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MCBA Book Arts
Roundtable
Minnesota Center for Book Arts is a hub of creativity where interesting, passionate, and knowledgeable people like you learn, share ideas, and get inspired. Join the conversation by attending our Book Arts Roundtables. They're FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, and they take place at 7 pm in MCBA's spacious studios. (There will be no December Roundtable.)
Tuesday, August 19:
Journaling the Great Minnesota Get-Together
Everybody has habits. Here's your chance to develop a healthy one! Roz Stendahl's habit is visual journaling, an artistic discipline like daily exercise for your creativity. Roz journals every year at the Minnesota State Fair, and publishes the resulting works (visit rozworks.com to see examples). Just in time, she will introduce you to visual journaling and talk strategies to approach sketching at the State Fair and other events.
Also take this opportunity to learn about MCBA's upcoming Visual Journaling Collective, an informal gathering once a month where you can get to know journal-keeping peers and be inspired by their work, exchange information on supplies and techniques, commit time to practice your drawing skills, find a sketching partner and/or just touch base with people who understand journaling. Roz will be facilitating these new gatherings, which are open to all visual journal artists of any skill level. Group members will be encouraged to participate in round robin journals and theme projects. At every meeting we'll have discussion, share our work, and engage our minds with a fun journaling exercise.
Tuesday, September 16:
About Face: Deeper into Type Design and National Identity
Four panelists, contributors to the Face the Nation exhibition, will offer presentations on some of the most interesting intersections of national identity and type design, expanding on the displays in the gallery. Natalie Stanton will discuss Colm O Lochlainn’s Colum Cille type and its relation to his efforts to establish and support the Irish Free State. Caroline Baum will talk about Rudolf Koch’s interest in updating the German blackletter alphabets while they competed with roman types of foreign origin. Lisa Melander will trace the career of Vojtech Preissig, whose designs satisfied the emergent demand among Czechs for a type of their own. And Traci Olinger will explore the modernist milieu of Weimar Germany, within which pared-down sans serifs were proclaimed to transcend national interests. All four panelists are enrolled in the Master of Arts in Art History program at the University of St. Thomas.
Tuesday, October 28:
A Revived Resource: MCBA's Library
Celebrate the grand re-opening of the James and Marilynn Alcott Library and Archives! MCBA artistic director Jeff Rathermel will outline the new additions to the library as well as some old unique finds. The revived library has more to offer and is now easier to use with a new searchable database.
Tuesday, November 18:
A Winter Book Sneak-Peek
Join members from the production and design crew for a sneak peak at this year's Winter Book publication, Winter Ink. Described as a contemporary take on traditional Asian book arts of woodblock printing, binding, papermaking, Sumi-e ink drawing and calligraphy, Winter Ink will feature the work of Laotian-American writer and poet Brian Thao Worra, with contributions by numerous local artists.
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