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2012 Calendar

Birdmaiden — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:47:30 +0000

This is the second year of our collaborative calendar. From pole to pole, we explored life on the ice and came up with seven scenes of subtle textures and muted colors. A serene view of the critters who survive the subzero …

The 2012 Uncommon Climate Calendar pays homage to the enduring diversity of species living in one of the rarest landscapes of our planet, the Arctic. This signed and numbered limited edition calendar marks the second annual collaboration of the two artists who created it.

Each page becomes a 5×7 limited edition artprint to frame + keep. seven scenes in all. printed on 100% cotton archival paper by hand on two antique letterpress machines – with love.

A collaboration between Allison of BirdDog Press and Theresa of WonderBound Press.

Filed under: Green, Handmade Revolution, letter . press Tagged: 2012, arctic, calendar, caribou, fox, letterpress, owl, penguin, walrus, whale

First Friday on Pearl Street : Small Press

Birdmaiden — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:14:59 +0000

Tonight! It’s First Friday October 7th – Boulder Arts & Crafts welcomes 9 local artists participating in “small press: the art of letterpress“. The show will run through November 6th. We are pleased to have a Chandler & Price Pilot Press in the window!
This show celebrates modern approaches to the time honored art of typesetting and small press printmaking. The artists are: David Ashley, Allison Bozeman, Rick Griffith, Alicia McKim, Kay Moller, Tom Parson, Ray Tomasso, Gail Watson & Matthew Winheld.

A percentage of sales will benefit the Book Arts League, a local group dedicated to preserving the arts of bookbinding, paper making and letterpress printing. From its home base on an historic farm in Lafayette, the Book Arts League offers hands on classes in all the book arts. Letterpress fanatics will be interested in attending the Open House at the Ewing Farm in Lafayette this Saturday October 1st. Visit bookartsleague.org for more information.

Boulder Arts & Crafts
October 7th – First Friday Artist Reception
1421 Pearl Street Mall – 6 – 8 pm

Filed under: Craft Biz, Design, letter . press Tagged: book arts league, Boulder, colorado, first friday, letterpress, pearl street

the Makerie

Birdmaiden — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:45:55 +0000

I have been invited and have accepted the invitation to teach letterpress at the Makerie in 2012! I took Lizzy House‘s pattern design class last year and we put on a Firefly Handmade market in conjunction with the event as well, so I am thrilled to become a part of it from another angle this year. It is experience you almost cannot explain in words!

Filed under: Craft Biz, Handmade Revolution, inspire . spark, letter . press, Life Tagged: creative, makerie, retreat