Past Events 2007-2008 |
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UICB Open House December 14 |
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UICB Open House |
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December 14, 3:30-6:30 pm The Center for the Book will host a winter open house on Friday, December 14 from 3:30-6:30 pm to display new work by students and instructors in Bookbinding, BookArts, Calligraphy, Papermaking and Printing. Refreshments will be served. Click here to download the pdf flier for the event. |
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2007 Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book |
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Joan Shelley Rubin Professor of History at the University of Rochester and leading scholar of American book history, Joan Rubin will reflect on the larger themes of her recent work Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America (Harvard University Press, 2007). She will focus on poetry reading as lived experience, with particular attention to the emotional weight poems carried in American homes, schools, and other settings between 1880 and 1950. A reception will follow the talk. Read more about the Rubin event here. |
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Ward Dunham teaches Bastarda & Gothic Cursive |
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November 10 & 11 Ward Dunham and his wife Linnea Lundquist will be teaching a weekend workshop November 10 – 11 that will include both formal Bookhand Bastard and Extreme Gothic Cursive. This workshop is appropriate for any level, but especially for the somewhat seasoned lover of Gothic hands. Bastard is a viable alternative to Italic, as either a formal bookhand or in Gothic Cursive form as a personal handwriting style. More individual and personal variations are possible with Bastard and Gothic Cursive than with any other western calligraphic hand. Time permitting, the workshop will experiment with brush, quill, bamboo reed, and chisel-edged fountain pen. Registration fee: $100 |
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Love and Misplacement - A print/broadside exchange |
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Deadline for notification of intent: October 10, 2007 Sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for the Book, UICB students Erin Maurelli & Elizabeth Munger are soliciting participants for Love and Misplacement, a print/broadside exchange exploring text and image. This exchange seeks to investigate text/image relationships in print form. Where do depictions of text and image merge? Do you manipulate text & image digitally or set type by hand? How is that relationship affected by variables such as font, size, color & composition? These questions, and more, are free game for exploration. For more information on the exchange and how you can participate, please click here. |
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Magic Boxes with Emily Martin |
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October 20 & 21; 10am - 4pm A workshop introducing the construction techniques of this unique box form. This intriguing variation on the Jacob's ladder makes a lidded box with divided compartments. The lid can be opened in two directions and different compartments are revealed depending on the opening direction chosen. The Jacob's Ladder is a 2,000-year-old Chinese toy. It and it's variations have many wonderful applications for contemporary artist bookmakers. Construction and operation of the Jacob's ladder will be demonstrated and students will assemble a model of the magic box using a variety of patterned Japanese papers. Participants should bring: a bone folder, pencil, ruler, scissors, exacto knife or scalpel and blades and glue brush. Registration Fee: $65.00 for UI students and $75.00 for non-students Sponsored by the Book Arts Club and University of Iowa Center for the Book |
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Matt Brown to discuss reading practices |
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Friday, September 14, 2007 Matthew P. Brown will give a talk entitled “Undisciplined Reading” 304 EPB (the Gerber room) on Friday, September 14 at 4 pm. Director of the UICB, Brown will examine modes of reading prompted by libraries, classrooms, and the avant-garde, finding analogies for these practices in the early modern era. The talk will also reflect on the history of reading as a field of study. Brown is the author of The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). Part of the Faculty Colloquium series in the English department, the talk is open to the public and refreshments will be served. |
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“From Monks to Masters” Exhibit and Talks |
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June 23 – October 7 Through the work of David Schoonover, Kathleen Kamerick, Greg Prickman, and participating faculty, the Center has helped organize and program an exhibit and series of talks at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Entitled “From Monks to Masters: The Medieval Manuscript and the Early Printed Book,” the exhibit showcases rare holdings from the Special Collections, the Hardin Library, and the UIMA. For more information about the exhibit, click here. For the schedule of speakers, including the UICB’s Gary Frost, Cheryl Jacobsen, Tim Barrett, Sara Sauers, Jon Wilcox, and Matt Brown, click here. |
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Matthew P. Brown: The Persistence of the Medieval in Early American Book Culture |
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Sara Sauers: Early Modern Typography
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Gary Frost: Medieval Bookbinding |
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