Given the importance and influence of the paper industry in Wisconsin, this exhibition will celebrate the creative potential of the paper medium through a presentation of the diversity of book arts in the state. In observance of the Wisconsin Sesquicentennial, it will explore the historical roots of the private press movement and emphasis the aesthetic value of papermaking and its importance to bookmaking.
Caren Heft, Associate Curator,
Bookmaking Workshop
Taught by exhibiting artist Tracy Dietzel,
Lecture
Max Yela, Special Collection Librarian,
"The Art of the Book"
Friday, September 25, 1998
6:00 in Worcester Auditorium
Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts,
artist
and founder of Arcadian Press, Racine.
Saturday, October 3, 1998
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University
participants will learn about
and
make
basic non-adhesive structures, including pamphlets, accordion,
and
concertina fold books. The workshop
is free and open to the first 25
people
who sign up.
To register, please call 920-832-6621.
"Farewell the Book? The Book Tradition
in a Computer Age"
Wednesday, October 14, 1998
7:00 p.m. in Worcester Auditorium
Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University
Gold Meir Library, University of
Milwaukee-Wisconsin