Virginia 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…

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Stephanie 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…

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Shā 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…

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Roberta 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…

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Rhiannon 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,…

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R 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…

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nif 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…

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nif 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…

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Nancy 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…

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Mary 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,…

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Margy 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…

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Lucy 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…

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Kazumi 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…

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Karen 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 …

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Karen 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…

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Hannah 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…

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Elsi 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…

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Ellen 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…

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Ellen 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…

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Cheri 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,…

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Charlotte 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…

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Carrie 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…

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Amy 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…

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Amina 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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