April things to do!

Edit: Hey, I see this post is getting a lot of traffic! For new visitors, please note that I update this listing as the month goes on. It might be wise to bookmark the page...just sayin'.

There wasn't much happening in March. Don't worry, April's gonna make up for it! First, though, a shameless plug: MY event  (yes, MINE!) is in April! April 9! Please come to the Panel Discussion at Vox Populi on the state of arts writing Philadelphia. I'll be representing PaperClips215 in conversation with some amazing folks fro the Philadelphia Inquirer, Title Magazine, UArts, and Vox Populi.

Alright, here's all the fun upcoming things:

What: Conversation with Jerry Saltz
Where: The Barnes Foundation
When: April 7, 6 pm
Cost: $25 non-members, Members free

What: Panel Discussion: The Cursed Blessing of the Philadelphia Arts Writer Presented by the
           Nicola St.Claire and The Art Blog
Where: Vox Populi AUX Performance Space
When: April 9, 6 pm
Cost: Free

What: cineSPEAK + SPOKE Magazine present "Tour de Film"
Where: The Glass Factory
When: April 10, 6:30 pm
Cost: $8 in advance, $10 at the door

What: Nice and Fresh April: Pop Up Performances of New Theater, Dance, and Circus Arts
Where: Cliveden
When: April 10 and 11, evening, times vary
Cost: $7

What: What's Next Wednesday with the Emerging Arts Leaders of Philadelphia
Where: National Mechanics
When: April 15, 6 pm
Cost: Free

What: Chris Hafield: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
Where: The Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Branch
When: April 19, 4 pm
Cost: Free

What: PECO Green Roof Tour
Where: PECO Building
When: April 21, 5 pm
Cost: $10 non-Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) Members, $5 PHS members

What: Mayoral Candidate Forum
Where: The Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Branch
When: April 22, 5:45 pm
Cost: Free, Registration required

What: Philadelphia Art Books Festival
Where: The Annex on Filbert
When: April 24 & 25
Cost: Free

What: Bauhaus Curved-Crease Sculpture Workshop
Where: Little Berlin
When: April 25, 7 pm
Cost: Free

What: Roxy Paine in Conversation with Tom Eccles
Where: Van Pelt Auditorium, Philadelphia Museum of Art
When: April 27, 5 pm
Cost: Free for Association of Public Art Members, $25 non-members

Kat on Behance

Everyone, I'm now on Behance Network courtesy of MICA. 

Please visit my portfolio at portfolios.mica.edu/katbuckley

If the page looks like this, then you're in the right spot:

Thanks!

Best Planner Ever

What do you do when you hate all the planners in stores? You make your own. And that's precisely what I did. I don't think these pictures do it justice. I'll have to get you guys some real pictures soon.

Designed, printed, and bound by me.

Deets: inkjet printed, designed in Adobe Illustrator, none of the pictures nor fonts are owned by me, I mounted a cabinet card on the front cover. Pasted the paper over some cardboard to give it a border around the edges. Sewn with waxed linen thread.

Oh, and did I mention it's all in Italian? Sí.

Rutgers Camden Class

I am happy to say that for the second year in a row, I had the honor of teaching Alan Espiritu's Graphic Design class in Rutger's Camden! The class was actually huge, about 22 people. These are the final pictures. I taught them a basic case binding sewn on tapes. It was a lot of work - 4 hours for what's normally a 2 hour class! But all the students were great sports about it. Everyone's books turned out great! Thanks for the wonderful opportunity, Alan and Rutgers!

Students putting finishing touches on a book.

Gotta get that paste in there!

Working it in...

Finished product - mini book.

Two finished books stand side by side.

The classes' books, and mine. Can you guess which one I made?

I have to post something pretty important: there were a lot of protests going on at Rutgers while I was there. There is a proposed merger of the Rutgers Camden campus into Rowan. The students are not happy about it, and neither am I. The state of New Jersey is treating Education like a Business. There are faculty and students at risk here. They love their school and chose to go to RUTGERS, not to ROWAN. Nothing against Rowan, but it seems like a mess for everyone involved. To get more information, google or visit the following:

http://savejersey.com/2012/02/save-rutgers-how-the-merger-could-happen-and-how-it-could-be-stopped/

Everyone from Jersey: be sure to write your local  legislator and say that this merger should be STOPPED.

And, lastly, if you ever interested in learning any bindings from me, contact me and I'll be happy to set up a class with you.

EDIT: GET INVOLVED, SIGN THE PETITION

We need 10,000 signatures and are at the time of this post at 9052. Come on guys we can do it!

New Book and Better Pictures!

Hey all,

So here's a new book I made the other day for a friend of mine as a birthday present. Sewn on tapes with vellum on each side to protect the text block. Behold the beautiful paper. Best perk of working retail ever.




And here are better pictures of everything that I've posted in the past semester. Be sure to check it all out. I know it's a lot but it all looks really good.

This one a cutout book with memories of Venice in it.

Book of Venezia (detail)
Handbound Leather Hollowback filled with Cut Outs
Summer 2009

Book of Venezia (detail)
Handbound Leather Hollowback filled with Cut Outs
Summer 2009

This next one is a leatherbound hollowback with lace sewn between the pages, inspired by the island of Burano in Venice.

Lacebook
Leatherbound hollowback
Fall 2009

Lacebook (detail)
Leatherbound hollowback
Fall 2009

Lacebook (detail)
Leatherbound hollowback
Fall 2009

This next one is the Ogden Nash poetry book that I cut lines out of.

Good intentions (detail)
An Altered Book originally by Ogden Nash
Fall 2010

Good intentions (detail)
An Altered Book originally by Ogden Nash
Fall 2010


This next one is my final project that's talked about in the post after this one. It's called Eight Points to Eternity and is about the meaning of the number eight as a mystical and symbolic number that has to do with eternity and immortality. It's an altered medical dictionary bound to form an eight-pointed star.

Eight Points to Eternity
Altered Medical Dictionary
Winter 2010

Next up is my book called Traces of Distinguishing: Looking at Identity Anonymously. It was a series of photographs I took of people's birthmarks and tattoos. I took them up close so that the face of the person is obscured. I was interested in how these are thought of as identifying marks, but up close they could really belong to anyone. It was my first attempt at bookmaking. It's bound on watercolor paper because of its sponge-like qualities that make it similar to skin. I had people write quotes about how they feel about their birthmarks and tattoos on skin-tone colored paper, which was also hand-stitched into the book.

Traces of Distinguishing
Photography book handbound with silver gelatin prints
Fall 2009

This next one was an assignment to do a traditional accordion bound book, but I just couldn't be traditional. I thought it would be much more fun to bind a bunch of fortune tellers. Each one has fortunes that I made up printed on them. The first fortune teller on top of the pile contains the colophon.

What’s Your Fortune (detail)
Fortune tellers accordion bound with ribbon
Spring 2011

What’s Your Fortune
Fortune tellers accordion bound with ribbon
Spring 2011


Finally, this is my What Happens When You Are Stabbed. It is stab-bound (haha!) with red embroidery floss on Japanese Kozo-Goya Rice Paper. I printed on the inside and there are small windows peeking through the pages to show the viewer the chemicals that their brain would release if they were stabbed. I have embroidered the chemical structures inside as well, also using the red embroidery floss.

What Happens When You Are Stabbed
Japanese rice paper ink-jet printed and stab bound with embroidery
Spring 2011

Artist Books

First thing's first: Come to the closing reception for La Nostra Mostra, an exhibit of me and my fellow SACI kids. It's at MICA in the Fox Building 2nd Floor, on Friday, October 3, at 5 P.M. R.S.V.P. here. Here's a pretty picture for y'all to look at:



So I really have been working here at MICA, I promise. Most of what I'm doing is making artist's books, as it is my only studio this semester, and I really feel lacking in the area of artistic production. As of next week I will have a printmaking class, so I should have more then. Also, I've recently been looking at Angela Lorenz's work a lot. I feel as if I have found a kindred spirit. She made one book, Soap Story, out of handmade soap, and another book, Curiosities of Nature, was about museology. She lives and works out of Bologna. I'm pretty sure I'm meant to be her.

Assignment 1 from Artist's Books: Make a book out of a single sheet of paper using a xerox machine in some way. I took everyday objects and dragged them across my scanner. Crit went well; people said they felt like they were looking inside a computer. When I told them there was no photoshop used at all, they were surprised.









Assignment 3 (yes, we're skipping assignment 2, it didn't go so well): Stab Binding. I bought Kozu Goya rice paper and folded the pages over so that they were bound on the open edge. I printed on the inside of the paper. Everything about this book concerns "what happens when you are stabbed," namely, the chemicals your brain releases in a fight-or-flight situation. Not sure if these pictures are good enough for you to get the text, but you get the idea. I printed on the inside of the folded paper and cut windows out so you could see through. Embroidered are the actual corresponding molecular structures of the chemicals.






P.S. Seriously. Angela Lorenz is amazing. Go to the cage in the library at MICA and check out her stuff if you haven't yet. And lastly, in case you didn't catch it at the top:
Come to the closing reception for me and my fellow SACI kids, entitled La Nostra Mostra (MICA@SACI), Fox Building 2nd Floor, on Friday, October 3, at 5 P.M. R.S.V.P. here.