[Preservenw] [Fwd: Three Book Artists to Discuss Their Work at PSU Lecture on May 10th--(address correction)]

[Kristen Kern]

For those interested, please see corrected location.

Thanks,
Kris

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Subject: 	Three Book Artists to Discuss Their Work at PSU Lecture on May 
10th--(address correction)
Date: 	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:53:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	Daniel Webb <dlwebb02 at yahoo.com>
To: 	Kristen Kern <kernk at pdx.edu>



Three Book Artists to Present Their Work at PSU Lecture
 
May 10th, 5pm
Room #260
724 SW Harrison
Neuberger Hall
Portland State University
 
This event is free and open to the public
 
Book artists Sue Allen, Susan Collard, and Shu-Ju Wang will be talking 
about their work at a lecture on May 10th at 5 pm, at Portland State 
University's Neuberger Hall. The lecture is in conjunction with the 
Guild of Bookworkers 100th Annual Book Arts Exhibition, which is being 
shown at the Portland State University Library from April 9th to May 
20th, 2007. The exhibit features work by these three artists, as well as 
59 other members of the Guild.
 
Susan Collard is an architect and book artist in Portland, Oregon who 
makes one-of-a-kind collaged and constructed books. She has exhibited 
work in numerous shows, most recently N x NW : 6 x 6 x 6 at the 2005 
Standards of Excellence conference, and The Boys? and Girls? Bookshelf, 
a Denver exhibition of altered books. Her book "Life Stories of Dying 
Penitents" received both The People?s Choice Award and First Prize for 
Use of Found Objects at the Northwest Bookfest in Seattle, 2001. She 
holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of 
Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Arizona.
 
Sue Allen has been a printmaker for over thirty years, producing a line 
of hand-pulled cards and original limited edition screenprints. She 
earned a degree in architecture from The Cooper Union in New York City. 
After years of printmaking, she decided to explore three-dimensional 
work in the book arts, with the original intention of producing special 
limited-edition portfolios for suites of prints. All along the way there 
has been a strong influence from the Japanese aesthetic. Recently she 
completed a suite of sixteen screenprints depicting lanterns in the 
Portland Japanese Garden.
 
Born and raised in Taiwan, Shu-Ju Wang settled in Oregon after stays in 
Saudi Arabia, California, and New Jersey. Trained as an engineer, she 
started taking classes at Oregon College of Art & Craft (then Oregon 
School of Arts & Crafts), and had her first solo exhibit at the school?s 
Centrum Gallery in 1996. In 2000, she left the high tech industry to 
become a full time studio artist working in painting, printmaking, and 
artist?s books. With one foot firmly rooted in the Pacific Northwest and 
the other in the artistic traditions of East & Central Asia and the 
Middle East, Shu-Ju paints a portrait of her sometimes wonderful, 
sometimes unsettling, first generation American life.
 
The 100th anniversary exhibit of the Guild of Bookworkers is being shown 
in the new book area on the 1st floor of the Portland State University 
Library.
 
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." Its members hope to broaden public awareness of the 
hand book arts, to stimulate commissions of fine bindings, and to stress 
the need for sound book conservation and restoration.
 
This talk is made possible by support from the Portland State University 
Department of Art.
 
For more information on the talk, please contact Dan Webb at 503 253 
3491 or dlwebb02 at yahoo.com <mailto:dlwebb02 at yahoo.com>

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