Book FOR[u]Ms: 2002 BOOK ARTIST SPEAKER SERIES

A teacher, curator, and arts administrator, as well as a book artist with an international reputation, Carol Barton's work has been exhibited worldwide and is in many collections, including the Library of Congress in Washington and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 1995, she curated "Science and the Artist's Book" for the Smithsonian Institution. She was awarded the Bogliasco Fellowship for a residency in Italy in the fall of 2000. In 2001, she was awarded a residency by the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil. Barton is currently on the faculty of the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, where she teaches classes in bookbinding and book structures.

Barton says that "the book allows" her "to combine" her "background in painting and photography with interests in sculptural forms, printing, and serial images." Her "inspiration," she states, "comes from varied sources: reading, historical references, functional objects (furniture, jewelry and kinetic toys), architecture, and other artists' books. The book is a flexible framework for these influences." That flexibility is evident in all the books Barton has created in the last fifteen years. Her projects include pop-ups, structured and sculptured books, and tunnel books.

The bookworks of Carol Barton, William Drendel, and Jody Williams are the focus of the exhibition, "Trick and Treat: Books That Delight, Surprise and Engage," which is on display at Woodland Pattern Book Center through December 29, 2002.

Co-sponsored by the Golda Meir Library, the Friends of the Golda Meir Library, the UWM Department of Visual Art, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and the UWM Cultures and Communities Program.

For more information, please contact Max Yela, Special Collections, Golda Meir Library at (414) 229-4345.

Book artist and educator William Drendel is Director of the Columbia College's Book & Paper Arts Center. Drendel is also very active in the national book-arts community, and is a Co-Director of Paper & Book Intensive (PBI). He has taught workshops throughout the country and his work is in many important collections both here and abroad.

Drendel is interested in early bookbinding techniques and structures, but he uses those techniques and structures to make non-traditional books. Drendel's work tends, he says, to be "very sculptural, very graphic, and often very visually tactile." His books are made out of materials that range from goat-skin to wax paper to circuit boards. Because his books are often "kinetic," Drendel suggests they are "meant to be handled and played with." Books for non-readers as well as readers, sometimes they are not meant to be read at all, but merely looked at and enjoyed as objects.

Drendel's work is included in the exhibit, "Trick and Treat: Books That Delight, Surprise and Engage," which is on display at Woodland Pattern Book Center through to December 29, 2002.

Co-sponsored by the Golda Meir Library, the Friends of the Golda Meir Library, the UWM Department of Visual Art, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and the UWM Cultures and Communities Program.

For more information, please contact Max Yela, Special Collections, Golda Meir Library at (414) 229-4345.

JODY WILLIAMS Monday, September 30, 7:00 pm Special Collections 4th Floor, Golda Meir Library University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WORKSHOP Sunday, September 29, 1:00 pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee

Jody Williams has produced books since 1989 under her own Minneapolis imprint, Flying Paper Press. A printmaker as well as a book artist, Williams has exhibited her work in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her books are in collections at the Walker Arts Center and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and are also well represented in Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

Williams received an MFA in printmaking from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. She has taught 2D and 3D papermaking, printmaking, and technical and conceptual artists' books at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she currently works, as well as at the University of Minnesota, and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Williams works in a small format using handmade papers, copper-plate etchings, and silkscreen. While her books are small, each has an enormous presence. Williams' work includes accordion-book and box structures such as Time Will Tell (1991) Quintessential Questions (1996), and condensed creatures (2000), as well as The Diminutive Digest, a "tiny periodical devoted to tiny things," which Williams has published twice a year since 2001.

Williams' work is included in the exhibit, "Trick and Treat: Books That Delight, Surprise and Engage," which is on display at Woodland Pattern Book Center from September 23 to December 31, 2002.

Co-sponsored by the Golda Meir Library, the Friends of the Golda Meir Library, the UWM Department of Visual Art, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and the UWM Cultures and Communities Program.

For more information, please contact Max Yela, Special Collections, Golda Meir Library at (414) 229-4345.

This program is co-sponsored by the Golda Meir Library, the Friends of the Golda Meir Library,
the UWM Departments of English and Visual Art, the UWM Cultures and Communities Program, and the Woodland Pattern Book Center.