Aug 20, 2024 Now on display! Record Keepers and Record Makers
"We are all en mal d'archive: in need of archives...
May 01, 2023 Book of the Week — Local Conditions
"Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, new-born world, yet withal so fine and so beautiful it might well fire the dullest observer to desperate enthusiasm." — John Muir,...
Nov 21, 2022 Book of the Week — Civil Dis-course: A Holiday Tool Kit
"Let's have a civil conversation! We agree to respect one another as we talk and listen. No eye-rolling. No attitude...
Jun 27, 2022 Now on Display! Printing Through the Pandemic
Printing Through the Pandemic J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah Levels 1 & 4 June 24 - September 23, 2022 This exhibition is free and open to the public. Delirium Philip Zimmermann Tucson, AZ: Spaceheater Editions, 2020 N7433.4 Z55 D45 2020 In early March 2020, under orders to evacuate the print shop, Emily...
Mar 02, 2021 Book of the Week — Ingress / Egress
"A book is an architectural space where you can wander about, looking back and forth, all around, in and out, opening and closing doors — it's your room." Ingress / Egress Ellen Knudson Gainesville, FL: Crooked Letter Press, 2015 N7433.4 K58 I54 2015 Celebrated annually, Read Across America Day was...
Oct 29, 2020 Rare Books Digital Exhibition — The Pursuit of Reading
Virginia Woolf said “…the pursuit of reading is carried on by private people.” So, too, is the pursuit of fine bookmaking. As the quality of bookmaking declined in the nineteenth century due to mass production, a few dedicated book lovers became book makers in order...
Jan 23, 2020 Good News & Great Work From the Library
First, Amy Thompson, Book Arts Designer and Instructor, is going to have one of her pieces featured in an upcoming exhibition. Ink, Press, Repeat, is a “national juried exhibition of traditional and digital print media and book art by 37 professional artists from across the...
May 28, 2019 Head of the Book Arts Program Goes the Distance with Artist Book for Spike 150
On May 10, 2019, the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike, the wedding of the Transcontinental Railroad, will be celebrated widely. As part of Spike 150, exhibitions and events are happening throughout Utah, and one such exhibition is Transcontinental: People, Place, Impact, which highlights the...
Oct 04, 2018 We recommend — Book as Archive & Enclosure
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Jul 10, 2017 We Recommend — One for the Books
Jessica Peterson, book artist, letterpress printer, and graphic designer is the owner of The Southern Letterpress in New Orleans. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama and a BFA from The School of Art Institute of Chicago. While visiting the J....
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