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When Is It Printmaking?
As new technologies are developed we scramble to define and categorize what they are and what they do. The printmaking community continues to struggle with and embrace/reject the idea of digital...
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Star 82 Review Summer 7.2 Is Here!
Star 82 Review 7.2, the quarterly art and literary magazine I founded six years ago and continue to design and edit, is now live online! Thanks to all the contributors for a wonderful collection of...
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Star 82 Review Reading at Etui in July
When Alice Armstrong asked if I would teach for the new shop she was opening with Bethany Carlson Mann, we met at the building in its raw state. She showed me two rooms, one would be the shop, the...
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Turbulent Travels: a New Art Quilt
Dandelions create perfect aerial dancers, staying suspended, lingering on the currents. With a breath and a wish, the seeds are set aloft to find new homes, away from parent plants, away from...
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Book in a Bag, Gift for a Friend
Every year I make a birthday book for a longtime friend, usually choosing materials, images, and words that relate to whatever she and I have been interested in. Last year it was a little quilt posted...
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Bursting in Air
Childhood nostalgia: waving sparklers on the beach, standing in a city park with humanmade stars bursting over my head. A little thrill of beauty. I can still watch fireworks from a distance out my...
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Art Is Not Art Unless…
The phrase, "Art is not art unless it is shared" popped up in a submitter's bio, which started me thinking about definitions, positive and negative phrases, and naming. I was curious why someone would...
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I Hadn't Intended to See the Peter Paul Rubens Exhibit
I hadn't intended to see the Peter Paul Rubens exhibit, but I did want to see Charles Hobson's book art show, and possibly the French print collection, so a friend and I made the trek out to the Legion...
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Suminagashi Again and Raven Journal
For the second book of my planned three of "Birds of the Bible," I'm in the process of binding Raven, referring to the first bird Noah sent out after the Flood. Suminagashi was clearly the look I...
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Art Quilt: Don't Look Behind You
The project changed. I started by drawing crow feathers I had picked up and cutting out a stencil for a book. I wasn't happy with the color of the book, and it was too late to change it, so that...
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Thread for Bookbinding and More
To reiterate what I've taught and been taught, when you are binding books you generally need a thread that will not stretch or break apart when you pull on it. Traditionally, linen thread is used for...
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Lucky 7 Book Art Bundles 2019
I've made many book models over the years: for classes, workshops, blog posts, tests for my designs and to show in my instructional books. It appears I am still making them, but the grown-up ones now...
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Birds of the Bible: Raven
After learning that the raven was the first bird Noah sent out of the ark, preceding the dove, I had questions. If ravens mate for life, what happened to the mate? What did the raven do besides return...
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The Third Light: a new book
It has been a productive summer, so far. In parallel with the project I decided would be "Birds in the Bible," I had the idea for this one. It also plays off of a biblical verse from Genesis, this time...
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The Threads of Ordinary Collecting
It can happen while we wait in line for something we want, in the middle of a project, after a long trek. When we anticipated something satisfying or useful, but end up being a little disappointed. "We...
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My Summer Reading So Far
We've got art, we've got poetry, biography, art history, a fictional chronicle, and short stories, but each and every book contains a compelling story, I think. Here are the physical books that have...
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(Un)Intentional Conversations
I wrote this in August, 2017, but somehow never posted it. Communication can be awkward no matter if it is in person, printed on paper, or through (un)social media.We communicate with one another for...
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Book Art at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
In the past few months there have been two shows of book art at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art that highlighted the collection of Cynthia Sears, who had just donated the work to the museum: Open...
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Birds of the Bible: Bearded Vulture
I've had nearly a year now to birdwatch in the Bible and investigate who I found there. The three-book series to which I committed are coming in for a landing. One copy of Bearded Vulture is bound, so...
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Reading and Listening, Translation and Form
I'm a reader. I like words on a page, and when I'm traveling, even words on a screen are okay. I graze around the house, picking up a newspaper section here, a magazine article there. You could say it...
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