November 2-30, 2012: Exhibition / Workshop
Chad Pastotnik has operated his Deep Wood Press on the banks of the Cedar River in Northern Michigan’s Antrim County for twenty years. His limited-edition fine press books are printed via letterpress on fine paper, illustrated with original wood engravings, linocuts, and intaglio prints, and bound by hand in traditional and contemporary book structures.
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October 5-26, 2012: Exhibition / Lecture / Workshop
Nate Powell, cover for “Swallow Me Whole”
The KBAC is pleased to join the Friends of the WMU Libraries, the WMU English Department, and the Gwen Frostic School of Art to host graphic novelist Nate Powell, who will present an exhibition, workshop, and lecture. Powell’s graphic novel Swallow Me Whole (2008) was an Eisner Award winner for Best Graphic Novel, Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and Ignatz Award winner. Other works by Powell include Any Empire, The Silence Of Our Friends, and the forthcoming March, a graphic novel autobiography of civil rights legend and sitting Congressman John Lewis, to be published by Top Shelf in 2014. For more information visit: www.seemybrotherdance.org.
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March 2–30, 2012: Exhibition / Lecture / Poetry Reading / Collaborative Project
Jen Bervin: detail, “The Composite Marks of Fascicle 28″
Jen Bervin’s work brings together text and textile in a practice that encompasses artist books, poetry, large-scale art works, and archival research. Her visual work has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center and elsewhere. Bervin currently teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. View the Jen Bervin website.
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October 6-28, 2011: Exhibition / Lecture / Workshop
Honeybee from "Beyond the 6th Extinction"
September 23-25, 2010: Lecture / Workshops
Peter & Donna Thomas' Gypsy Wagon
Book artists Peter and Donna Thomas, the authors and illustrators of More Making Books By Hand, visited us with their custom-made gypsy van “bookmobile” to present workshops and a lecture. Renowned as creators of miniature and artists’ books since 1977, they have produced over 125 limited editions and 300 one-of-a-kind books, found in collections around the globe. They are active in the Miniature Books Society and the Friends of Dard Hunter and reside in Santa Cruz, California.