FORMATION 2018-2019 GBW Exhibition

FORMATION: 
A GBW FINE BINDING EXHIBITION: 
CALL FOR ENTRIES!


The Guild of Book Workers invites all members to participate in its 2018-2019 traveling juried exhibition, FORMATION—a theme we hope will invoke a wide array of interpretations. Simply defined by Merriam Webster as “an act of giving form or shape to something,” 'formation' can insinuate process, history, creation, change, beginnings, an arrangement, botany and landscape, personal narratives and impersonal storytelling. As artists, designers and craftspeople with our own histories that form us, we also play a vital role in the formation of objects and experiences; pulp molded into paper, paper folded into books, books shelved into a library. What is the final product, if not for the methods used to create it? What makes us into the artists we are? What pushes us to continue to create? Members are invited to interpret the theme of 'formation' as narrowly or broadly, as personally or impersonally, as they wish.

An Intent to Enter form must be submitted in order to be provided a link to the online submission form. Submissions will be accepted from January 1-March 1, 2018. Works will be juried from digital images. Artists will be notified of selection by April 15, 2018. Jurors will be Sarah Smith, Coleen Curry, and Graham Patten.


Questions? Contact Jackie Scott
Guild of Book Workers Exhibitions Chair
at exhibitions@guildofbookworkers.org