Upcoming Programs
The Interdisciplinary Arts Department and the Center for Book and Paper Arts host year-round public programs. Please check back often for information on upcoming lectures, panel discussions, exhibition tours and other events. To find out more about an event, click on the link. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public.CENTER FOR BOOK AND PAPER ARTS 2ND ANNUAL TYPOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM
Friday, June 1, 2012
PRE–PANEL "SHOW AND TELL" RECEPTION
5:30–7:00 p.m.Select designers will show off recent projects in an informal setting
PANEL
The Past is the Future
7:00–9:00 p.m.How does looking back push the industry forward? Designers and typographers will discuss how historical research has influenced their current practice or a specific project.
Nick Adam is a photographer and connoisseur of vernacular type forms (and probably hates being called a “connoisseur”). He lives in Chicago.
Jackson Cavanaugh, designer of the celebrated Harriett, Alright Sans, Elephans, and Snibbles typefaces, runs Okay Type, a design studio in Logan Square.
Isaac Tobin is a senior designer at the University of Chicago Press, with numerous awards to his credit, including AIGA 50/50, The Type Director’s Club, Print Magazine Regional Award, and many others.
CENTER FOR BOOK AND PAPER ARTS | VISITING ARTIST LECTURE
Helen frederick: Investigating Cultural Literacy
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 6:00 P.M.
What is an indigenous vocabulary? The lecture will approach the relationship of natural materials and their prowess to be made by hand into other transformed useful materials as a lesson in daily life, industry, art, politics and science. It will examine two very different papemaking areas in the Sichuan area of China to enable a further understanding of how hand papermaking provides an intersection of cultural values (“embodied” and “embedded” skills) and their affect on economic development. Other age-old traditions that are also a hybrid of so many complex parts that only dedicated communities can sustain their legacy and effectiveness into usefulness in various parts of the world will be viewed as comparative subalterns to contemporary Western cultural literacy and currency. Understanding how assimilated technologies can grow from an indigenous culture will be examined as a primary trajectory of this century.
Helen Frederick is concerned with investigating the potentials of collective memory at sites of hand-driven productions, and discerning how they shape cultural bridging for indigenous peoples as well as foreigners and outsiders to the regions. Particularly with global ecosystem decline, Frederick asks what skills are most valuable for artists and artisans and their communities?
ROUNDTABLE
Group Effort: Hand Papermaking, Collaboration, and Contemporary Art
FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 6:30–8:00 P.M.
This panel will address the current role of hand papermaking within current residency and workspace models at both the Center for Book and Paper Arts and Dieu Donné. How do these organizations make hand papermaking available and accessible to artists for whom hand papermaking was not already a primary medium? Featuring both interdisciplinary artists who have completed projects within these institutions and the master papermakers with whom they collaborated, the dialogue will address the challenges and opportunities of collaborative hand papermaking; the relevance of hand papermaking across disciplines; and efforts to promote hand papermaking as a process relevant to interdisciplinary art and craft practices.
Panelists include:
• Elizabeth Isakson, Hannah King & C.J. Mace, co-curators, Material Assumptions
• Deborah Boardman, Dan Devening & Ian Cooper, participating artists, Material Assumptions
• Moderated by Sue Gosin, Co-founder of Dieu Donné, and Melissa Potter, Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Book and Paper MFA, Columbia College
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