SADDLEBACK COLLEGE

GC 289: SPECIAL TOPICS - LETTERPRESS
Thursday Nights, 5-9:50pm, Open to all ages
January 15 - May 21, 2009
Catalog Description: Learn the traditional art of letterpress printing. Today many designers are returning to the craft of letterpress– printing from metal and wooden type and photopolymer plates–as a unique option to offset printing. Letterpress offers a tactile quality and nostalgic feel that can’t be achieved with any other technique.

The Saddleback letterpress studio specializes in large wood type with three sign presses. Instruction will be based primarily on wood type printing and hand-inking with additional emphasis on typography, design and an introduction to book forms.

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CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
Chapman University students, sign up for the Introduction to the Book Arts Class, January 5-31, 2009:

ART 329 Introduction to Book Arts 01 3.0 M W F 10:00-04:00P LLB12

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IRVINE FINE ARTS CENTER (IFAC)
14321 Yale Ave Irvine, CA 92604 (949) 724-6880
www.cityofirvine.org/depts/cs/finearts/

ANNOUNCING THE DEBUT OF THE IRVINE FINE ARTS CENTER LETTERPRESS STUDIO!
Experienced letterpress teachers wanted to teach using my Vandercook 4. Email me if interested.

Introduction to Letterpress Printmaking
Learn the fundamentals of letterpress at the Irvine Fine Arts Center on a Vandercook Proof Press. Combine word and image to design and print your own book plate. Learn typesetting and relief printing from lindenin. After four class sessions, take home your own original edition print. Supply list will be available at the first class meeting. Inst: Colin Browne. IFAC Member $91. Ages 18+.

Decorative Paper Making
If you do not see the graphic displayed on this page, it means that your machine does not have Macromedia Flash plug-in installed. Please click on this link to continue the process. Immerse yourself in a Paper-sampler evening! You will participate in three surface techniques for paper: Paste Papers, Suminigashi (Japanese marbling), Orizomegami (Japanese dip-dying) and walk away with a beautiful batch of decorative papers for you to use. $10 material fee due to instructor at first meeting. Inst: Rachelle Chuang. IFAC Member $41. Ages 18+.

Pop-ups and Introductory Paper Engineering
Spend an evening making paper come to life through three-dimensional pop-up techniques and beginning paper engineering. Make your own set of Pop-up crads or a Pop-up Accordion book in this creative class. $10 supply fee payable to instructor at first class meeting. Inst: Rachelle Chuang. IFAC Menber $41. Ages 18+.

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PAPER SOURCE SOUTH COAST PLAZA

Read Candice Shin’s blog about the class by clicking here:
Photo of Rachelle Chuang helping Rabecka McKee, of Vista, with her book cover by Candice Shih, The Register

Fast & Fun Folded Books - Learn several basic folded book techniques and complete a finished piece in this class.
Sunday, October 19, 2008, 9:30am-12pm

Concertina Photo Album
Sunday, November 23, 2008, 9:30am-12pm

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BOOK ARTS INSTITUTE AT THE INTERNATIONAL PRINTING MUSEUM,
CARSON, CA- 2008
Fall Classes are now being offered at the Book Arts Institute of the International Printing Museum. Coming up are Introduction to Book Arts, Letterpress Basics, Vandercook Maintenance, Platen Press Printing, Clamshell-boxes, Heidelberg Windmill printing, Coptic and exposed-spine stitches, plus more.

For full class descriptions, registration form or more information, go to printmuseum.org or email me at bookarts@printmuseum.org.

Class proposals for 2009 in letterpress, book arts, bookbinding, papermaking, calligraphy and other related arts are now being accepted. Email bookarts@printmuseum.org for more information.

Family Days Offered First Saturdays of the Month along with the Leather Apron Docent Guild

Family DICKENS Day
Saturday, December 6. Come anytime between 10-1
You are invited to our second annual Charles Dickens day complete with the author himself, period ambiance and an opportunity to print holiday greeting cards.

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Paperwork
November 10 - December 12, 2008
Walsh Gallery
Seton Hall University
400 S. Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ
This exhibition seeks to expand the notion of works on paper by providing a forum for the display of art that demonstrates a wide variety of techniques, materials and processes.

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Second National San Diego Book Arts Juried Show

September 20-October 31, 2008
University of California San Diego, Geisel Library
Opening Reception, Saturday, September 20, 2008 3:30-5:30 pm

Erika Torri, Executive Director of the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla, is the juror for the Second National San Diego Book Arts Juried Show. The Athenaeum hosts a juried book arts show every other year, and under Erika’s direction has built a world-class collection of artist’s books.

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Highly Favored: Contemporary Images of the Virgin Mary
A CIVA Traveling Exhibition
Carroll College, Corette Library, Helena, MT
August 30-October 10
Juried by Fr. Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J., Founding Director of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Book as Sculpture
La Sierra University, Riverside, CA
Curated by Jean Clad
January 12-February 9, 2009

Jan. 12 - Feb. 9. “Books as Sculpture,” a show by well-known artists depicting sculptural objects that function as books and as objects themselves. Exhibiting artists will include Carol Barton, Carol Chase Bjerke, Terry Braunstein, Rachelle Woo Chuang, Linda Ekstrom, Sam Erenberg, Paul Johnson, Susan Porteous, Sue Ann Robinson, Miriam Schaer, Genie Shenk, Todd Smith, Beth Thielen, Laura Stickney and Vilma Mendillo. Works by Shenk, Robinson and Bruanstein appear in collections around the world. Show curator is Jean Clad, award-winning Southern California curator and artist. Opening reception at the gallery will be Jan. 12, 6 - 8 p.m. A closing reception will be Feb. 9, 6-8 p.m., and will feature presentations by some of the artists.
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Earth & Sky/Sky & Earth has been published this summer in 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form by Lark Books.

Here the podcast from Juror Steve Miller.
From the Lark Books website:
“Steve Miller, head of the University of Alabama’s book arts program, is a master of the podcast. In this rich, reflective audio piece, Steve relates his own journey into the world of handset letterpress printing and making books by hand. He talks about what it was like to jury the thousands of entries received by Lark for 500 Handmade Books, which he calls “a feast for the eyes.” Steve describes the range of work that was seen, and spots some emerging influences in contemporary book making practice.”

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San Diego Book Arts Second National Juried Show Catalog

I had the privilege of working with SDBA President Gary Miller on the cover and design of the catalog, and I’m also in the show.

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Yay, I’ll be going to the Big Island for the first time for the Friends of Dard Hunter Annual Meeting, October 23-26, 2008. What could be better than papermaking in Hawaii?!!! I’ll be staying with some relatives on my WOO side.

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Letterpress Instructors Wanted at Irvine Fine Arts Center
The letterpress studio (at present mostly my equipment) at the Irvine Fine Arts Center is finally open. Classes begin in the fall and are already sold out. Additional letterpress instructors are wanted for 2009. Email me if interested.

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November 30-December 22, 2007
Maryland Federation of Art Small Wonders Exhibition

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ROCK Harbor Group Show!

Aloft Art Gallery
926 Santa Ana Blvd.
Santa Ana, CA 92701
(714) 209-7321
www.alfotart.com

Opening Reception: November 3, 2008 6-11 pm

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August 18-September 13, 2007
Opening August 28, 3007

Biola University Centennial Alumni Exhibitions: “The Transcendence of Abstraction”
University Art Gallery, La Mirada, CA

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June 8, 2007 – July 20, 2007

“The Edge of Excess” at the Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO

This exhibition is open to all artists whose work is characterized by the excessive use of repetition. The duplication of any visual factor including mark-making, shape, symbolism, iconography, etc. must be an integral part of the work. Artwork can be generated in any media including painting, drawing, photography, mixed-media, printmaking, sculpture, etc,
is acceptable.

Juror: Jenny K. Dowd received her MFA in ceramics and fibers at the University of Missouri in 2005.

April 28 - June 23, 2007

Rachelle is in the “Cultivate Beauty” art show and festival at the 930 Gallery, Louisville, KY.

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Highly Favored: Contemporary Images of the Virgin Mary
Christians in the Visual Arts is proud to offer Highly Favored: Contemporary Images of the Virgin Mary, a visual exploration of the mother of Jesus. Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions all have images of this young Jewish woman who was declared by the archangel Gabriel to be “highly favored” in God’s sight. Who exactly is Mary? How can we recover a larger sense of her meaning through the works of contemporary artists from the Christian traditions and the reflections of contemporary thinkers from these traditions?

36 pieces were chosen for Highly Favored by juror Fr. Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J., a Jesuit priest and the Founding Director of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Highly Favored: Contemporary Images of the Virgin Mary at the Marian Institute at the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH July 1-September 15, 2007

CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, THOUSAND OAKS, CA
Art Exhibit: “Highly Favored” - Contemporary Images of the Virgin Mary

March 6 - March 25, 2007
Location: Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture

Repetitive Gestures: Seeking Solace in the Process of Making

December 1, 2006 - January 17, 2007

An all-media, juried exhibit of work created using repeated processes or patterns. The rhythm of simple, repetitive gestures are used, often unconsciously, by many artists to escape the fast and furious world that we sometimes find ourselves consumed with. For some, this provides calm and order to an otherwise chaotic existence. The SSAC Visual Arts Committee is seeking work that emulates this kind of quest for solace. This show will be juried by New York artist Jane Moffitt, herself an artist who works in this obsessive style.

August 9 - September 2, 2006

Mud, Sand & Straw: a regional exhibition of ceramics, glass, fiber and wood.

“Devourer,” “Ocular Entity” and “Conversio Morum/Conversatio Morum” (which won first place) were juried into this exhibition. Juror: Binnie B. Fry

Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004

Conversio Morum

Conversatio Morum

August 11 - September 8, 2006
SAN DIEGO BOOK ARTS FIRST NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION
University of California San Diego, Geisel Library, Main Floor
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

“Forty Days & Forty Nights” and “Flexure” were juried into this exhibition. Juror: Lynda Corey Claassen, Director, Mandeville Special Collections Library

Forty Days & Forty Nights

Flexure

July 8 - August 5, 2006

WATER WORKS, an open regional juried exhibition art show, at the Maryland Federation for Art Circle Gallery in downtown Annapolis, Maryland.

“Undulation” 2006 [1st place]
Handmade Pigmented Cotton/Abaca Paper, Letterpress, Waxed Linen Thread
24″h x 72″w x 4″d

June 20 - August 5, 2006

NEW ART EXAMINED: WORKS BY 2006 M.F.A. GRADUATES IN THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION
For the second year, the Arlington Arts Center presents work by some of the most talented recent Master of Fine Arts graduates from institutions throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, West Virginia, and Virginia. Location: Arlington Arts Center, 3550 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22201

Febuary 8 - March 5, 2006

The 8th Annual All-Media Exhibition includes the artwork of 64 artists out of over 200 entrants from around the country. Their work was selected by juror Paula Amt, owner of Gallery Plan b in Washington, DC. Rachelle’s artwork titled “Traverse” will be on exhibit at the Touchstone Gallery, 406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor, Washington, DC 20004.

January 26 - March 1, 2006
Turning Pages, Part II
Whittier College, Whittier, CA

From this Whittier College News Release: … at Wardman Library will be “Turning Pages, Part II” –an exhibition of book arts highlighting both undergraduate and graduate work of several young artists from the renowned University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia–on display from January 26 through March 1, 2006. This series of works will include printmaking and book artistry that employs innovative construction executed in a variety media. On January 30, from 4 – 6 p.m., an opening reception and gallery talk will be given by “Turning Pages” curator and UArts graduate art student Rachelle W. Chuang.

January 3-29, 2006
Meraviglia: Innovations in the Book Arts
Williams Center for the Arts Gallery, Easton, PA

From this news release, Lafayette’s Yearlong Celebration of Books Continues with Exhibition Meraviglia: Innovations in the Book Arts in January:

“Rachelle Woo Chuang’s Earth Sky/Sky Earth demonstrates how a spine is designed for movement; pages fold, unfold, open, and close, reminding the viewer of the physical, interactive nature of books.”