Beth Lee
Bozeman, Montana

Omnigatherum: A Lexiphanic Glossary for Catastrophic Times
2021

A compendium of weird, obscure words that each have a relationship to my experience of life during the pandemic. The box lid serves as a front cover for this very long inkjet-printed accordion that emerges and keeps emerging, for something like six feet of length.

2 x 2 x 2 inches
About 250 words
Giclee-printed text accordion-folded into a box covered with a stone handle

$300

Janis Crystal Lipzin
Sebastopol, California

Autumn Stratum
2019

A unique hand-made artist book in accordion flag format. Ambient and gallery lighting project the leaves' transparent color images onto the white paper which serves as a screen that changes over time with varying light conditions.

11.9 x 6.9 inches closed.
10 inches long open.
12 archival pigments prints on transparency film, vellum, & Rives BFK paper

$1000

Award for Best Visual Story Creation: Amber Paris
Putney, Vermont

Pandemic Journals
April-August 2020 (set of 5)
2020-2021

5 handmade boxes containing accordion hinged books of recorded data expressed both visually and literally about life during April-August 2020. Each page represents a day during that month. Individual 'pages' were offered freely in exchange for another person's story of that 'day' and those stories are contained among the other pages.

Varies, 5 x 5 x 3 inches to 5 x 5 x 2 inches
Watercolor, fabric, cotton thread, notepaper, binderboard, wooden button, lotka paper, ink

$750

Amber Paris
Putney, Vermont

Welcome Hill Studios 2021
2021-2022

12 loose mixed media pages housed in handmade box enclosure diving into the literal and emotional journeys of the artist's first week away from her children at a residency.

5.5 x 5.5 x 3.5 inches
140 lb. cold press, fabric, cotton thread, ink jet print, lotka paper, binder board

$350.

Award: Vintage Cowboy Boot Journal from Circle A Studio

Construction Award for Binding Style: Bettina Pauly
San Francisco, California

Catch of the Day!
2022

A fishy Flag book by Bettina Pauly. Rubberstamps, carved by the artist, were stamped on black Somerset paper. Highlights painted with Gansai Tambi Pearl watercolor. Abaca/Cotton handmade paper from Morgan Conservatory used for concertina fold. A total of 42 fish cut out by hand with an x-acto are now The Catch of The Day perfectly conserved in a sardine tin!

H 3 1/16, W 2 3/16 inches, D 0.5 in, opened 18 ¾ inches
Abaca/cotton paper, somerset paper, cardstock, sardine tin

$450

Award: Gift Certificate from Colophon Book Arts Supply

Content Award for Unique Content:

Janet Reynolds
Houston, Texas

Threads
2021

This book is created from discarded embroidery color charts. The stark white cover contrasts with the color explosion happening inside. I gave the flags dimension by tying on strands of embroidery floss. I used what I had in my supplies to match the colors in the chart which is why some flags have several threads attached while others have none.  

H 7.75 x W 15 x D 1/25 inches
Rescued embroidery thread charts, paper

$450

Award: Gift Certificate from Birmingham Pens Company

Laurel Rogers
Northampton, Massachusetts

Tea Bags
2023

Each page of this accordion book has a unique tea bag image. A wet cyanotype technique was used to create the images from used tea bags-cyanotype emulsion, windex and apple cider vinegar. Soda ash was used to create some bleaching and actual tea bags are sewn onto some pages.

3 H x 36 inches open and 1 inch depth
Tea bags, linen thread, cyanotype emulsion, kitchen sprays, soda ash, tea dyes

$200

Laurel Rogers
Northampton, Massachusetts

Quilt Squares
2023

This double accordion book has a quilt pattern made with marbled paper on the covers. "Quilt squares" are on both sides of the accordion. Paper squares have pattern marks made from sumi ink, chalk pencil or an opaque ink brush. Squares were dipped in beeswax or covered with Dorland wax medium depending on the type of ink and paper. A further layer is made from sewing with linen thread. 

5 H, 18 inches W open, 1inch depth
Linen thread, sumi ink and stamping ink, bees wax, Dorland wax medium, opaque ink brush, chalk 

$200.

Laurel Rogers
Northampton, Massachusetts

Wood Block Rubbings
2023

Wood block rubbings were made and then coated with beeswax. Two pages have stitching with linen thread. The pages were very transparent, so they were mounted on a white background before mounting on the black accordion book. 

8.5 H, 26 inches W open, 1 inch depth closed
Rice paper, Canson paper, linen thread, Beeswax coatings, white text weight paper, decorative paper

$200

Luz Marina Ruiz
Oakland, California

Resiliency
2023 

The initial concepts for Resiliency were formed during the political turmoil, ardent division, and uncertainty in this country brought on by the previous administration. I began to make sketches as a way to process these difficult times. The drawings made their way onto a 36" square sheet of linoleum: a boat wrapped in turbulent waters, a mast/white flag for optimism, and birds as messengers of peace and hope.

23 x 11.5 x 10 inches
Printed on washi with Cranfield inks, mounted on mat board

$2,400

Luz Marina Ruiz
Oakland, California

Resiliency II
2023

I am interested in the theme of cycles and repetition as represented by water; the making of my prints and these artists' books and paper sculptures are also a literal embodiment of cycles, repetitions, and variations on a theme.
12.5 x 36 inches
Printed on BFK with balck cranfield ink, hand painted with gouache, mounted on mat board.

$2,100

Luz Marina Ruiz
Oakland, California

Ultramarino
2022

Ultramarino emerged as one of a series of artists' books based on a previous image associated with water.  The large-scale black and white print, titled Travesia, meaning Travel-by-Sea in Italian, was embedded with the idea of the boat as a metaphor for our literal and metaphorical journeys through life.

Linocut with watercolor
12 x 6 x 8 inches
Printed on BFK, hand painted with gouache

$800

Laura Russell
Tucson, Arizona

The Enchanting Desert
2022

The Enchanting Desert is a limited-edition artist book celebrating the Sonoran Desert. This movable kaleidoscope structure opens into a circle, attaches with magnets and then rotates like a kinetic kaleidoscope. Three panoramic photos are paired with an original poem, an ode to the desert.

Displays in a circle shape at 8.5 inches diameter. French Spekletone & Mohawk Superfine Papers, Archival Digital Printing

$475

Laura Russell
Tucson, Arizona

Wall Dogs Chapbook
2019

Wall Dog is a nickname for sign painters who worked their way across the west in the late 1880s. The sign in this chapbook seems to say that Snowdrift shortening is delicious and refreshing and that Coca-Cola is good for cakes. The poem imagines Slappy as told by his intrepid female assistant.

4 x 8.5 x .125 inches. Extends out to 15.5 inches
Pamphlet stitch cover with stepped-fold accordion interior. Mohawk Superfine and Canson Mi Tien

$40

Sima Schloss
NYC, New York
2022

Pages was created in the summer of 2022  at Chateau Orquevaux, an artists residency located in the south of France. It was one of the most beautiful places I’d ever been. The history, landscape and the people there were amazing . I wanted to create a book specifically to capture the emotions and memories to preserve that special time period in my life.

Mixed Media on acid free paper
5 x 8 inches
Collage

$1400

Rachel Stickney
Portage Michigan

Vessel Book 1
2023

This small but mighty book is an experiment with material and concept. Pages are sewn to the stoneware form to push the boundary of the book.

3 x 3.75 x 3.5 inches
Stoneware, Handmade Paper, Waxed Thread

NFS

Rachel Stickney
Portage Michigan

Vessel Book 3
2023

This small, enclosed book structure pushes boundaries of form and function. Pages are hand sewn to the stoneware form.  

3.5 x 4 x 4 inches
Stoneware, Handmade Paper, Waxed Thread

NFS

Sha Towers
Woodway, Texas

Interior Worlds 
2021

Visual and poetic exploration on a text by the artist reflecting the invisible worlds that hide just below the surface, out of sight in our hurried, harried, lives, but that richly rewards those who pause and listen and look. 

7 x 9 x 0.5 inches closed
Papers, boards, leather, inks

$600

Sha Towers
Woodway, Texas

We Are Writing These Things (variable edition, no. 2)
2018

Fragmented exploration of reflecting on a line from a speech given by Kevin Slavin at a 2011 TEDGlobal talk on "how algorithms shape our world."
6 x 3.75 inches (closed), 6 x 20 inches extended
paper, inks, watercolor

$375

Elsi Vassdal-Ellis
Bellingham, Washington

Relative Navigations
2023

Families are collaborative quantum entanglements in the multiverse of time and distance, combinations within and across the mergers of DNA and/or marriages. These stories all have truths but may be combinations within families and embellished to fill in the forgotten or withheld details. Names and photographs have been changed to maintain anonymity and diminish the possibility of family feuding.

10 x 5.5 x 1 inch; fully opens to 44 inches
Paper; vintage photos; scans of maps and 1890s German album; whip stitch accordion; wood yarn

$400

Elsi Vassdal-Ellis
Bellingham, Washington

Inked
2021

This variable edition explores the serendipitous and semi-random nature of applying multiple layers of inks onto flat and folded papers followed by highlighting elements unique to each sheet when combined into signatures.

6.85 x 5.85 x .38 inches
Text weight papers; offset printing inks; die-cuts; flat back case binding

$150

Naomi Velasquez
Pocatello, Idaho

Picnicking
2020

Artist's Book

8.75 H x 4.75 W x 1inch D
French commercial paper, Artist handmade paper, Davey Bd, Thread, Adhesives, Pulp casting

$225

Hazel Vera
Folsom, California

Soy un árbol 
2023
The practice of turning women into trees~appreciating them just the way they are.

8 x 6 x 1inch
Paper, thread, vellum, paint, metal

$250

Melissa Wagner-Lawler
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Low Tide
2022

Low Tide is an artist book and incorporates the text of the poem Low Tide by Edna St. Vincent Millay on both sides of the wire-edge bound book. On the exterior side, the first half of the poem is easily read, with each line flowing across the shoreline. On the reverse, the poem has been washed away with the tide. 

11 x 11 x 1.5â inches (enclosure dimensions)
Letterpress on Rives Heavyweight 

$1500

Content Award for Poetic content:

Melissa Wagner-Lawler
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

In Solitude
2022

In Solitude was created during a residency at In Cahoots Residency during June of 2023. Focusing on the nature of solitude, the work presents an abstracted landscape alongside thoughts of existing alone and becoming one with the surrounding environment. 

8” x 6” x 1”
Paper, thread, vellum, paint, metal

$550

Award: Gift Certificate from Hollander’s Paper and Book Binding Supply

Allie Wheeler

Loose Ends
2022

This book is a playful depiction of the mundane everyday tasks we go through. The piece displays the easy task of losing your glasses and the hard task of finding them. This repetitive action can be looked at as foolish, but it can be a reminder of the simple moments in life that we often forget to appreciate.

BFK paper, kozo rice paper, thread, speedball silkscreen ink, PVA glue, found objects

$350

Nanette Wylde
Redwood City, California

The Circus
2014

In a simply told story of personal discovery, circus dazzle loses out to the reality of 'the use of the bull hook.' Bound in wrapper of Mr. Ellie Pooh elephant dung paper with an intaglio print on Rives mounted on the front cover w/ photo corners. Interior pages of Mohawk Superfine include pigment print centerfold illustration & manual typing w/ 1940's Royal Companion typewriter. Red & white stripe slipcase w/ scalloped edges. Frenchlink stitch binding. Edition of 5.

8.5 x 5.5 inches closed
40 pages

$450

Sarita Zaleha
Los Angeles California

The Sound of Rain
2023

The Sound of Rain explores the experience of new environments via weather patterns in dreams. After moving to Los Angeles from Minneapolis in the summer of 2018 I began having dreams of rain. In LA there are no summer thunderstorms like there are in Minneapolis, so I found myself experiencing these storms in my dreams, only to realize I was actually hearing the somewhat common sounds of my new environment, police helicopters. 

Risograph printed false accordion book with case binding

7.25 x 7inches (closed), 7ft wide if open fully
Neenah Classic Crest, 80# text weight, smooth, natural white

$800

Construction Award for Use of Materials:

Susan Zimmerman
El Cerrito, California

Scriptum Obscurum
2023

Multiple layers of newsprint have been transferred to abaca tissue paper treated with konnyaku paste and stained with tannic acid and botanical ink. Signatures sewn to a cardboard and mull backing are framed by a wire cover and spine. Linen threads have been left hanging as a design element.

10 h x 16 w x 6 inches d
Abaca tissue paper, konnyaku paste, newsprint, fluid matte medium, thread, ink, wire

$600

Award: Gift Certificate from The Paint Chip