Category: exhibition

Artists’ books do change the conversation

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Over this past year, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of working with my colleague Jane Carlin, who recently retired as Library Director of the Collins Library at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. She and I worked together on an essay that appeared in a 2023 exhibition catalog for a show at Collins: “Artists’ Books Do Change the Conversation.”. Changing the Conversation: Artists’ Books, Zines and Broadsides from the Collins Memorial Library Collection and another essay we’ve recently submitted for publication (stay tuned!) entitled “The power of artists’ books: catalysts for creative thinking across the curriculum”. This past summer I had the wonderful experience of jurying the exhibition Dreams: an International Juried Exhibition of Book Art with Jane and Erin Mickelson of 23 Sandy Gallery. Visiting with Jane and Erin in Tacoma and installing this show was a highlight of the summer. While there, I also had amazing visits with many Puget Sound artists.

Artist’s Books Exhibitions

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While the pandemic has been difficult in many ways, it also provided space for reflection and renewal and sparked many new art works and projects for me including calligraphic, musical, and artist’s books.

Several of my artist’s books created over the last year have been selected for a variety of exhibitions, including invitational and juried shows, both national and international.

International Juried Exhibitions

National Juried Exhibitions

Invitational Exhibitions

Artist’s book accepted to juried gallery exhibition

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I’m excited to share with you all that my artist’s book _We Are Writing These Things_ has been selected for a juried gallery exhibition at Galaudet Gallery (Chicago and Eau Claire, Wisconsin). The show is called Sense of Place: HERE and will run from 1 June to 25 September 2018. Over 650 artworks from over 250 artists were submitted for this show, so i’m thrilled to have been accepted.


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KnownUnknown selected for more gallery shows

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I’m thrilled to announce that my artist’s book, KnownUnknown has been selected to appear in two more juried shows after it’s debut in the Ideation Experience show at Abecedarian Gallery in Denver this summer.

My book is currently part of Words|Matter: A Library for Artist’s Books exhibition in Chicago (October 3-29) and was also chosen to appear in Blood Quantum (November 6 – December 19) at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

I am honored to have been selected for these three juried shows alongside many well known book artists that I admire and have collected as part of the Baylor Book Arts Collection.

Shā Towers
Art Liaison Librarian and Director of Liaison Services
Baylor Libraries