Bookbinding Now

119c. The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.

Codex 2017 Symposium - Keynote Speaker

Lu Jingren has designed more than one thousand books, and is considered one of China's most influential book designers and illustrators. Lu Jingren's finest and most inventive works provide a modern response to the centuries-long traditions of both Chinese and Japanese book making. Live translator - Yishu Wang

119b. The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.

Lines of Force: the Hand, the Book & the Body Electric

Dr. Betty Bright is a writer, curator and historian who helped to start Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) in 1985 and authored No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 (Granary Press, 2005).

119a. The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.

Between Drawing & Printing

Johannes Strugalla lives and works in Mainz and Paris. A visual artist and a poet, he is a co-founder of despalles éditions with his wife Françoise Despalles.

118. Patrick Kiley and Ben DuVall collaborate at Publication Studio in Troy, New York.

117. The Book, the Woman and the Body Politic - an artist talk and panel with Tatana Kellner and Juliana Cerqueira Leite, moderated by Corina Reynolds of Small Editions. This event was part of the NY Art Book Fair 2016, at MoMA PS1.

116. Yishu Wang is one of 11 Chinese contemporary book artists exhibiting at the 2017 CODEX Book Fair and Symposium.

115. The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to "establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts." Current president Bexx Caswell speaks about sustaining the guild today.

114. Kyle Holland is an artist in Cleveland Ohio; he teaches bookbinding and paper making workshops, and coordinates workshops and paper sales at the Morgan Conservatory. Elizabeth Sheehan is an artist in Brooklyn; she is studio assistant and bookbinder at Small Editions and a core instructor at The Center for Book Arts in NYC.

113. Julia Miller is a book conservator and bookbinding historian based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of Books Will Speak Plain and edits the Suave Mechanicals series of essays on the history of bookbinding, all published by The Legacy Press.

112. Portable Editions was founded in 2014 by Juana Meneses + Leila A. Leder Kremer, in Miami, FL; Carol Todaro guest hosts.