Artist Talk/Poetry Reading:
Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7-9 p.m., Library 020.
“Printer & Poet: In Collaborative Spirit” with May Day Press proprietor Catherine Alice Michaelis & local poet Anne Spiers.

Catherine Alice Michaelis has collaborated with local poet Ann Spiers on several May Day Press publications. Together they will discuss the creative process of artist and writer collaboration and the synergy created from the intersection of these two fields.

Quintessence: The Ethereal and Material That Inspire the May Day Press
Catherine Alice Michaelis has long been inspired by plants to create artists’ books and prints. Passionate for the green world, Michaelis’ work has traveled from mayflowers to maypoles to pole stars to pentagonal symmetry. In this show she shares a selection from 19 years of letterpress printing and book design. Her colorful work uses letterpress printing, often combined with other printing techniques, along with skillful paper engineering that has become the hallmark of this Washington artist’s work.

Show runs Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011- Friday, April 14, 2011

Opening Reception:
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Refreshments provided.

Music at Collins Library
“Fabulous Flutes: A performance by flute chamber ensembles from the School of Music”
Friday, March 25, 2011
2:30-3 p.m.
Collins Library Reading Room

Have you collected items on your favorite topic? Maybe it’s Science Fiction, Operas, graphic novels, or even your favorite author. If your collection consists of mostly books, but maybe includes materials like photos, illustrations, maps, ephemera, CDs, music scores, or posters… then Say YES – and enter up to 30 items in the Collins Library Book Collecting Contest! This contest is open to full-time Puget Sound undergraduates. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE MARCH 24, 2011, 5:00 PM.

Collins library encourages your appreciation of reading and collected works for pleasure and scholarship. Contestants are invited to a reception at the Collins Memorial Library, April 15, 2010, 3:30 – 4:30 where contest winners will be annnounced. Submit your entry now!

Image from 23sandy.com website

An Evening with Laura Russell:  Photographic Artists’ Books
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Puget Sound Book Artists

Collins Memorial Library, Room 020
University of Puget Sound

Puget Sound Book Artists is pleased to host an evening with Laura Russell, of 23 Sandy Gallery, a fine art gallery in Portland, Oregon that presents local and national artists working in the fields of book and paper arts, photography and mixed media.  Laura is an accomplished photographer and book artist who creates hand-bound limited edition artist books and exhibits widely. Laura holds a BBA from Northwood University and had a 15-year career in graphic design and marketing before becoming a full time working artist in 2002 and then opening the gallery in 2007. She is a past board member of the non-profit Photolucida and past co-president of the Colorado Women’s Caucus for Art. She is a current board member of both the Portland Art Museum’s Photo Council and the Portland Art Dealers Association.  Her books are collected by many museums and libraries; including the University of California, the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Tate Collection (London) as well as  Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound.

Her illustrated presentation will feature the work of photographers and book artists from around the world who are creating artists books to showcase their photographs. View purely visual books that allow the images to tell their own story, and books that marry image with text to form a compelling narrative. The artist books presented use everything from paladium prints to ink jet prints to cyanoprints. Explore structures from the simple stapled pamphlet to the traditional codex to sculptural books that challenge the viewer’s definition of a book.

The presentation is about 40 minutes, followed by a show and tell of books from gallery inventory plus Laura’s own photographic artist books. You are encouraged to bring your own photographically illustrated books as well!

Directions and parking information available from the university web site:  http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/visiting-puget-sound/directions/

Questions? Contact Jane Carlin: jcarlin@pugetsound.edu