Submitting Written Work: Mysteries & Strategies
It's the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month, but people have been writing and celebrating poetry (and prose) for centuries. In this century, with the wide adoption of the internet, it seems that...
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Travel Journal & Accessories
Once again, I searched through the book models and previously made blank books hoping to find the proper journal to take with me to New York City. And, once again, none of them had the feel I wanted....
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HOUSEWORK installed at Albany Library, CA
Last Sunday at the Albany Library, I installed my houses and their books and objects, and the house-shaped books and books related to home that I've made over the years. I went right at opening: 1pm,...
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NYC, American Indian Art, and Teju Cole
Recent, intense work on projects has pushed out introspection in the past few weeks, but we were in Manhattan once again and took in many sights and experiences that warrant deeper thought and things...
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Hedi Kyle and SF Center for the Book
The weekend workshop that Hedi Kyle was scheduled to teach at the San Francisco Center for the Book in April filled within an hour after it was posted to the website. There was a waiting list, but I...
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Degas and Monotypes at MoMA
On our latest visit to New York City, we spent a full day at the Museum of Modern Art. (Granted, we ducked out for lunch and to buy shoes in the middle, but we came back for the rest of the day.) Two...
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Adjunct Action in the Bay Area
It has been over a year now that adjunct professors in conjunction with SEIU Local 1021 have been negotiating a first contract at California College of the Arts (longer for those at San Francisco Art...
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Star 82 Review Special Flash Issue: 50/50-word Stories
Star 82 Review Special Flash Issue 50/50-word stories is now live!Now in its fourth year, Star 82 Review (also written as *82) is the online and print literary and art magazine that I produce at each...
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Water Bill, River Bill, Rain Bill: Felted Collages
I always have a project so I can procrastinate the project I'm working on. Last week, instead of finishing the neighborhood of HOUSEWORK, I had the urge to make felt, which led me to these collages.My...
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Pipeline: A New Quilt
Some time the end of March, beginning of April, I cut up three pairs of pants. Some shapes were regular, some not. I liked the irregular ones better, and so the quilt grew. It grew on its own at first,...
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The Art of the Book at Seager / Gray Gallery
On view until June 5, 2016, The annual Art of the Book exhibition at Seager/Gray Gallery features a variety of artist's books, from conceptual works to altered books to mixed-media unique books to wall...
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Albert & Apollinaire: Calligrammes
I've always loved the visual poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire's 1918 Calligrammes. Type that is shaped on the page is appealing to me. What would this poetry sound like if sung? Composer Albert Behar...
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Artist/Poet/Bookmaker Marcel Broodthaers
Bookmakers know of Marcel Broodthaers most notably because of his 1969 version, Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard, of Stephane Mallarmé's original 1897Un Coup de dés. Mimicking the length of...
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Star 82 Review Summer Issue 4.2 Is Live!
Now in its fourth year, Star 82 Review (also written as *82) is the online and print literary and art magazine that I produce at each equinox and solstice, or thereabouts. The Summer 4.2 issue was...
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Book Art: Mrs. White Has Tea (again!)
I wrote and illustrated Mrs. White Has Tea way back in the last century. It's a little story of friendship, all the colors of the rainbow, and tea. My daughter, then twoyearsold, asked me to read it...
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Patience & Writer's Hubris
I am often afflicted with what I call "Writer's Hubris," and from what I've read I think other writers are, too. It causes writers to send their work out to be considered for publication too soon. It...
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Instructions: Zen or Grunge Journal
Over the years I've had to make many teaching models, and I've ended up with maybe a dozen or so. Yet I'm not using them. Some take as long as six hours to make. Others just aren't quite right. And...
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Book Art: Chocolate
Last century, I drew and rubberstamped a story called A Sad Story about Chocolate. It was a fictitious, political history of chocolate, and it truly was sad. I turned it into a small book that is...
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Murals of Clarion Alley 2016, Pride & Peaches
I visited the murals of Clarion Alley in San Francisco for the first time in 2012 and wrote about them in this post. At the time, a friend and I took BART into the city on what happened to be Pride...
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Book Art: I Found Out
Hot off the press! Just finished a new miniature book in a miniature paper box (under 3" in any direction), I Found Out. Letterpress printed from metal and wood type, the box is printed with overheard...
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