Artist Statement I am particularly drawn to repurpose materials, in an effort to be more sustainable in my art practice, as well as to encourage others to find creative uses for scrap/excess materials. I enjoy creative re-use, and hope that…
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Kristi Galbraith – Jeanie
FOBA 2022 Faculty/Staff Exhibit Artist Statement I created this collage in honor of my mom, Jeanie. She encouraged me to pursue art at a young age, and to keep at it. It includes a few of the papers she created,…
Continue ReadingKristen Doty – The Present
Artist Statement The theme for FOBA’s last challenge project was “Where your heart resides”. This inspired the text I wrote and calligraphed in this book. The circles subtly repeated represent the world, travel, and the notion from the T.S. Eliot…
Continue ReadingKaren Kunc – LandEscape
Artist Statement This book began with drawings twisted (literally) in string that established a collaborative landscape realized over two years of conversation and trust. Helen Hiebert created watermarked illustrations in an artist-made cotton/abaca paper, and Karen Kunc responded by producing…
Continue ReadingKaren Hanmer – A Natural History
Artist Statement A Natural History of the most remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, Reptiles and Insects by Mrs. Mary Trimmer. Chiswick: C. and C. Whittingham, 1826. Volume 1 of 2. I’ve been binding antiquarian books in the various structures I…
Continue ReadingJessica Spring – Tensile
Artist Statement Tensile weaves together a 19th century poem of seduction by Percy Bysshe Shelley, with current research on bisphenol contamination in our environment and bodies, gathered by biologist Alyce DeMarais. Used to manufacture plastics and resins for food and…
Continue ReadingJamila Rufaro – Circle
Artist Statement Circle is as much about the geometric shape as it is about extending the life of paper—giving paper a new step in the circle of its life. Book pages, sheet music, maps, notebook paper, magazine, catalog and ledger…
Continue ReadingInsiya Dhatt – Seasons I: Summer
Artist Statement Seasons I – Summer is a flag book created to celebrate the abundance of flowers and nature that is alive around us. Materials & Technique The illustrations are hand-drawn, then imported into a computer drawing program, colored, and…
Continue ReadingHelen Shafer Garcia – Cactus Continuum
Artist Statement This book examines the growth cycle of an Opuntia Cactus from my garden. The leaves of the book are the end cycle of Opuntia pads that decayed on the plant. The book spine is a trunk section of…
Continue ReadingGenevieve Kaplan – Soft Book
Artist Statement Soft books, children’s books for pre-readers, offer comforting, tactile interactions. Soft Book, geared for adults, invites both a reading experience and a visual/tactile one. Raised cross stitches create each letter of single-syllable words to reveal insights about the…
Continue ReadingGabby Cooksey – Pangolin Pandemic
Artist Statement Pangolin Pandemic is about two stories scaled into one. The imagery shows the life of a pangolin while it is being poached; alive, curled up in defense, killed, hung up, and then descaled while also telling a story…
Continue ReadingFran McReynolds – Appreciating Bees
Artist Statement With the decline of native pollinators and honey bees over the past decade, I interpreted the importance and variety of native pollinators and how our small actions can help boost populations on a local level. The hive frame…
Continue ReadingElsi Vassdal Ellis – Emma
Artist Statement Emma is part of an on-going exploration for a series of books with some potential overlap of themes examining the lives of women illustrated, in part, using antique and vintage photographs from my vast collection. My collection begins…
Continue ReadingCasey Newman – Abundance
Artist Statement Casey Newman is a naturalist and artist who incorporates natural materials into her work, creating a unique way to connect with the beauty of nature. She prints leaves onto paper and fabric using only the natural pigments found…
Continue ReadingBonnie Thompson Norman – A Tribute to Bill Stewart
Artist Statement This is for Bill Stewart, thoughtful & terrific Tramp, who experienced the WOW! of artist’s books and never looked back. With his vibrant & vital VAMP, Vicky (best of partners), he shared that WOW! with many. Materials &…
Continue ReadingAndrew Huot – Remote with Wilson Allen
Artist Statement Collaboration with Wilson Allen. Remote looks at the shared experience of self-isolating and working remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic by journaling and mapping our everyday experiences. These daily activities create vignettes or scenes that show how common experiences…
Continue ReadingAlicia Bailey – Physica: Stones
Artist Statement Physica is a series of 9 artists’ book works, each focusing on one of the 9 sections in the Hildegard von Bingen’s Physica, as translated from Latin to English by by Priscilla Throop. Materials & Technique: Stones was…
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Shā Towers – Tabula Rasa (2021)
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This simple sewn pamphlet structure incorporates 140 lb. watercolor paper and Zanders Mill Elephant Hide paper. I created the hand lettering, mark making, and staining with a variety of calligraphic tools such…
Continue ReadingShā Towers – Seeds of Joy
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Materials include board covers, French Paper Company’s Dur-O-Tone paper for the body and spine and Zanders Mill Elephant Hide paper for the covers. The flags are hand-treated with walnut ink and watercolor…
Continue ReadingShā Towers – Extremists
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This artist’s book features a piano hinge construction using Arches 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper as the pages and pins and Zander Mills Elephant Hide paper as the concertina fold spine…
Continue ReadingSarah Morgan – Vote at Home
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Hedi Kyle’s book, Art of the Fold, provided the structure. I painted Tyvek for the cover. Leftover envelopes from mail-in ballots made up the folded pocket accordion. Colored pencil lettering and postage stamps…
Continue ReadingRhonda Luongo – The Realm
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Book board covered in tea-stained teabag paper, accentuated with gold and copper leaf, antique handwritten letter reproduced on archival cardstock stained with walnut and pigment inks, hand-colored collaged elements on archival paper,…
Continue ReadingPaul Johnson – Happiest in My Workroom
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This is a two-fold pop-up panorama inspired by Lothar Meggendorfer’s International Circus. Dovetail joints join all the individual units so the whole structure can be taken to pieces. It is made with…
Continue ReadingNaomi Velasquez – Patterns
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Materials: Found book, found maps, gesso, ink, acrylic paint, water based spray paint, adhesives, embroidery floss. Techniques and processes: Altered book, handmade stamps, embroidery, collage, spray painted stencils, typewritten printing. About the…
Continue ReadingMichele Vaughan – Casa Colibri – Where My Heart Resides
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: I used this challenge book project to explore all things related to creating an artist book: structure, paper to print photos on, paper to use for the structure, adhesive, and using text. I…
Continue ReadingMichele Kamprath – Desert Dreams/Redwood Home
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This structure is an accordion with a wrap-around cover/enclosure. The paper used for the accordion and the signatures was eco-dyed with maple, alder, redwood, and other local plants. One of the papers…
Continue ReadingMel Hewitt – My Heart Resides
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: The book began by playing with my favorite painting medium, ArtGraf graphite sticks, sanguine color. With Japanese calligraphy brush in hand random strokes reminiscent of chaos and cacophony were thrown throughout pieces…
Continue ReadingMarvel Maring – Taking Flight
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Drum Leaf binding with colored pencil and pop-ups. About the work: This book is in honor of a woman who took care of me as an infant until the age of nine.…
Continue ReadingMargaret Beech – CREATE
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Dylusions spray inks. Star book. Paper punches. Sakura glaze pen. Cutouts and pullouts. About the work: My studio is my happy place. I am my hands and feel driven to create and inspire others.
Continue ReadingMargaret Beech – Be Inspired
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Dylusions spray inks. Star book. Paper punches. Sakura glaze pen. Cutouts and pullouts. About the work: My studio is my happy place. I am my hands and feel driven to create and inspire…
Continue ReadingLorraine Crowder – Wish You Were Here
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: I identified sixteen places in the San Francisco bay area from which I might send a Wish You Were Here postcard. I printed out old USGS topo maps of the area and…
Continue ReadingLaura DeGrace – Portland OR
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: The overall box/book structure is one I learned at a recent Sitka workshop here in Oregon. The teacher was ME Campbell. The paper is Japanese decorative paper (brown and green) and the…
Continue ReadingKazumi Seki – imbued
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Imbued consists of three parts: a crumpled paper, a piece of paper, and a container, and they are a metaphor of something I would let go of, my wish and myself. The…
Continue Readingjudy hurcomb – Spinach, radishes, peas
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This book is made from 2 cardboard “bolts” which are used in retail fabric displays. Both the inside and outside of the coptic bound book is covered in seed packets (that I…
Continue Readingjudy hurcomb – home
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This book is made from 2 cardboard “bolts” which are used in retail fabric displays. It is made of commercial and original images. Original images painted with acrylic paint are torn and…
Continue Readingjudy hurcomb – a mask is a small price to pay
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This book is made from 2 cardboard “bolts” which are used in retail fabric displays. Cotton fabric was used for many types of masks during the pandemic and is cut to look…
Continue ReadingJackie Patten – Among the Trees
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: During the creation of this book, I had the assistance of friends, family, book arts instructors, and other artists for which I am grateful. It reminded me any form of creativity is…
Continue ReadingGenevieve Kaplan – May I
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: I used a seed catalogue page, yellow cardstock I hand-printed with mint leaves from my garden, double-sided tape, and ink in creating my book. The book form is the “Guest Book” from…
Continue ReadingGay Walker – Secret Places: On the Farm
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: I printed the images and text on card stock and bound the book using the drum leaf style in a dos-a-dos binding. I painted and drew upon the Arches cover and cut…
Continue ReadingElsi Vassdal Ellis – What Makes a House a Home
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: I raided one of my drawers that house book cloth shorts — there is not enough to be used for an edition but too much to toss. I then created paste papers…
Continue ReadingElsi Vassdal Ellis – Tesserae
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Square Lego tiles used to create a mosaic pattern printed with 3 inks mixed on the press to create different color variations of the tile pattern. The first ink was white. It…
Continue ReadingAngela Batchelor – And Here We Have Idaho
FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: 12 Idaho State symbols are catalogued with the use of cyanotype images and transparency overlays, while lyrics from the State song are interspersed on each page. The pages are rust printed paper.…
Continue ReadingVirginia Farnsworth – Little Ginnie At Play
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2018 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 4” x 6” x 6” Materials: family photos, matte photo paper, card stock 4-ply archival mat board Artist resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Little Ginnie At Play illustrates the depth and…
Continue ReadingStephanie Wolff – Place Memory
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2020 Editions: 4 Dimensions closed: 6.25” x 4.75” x .5” Materials: acrylic ink, paper, bookcloth, board Artist resides in Norwich, Vermont In the first months of the pandemic, I found myself thinking back on moments…
Continue ReadingShā Towers – Invisible Worlds
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 6.25” x 8.5” x 0.5” Materials: paper, board, leather, walnut ink Artist resides in Woodway, Texas Invisible Worlds is a visual and poetic exploration on a text I wrote reflecting…
Continue ReadingRoberta Lavadour – Place
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 5” x 5” x 1” Materials: handmade paper crafted by the artist from daffodil leaves, cattail, tule, sedge, tall oat grass and other fibers, silk and cotton thread Artist resides…
Continue ReadingRhiannon Skye Tafoya -Ul’nigid’
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2020 Editions: 44 Dimensions: 11” x 11.25” closed; 11.25” x 23.5” x 5.625” assembled Materials: handmade paper, paper, ink, book board, book cloth, magnets Artist resides in Lawrence, Kansas Printing was achieved using photopolymer plates,…
Continue ReadingR D Burton – Company Housing
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021 Open Edition Dimensions closed: 7.25” x 6” x 2” Materials: HammerMill color copy 80#, museum board, Tyvek , magnetic closure Artist resides in Havre de Grace, Maryland Our family moved into company housing at…
Continue Readingnif hodgson – light, contour & exciting the field
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2019/2021 Editions: 33 ev Dimensions closed: 4.25” x 7.5” x 0.5” Materials: letterpress and screenprint ink, surface gampi, peach-fuzz textured paper, hand-backed silk, translucent film Artist resides in Los Angeles, California light, contour & exciting…
Continue Readingnif hodgson – fluid horizons
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2017/2021 Editions: 23 ev Dimensions closed: 3.5” x 6” x 0.75” Materials: screenprint and archival pigment ink on translucent film Artist resides in Los Angeles, California fluid horizons is a visual meditation on the interwoven…
Continue ReadingNancy Hart – Interior
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2019 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 6” x 6” x 2.5” Materials: wood, paper, paint Artist resides in Odessa, Texas The book Interior relates to living in and moving from many locations. The spaces shown are…
Continue ReadingMary Uthuppuru & Andrea Peterson – The Butterfly, the Flying Fish, and the Hurricane
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021 Editions: 15 Dimensions: 12.5” x 12.5” x 1” Materials: handmade paper with pulp imaging, linocuts, pochoir, foil stamped text, leather Artists reside in LaPorte, Indiana A fable is a telling tale of possible events —…
Continue ReadingMary Maisch – Ode to Decay
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2020 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 7.75” x 7.75” x 3.5” Materials: binders board, book cloth, eco-dyed Arches text wove and Rives BFK, Lamali Lokta papers, driftwood, wasp nest, cottonwood bark, spruce bark, moose tooth, lichens,…
Continue ReadingMarjon Mudde – Le chemin de la petite vicinalité (Country roads)
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2014 Editions: 3 Dimensions closed: 12.5” x 8.5” x 3.5” Materials: Wood, paper, linen fabric, leather, brass, cotton thread Artist resides in: Lauzerte, France The title Le chemin de la petite vicinalité is an old…
Continue ReadingMargy O’Brien – Where I Live
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 10” x 4.5” x .25” Materials: commercial and handmade papers, ink, stick closure Artist resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico I have kept watercolor field journals for many years to record…
Continue ReadingMargo Klass – Journey Maps, Vol. 3, 2016-2021
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 9” x 6.5” x 3” Materials: Book board, book cloth, Japanese papers, found images Artist resides in Fairbanks, Alaska Where I live most fully is also where I think, feel,…
Continue ReadingMara Caruso – Estrelas dos Campos do Sul -Stars of the Southern Fields, the animals in Pampa and sky
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2019 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 20 x 20 x 2 cm Materials: Watercolor, graphite, ink, photographs by the author. Digital manipulation and photographic printing in enhanced matte. Metal pots and printed on transparent paper of…
Continue ReadingMara Caruso and Gralha Azul Group – Porto Alegre, our city
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2019 Editions: 2/20 Dimensions closed: 15 x 15 x 4 cm Materials: Photographic printing on enhanced matte paper Artist resides in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil Made with photographic printing, from drawings and photographs manipulated by…
Continue ReadingLucy Childs – A Blustery Day on Quiet Island
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2019 Editions: 1 Dimensions: 6” x 22” open; 6” x 11” closed Materials: cotton thread on linen, wool backing and wool cover; cloth-covered clamshell box Artist resides in Martinez, California Blustery Day on Quiet Island…
Continue ReadingKazumi Seki – ふたつの家/Two Homes
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2018 Editions: 12 Dimensions closed: 6” x 6” x 0.25” Materials: paper, board, tyvek, ink Artist resides in Yokohama, Japan British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Edward John Bowlby characterized secure attachment as providing a safe…
Continue ReadingKathleen O’Connell for Tress.Taller de Grabado – Mi Ciudad, Mi Hogar/ My City, My Home
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2014-2015 Editions: 50 Dimensions closed: 7” x 10.25” x .75” Materials: traditional printmaking techniques, inkjet print, double accordion bound book structure, Rives BFK paper Artist resides in Murfreesboro, Tennessee Mi Ciudad, Mi Hogar/ My City,…
Continue ReadingKaren Kunc – TypeCity
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2018 Editions: 3/8 Dimensions closed: 7.5” x 4.5” x .25” Materials: letterpress on handmade paper, accordion folded into covered boards Artist resides in Lincoln, Nebraska A typographic landscape of towers and labyrinths, imaginatively unreal, echoing …
Continue ReadingKaren Kunc – LandEscape
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2016 Editions: 10/40 Dimensions closed: 6” x 5” x .5” Materials: woodcut, letterpress, handmade watermarked paper, covered box Artist resides in Lincoln, Nebraska In this bookwork, the format and paper itself create the landscape of…
Continue ReadingHannah Batsel – Ephemerus
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2017 Editions: 45 Dimensions Closed: 8.75” x 6.25” x 1.25” Materials: paper, ink, book board, metal brads Artist resides in Chicago, Illinois Ephemerus is a 2017 artist’s book edition from the Marjorie S. Coffey Library…
Continue ReadingElsi Vassdal Ellis – Washoe Pinned
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021Editions: 10Dimensions closed: 8.125” x 12” x .875”Materials: cut down manila file folders, binder’s board, Asahi book cloth, Chicago posts, cord, inkjet photographic papersArtist resides in Bellingham, Washington I do not possess a highly superior…
Continue ReadingEllen Wiener – Seven Wells
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2018Editions: 4/5 evDimensions closed: 8.25” x 5.5” x .5”Materials: Japanese paper, watered silk, card, ink jet, casein, pencil, oil, chalkArtist resides in Southold, New York Seven Wells is a book based on the paradise themes…
Continue ReadingEllen Knudson – Rule of Thumb
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021Editions: 40Dimensions closed: 11” x 6.5” x 1.5”Materials: colorplan 300 gsm paper, letterpress ink, tyvek, book cloth, metal brads and grommetsArtist resides in Gainesville, Florida Rule of Thumb is a moveable book about the historical…
Continue ReadingCheri Marks – A Case of Equilibrium
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2020Editions: 25Dimensions closed: 5.25” x 8.5” x .5”Materials: paper, ink, placemats, photopolymerArtist resides in Tallahassee, Florida A Case of Equilibrium explores the relationship between cyclical systems that occur, whether by deliberate choices or natural forces,…
Continue ReadingCharlotte Bird – Southland Odyssey
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2020Editions: 1Dimensions Closed: 17.5” x 16” x 4.5”Materials: accordion book quilt, 24 quilted panels mounted on plexiglass, paper hinges, commercial and hand dyed cotton, eco felt, lutradurArtist resides in San Diego, California Curiosity and love…
Continue ReadingCarrie L. Larson – In the flow
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021Editions: 1Dimensions closed: 2” x 5” x 0.5”Materials: paper, watercolor, pigment ink, museum board, screw postArtist resides in Hoquiam, Washington When I consider where I live, immediately a particular view comes to mind — that…
Continue ReadingAmy Siedenstrang – Infinity
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021Editions: 1Dimensions closed: 12” x 9” x 5”Materials: watercolor paper, ink, fusible interfacingArtist resides in Boise, Idaho The inspiration for this book was a visit to a giant redwood tree, the mother of a grove…
Continue ReadingAmina Cheema – To Home It May Concern
FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2020 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 8” x 5.7” x 0.5” Materials: paper, thread, printing ink, chord, metal brad Artist resides in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan A single soul is having an encounter with the space of…
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