This 2018-2019 season, we will be offering 3 challenges to inspire your creativity between September and June. At the September meeting, we picked out of the box challenge number 10: Buttonhole / Boutonnière. It is up to you to interpret… Continue Reading →
Saturday, October 13, 2018 Miniatures are all the craze right now! And I mean MINI! We will start at 2″ x 1.5″ then go to 1.5″ x 1″ and if you are brave even 1″ x 7/8″. This workshop will… Continue Reading →
Bring EVERYTHING you have worked on this summer!! This is your chance to show off your work and tell us all about anything book/art oriented that you did over the summer!! This month’s meeting will also be a chance to… Continue Reading →
Sunday to Friday, September 16 to 21, 2018 (6 days) This intensive 6-day core course will teach the student all the fundamentals required for finishing on leather. Topics covered include: types of leather; tanning processes; and the best leather to… Continue Reading →
Saturday, September 29, 2018 Learn the basics of bookbinding in this one-day workshop. You will learn the terms used in bookbinding, familiarize yourself with the tools, and create samples of simple books including: stitched pamphlets, Japanese stab binding and a… Continue Reading →
"A revolutionary American scientist is using subatomic physics to decipher 2,000-year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization"
"...as I walk through the galleries, as I survey the cases of books safe behind their glass, it occurs to me that if a book is a thing meant to be read, then in a certain sense, these objects have ...
June is our year-end wrap-up, election of officers and planning session for next season’s programme. Bring your ideas and your energy, your monthly challenge item (Celebration), as well as your Show and Tell. June Meeting – AGM Year End report (Steve)… Continue Reading →
May 31 – July 1, 2018 This exhibition is a collaboration between Possible Worlds (708G Somerset St W) and Galerie Annexe, Ottawa Art Gallery (3 Daly Avenue). It highlights an emerging print scene that is developing in Ottawa-Gatineau. Make sure to visit both sites to… Continue Reading →
The Ottawa Valley Chapter hosted the 2018 Books Arts Show and Sale on the twelfth of May at the Glebe Community Centre in Ottawa. It was the culmination of months of planning by Spike Minogue, the event organizer. This year… Continue Reading →
Grimsby, Ontario Saturday, April 28, 2018 For forty years, friends and lovers of the printed word have gaggled to the foot of the Niagara Escarpment on the last Saturday in April to participate in a modern wayzgoose. This year, fifty… Continue Reading →
May 3 to June 17, 2018 The Ottawa School of Art (OSA) Gallery hosts its seventh international biennale juried exhibition of miniature prints. This year’s miniprint exhibition has over 260 works, over 100 artists and 20 countries. More information Located at OSA’s… Continue Reading →
At the May meeting, we picked out of the box challenge number 9: Celebration. It is up to you to interpret it any way you like and use it to produce a book arts related work. We’d love to see… Continue Reading →
This month’s programme consists of a talk: Artists’ Book Content by Larry Thompson. Last minute preparations for the Book Arts Show and Sale 2018, which will be help on May 12. Also bring your creations, including the results from April’s Book Arts Challenge –… Continue Reading →
National Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives Monday, May 7, 2018 to Monday, September 3, 2018 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa Library and Archives hours The Golden Cockerel Press was an important part of Britain’s fine-press movement. This exhibition features outstanding examples… Continue Reading →
Featured artists (some CBBAG-OV members): Geneviève Belzile, Manon Boulet, Deirdre Hierlihy, Louise Lépine, Nathalie Morin, Madeleine Rousseau, Denise Tremblay. At The Crichton Street Gallery, 299 Crichton Street, Ottawa Saturdays, May 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2018 (11 am to 4 pm)… Continue Reading →
Friday and Saturday, May 4-5 The last Marbling course we offered (in March) was such a great success we are offering the same course again! There were a few on the waiting list but we have lots of spots still… Continue Reading →
At the April meeting, we picked out of the box challenge number 8: Creative closures. It is up to you to interpret it any way you like and use it to produce a book arts related work. We’d love to… Continue Reading →
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