[GBW] ANNOUNCEMENT: Grolier Club September exhibitions (NYC)

[Guild of Book Workers <publicity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are going to be in New York City, here are two exhibits you might
want to check 
out.  Of course, we hope many of you will be in NYC in October, when the
GBW exhibits 
will still be on display.

Eric
GBW Publicity Chair


----- Original message -----
From: "Megan Smith" <msmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: PR: Art and calendar listings@, @
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:04:41 -0400
Subject: Grolier Club Sept. exhibitions

The Grolier Club will start the fall season with two new exhibitions 
opening in September, to which you are cordially invited. 

In the main gallery, the Club is proud to present the Guild of Book
Workers Centenary Exhibition, opening to the public on September 20. The 
exhibition, consisting of both a juried selection drawn from the Guild's 
approximately one thousand members, and a historical retrospective of
work produced by the Guild, will reflect the maturation of this
venerable 
organization and highlight its many contributions to the book arts.  The 
Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 in America to "establish and 
maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the 
several hand book crafts." Among its early members were well-known 
artist-craft workers such as bookbinder Edith Diehl and printers and 
typographers W.A. Dwiggins and Frederic W. Goudy.  The Guild has now 
evolved into a national organization whose members' activities encompass 
artist's books, bookbinding, calligraphy, conservation, and decorated 
papers.  As it marks its centenary, the work produced by Guild members
has evolved from being primarily focused on the art of traditional
"fine" 
binding in leather with ornate gold tooling to more conceptual works 
embracing the artists' book movement, embracing sculptural books and 
innovative structures.

The Club's second floor gallery will present a special exhibition of The 
Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings, opening to
the public on Sept. 14.  This remarkable, often jewel-like assemblage is 
comprised of two hundred and fifty artist-designed, unique bindings for 
miniature books, each individually commissioned by the collector. With
the aim of fostering creativity, Mr. Albert provided complete artistic
freedom to each binder for the collection, setting no limit to their
selection
of materials or theme, and the result includes some of the most
imaginative 
bindings ever conceived.  Free to follow their inspiration, the binders 
crafted these miniature volumes into diminutive contemporary artworks
that often stretch the limits of the binder's art and are conceptions at
once 
poetic, whimsical and surprising. The collection includes examples from 
binders in France, Belgium, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Japan, Israel, 
Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, Denmark, Argentina, 
Australia, Malta, Spain, Greece, Canada, and the United States.

Catalogues for both exhibitions will be available soon.
For further information, please contact the Club at 212-838-6690.

All best wishes,

Megan Smith



Exhibitions Coordinator
The Grolier Club
47 E. 60th Street
New York, NY 10022
Tel: 212-838-6690
Fax: 212-838-2445
e-mail: msmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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