January 31, 2014, Friday - Book Arts Roundtable at MCBA
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Book Arts Roundtable with visiting artist Emily Martin
Join Emily in discussion of her recently completed books, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Out There In Here, along with insight into her newest project, loosely titled "Desdemona Speaks Up," which incorporates prints, puppets and stop motion animation.
Emily Martin has been making movable and/or sculptural artists books since the late 1970’s. Her books are narrative sometimes autobiographical and make use of format as a metaphor for content. Emily Martin lives in Iowa City, Iowa, USA where she has her studio and also teaches at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Her work is in public and private collections throughout the United States and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; The Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, Florida and others.
Free and open to the public.