MFA Thesis Exhibition: Group Show Reception
Friday, May 4, 2018 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Please join us for a reception celebrating our Spring 2018 graduates: Nicole Cotten, Elise Hochhalter, Sarah Luko, Christine Manwiller, Michelle Moode, Johan Solberg, and Kazumi Wilds.
Remarks will begin at 4:30 pm.
2018 Group MFA Show
Monday, April 30, 8:00am to Sunday, May 13, 2018 5:00pm
This show will feature the works of 2018 UICB candidates Nicole Cotten, Elise Hochhalter, Sarah Luko, Christine Manwiller, Michelle Moode, Johan Solberg, and Kazumi Wilds.
Michelle Moode MFA Show
Sunday, April 15 8:00pm to Saturday, April 21, 2018 5:00pm
Reception on Friday, April 20, 5:00-7:00pm.
K. K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor of North Hall
Annual Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book with Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Thursday, April 12, 2018 5:30pm
Post Scripts: Bookmaking After Adobe
Matthew Kirschenbaum is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the College of Information Studies at Maryland, and a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School. His most recent book, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, was published by Harvard University Press’s Belknap...
Christine Manwiller MFA Show
Sunday, April 8 8:00am to Saturday, April 14, 2018 5:00pm
Reception on Friday, April 13, 4:00-6:00pm.
K. K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor of North Hall
Kazumi Wilds MFA Show
Sunday, April 1 8:00am to Saturday, April 7, 2018 5:00pm
Reception on Friday, April 6, 4:00-6:00pm.
K. K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor of North Hall
Nicole Cotten and Johan Solberg MFA Show
Sunday, March 25 8:00am to Saturday, March 31, 2018 5:00pm
Reception on Friday, March 30, 4:00-6:00pm.
K. K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor of North Hall
Elise Hochhalter and Sarah Luko MFA Show
Saturday, March 24, 2018 (all day)
Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm.
K.K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor, North Hall
Elise Hochhalter and Sarah Luko MFA Show
Friday, March 23 to Saturday, March 24, 2018 (all day)
Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm.
K.K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor, North Hall
Curating Frankenstein
Thursday, March 22, 2018 5:00pm to 8:00pm
John Martin Rare Book Room Open House and Lecture
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and the University Libraries invite you to their annual Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room.
Now in the 200th year since its publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus continues to raise questions about humanity, scientific ethics, and the place of the monster in our imaginations. This event features books and manuscripts from the John Martin Rare Book Room and...
Elise Hochhalter and Sarah Luko MFA Show
Thursday, March 22 to Saturday, March 24, 2018 (all day)
Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm.
K.K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor, North Hall
Elise Hochhalter and Sarah Luko MFA Show
Wednesday, March 21 to Saturday, March 24, 2018 (all day)
Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm.
K.K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor, North Hall
Elise Hochhalter and Sarah Luko MFA Show
Tuesday, March 20 to Saturday, March 24, 2018 (all day)
Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm.
K.K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor, North Hall
Elise Hochhalter and Sarah Luko MFA Show
Monday, March 19 to Saturday, March 24, 2018 (all day)
Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm.
K.K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor, North Hall
Elise Hochhalter and Sarah Luko MFA Show
Sunday, March 18 to Saturday, March 24, 2018 (all day)
Closing Reception on Friday, March 23 from 5:00-7:00pm.
K.K. Merker Gallery
Ground Floor, North Hall
UICB @ RSVP: Spring Galley Walk 2018
Friday, March 2, 2018 5:00pm to 8:00pm
RSVP will again host the UICB during the 2018 Spring Gallery Walk. Stop by 140 North Linn Street on Friday, March 2nd, during the exhibition opening reception (5:00pm–8:00pm) to see new work from the University of Iowa Center for the Book.
For more information about the Gallery Walk program, check out the Iowa City Downtown District website.
"And the Needle was Threaded 777 Times, Entirely by My Self" Reception
Thursday, March 1, 2018 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Group Show Featuring Jenna Bonistalli, Katharine DeLamater, and Krista Narciso
In their group show, UICB students Jenna Bonistalli, Katharine DeLamater, and Krista Narciso explore the various ways in which they use embroidery and sewing techniques as visual media in paper works and book objects.
The closing reception for the show will be held in the K.K. Merker Gallery on March 1, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Controverting Whitefield: Franklin, Book Studies, and the Post-Secular
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 3:30pm
Spring Faculty Colloquium Talk by Dr. Matthew P. Brown
With topical writing from the 1740s by and about the charismatic itinerant preacher George Whitefield as a focus, this talk will range across polemic, sortilege, discipline, cards-playing, election, gratitude, and ribald jokes about Richard Allestree’s The Whole Duty of Man. It will also attempt to model the virtues of book studies as a method, from macro attention to sociological theories of publishing to micro study of variants in the...
UICB Annual Open House
Friday, December 8, 2017 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Exhibits from UICB studio classes in lettering arts, papermaking, bookbinding, artist books, and letterpress printing will be on display. Work from UICB Faculty will be on display in the K.K. Merker Gallery. Ladies Typographic Union 2018 calendars will be available for purchase. $20 gets you a full year of beautiful prints! Food and drink will be served—all are welcome!
UICB Annual Mitchell and APHA Lieberman Lecture with Kathleen Walkup, Mills College Book Arts Program
Thursday, November 2, 2017 7:30pm
Women & the Labor of Print: An American Story
Women printers were a central presence in colonial and early republican America. Between 1639 and 1820 at least 25 women press owners ran businesses, acted as publishers and performed other work, such as postmistress and shopkeeper, that was often a core part of the printer’s role. By 1821, the number of women press owners in the newly formed states had dropped to one. Women didn’t disappear from printing; their collective role, however, changed...
Colloquium with Eric Gidal: "Bibliostratigraphy: Notes for an Ecocritical Book Studies"
Thursday, November 2, 2017 3:30pm
Please join the English Department’s faculty talk series to hear Professor Eric Gidal discuss his new scholarship in book history and the environmental humanities. By way of looking at industry, materials, and ecosystems, Prof. Gidal surveys the production of books and the representation of nature in literature and history. It is a foretaste of a course Eric will be offering next year in ecocritical book studies, cross-listed in the Center for the Book and the English Department.
UI Preservation and Conservation Lab’s Annual Anthony Lecture and Demonstration with Mark Esser, Conservator and Bookbinder
Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:00pm to 8:00pm
"Book Binding Has Been Very Good to Me"
Please join us for this year's 4th Annual William Anthony Conservation Lecture, presenting Mark Esser—
Mark Esser was introduced to bookbinding at the Harcourt Bindery in Boston in 1979. He then worked in the Conservation Bindery at the Newberry Library in Chicago while studying bookbinding privately with David Brock. Esser served an apprenticeship with William Anthony, first in Chicago, then at the University of Iowa, from 1982 to 1986. He developed the...
Visiting Artist: Jim Croft
Friday, October 6, 2017 10:00am to 6:00pm
10:00 am–12:00 pm
Historical Structures Roundtable Special Collections, Room 3052, UI Main Library
*Jim will discuss a range of historical exemplars from the UI Special Collections holdings.
4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Informal Artist Talk
North Hall, Room 208
*Jim will discuss his work building historical book models, tool, and material making. He will have books, tools, and samples on hand.
Jim Croft started making books in 1970 and within two years was joining the latest back-to-the-land movement...
Peter and Donna Thomas: 40 Years of Book Work
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Gallery Talk and Reception
All are welcome!
Peter and Donna, book artists from Santa Cruz, California, started their business in 1977. They completed their first book, “The Three Cedars,” in 1978. 2017-18 marks their 40th anniversary, which will be celebrated in libraries across the country with retrospective shows displaying from those libraries own holdings. The University of Iowa Special Collections is home to their archives, a selection of which is on display until September 13, 2017...
Cognition and the Hand: "Handy Books" in the History of Knowledge, the Book, and the Book Arts Handy Books Symposium
Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:00am
with Courtney Roby, Cornell University, Susan W. Cook, University of Iowa, Kimberly Maher, University of Iowa
Schedule
2:00–3:15 Distributed Cognition in Ancient Science
Courtney Roby, Cornell University
Room 2032 Main Library
3:30–4:45 Art, Science, and the Mind in the Moveable Book Response and Roundtable Discussion
Courtney Roby, Susan W. Cook, University of Iowa, Kimberly A. Maher, University of Iowa
Room 2032 Main Library
5.30–6.30 Handy Books Reception
K.K. Merker...