2020-2021 Event Calendar
Kate Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts
University of Southern Maine
Calendar of Events 2020-2021
Image Above: Evening Primrose Detail, Rebecca Goodale
With this calendar I am introducing an online fall semester that will be educational, fun, and affordable. There are nine videos made by Maine Book Artists and three terrific online workshops. I think you will find these programs enjoyable. Remember that no matter where you are you can sign up for one of these workshops without leaving your kitchen, studio, or porch.
I also want to introduce my successor, Aemin (Annie) Lee- Zimerle who will become the new Program Coordinator for the Center for Book Arts beginning in September. I hope you will all be able to meet her in person in the not so distant future.
My gratitude for all of your support over these first 11 years fills me up like a spring tide. Thank you to the advisory board members who were always ready to offer hard work and good ideas-they made my job easier. To everyone who came to lectures, exhibitions, workshops, and the Bazaar- you inspired me to create worthwhile and exciting events with you in mind.
Although I am retiring from the helm of the Kate Cheney Chappell ‘83 Center for Book Arts I will continue to teach so you will be able to find me in the classroom. I will be looking forward to seeing you and your artist’s books again and again at galleries and museums or online.
With all best wishes,
Fall Semester 2020
Speed Reading, 5 minute videos on our website by each of the following artists.
Click on the names below to view Artist Bios and navigate to their videos.
Sandra Barry ‘15
Liz Brown ‘17
Rachel E. Church ’09 and ‘17
Bonnie Faulkner ‘91
Sarah S. Harvey ‘01
Arlene Morris '87
Jill Osgood ‘17
Emily Ross ‘16
Angel Simoneau ‘17
Fall 2020 Synchronous Online Workshops via ZOOM
September 16, Wednesday Evening 6-8 pm
Monotypes and Accordions with Beth Sheehan
Maximum 25 students, fee $40 for this one day workshop
Click Here to Register Online or call (207) 780-5900
Image Right: Coruscation by Beth Sheehan
September 26, Saturday Morning 10-12am
Write Now with Stuart Kestenbaum
Maximum enrollment 12 students, $50 for this one day workshop
Click Here to Register Online or call (207) 780-5900
Image Left: Stuart Kestenbaum
October 10, 17, 24 Three Day Workshop –Saturday Mornings 9:30-11:30
Print, Fold, Cut! with Rachel Church
Maximum enrollment is 15 students. $80 for this three day workshop
Click Here to Register Online or call (207) 780-5900
Image Right: Workshop Student Artist Book by Emma Betterley-Dow
Spring Semester 2020
Fingers crossed that some events will be live- stay tuned. We will update the website as we know more. usm.maine.edu/bookarts
Speed Reading Part 2:
5 minute videos on our website by each of the following artists:
Sissy Buck
Kate Cheney Chappell ‘83
Solange Kellerman, 1996 MA(Muskie) and 2016 BA (Art)
Cole Leighton ’11 and ‘20
Anna Low
Cynthia McGuirl
Abbie Read
Richard Reitz Smith
Sue Rogers
Walter Tisdale
Scott Vile
Bernie Vinzani
Exhibition: January 29- April 30, 2020
40 Years: Guild of Book Workers New England Chapter
Glickman Family Library, UNUM Great Reading Room, 7th floor
Free and Open to the Public
Image Right: Rewarding Work by Jennifer Pellecchia
Exhibition Reception and Lecture: In March 2021 DTBD
The Guild of Bookworkers: A History in Mixed Media
by Jennifer Pellecchia, Standards Chair, Guild of Bookworkers
Glickman Family Library, University Events Room, 7th floor
Free and Open to the Public (or online if the campus is closed)
Exhibition at Portland Public Library: April 2021 with Reception on First Friday , DTBD
Boundless Possibilities 2: USM Book Arts
Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland
Free and Open to the Public
Image Above: KCC’83 CBA Crit group collaborative book, Remarkable Maine Women, 2020 (photo by Jay York)
Book Arts Bazaar: Sunday, April 11, 2021 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM ( Date to be confirmed)
(Fingers Crossed for an in person event)
The annual Book Arts Bazaar is a festival with Book Artists, papermakers, bookbinders, printmakers, educators, writers, and all things related to the book.
Wishcamper Center
Free and Open to the Public
Lecture: April 2021 DTBD
We are Tiger Dragon People: the Pop-up Books of Colette Fu
Presented by Collette Fu
Glickman Family Library, University Events Room, 7th floor
Free and Open to the Public (or online if the campus is closed)
Workshop: (Introduction to) Pop-up Book Structures with Colette Fu
April 2021 in person or perhaps online DTBD
$135, registration will be available in 2021 on line at usm.maine.edu/bookarts or call (207) 780-5900
Luther-Bonney Hall 424, Portland Campus (or redesigned to be online if the campus is closed)
DTBD- Date to be determined and Confirmed, please check our website from time to time for updates.
Image Above: Kai Fuan from We are Tiger Dragon People series,Collette Fu
Colette Fu received her MFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003, and soon after began devising complex compositions that incorporate photography and pop-up paper engineering. She has designed for award winning stop motion animation commercials and free-lanced for clients including Greenpeace, Vogue, Canon, Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton and the Delaware Disaster Research Center. Her pop-up books are included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art and many private and rare archive collections. In 2017, Fu created the world’s largest pop-up book measuring 21x14 feet at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center where visitors were invited to enter the book. Fu's numerous awards include the 2018 Meggendorfer Prize for best paper engineered artist book, a 2008 Fulbright Research Fellowship to China, and grants from the Independence Foundation, Leeway Foundation, En Foco, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Puffin Foundation and Society for Photographic Education. Fu has attended over 20 funded artist residencies, most recently the Macdowell Colony and Yaddo. Her solo show "Wanderer/Wonderer: the Pop-ups of Colette Fu" was presented at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 2016/17.
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Pope-Cheney Art Studio Wishcamper Center
Located on the 1st Floor of the Wishcamper Center
34 Bedford St., USM Portland Campus
Hours: 8 a.m.-10 p.m., Monday-Thursday, and 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday.
Book Arts Exhibition Schedule
Kate Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts
Pope-Cheney Art Studio Exhibitions
Wishcamper Center
September-November 2020
Art 399/499/599 Experimental Sketchbooks: Student Work
Image Above: Mackenzie O’Brien’s work table in Tuscany
December 2020-February 2021
Art 241 The Visual Book: Student Exhibition
Image Above: Repurposed book created in ART 241 Fall 2019 by Kelly Ledsworth
March-May 2021
KCC’83 CBA Crit Group
Image Above: KCC’83 CBA Crit group collaborative book, Fanfare, 2019
June-August 2021
Angel Simoneau '17
Image Above: Artist Book and Drawings by Angel Simoneau
For more information, please contact:
Annie Lee-Zimerle, Program Coordinator
(207) 228-8014 or aemin.leezimerle@maine.edu
usm.maine.edu/bookarts
find us on facebook @KCCBookArts
Above: Bodley's Librarian at Oxford University, Richard Ovenden with Rebecca Goodale & Kate Cheney Chappell, April 5th, 2016 KCC'83 Lecture