{"id":323,"date":"2010-07-09T20:41:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T01:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=323"},"modified":"2018-01-21T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:53:35","slug":"summer-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2010\/07\/09\/summer-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due\u00a0to a combination of professional development time (thanks, Karen!)\u00a0and vacation days, I recently spent two weeks at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for a class on letterpress printing. The class took place at the home of The Soybean Press<\/a> in the Printing Services building. Soybean Press is a cooperative effort of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The University of Illinois Press, Facilities and Services Printing Department, and the School of Art and Design.<\/p>\n

Some of the equipment we used and prints I created are in the gallery of images below. I’ll have these prints and more on display at this fall’s Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works Celebration. Additionally, my copy of the broadsides my classmates and I compiled into a folio with the theme of “State of Illinois” will be added to IWU’s Special Collections holdings of Artists’ Books. These\u00a0books explore the many ways people interpret the idea of “book” as well as what constitutes\u00a0suitable content for such vessels.<\/p>\n

FYI, our\u00a0Artists’ Books\u00a0are a small part of a larger\u00a0collection containing examples of changes in printing techniques\u00a0and other types of book art throughout history.\u00a0For now, suffice it to say that while I’ve always\u00a0felt it was true, I now have the ink stains to prove I Love Type<\/a>! (The blog at that link\u00a0is not related to my class\u00a0but the sentiment is \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n\n

I started\u00a0summer classes long before they were offering credit for them, but next summer I will have completed enough credits for the UIUC Certificate\u00a0of Special Collections Librarianship. Somehow, I don’t think I’ll ever stop taking classes there, especially now that I’m hooked on book arts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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