The University of Iowa Graduate School

SCHEDULE

Thursday, January 8

12.00 - 4.00 pm
Registration, Main Library
Portfolio Reviews
Tours of Oakdale Papermaking Facility
Tours of North Hall Printing, Bookbinding, Papermaking, and Historical Printing Facilities
1.00 - 4.00 pm
Three Exhibits at the Main Library, with gallery talks by curators Jim Snitzer, Sara Sauers, and Gary Frost
Exhibit at the Old Capitol Museum: Artists Books from UI Special Collections
Iowa Artisans Gallery: CBAA Members Show
Arts Iowa City - BookEnviron: Iowa City
2.00 - 4.00 pm
Reception, Main Library
4.15 - 6.00 pm
Welcome and Presidential Remarks: John Risseuw
Keynote Address: Tate Shaw, "Enfolded by Holes: a talk on book openings"
6.00 - 8.00 pm
CBAA Members Show Reception and Student Awards Announced at Iowa Artisans Gallery
8.00 pm
Dinner on own

Friday, January 9

Note: Three panel sessions will run concurrently in ninety-minute blocks, with twenty minutes per presentation followed by time for questions and discussion.

8.00 - 9.00 am
Registration and Coffee, Main Library
Coffee
9.00 - 10.30 am
Keynote Address: Randall McLeod, "Fearful Asymmetry"
10.45 am - 12.15 pm Session A
1. Old Systems, New Media: Megan Berner, Johnny Carrera, Jessica C. White [Seamans Center Room TBA]
2. Risk and Renewal in Letterpress: Betty Bright, Harry Reese, Inge Bruggeman [Seamans Center Room TBA]
3. Scraps/Archives/Collage: Lisa Kohlmeier, Michael Chasar, Sarah McCoy [Seamans Center Room TBA]
12.15 - 1.30 pm
Lunch
Informal Professional Development Sessions
1.30 - 3.00 pm Session B
4. Artists Books and Pedagogy I.: Jody Williams, Lisa Beth Robinson, Katherine McCanless Ruffin [Seamans Center Room TBA]
5. The Margins of Marginalia: Margot Ecke, Laurie Whitehill Chong, Jen Bervin, Jordan Dalton [Seamans Center Room TBA]
6. The New Old Media: John McVey, Gregory Prickman, Yung-Hsing Wu [Seamans Center Room TBA]
3.15 - 4.45 pm Session C
7. Technologies of Form: Benjamin Gardner, Charles Zarobila, Gary Frost [Seamans Center Room TBA]
8. Critique and the Artists Book: Elisabeth Long, Michelle Strizever, Susan Viguers [Seamans Center Room TBA]
9. Internationalizing the Book Arts: Anna Embree, Steve Miller, Barbara Tetenbaum, Oto Reifschneider [Seamans Center Room TBA]
1.30 - 4.45 pm
Demonstration: Embossing and Debossing with John G. Henry
Demonstration: Papermaking with Timothy Barrett
5.15 - 6.45 pm Session D
10. How Low-Quality Text Debases High-Quality Art: Brandon Graham, Karol Shewmaker, Matthew Aron [Seamans Center Room TBA]
11. The Content of the Form: Edwin Jager and John Smith, Cristina de Almeida, Emily Martin [Seamans Center Room TBA]
12. The Renaissance and the Book Arts: Simran Tadani, Whitney Trettien, Jeffrey Makala [Seamans Center Room TBA]
7.00 - 8.00 pm
Reception, Old Capitol Museum
8.00
Dinner on own

Saturday, January 10

Note: Three panel sessions will run concurrently in ninety-minute blocks, with twenty minutes per presentation followed by time for questions and discussion.

8.00 - 9.00 am
Coffee, Seamans Center
9.00 - 10.30 am Session E
13. The Performed Book: Mark Mattes, Kate Wilson, Steve Wilson [Seamans Center Room TBA]
14. Artists’ Books in the Liberal Arts Curriculum: Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, Ruth R. Rogers, Suzy Taraba, Kristi Wermager [Seamans Center Room TBA]
15. High Theory: Sarah Hulsey, Manuel Portela, Pei-Ju Wu [Seamans Center Room TBA]
10.45 am - 12.15 pm Session F
16. The Visual Culture of Books: David Berona, Julie Melby, Amanda Nelsen [Seamans Center Room TBA]
17. Meditations on Loss: Doro Boehme, Diane Fine and Mario Laplante, Maria Pisano [Seamans Center Room TBA]
18. Museums and Histories: Sheelagh Bevan, Jennifer Chisnell, Melissa Tedone [Seamans Center Room TBA]
9.00 am - 12.00 pm
Demonstration: Polymer Plate Printing with Dan Mayer
Demonstration: Tooling with Jana Pullman
12.15 - 1.30 pm
Lunch
Informal Work Exchange Session
1.30 - 3.00 pm Session G
19. Artists Books and Pedagogy II.: Kitty Maryatt, Robert Blesse and Kate Govan, Daniel Kelm [Seamans Center Room TBA]
20. Mediating the Literary Canon: Stacy Erickson, Jessica DeSpain, Kristan Gannaway [Seamans Center Room TBA]
21. Craft and its Contexts: Jeffrey Abshear, Sara Langworthy, Lance Hidy [Seamans Center Room TBA]
3.30 - 5.30 pm Session H
22. Extreme Materialist Readings of Medieval Books: Pat Conner, Elaine Treharne, Cheryl Jacobsen, Martha Rust [Seamans Center Room TBA]
23. Model Teaching: Artists’ Book Exemplars in theClassroom, with Macy Chadwick, Julie Chen, Betsy Davids, Alisa Golden, Michael Henninger, Charles Hobson, Nance O’Banion, Chris Rolik, Kathleen Walkup [Seamans Center Room TBA]
24. Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Tatiana Ginsberg and Lee Running;Michele Burgess and Anne Bahde; David Bendernagel, Maggie Booth, Jeremy Chen, and Lydia Diemer [Seamans Center Room TBA]
3.30 - 5.30 pm
Demonstration: Woodcut and Letterpress Printing with Katie Baldwin and Tricia Treacy
7.00 pm
Banquet and Auction