Quarto Newsletter Events Exhibits & Reviews Chapter Officers Midwest Links Back to GBW Stone Eye Exhibition Catalog Click here for a catalog order form Richard Taylor, Kentucky's most recent poet laureate, and Gray Zeitz, letterpress printer and owner of Larkspur Press, have produced the collection of poetry Stone Eye. Thirty-one bindings of this book have been made by bookbinders from the Midwest and throughout the country. All of these binders are members of the national group the Guild of Book Workers. The Midwest Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers has organized an exhibition of these individually designed and hand-bound books. (Click here for a review of the opening in Kentucky.) The exhibition catalog consists of both an abbreviated print version as well as a multimedia CD, which includes the bindings, readings by the poet, views of Kentucky, and traditional Kentucky old-time music. GBW Midwest Chapter member Pamela Rups of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is producing the Guild's first multimedia exhibition catalog. For a listing of the contents of both, click here. A deluxe edition, including a stone engraved with the stylized eye symbol, is also available. Every Stone Eye Catalog includes a stone. The stone in Deluxe edition is engraved with an eye. The exhibition will travel throughout the Midwest to the following venues, where you can also purchase the catalog: March 4-31: King Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky April 14-May 18: St Louis Artists' Guild, St Louis, Missouri May 24-June 23: Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, Lawrence July 1-July 26: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ohio August 5-Sept. 6: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Sept. 18-Nov. 8: Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota December 8-January 18, 2003: The Portland Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Click here for a catalog order form Stone Eye CD Contents For both Windows and Macintosh computers Subject to slight modifications Example Screenshots: The bindings The project Introduction The Project Biographies and artists statements History of the Stone Eye project History of GBW and Midwest Guild Animated tour of Kentucky with photos and music The Book Stone Eye elements Table of contents The colophon Picture of the title page Picture of the Whitesel edition Audio files Richard Taylor reading "Notes from a Manual on Form" (the poem with the "stone eye" quote) Richard Taylor reading "An Inner Tour of Shaker Village At Pleasant Hill, Kentucky." The Bindings The thirty-one bindings Index of binders The Catalog Production notes Credits Contributors Stone Eye Printed Catalog Contents Printed in full-color First Section Copyright and credits Project History History of GBW and the Midwest Chapter Biographies and artists' statements for Richard Taylor, Gray Zeitz, and Wesley Bates Sponsors Stone Eye colophon Second Section Photos and descriptions of the thirty-one bindings These pages were created by Eric Alstrom in July 1997 and last updated on Mon, Nov 1, 2004. Please mail comments, suggestions, failures to Eric Alstrom