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Shelf Life, the Henry’s look at books and independent publishing, closes this Sunday! But before then we’ve got a few more events to take us out on a high note. In partnership with the University of Washington School of Art – Design Division, we welcome New Zealand graphic designer Layla Tweedie-Cullen, who will give a [...]
We’re in the final stretch for Shelf Life. This exhibition and series of programs has been an exhilarating opportunity to work with people who work with books in myriad ways, opening and expanding the definitions of publishing and publications. The Shelf Life roster has included publishers, poets, writers, curators, and artists who have all outlined [...]
Since September 7th Shelf Life has welcomed the trickling-in of the exhibition Poste Restante, curated by Eric Fredericksen, director of Western Bridge. The objects of Poste Restante are large and small, oblong and round; a few are completely flat and one is shaped suspiciously like a sculpture. They lie in their original mailing packaging [...]
Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises opens this Saturday, September 24th. For more information and to see related tours and events (including a symposium!), click here.
Sandra Kroupa, legendary Book Arts and Rare Book Curator for UW Libraries’ Special Collections, joins us for the third installment of “Book Arts: Performance Exhibition” this Sunday, September 18, from 2-3 pm. The third and final rotation of artists’ books, drawn from the Book Arts Collection at UW Special Collections, is now on display inside [...]
At the last meeting of the Gentle Reader — Shelf Life‘s reading and discussion group — just talking about books got me so fired up that after we ended I promptly went up the street to Magus and picked up the first book that caught my eye (Steven Johnson’s Ghost Map, which I highly recommend). [...]
Since July 31, Wave Books has been hosting bookmaking tutorials and readings every Sunday in Shelf Life. These combination workshops/readings with different guest poets and translators are modeled after Cuban cigar factories, in which the workers are read to, out loud, while they work with their hands. The books that visitors are helping to make [...]
At Free First Thursday this week the poet and translator Alejandro de Acosta read from Gertrude Stein’s The Geographical History of America or The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind. Meanwhile, members of Wave Books checked the sewn bindings on the books they’ve been making for their upcoming Poetry Festival in November. I [...]
As July rolls into August, Shelf Life welcomes a new publisher-in-residence and new works of book art. Wave Books launches their monthlong residency at the Henry on Sunday, July 31st, with a book making tutorial (on single signature sewn bindings) and reading by Joshua Beckman, a poet and editor at Wave. These combination workshops/readings with [...]
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