_{October 3 – October 31, 2014}

I discovered my passion for book arts when creating the collaborative piece “Silk and Secrecy.” I needed a book structure that could hold both traditional letterset text pages as well as a three-dimensional collage; I was searching for a form that would open and close effortlessly, behave as an ordinary book, but also hold a surprise for the reader. After a few missteps, I found a solution. Since that time, artists’ books, and particularly the process of inventing new structures, has been an enduring passion.

Something else that I discovered through my exploration of book arts was the joy of teaching. My first students at Pyramid Atlantic were a group of tremendously talented artists. Teaching them to use structures that I had designed for my own work was an eye-opening experience. Each artists took what I thought was singularly suited for my own work and transformed it into a unique new book.

I have been fortunate to continue to teach workshops over the last 22 years, and through this exhibition I am taking the opportunity to honor an extraordinary group of artists who have taken my book structures and transformed them into their own work. These works have traveled here to be exhibited at in Ithaca from New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Tucson, Durango, Easton, Cape Cod, and from Ithaca as well. My most recent workshop was taught at The Ink Shop and I am grateful that they are hosting this exhibition in their gallery.

Erina Azis • Juliet Anderson • J. M. Barringer • Katherine Bower • Lark Burkhart • M. Bernadette Castor • Virginia Davis • Pamela Drix • Idee German • Diana Goldstein • Holli Harmon Elizabeth Holster • Mary Ince • Melissa Johnson • Irina Kassabova • Nancy Kazanjian • Momoko Keane • Kumi Korf • Leslie Kramer • Mary Ellen Long • Rhonda Luongo • Claire Mauro • Mary Ann L. Miller • Liz Mitchell • Margaret C. Nelson • Penny Nii • Kathryn Ortolano Gregory Page • Virginia Phelps • Gina Pisello • Maryann Riker • Genie Shenk • Daphne Sola • Caroleen Vaughan • Jane Wang • Susann Wilbur • Christa Wolf • Emoretta Yang • Karen Zimmermann