EXHIBITORS

The Action/Interaction: Book/Arts Conference provides two venues for exhibiting and showcasing work that is currently being produced in the book arts field: the invitational Action/Interaction: Book/Arts Exhibition and a The Festival of the Book III book arts fair.

Book Fair Exhibitors

21st Editions
After Nostalgia Press
Aiko's Art Materials
Austin Peay State Univ. Clarksville, TN
Book Arts Commerce MFA CBPA
Booklyn Artists Alliance
Chicago Hand Bookbinders
Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts MFA
Editions CBPA
Flying Paper Press
Hand Papermaking
Naughty Dog Press
Preacher's Biscuit Books
Richard Minsky
OSU Libraries Logan Elm Press
Powell's Bookstore
The Printery-Kirkwood MO - Kay & Virginia Kramer
Red Trillium Press
Sara Langworthy
Scott McCarney Visual Books & keithsmithBooks
Sherwin Beach Press
The University of the Arts
Vamp & Tramp Booksellers
Visual Studies Workshop Press
Women's Studio Workshop

Festival of the Book III - Book Arts Fair

The Center for Book and Paper Art's 3rd Festival of the Book will be held this year as a part of the Action/Interaction: Book/Arts Conference. The Book Fair will begin Friday evening with a special Collector's Preview Evening coordinated and hosted by Bill Drendel. The Fair continues Saturday and Sunday afternoons during the conference and also coincides with Chicago's Printer's Row Book Fair, which occurs nearby. The Fair will be held in the 1st floor Conaway Center, downstairs from the Center for Book and Paper Arts, which is a large, glass-walled space which providing a street presence for the Fair to attract additional attendees who are in the area for Printer's Row.

We consider the Book Arts Fair to be a complement to the invitational exhibition - an additional venue for conference attendees to reflect on the nature of the work being produced by book artists today. The Book Fair is not only an opportunity to sell works, but also provides an alternative, informal, interactive opportunity for individual artists and vendors to showcase what they are doing.

Exhibiting Instutitions

Asheville BookWorks
Boise State University - Idaho Center for the Books
Camberwell College of Arts
The Center for Book Arts
The Cleveland Institute of Art
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts
Corcoran College of Art and Design
East Carolina University
Memphis College of Art
Messiah College Dept. of Visual Arts
Mills College
Minnesota Center for the Book
Otis College of Art and Design
Philadelphia Center for the Book
Otis College of Art and Design
Purchase College of Art and Design
Pyramid Atlantic
San Francisco Center for the Book
School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Print Media
School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
Scripps College Press
University of Alabama
UC Santa Barbara - College of Creative Studies
University of Iowa Center for the Book
University of Nebraska-Omaha Nebraska Book Arts Center, College of Fine Arts
University of Nebraska-Omaha Nebraska Book Arts Centerm Uno Fine Arts Press
University of the Arts, Book Arts/Printmaking Program
Virginia Arts of the Book Center
Visual Studies Workshop
Washington University - College of Art
Women's Studio Workshop

The Action/Interaction: Book/Arts Exhibition

The Action/Interaction: Book/Arts Exhibition is an invitational, juried exhibition which will showcase exemplary work from book arts programs and centers across the country and oversees in order to provide a survey of the current activity in the field and to highlight the different characteristics, missions, and philosophies of various programs and centers. The exhibition will be held in two galleries, The Center for Book and Paper Arts Gallery and downstairs in the Glass Curtain Gallery, and will be documented in a catalog to be published in 2008. An underlying philosophy of the exhibition is the importance of providing access to the works being exhibited and special reading stands have been commissioned to provide access to the works.