JAB - Journal of Artists' Books
JAB: The Journal of Artists' Books
Since 1994 JAB has been dedicated to providing a forum for critical, theoretical, and creative engagement with artists' books. In 2007 JAB began publishing from the Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts and we have begun an active initiative to increase student opportunities and participation in JAB activities. For instance, in 2007 in conjunction with Artists Books online at the University of Virginia <http://www.artistsbooksonline.org/index.html> we hired Karol Shewmaker, a current MFA graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Arts Book & Paper program, as an intern. Ken Gerleve, another graduate student in the program, designed JAB23 and JAB24 under the tutelage of Professor Clifton Meador. Daniel Mellis, a first year student in the MFA program, has participated in design and production on JAB21, JAB23, and JAB24 (see his HANDMADE-O-METER in JAB24). These opportunities provide the students access to publication, design, and conceptual undertakings that are shaping the field of book arts.
Our mission is to develop the field of artist's books by means of critical discourse and creative exploration of the intersections of book arts, artists' books, poetry, photography, experimental literature, and other book related creative endeavors. We are interested in expanding the audience for artists who make books, and each issue of JAB will be filled with essays, reviews, and artists' projects focused on the book as an action-packed intermedia device.
JAB (ISSN 1085 - 1461) is published twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. The current issue (JAB24) focuses on the intersections of experimental literature and artists' books. JAB24 was edited by Craig Dworkin & Kyle Schlesinger and features articles by scholars and artists who have been working in areas where writing and art often combine into new forms of the book. These new manifestations of the traditional book often appear strange and unfamiliar initially and having knowledgeable guides to lead us through them, pointing out the motivations and progenitors of these works, benefits the field of artists' books.
JAB contact information:
Brad Freeman, Editor-in-chief
1104 S. Wabash, 2nd Fl
Chicago, IL 60605
312.369.6641
bfreeman@colum.edu
Since 1994 JAB has been dedicated to providing a forum for critical, theoretical, and creative engagement with artists' books. In 2007 JAB began publishing from the Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts and we have begun an active initiative to increase student opportunities and participation in JAB activities. For instance, in 2007 in conjunction with Artists Books online at the University of Virginia <http://www.artistsbooksonline.org/index.html> we hired Karol Shewmaker, a current MFA graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Arts Book & Paper program, as an intern. Ken Gerleve, another graduate student in the program, designed JAB23 and JAB24 under the tutelage of Professor Clifton Meador. Daniel Mellis, a first year student in the MFA program, has participated in design and production on JAB21, JAB23, and JAB24 (see his HANDMADE-O-METER in JAB24). These opportunities provide the students access to publication, design, and conceptual undertakings that are shaping the field of book arts.
Our mission is to develop the field of artist's books by means of critical discourse and creative exploration of the intersections of book arts, artists' books, poetry, photography, experimental literature, and other book related creative endeavors. We are interested in expanding the audience for artists who make books, and each issue of JAB will be filled with essays, reviews, and artists' projects focused on the book as an action-packed intermedia device.
JAB (ISSN 1085 - 1461) is published twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. The current issue (JAB24) focuses on the intersections of experimental literature and artists' books. JAB24 was edited by Craig Dworkin & Kyle Schlesinger and features articles by scholars and artists who have been working in areas where writing and art often combine into new forms of the book. These new manifestations of the traditional book often appear strange and unfamiliar initially and having knowledgeable guides to lead us through them, pointing out the motivations and progenitors of these works, benefits the field of artists' books.
JAB contact information:
Brad Freeman, Editor-in-chief
1104 S. Wabash, 2nd Fl
Chicago, IL 60605
312.369.6641
bfreeman@colum.edu