BookGirl

This was my first workshop of the year at Random Arts in Saluda: an encaustic collage class with Janet Lasher . Janet is a textile and fib...

"The only advice, indeed, that one person can give to another is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to take your own reas...

Well, I didn't get into the Hedi Kyle workshop at Penland , but did get into Laura Wait's workshop . I don't know where I fell ...

I've amassed quite a collection of books about making books. My friend Tess, a fellow bookmaker, taught herself to make books by workin...

I seem to be on reading jag lately, and so while I haven't stopped making books, I've been busier reading them. just finished Patri...

I recently read Elizabeth Gilbert's book, Eat, Pray, Love . I liked it, and recommend it. Following a messy divorce and a difficult lo...

I'll be taking a class -- Collaging with Words and Paint: Text and Texture -- with artist Ann Baldwin at Art and Soul in May. Art and...

So here's the plan: to spend one full day in my studio every week. Now that I have a functional and comfortable space, I have no excuse...

A few days ago I read an interview with Joan Lyons from 2005 . She was the founding coordinator of the seminal Visual Arts Workshop (VSA), ...

My worktable arrived yesterday morning, and Bill Bennert, who delivered it himself, re-assembled it in my studio. He'd taken off the to...

The worktable is ready; Bill asked if I wanted to visit it at his workshop, since it won't arrive before Monday. Steven and I have a bu...

This past weekend I took Dan Essig's 'Windows and Closures' class at BookWorks . I heard that students who had taken classes f...

Well, the worktable will indeed be more than I expected -- considerably more -- but I gave the go-ahead. It's a long-term purchase and ...

It's time to give up whatever illusions I might have had about using my standard desk as a worktable for bookmaking, and spring for a pr...

The past 7 days feel like many more. Steven, my husband, was scheduled to speak at a conference in New York City, so we planned a long week...

I did a fairly impulsive thing this past weekend, flying to Washington, D.C. to catch the last day of the exhibition "20 Years of Artis...

This morning a new friend and I were talking about our belief that engaging in art is important and necessary for personal development. Thi...

Over the past couple of years I've become a little fanatical about collecting books about making books. Since I've always been pret...

I've been looking forward to being an Ashevillian for many years -- since the '80s -- and finally managed to get myself here via a c...