide a modern response to the centuries-long traditions of both Chinese and Japanese book making.  Live translator - Yishu Wang

119b.   The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.

Lines of Force: the Hand, the Book & the Body Electric

Dr. Betty Bright is a writer, curator and historian who helped to start Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) in 1985 and  authored No Longer  Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 (Granary Press, 2005).

119a.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.

Between Drawing & Printing

Johannes Strugalla lives and works in Mainz and Paris. A visual artist and a poet, he is a co-founder of despalles éditions with his wife Françoise Despalles.

118.  Patrick Kiley and Ben DuVall collaborate at Publication Studio in Troy, New York.

117.  The Book, the Woman and the Body Politic - an artist talk and panel with Tatana Kellner and Juliana Cerqueira Leite, moderated by Corina Reynolds of Small Editions.  This event was part of the NY Art Book Fair 2016, at MoMA PS1.

116.  Yishu Wang is one of 11 Chinese contemporary book artists exhibiting at the 2017 CODEX Book Fair and Symposium.

115.  The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to "establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts."  Current president Bexx Caswell speaks about sustaining the guild today.