y’all, has it ever.
So far this has been a strange school-year for me, getting caught in between BUSYBUSYBUSY and dull moments of trying to figure out what to do next.
I did promise myself though that I would post about speaking about community interaction through travel at the 2011 Alliance of Artistic Communities conference. I discussed my roadtrip, of course, as a way to explore a community that I otherwise mainly interact with on the internet. You’re probably familiar with this (since you’re reading my website and all), but, I also found three other Book & Paper interested artists who have taken up travel as part of their practice, and I’d like to introduce them to you. :)
The first fellow traveling book artists I found were Peter and Donna Thomas, who write about their experiences at Adventures of the Wandering Book Artists. These two artists started out their practice by doing hand papermaking demos at Ren Faires and craft fairs, which is where their love for the gypsy wagon they travel in developed. So in 2010, they spent two-third of the year traveling to over 35 states, teaching and visiting art centers along the way!
The next person I digitally-”ran into” was book artist Simon Goode, who came over from the UK to the US to visit book arts centers–he’s looking to open the first book arts center in London. He blogs (posting photographs and writings) about his travels here at Simon Goes, and I narrowly missed him when he came to visit Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts. awwh. :\ maybe next time, right?
Finally, there is Kyle Durrie of the Moveable Type Truck, and whom my last post was halfway about. She’s still traveling the country, showing off the goodies of letterpress, and she also just visited my dear friend Rachel at Green Pea Press in Alabama! I’m still excited about it, even though it was a month ago and of course here I was in Chicago.
ever onwards~
