[EKStationers] Book Arts Fair 2006 on June 17 (fwd)

[Lyle H. Gray]

Forwarded from the Letterpress list.

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:28:54 -0400
From: Grant F. Wilkins <grant.wilkins at SYMPATICO.CA>
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Subject: [LETPRESS] Book Arts Fair 2006 on June 17

LetPressers

List members who are going to be in the Ottawa (Ontario, Canada)
area on Saturday, June 17th may find the annual CBBAG Book Fair
to be of interest....

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A BOOK ARTS FAIR!

17 June 2006, 10.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Free to the Public
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington St., Room A
Ottawa, Ontario

Come b(u)y and see

On Saturday, June 17, 2006, the Canadian Bookbinders and Book
Artists Guild will present a Book Arts Fair at Library and
Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St., Room A, Ottawa, Ontario.

The fair is open to the public and admission is free.

This unique event will present a wide variety of work, including
unique artist books, letter-pressed broadsides and publications,
livres d'artiste, binding supplies - both for exhibit and for
sale. Exhibitors include Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists
Guild members, such as book artists Lise Melhorn-Boe, North Bay,
Ontario; Jacques Fournier, Montreal, Quebec; Norma Frolander,
Pembroke Ontario; Peter Sramek, Toronto, Ontario; bookbinders
Terry Rutherford, Port Moody, British Columbia; Janet Jancar,
Ottawa, Ontario; papermaker Audrey Hollinger, Waterloo Ontario;
paper marbler Lucie Lapierre, Chateauguay, Quebec; fine printers:
Grace Notes Press, Burlington, Ontario; the Ottawa Press Gang:
Rick Coxford, Holly Dean and Larry Thompson, Susan Globensky,
April Flanders, Roberta Huebener, Britt Quinlan and Grant
Wilkins.

As well, Firefly author and artist George A. Walker will be at
the Fair, showing new work and signing his book The Woodcut
Artist's Handbook.

Library and Archives Canada will exhibit a sampling of its
collection of fine press books and livres d'artiste during the
CBBAG Book Arts Fair. This exhibition, located in the lobby of
Library and Archives Canada, will include a selection of recent
acquisitions by book artists and fine presses from across the
country. In addition, the exhibition will feature CBBAG's newest
collective work, A Book Arts Mosaic.

The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild is a
not-for-profit, charitable, volunteer-run organization which
organizes exhibitions, workshops, a bindery and open studio,
public lectures, a quarterly newsletter, a biennial suppliers
list, an audio-visual lending library, and many other activities.
Visit the CBBAG website at www.cbbag.ca for further details or
email the Guild at cbbag at cbbag.ca.

For more information contact: Randall Ware, Public Programs
Officer Library and Archives Canada Telephone: (613) 992-0057