Paper, Print & Poetry Exhibit: Adult Entries Part Deux

Here are photos of the rest of the adult entries. 

Brandy Hyatt

All I Wanted Was a Friend

Altered book, mixed media.  Open book that has been excavated to reveal a pond, filled with epoxy water.  Scene was created with acrylic paint, modeling rocks, modeling paste, recycled green purse (cut), washer, push pins, and golden ball.  Inspired by Grimm’s The Frog Prince.

Charles Centerfit Hart

Stalking Ghosts, An Exercise

1973-2012

Journal from a church retreat.  Paper is Standard’s Permalife.  Memorabilia pasted and taped in by author.

Martha Ann Burgard

Possibilities

Original poem on handmade paper, tacked to a recycled cedar board.

Brandy Hyatt

All That I Am

Miniature box book.  Vintage cardboard jewelry box, embellished with cut and pasted words describing the artist and the viewer.  

 

 

Kathy Russell

Heraldry of the World

Altered book, folded page art.  

Carol Roark York

A Job For the Undertaker

Black cardstock concertina with cut out words from Juliet In Mantua.

Carol Roark York

Untitled Journal

Tan suede (recycled from thrift store jacket) with vintage mirrored button, vintage jet bead; signatures made from recycled paper.

 

Stacey Stepleton

A Beautiful Mistake

Altered book, folded page art, mixed media.  Front cover is embellished with shells and beads.  Text is composed of folded page art, interspersed with original poetry and art by the artist; hand beaded pages and a felt flower adorn the text.

Carol Roark York

Addie Bundren’s Greek Chorus

Altered book, folded page art.  Acrylic paint on cut boards; paper, paste and bread-tie-wire buzzards.

Paper, Print & Poetry Exhibit: Adult Entries Part I

On Friday, March 23, we hosted our final GPL Book Arts Project program, the Paper, Print & Poetry (P3) Exhibition.  The purpose of this exhibition was to give our participants an opportunity to present their work as artists, and to give our community an opportunity to see work that was generated during this series.  My PSA went something like this:

Browse through the unique art that was created during the GPL Book Arts Project!  From folded-page recycled book art to original poetry written on handmade paper…From macabre fractured fairy tales to elaborate handmade journals…Celebrate and appreciate the art of the book!

As part of the exhibition, we created a make-and-take table where people could sit down and design their own concertina books out of folded and cut card stock, pre-painted mini paintings, and words & pictures from discarded World Books.  It was a direct result of this table that we ran over our scheduled time by at least an hour…I almost had to start flipping the lights and making a last call!

Here are photos of half of the adult entries.  I’ll post the other half soon.  And then I’ll post the teen entries.

Stacey Stepleton

A Thousand Little Houses

Altered book, folded page art, mixed media.  Altered edition of W.H. Auden’s About the House, with stickers, dried flowers, beads and tempura paint.  Cover is embellished with stickers and a punched-copper rendering of a house.

Tiffany Carlson & Cary Long

Happily Ever After

Altered book, mixed media.  Roget’s International Thesaurus opened to the section on the word love; embellished with a Whitman quote, several significant numbers, a framed engagement photograph, feathers, a paper flower and decorative knobs.  Hanger is made from copper wire, with two copper love-birds.

Brandy Hyatt

Enforced Entry

Altered book, mixed media.  Embellished with metal pieces, rice paper, bottle opener, razor blade, pocket knife, mini saw blade, chains, paint, electrical plug cover, washers, bolts.

Kathy Russell

Elements of Legal Research 

Altered book, folded page art.

Carol Roark York

Beauty Is Pain

Mixed media, miniature.  Boards of book were created out of a recycled Avon eyeshadow container, embellished with repurposed upholstery tacks.  Text block is composed of two concertinas made from handmade paper and feature words that describe common historical and modern beauty practices.

 

Nicole Papa

Fun Day

Altered book, mixed media.  Folded page art, with mixed media.  Embellished with crayons, magnetic alphabet letters, ants (from Milton Bradley Ants in the Pants game), and assorted colorful bugs.

More to come...