Puget Sound Book Artists Annual Membership Meeting (Online)

Schedule: Nov 22, 2020 - 2pm - 4pm (PT); 
3pm - 5pm (MT); 4pm - 6pm (CT); 5pm - 7pm (ET); 
Registration is required please see below

Agenda: 2:00 - 2:45 Program: 

10th Anniversary Celebration:  Honoring Clarissa Sligh
We honor the work of artist Clarissa Sligh who inspired so many of us when she visited Puget Sound in 2017.  Clarissa donated her crane art to the organization as well as her sculpture Hope to the Collins Library.  We acknowledge our many members who have supported the 10th anniversary fundraising effort and each of you will receive a string of cranes made by Clarissa.  We also acknowledge the generous gift of $10,000 from an anonymous donor.  As an organization, we are committed to using these funds to support book artists and to continue to build an inclusive community of members.

Speaker:  Curtis Small, University of Delaware. 
We are pleased to welcome scholar and librarian Curtis Small. Curtis is the Coordinator of Public Services for Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press.  He is responsible for overseeing the reference, instruction and exhibition programs. He also serves on the team of the award-winning Colored Conventions Project (CCP) that documents seven decades of 19th-century Black political organizing. Founded at the University of Delaware, CCP now anchors the newly launched Center for Black Digital Humanities/#DigBlk at the Pennsylvania State University. As a public-facing digital research center, #DigBlk engages public and scholarly audiences in innovative, community-based research, archive creation, and interactive-digital exhibition making. 

Curtis is a member of the Book/Print Artists/Scholars of Color Collective ​and has presented on the work of Clarissa Sligh. In today's presentation he will share his own research and perspectives on the work of Clarissa Sligh as well as the work of Tia Blassingame, book artist and Assistant Professor Art at Scripps College:  https://www.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/profile/tia-blassingame

2:45 - 2:50: Stretch Break

2:50 - 3:15: Business Meeting:  ​Updates from the Board on membership, finances and programs and our next exhibition. (please note, reports will be distributed to members prior to the meeting

3:20 - 3:40:   Break Out Rooms:  Join together with PSBA members in small breakouts rooms to stimulate conversations and reflections.   We ask that you consider these three prompts and for a volunteer to report back to the larger group. Curtis Small's presentation focused on the power of an artists' book to address complex themes and issues.  Can you apply his perspectives to your own work, the work of others, or share your own perspectives about the images and ideas he discussed in his presentation? What have been some of the challenges you have experienced as an artist during this pandemic? What are some ideas for PSBA programs?

3:40 - 4:00:  Wrap Up:   Reports from the breakout rooms and final thoughts from the Board

Questions?  Contact Jane Carlin

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