The Book Arts program is under development and currently functions as an interdisciplinary emphasis area for both Undergraduate and Graduate students. The Book Art courses are designed so that students in the graphic, fine, and applied art disciplines can apply their own particular skills to a multifaceted form. In this context, we can converse about issues and techniques that expand our current knowledge and expressive concerns. Multi cultural traditions in bookmaking are explored along with both traditional and non-traditional approaches to them.
In addition to bookmaking techniques and structures, media and techniques of choice may include but are not limited to those used in printmaking, painting, digital media, letterpress, metals, photography, wood, ceramics, drawing, sculpture, and fibers.
Artists' books are a time based medium that challenge our contemporary concepts of reading and seeing, in a form which invites a unique and tactile intimacy with the viewer. These challenges put a healthy set of demands on the art student in their pursuit of qualities that engage the senses, the imagination, and the intellect.
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Facilities for Book Arts include Vandercook sp15, sp25, and #14 presses for printing hand set type and photopolymer plates, a 52” x 36” Jacques board shear, 17” x 23” Latham book press, two nipping presses, and numerous fonts of foundry type and monotype. The studio which shares space with the intaglio lab is is also equipped for the making of photopolymer plates from digital, hand made, or photographic imagery, Involvement in more than one Printmaking technique is encouraged.
Michele Burgess
Michele Burgess a printmaker, painter, sculptor, and co-director of Brighton Press-an internationally known fine arts press-where she applies all of these media to the creation of artists' books. In addition, she collaborates with other artists and poets on projects that involve the book as an art medium. In 2006, her artist's book, Sleeping Inside the Glacier (a collaboration with SDSU Creative Writing Professor Sandra Alcosser which included etchings and cast bronze sculpture), was included in the "Book as Art" exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. A retrospective of her work in book art was held in 2001 at the Museum of American Art in Giverny, France, and traveled to the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego. Her collaborative work with poets and artists was featured in an exhibition in 2004 at the Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, California. Burgess' artist's books and other works are held in more than fifty public collections in the United States, Canada and France, including the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts in San Francisco, Fresno Art Museum, Houghton Library Special Collections at Harvard University, Lilly Library at Indiana University, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museé d'Art Américain in Giverny, France, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Artists' Book Collection at the New York Public Library, Stanford University Library, and the Toledo Art Museum. Burgess has been exhibiting actively for over twenty years, and has served as guest lecturer, curator, and artist-in-residence at numerous museums, universities, and arts organizations. She earned her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1985.
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