Event Title
Art Books Cleveland 6th Annual ABECEDARIA Exhibition and the 3rd Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books - Dual Exhibition Opening Reception
Location
1754 East 47th Street, Cleveland, OH 44103
Event Website
http://www.morganconservatory.org
Start Date
10-12-2013 7:00 PM
End Date
10-12-2013 9:00 PM
Cost to Attend
Free
Pre-registration required?
No
Event Type
Opening/Open House, Reception
Description
Creative art books will abound in this double exhibit. Art Books Cleveland, housed at the Morgan Conservatory, presents art books exploring the alphabet, or an aspect of the alphabet in beautiful, clever, and sometimes whimsical perspectives of book forms. This year will feature their first guest artist, Alicia Bailey, renown book artist, and owner of Abecedarian Gallery in Denver, CO (www.abecedariangallery.com). One of the original founders of Octavofest, ABC is dedicated to exploring, encouraging, and teaching both contemporary and traditional artistic practices of the hand-made book.
Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books III, an international traveling exhibition of object books is curated by local artist and educator, Hui-Chu Ying, professor of art of theUniversityofAkron's Myers School of Art. The exhibit is a collaborative and educational project comprised of the work of over 100 visual artists. The artists have taken on the challenge of scaling down thoughts, text, images and materials and transformed them into readable, workable small-scale artists books that are a pleasure to handle, read and exhibit.
Event Location
Art Books Cleveland 6th Annual ABECEDARIA Exhibition and the 3rd Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books - Dual Exhibition Opening Reception
1754 East 47th Street, Cleveland, OH 44103
Creative art books will abound in this double exhibit. Art Books Cleveland, housed at the Morgan Conservatory, presents art books exploring the alphabet, or an aspect of the alphabet in beautiful, clever, and sometimes whimsical perspectives of book forms. This year will feature their first guest artist, Alicia Bailey, renown book artist, and owner of Abecedarian Gallery in Denver, CO (www.abecedariangallery.com). One of the original founders of Octavofest, ABC is dedicated to exploring, encouraging, and teaching both contemporary and traditional artistic practices of the hand-made book.
Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books III, an international traveling exhibition of object books is curated by local artist and educator, Hui-Chu Ying, professor of art of theUniversityofAkron's Myers School of Art. The exhibit is a collaborative and educational project comprised of the work of over 100 visual artists. The artists have taken on the challenge of scaling down thoughts, text, images and materials and transformed them into readable, workable small-scale artists books that are a pleasure to handle, read and exhibit.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/octavofest/2013/all/49