{"id":10075,"date":"2018-05-29T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=10075"},"modified":"2018-08-15T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:14:02","slug":"book-exhibit-a-garden-of-earthly-delights-recent-work-by-mark-hoppmann-aug-9-oct-14-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/book-exhibit-a-garden-of-earthly-delights-recent-work-by-mark-hoppmann-aug-9-oct-14-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"A Garden of Earthly Delights &#8211; Artists&#8217; Books &amp; Sketches by Mark Hoppmann, Aug. 9 \u2013 Oct. 14, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/05\/GardenEarthlyDelights_Image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10388\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/05\/GardenEarthlyDelights_Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a>Opening Reception<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Saturday, August 11, 4:00\u20135:30pm,<\/strong><\/em> <strong><em>Collins Library, <\/em><\/strong><em>Pacific NW Room &#8211; hors d\u2019oeuvres will be served<\/em><strong><em>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related events:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Sunday, September 23, 2018: Open Cases: co-sponsored by the Puget Sound Book Artists, 2:00\u20134:00pm, Collins Library. <\/em>A unique chance to handle the books and see the illustrations.<\/li>\n<li><em>Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Sketch In with the Artist, 10:00am \u2013 3:00pm, Collins Library.<\/em> Mark Hoppmann will be demonstrating sketching, in collaboration with the Slater Museum. He will be sketching from museum specimens of local wildlife that has inspired his recent work in A Garden of Earthly Delights. Everyone is welcome to bring in their own sketchbooks and join in the fun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Partially funded by a Tacoma Artist Initiative Project (TAIP) grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission,<em> The Garden of Earthly Delights <\/em>is an exhibition of nine new works by Tacoma book artist and illustrator, Mark Hoppmann.\u00a0 See if you can translate the cryptic text of Coptic bound, <em>Tacoma Codex I<\/em>, a handwritten and illustrated manuscript transcribed in a new alphabet inspired by the decaying wharfs of Tacoma\u2019s seafaring past.\u00a0 Explore the strange collection of images found in <em>A Garden of Earthly Delights<\/em> which Hieronymus Bosch might have used in his masterpiece, had he lived in the present day Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to alliterative haiku in <em>Northwest Aliterations<\/em>, a collection of sketches<em> titled Gargoyles<\/em>, and other new works, the exhibition will also include previous works and many of the artist\u2019s past and current sketchbooks, studies, and tools, all of which challenge the viewer\u2019s perceptions of the Pacific Northwest and the art of the book.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Hoppmann graduated from Drake University with a BFA in graphic Design and Commercial Art in addition to studying art for one year in Florence Italy.\u00a0 After working for twenty years in the graphic arts industry as an offset pressman, prepress and bindery operator, he resumed his art career and has been an artist in Tacoma Washington, working primarily as a book artist, illustrator, and watercolor painter for the last twenty years.\u00a0 He says, I have always been curious.\u00a0 That curiosity has resulted in an eclectic accumulation of bric-a-brac, memories, experiences, and books, all which in turn, inspire my art.\u00a0 With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, my intent is to design illustrated books for those, \u201cwith \u2018satiable curtiosity.\u201d \u00a0Simple and sometimes unadorned, but thoughtfully creative book designs hide a treasury of illustrations within.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Reception Saturday, August 11, 4:00\u20135:30pm, Collins Library, Pacific NW Room &#8211; hors d\u2019oeuvres will be served. Related events: Sunday, September 23, 2018: Open Cases: co-sponsored by the Puget Sound Book Artists, 2:00\u20134:00pm, Collins Library. A unique chance to handle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/book-exhibit-a-garden-of-earthly-delights-recent-work-by-mark-hoppmann-aug-9-oct-14-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10075"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions\/10465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}