Bookbinding Now

Bookbinding Now is a New York-based community podcast posted every other Wednesday. Bookbinding Now is hosted by Susan Mills in conjunction with Full Tilt.

Full Tilt Intro and Update 11/11/2021

Full Tilt Intro and Update /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/21133934

2020 Update 12/18/2020

2020 Update 129. Susan Mills, longtime host of Bookbinding Now, here with a 2020 update. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/17238386

Sandra Brownlee 03/22/2020

Sandra Brownlee 128. Sandra Brownlee is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada where she practices weaving, tactile notebook keeping and teaching. Guest host is a textile and book artist also based in Halifax. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/13649363

Martha Cole 02/09/2020

Martha Cole 127. is a fiber artist who has explored artist books for 30 years. Wheat paste application is her primary medium. Guest host is a librarian and bookbinder who serves on the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild national board. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/13071725

Hedi Kyle 06/24/2019

Hedi Kyle 126. Hedi Kyle is the coauthor, with Ulla Warchol, of , a step-by-step guide to making a broad selection of her original structures, Laurence King Publishing, 2018. guest hosts. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/10256306

Sam Pelts 06/05/2019

Sam Pelts 125. is a special project of the CODEX Foundation, a collective global exclamation: “ENOUGH!” It will take place in multiple locations throughout the U.S. and abroad during the Summer of 2021. Sam Pelts is the organizer and coordinator of the project. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/10047074

Susanne Padberg 04/17/2019

Susanne Padberg 124g. The 7th Biennial was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all. Here and There is Everywhere has been the owner of Galerie DRUCK & BUCH since 1994 – first in Tübingen and now in Vienna. The gallery, next door to the Freud Museum in Vienna, specializes in international contemporary book art. As a traveling book art gallerist and curator in both Europe and the United States, she has encountered a number of differences in the book art world here and there. Despite that, she addresses three aspects – collecting, mission/contents/aesthetics, and book form. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/8982581

Victoria Bean 04/10/2019

Victoria Bean 124f. The 7th Biennial was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all. FLAG is a London based artist, writer, and visual poet, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and co-founder of Arc Editions. She is the co- editor of The New Concrete, an anthology of visual and concrete poetry in the 21st Century that features a hundred artists and writers who work across a variety of disciplines like art, poetry, graphics and literature. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/8982542

Till Verclas 04/03/2019

Till Verclas 124e. The 7th Biennial was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all. Black Truffles, Vibrant Colours Set Between Black and White — While still an art student in Hamburg in 1979, Verclas founded his own printmaking studio, going on to work with renowned German and American artists such as Baselitz and Twombly. Verclas works not only in printmaking, but also in large-scale sculpture in bronze, wood, and steel. His artist’s books are often made as a reaction to the sculptural installations. Verclas’s work can be found in public collections across Germany and the United States. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/8982566

Thomas Milroth 03/27/2019

Thomas Milroth 124d. THOMAS MILROTH The 7th Biennial was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all. Swe Den Thomas Milroth discusses the interaction between Danish and Swedish artists in Denmark and Copenhagen leading to an early outburst of artists' books and printed matter in the 30s, the 40's, and today. He emphasizes the book art activity in South Sweden and Denmark as well as the story of the early thoughts about an alternative space for art. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/8982560

David Paton 03/19/2019

David Paton 124c. The 7th Biennial was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all. The Jack Ginsberg Collection of Artists' Books: Highlights from 25 years of working with the collection in South Africa David Paton is currently Senior Lecture and past head of the Department (2004-2009) of Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He examines important curatorial projects and selected seminal moments from Jack Ginsberg's extensive Johannesburg-based . /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/8982602

Tatjana Bergelt 03/12/2019

Tatjana Bergelt 124b. The 7th Biennial was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all. From Finland barefoot in snow discusses her recent artist book From Finland barefoot in snow, a cassette with two books, edition of 4, Northern Sami / Finnish/ German languages, 2015. Focusing on the existential poetry by Sami activist Nils Aslak Valkeapää, yet deeply differing from Middle European existentialism, this artists' book project respects the very core of Nomad culture of the indigenous people of Europe in its visual form. Sami people have been relatively isolated in the very Northern part of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. They speak 10 different languages but yet still must fight for their rights of land ownership and identity. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/8982545

Pist Protta 03/05/2019

Pist Protta 124a. The 7th Biennial was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all. We always try to keep it simple Åse Eg Jørgensen, Jesper Fabricius and Jesper Rasmussen are co-editors of , a journal like no other. Firstly because it is rare that a Danish journal dedicated to contemporary art survives for so many years – Pist Protta is the oldest existing art journal in Denmark – and secondly, because it does not look like any other art journal. The principal rule the editors have adhered to is that no issue is to be like any previous one in either format or content. According to the co-editors’ motto Pist Protta is not only to be about art, but to be art, the individual issues can be seen as a hybrid between a magazine and an artist's book. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/8888459

Susan Joy Share 09/20/2017

Susan Joy Share 123. has worked with book art for 40 years, first in Brooklyn and then, since 1997, in Anchorage, Alaska. Guest host is Susan's 2013 video is . /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5756377

Nicholas Yeager 06/13/2017

Nicholas Yeager 122. Nicholas Yeager is a rare books librarian, historian of the book, scribe, motorcyclist, inventor of and the travel researcher . /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5445722

Keri Schroeder 05/10/2017

Keri Schroeder 121. Oakland-based Keri Schroeder publishes the new podcast series - exploring books in their natural habitat. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5342407

John DeMerritt 04/26/2017

John DeMerritt 120. San Francisco Bay Area bookbinder has been binding books professionally since 1986. He specializes in small editions and boxmaking. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5299420

Marshall Weber 04/05/2017

Marshall Weber 119f. The 6th Biennial was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form. Reflections on Diamond Leaves: Artists' Books in China Now Marshall Weber is an artist and curator. In 2012, he co-curated the first exhibition at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing with Chinese artist Xu Bing. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5238656

Gaylord Schanilec 03/28/2017

Gaylord Schanilec 119e. The 6th Biennial was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form. My Mighty Journey established his press, Midnight Paper Sales, in 1980. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5212931

Sue Anderson and Gwen Harrison 03/22/2017

Sue Anderson and Gwen Harrison 119d. The 6th Biennial was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form. Netting the Small Fry have worked collaboratively to create limited edition artists’ books for over ten years. Although many of their books focus on Australian historic sites and their stories, with a particular interest in institutionalization of certain groups of people, the works often reflect dramas that are universal. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5191496

Lu Jingren 03/21/2017

Lu Jingren 119c. The 6th Biennial was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form. Codex 2017 Symposium - Keynote Speaker has designed more than one thousand books, and is considered one of China's most influential book designers and illustrators. Lu Jingren's finest and most inventive works provide a modern response to the centuries-long traditions of both Chinese and Japanese book making. Live translator - /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5170546

Betty Bright 03/21/2017

Betty Bright 119b. The 6th Biennial was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form. Lines of Force: the Hand, the Book & the Body Electric is a writer, curator and historian who helped to start Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) in 1985 and authored No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 (Granary Press, 2005). /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5149304

Johannes Strugalla 03/21/2017

Johannes Strugalla 119a. The 6th Biennial was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form. Between Drawing & Printing Johannes Strugalla lives and works in Mainz and Paris. A visual artist and a poet, he is a co-founder of with his wife Françoise Despalles. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5127932

Patrick Kiley and Ben DuVall 03/21/2017

Patrick Kiley and Ben DuVall 118. Patrick Kiley and Ben DuVall collaborate at in Troy, New York. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5089830

Small Editions panel 03/21/2017

Small Editions panel 117. The Book, the Woman and the Body Politic - an artist talk and panel with and , moderated by Corina Reynolds of . This event was part of the NY Art Book Fair 2016, at MoMA PS1. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/5042622

Yishu Wang 03/21/2017

Yishu Wang 116. is one of 11 Chinese contemporary book artists exhibiting at the /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/4984814

Bexx Caswell 03/21/2017

Bexx Caswell 115. was founded in 1906 to "establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts." Current president Bexx Caswell speaks about sustaining the guild today. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/4905292

Sheehan/Holland 11/09/2016

Sheehan/Holland 114. is an artist in Cleveland Ohio; he teaches bookbinding and paper making workshops, and coordinates workshops and paper sales at the Morgan Conservatory. is an artist in Brooklyn; she is studio assistant and bookbinder at Small Editions and a core instructor at The Center for Book Arts in NYC. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/4816636

Julia Miller 10/26/2016

Julia Miller 113. Julia Miller is a book conservator and bookbinding historian based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of Books Will Speak Plain and edits the Suave Mechanicals series of essays on the history of bookbinding, all published by . /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/4768063

MenesesKremer 08/03/2016

MenesesKremer 112. was founded in 2014 by Juana Meneses + Leila A. Leder Kremer, in Miami, FL; guest hosts. /episode/index/show/bookbindingnow/id/4562339

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