[GBW] Book Arts Lecture in Portland, OR

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Three Book Artists to Present Their Work at PSU
Lecture

May 10th, 5pm
Room #260
724 SE Harrison
Portland State University

This event is free and open to the public

Book artists Sue Allen, Susan Collard, and Shu-Ju Wang
will be talking about their work at a lecture on May
10th at 5 pm, at Portland State University's Neuberger
Hall. The lecture is in conjunction with the Guild of
Bookworkers 100th Annual Book Arts Exhibition, which
is being shown at the Portland State University
Library from April 9th to May 20th, 2007. The exhibit
features work by these three artists, as well as 59
other members of the Guild.

Susan Collard is an architect and book artist in
Portland, Oregon who makes one-of-a-kind collaged and
constructed books. She has exhibited work in numerous
shows, most recently N x NW : 6 x 6 x 6 at the 2005
Standards of Excellence conference, and The Boys' and
Girls' Bookshelf, a Denver exhibition of altered
books. Her book "Life Stories of Dying Penitents"
received both The People's Choice Award and First
Prize for Use of Found Objects at the Northwest
Bookfest in Seattle, 2001. She holds a Bachelor of
Architecture from Cornell
University and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from
the University of Arizona.

Sue Allen has been a printmaker for over thirty years,
producing a line of hand-pulled cards and original
limited edition screenprints. She earned a degree in
architecture from The Cooper Union in New York City.
After years of printmaking, she decided to explore
three-dimensional work in the book arts, with the
original intention of producing special
limited-edition portfolios for suites of prints. All
along the way there has been a strong influence from
the Japanese
aesthetic. Recently she completed a suite of sixteen
screenprints depicting lanterns in the Portland
Japanese Garden.

Born and raised in Taiwan, Shu-Ju Wang settled in
Oregon after stays in Saudi Arabia, California, and
New Jersey. Trained as an engineer, she started taking
classes at Oregon College of Art & Craft (then Oregon
School of Arts & Crafts), and had her first solo
exhibit at the school's Centrum Gallery in 1996. In
2000, she left the high tech industry to become a full
time studio artist working in painting, printmaking,
and artist's books. With one foot firmly rooted in the
Pacific Northwest and the other in the artistic
traditions of East & Central Asia and the Middle East,
Shu-Ju paints a portrait of her sometimes wonderful,
sometimes unsettling, first generation American
life.

The 100th anniversary exhibit of the Guild of
Bookworkers is being shown in the new book area on the
1st floor of the Portland State University Library.
The exhibit is being shown in two parts, the second of
which will be installed this Friday.

The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to
"establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and
mutual interest among workers in the several hand book
crafts." Its members hope to broaden public awareness
of the hand book arts, to stimulate commissions of
fine
bindings, and to stress the need for sound book
conservation and restoration.

This talk is made possible by support from the Art
Department at Portland State.

For information on this lecture, please contact Dan
Webb at 503 253 3491 dlwebb02@yahoo. com

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