A selection of WSW book works is part of the Rutgers exhibition that accompanied the 15th Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium. WSW directors Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner participated in one of the panels at the symposium, along with Karen McDermott (Book Arts Roundtable), Linda Helm Krapf (Printmaking Council of New Jersey), Esther Smith, [...]

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A bunch of us have been collecting walnuts this fall. There has been an unusual abundance of them this year. We have talked about making dye for cloth, pigment for  paper, ink for drawing and how it might be possible to make oil based ink for printing. Has anyone had any experience with using black [...]

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Somehow Abigail Uhteg managed to not only edition a book and take some of the sweetest photos ever during her residency here at WSW, but she also managed to put together over 3000 of her photos to make a fabulous video of the process. We cant stop watching this!
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Last night Barbara took us to meet Ute Ritschel, a fascinating woman, just back from China, who essentially develops “forest and garden” site specific installation projects with artists from around the world. These are serious, thoughtful, extremely well organized exhibitions. Each exhibition has a thematic focus, such as Native-Invasive, where artists, forest managers and scientists [...]

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Today we set all of the type for the book. Wolfgang did the sentences and we did the zeros and ones. They are going to print half of one side one color each day which should mean it will be all printed by Friday. They have a great gizmo that makes a score. I looks [...]

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