[GBW] Tucson College Book Arts Association Meeting in January, 2008.

[Karen Hanmer <karen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is an invitation to any interested book arts educators to come to 
the first annual meeting of the newly formed organization, the College 
Book Arts Association, or CBAA. This is the group that was originally 
proposed at the informal gathering of book arts educators held in 
January 2006 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

The event will take place at the University of Arizona's College of Fine 
Art who has kindly agreed to be the host institution. Details are still 
being worked out on the schedule and will be posted soon, but to find 
out more about registration, accommodations and travel please go to 
collegebookart.org .

The confirmed dates are Friday, January 11 and Saturday, January 12, 
2008 in Tucson.

It has been proposed by the Board of Directors of CBAA, that there be a 
work-and-planning meeting of the new organization every other year (at 
least for the first few years) and a full book arts convention on the 
alternate year, which would be 2009. This upcoming no-frills 
get-together in January 2008 would be the first major planning meeting. 
The main point of the meeting needs to be the work of the organization 
which of course concerns the teaching of book arts. We will focus on how 
to make and have the organization be one that is responsive to member 
educator needs. It would be different in general tone and intention from 
earlier collegiate press conferences. This will not be a conference. 
This will be an organizational meeting that will set the course for this 
important new association.

If you would like to be part of what we hope will be a very important 
professional organization, we hope that we will see you in Tucson. If 
you feel that you would like to have input and you have ideas about what 
the CBAA can be, please reserve these two dates in January and stay 
tuned for more detailed info that will appear at the collegebookart.org 
website.


Philip Zimmermann
Professor, School of Art+Design
Purchase College, State University of New York
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase NY 10577-1400

914+251.6785 (academic year only)
845+876.2719 (home)

phil.zimmermann@xxxxxxxxxxxx
pzim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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Karen Hanmer
karen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.karenhanmer.com

01-20-09


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