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Book Arts Fair 2009 Crowded with Book Lovers

We had a good crowd of about 200 in the studios at Laguna Gloria AMOA Art School Sunday afternoon July 5, 2009. There was a good mix of mostly adults with some children and young adults including AIGA student members.

Furnished with a 16-page signature, visitors added printing, woodcuts and other prints, calligraphy, paste paper and suminagashi, origami, rubber-stamping, collage or another signature, and finally added a pamphlet stitch, covers and endsheets to go home with a book!

The book hospital stayed busy with Mary Baughman handling several patients. Good vibe all afternoon with special first-bookartsfair-worker recognition for Mark Hall (letterpress), Ana Cox (pop-ups), KC Shortes and Becky Stout (folder-greeters), Evan Knight (covers), Beth Morton (with her new cherrywood hole punch cradle) and Michele Collins (origami books).

Capitol City Scribes and Austin Women Printmakers added elegance and pizzaz to the event. Olivia Primanis (decorative paper), Rollin Polk and Tom Poyner (letterpress), Helen Kwiatkowski (sewing, collage), Jinji Willingham (suminagashi) were all returning book arts fair workers. We were tired when we closed it down. Special recognition for Jinji Willingham for handling the pubicity and to Peggy Seeger for helping me get organized, Jen Merrill and Andreas.wpv for web support.