Sums it up. I think I’l have about 25 finished copies of my book as of tonight. Today I’m printing the front labels.
Publication Party!
Sunday March 21st, 6pm
Come celebrate the release of Phosphorescent Face Highlighter, a limited edition letterpress publication documenting the transformational experience in all its forms. It’s a new year, isn’t it time for a new you? By bringing together in one volume the wisdom of Adolf Loos, The Landmark Forum, Weight Watchers, Le Courbusier, Alcoholics Anonymous, Oil of Olay and Dale Carnegie, Phosphorescent Face Highlighter will help you to lose weight, realize your potential, quit drinking, heal your relationships, design new contexts and paradigms, hide those tiny lines and wrinkles, build the city of the future, move beyond the tired aesthetics of the past, and much, much more.
Phosphorescent Face Highlighter was printed and bound in an edition of 45 by Sarah Nicholls, artist, printmaker and author with a longstanding commitment to bettering the human condition.
Revelatory snacks and paradigm-shifting beverages will be served.
Fountain Studios
604 Grand Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11238
(between St. Marks and Bergen)
Brooklyn NY 11238
(between St. Marks and Bergen)
2,3 to Eastern Parkway/ Brooklyn Museum.
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I totally remember watching this as a kid.
Ok, here’s a good idea; I know too many artists who think they don’t need to know anything about money, or don’t think it’s important enough to bother with, and then find themselves chasing after enough income to survive, instead of doing what they love to do. Also Arts Administrators!
Dear colleagues:
I’m writing to let you know about a personal finance event specifically designed for artists and arts administrators from all disciplines, organized jointly by the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Consumer Affairs Office of Financial Empowerment.
The Art of Money: Personal Finance Resources for Artists will take place on March 6, 2010 from Noon – 5PM at the Dwyer Cultural Center in Harlem (123rd Street @ St. Nicholas Avenue). We will offer a free day of financial workshops and counseling designed to help individuals from the creative sector assess their personal financial status and determine their financial needs. Participants will be able to:
- Learn how to access and use credit, reduce existing debt, and plan for the highs and low of irregular income;
- Sign up for a free, confidential, one-on-one consultation with a financial counselor who can help manage credit and debt and provide strategic referrals to other public and private resources;
- Learn about tax services and refunds;
- Meet representatives from organizations that can help access services to support creative work.
Crafts for kids will be available and consultations will be available in both English and Spanish. For more information visit nyc.gov/artofmoney.
We are excited to have this opportunity to serve the field and hope you will be able to help us spread the word. Please share this information with your employees and colleagues. Contact Chelsea Scott at cscott@culture.nyc.gov with any questions.
Sincerely,
Kate D. Levin
Commissioner
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Thanks Kate Levin.
New Work 2010, Delphi Basilicato’s annual calendar extravaganza:
Artist Delphi Basilicato will be debuting his annual calendar featuring original monoprints printed on the Vandercook press. Individual prints will be on sale for $20 with 100% of the proceeds being donated to the Center for Book Arts.
Refreshments will be served.
When: This Sunday, February 21, 5:30-8:30 PMHow Much: Free
Where: The Center for Book Arts,
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
Special Event–The Print Factory–This Fri, Feb 19, 6pm @ Center for Book Arts
The Print Factory: A Printmaking Workshop
at the Center for Book Arts –
Friday, February 19, 6-9PM
Join The Print Factory’s crew in the Center’s printshop for an interactive evening of printmaking on its portable printing press. The Print Factory is currently featured in the exhibition The Incidental Person,organized by Antony Hudek at apexart, The exhibition is on view through February 20.
About The Print Factory’s Workshop
Producing art on-site while handing it out to the public sparks dialogue about the processes behind printmaking and the historical impact of the multiple in everyday life. Sharing the process and the product of printmaking stimulate community by provoking questions about the utility of printmaking and the nature of art. Click here for more about The Print Factory.
When: This Friday, February 19, 6-9PM
How Much: $10/$5 members (suggested)
Where: The Center for Book Arts,
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
Hey everyone!
We wanted to remind you that The Sketchbook Project is exhibiting at 303 Grand in Brooklyn on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We hope everyone can make it out and see the show!
Also, check out a feature that is running in Time Out NY this week about the exhibition and project! It also features interviews with four NYC based artists who participated.
The Sketchbook Project
Friday, February 18th 8:00-11:00pm (with a Q&A session from 7:00-8:00pm)
Saturday, February 19th 8:00-11:00pm
Sunday, February 20th 12:00-2:00pm303 Grand
303 Grand St
Brooklyn, NY 11211Sincerely,
Steven and Shane
Art House Co-op
And more binding. Due to a stupid mistake the endsheets are a bit too small.
Which I figured out how to compensate for after some wrestling with it. I hate the stage when you start to see the flaws in the project.
I stabbed myself several times on Sunday. Someone else in the studio yelled, “Don’t Bleed on the Books, for God’s Sake!”
I bled on one of the books. Only one though, and I have extras of that page.
I like the pink spines. I think the bookcloth is my favorite part of this binding enterprise.
Binding reminds me that this is true :
Boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.
On to the binding phase…
I read this the other day:
Even if, seen from the outside, or from some higher vantage point, this sort of life looks pointless or futile, or even extremely inefficient, it doesn’t bother me. Maybe it’s some pointless act like, as I’ve said before, pouring water into an old pan that has a hole in the bottom, but at least the effort you put into it remains. Whether it’s good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what’s most important is what you can’t see but feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.
–What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
Setting type and binding books by hand are up there with running long distances as far as inefficiency goes, I think. Speaking of which, I ran a race on Sunday! Slowly. It was fun but cold. The water froze. There were bagels at the end. It’s sort of amazing how many people are willing to show up at 9 am in the freezing cold to run. Way more people are willing to do that, it seems, than to learn bookbinding.
But hey, so what.
Done printing!
I ran eight miles this morning, printed five runs, and did my laundry. I set the colophon in a flash; I’m glad I have a photo to prove it happened. Now there’s just binding.