November 9, 2014, Sunday - Reception and Reading to Celebrate the Artist's Book Echoes and Exhibition One Book, Many Vessels at MCBA

Time: 1:00pm–4:00pm, with a reading at 2pm

Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Join us for a reception celebrating this exhibition and the publication of Echoes, an artist’s book featuring poetry by Georgia A. Greeley, Diane LeBlanc, Jim Moore and Yvonne Pearson, and essays by Sue Bjerke and Karen Hering.
 
One Book, Many Vessels
October 31, 2014 – January 18, 2015
MCBA Lerner Bindery Gallery

One Book
Echoes. The cave paintings, rune stones, petroglyphs and other ancient markings are echoes of our human ancestry in a past so distant as to be unimaginable. What did the images mean to the originators? What do they mean to us today? Were these ancient scribes making a history for their own people or for future populations? Were they recording important rites and events or simply trying to ornament their lives? We study and speculate using other archeological remains but we can never know with any certainty what these long-dead people meant by leaving marks. We can only imagine as we see the images and try to hear those distant echoes.
 
Many Vessels
Modern cartonnage grows out of the long-standing French tradition of handmade structures covered with decorative materials. Sue Bjerke’s emphasis is on using book board and marbled papers.
 
This event is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served.