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HANDMADE ARTISTS’ BOOKS ON VIEW AT MAINE FIBERARTS 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Maine Fiber Arts, 13 Main St. , Topsham, Maine

“Handmade Artists’ Books: One of a Kind” is an exhibition on view now through September 30 at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main Street, Topsham. The exhibition includes 62 works of art by 22 Maine artists who have created unusual and remarkable pieces resembling and moving far away from traditional book structures.

 A reception for the show will be held on Saturday, August 29 from 1-2:30 p.m. and will include poetry readings by Gary Lawless and Stephen Petroff. Lawless is a poet and co-owner of Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick. Petroff has books and paintings displayed in the current show. Hands-on workshops and other events will be posted at the group’s website at www.mainefiberarts.org

 Artists include Libby Barrett of Cape Elizabeth; Sandra Barry, East Boothbay; Kathleen Bender, Portland; Elizabeth Berkana, Portland; Sissy Buck, Cumberland Foreside; Bonnie Faulkner, Yarmouth; Rebecca Goodale, Freeport; Sarah S. Harvey, Woolwich; Solange Kellermann, Portland; Natasha Kempers-Cullen, Topsham; Richard Lee, posthumously; Kathleen Leggett, Falmouth; Anna Low, Portland; Cynthia Motian McGuirl, Thomaston; Arlene Morris, Brunswick; Susan Colburn Motta, Kennebunk; Scott Mullenberg, Biddeford; Jill Osgood, Portland; Stephen Petroff, Topsham; Abigail Robbins, Brunswick; and Sue West, Brunswick. 

 Many of the artists showing work are associated with the Kate Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts at the University of Southern Maine. Several have been students of CBA Program Coordinator Rebecca Goodale.

 A definition of “artists’ books” can be as varied as the artists who make them. Formats include traditional structures, altered books, inventive structures, flags, accordions, pamphlets, and stars. Material may include paper of every kind, fabric, metal, glass, photographs, prints, thread, paint, ink, and found objects—all of which may be assembled, disassembled, or reassembled. Artists’ books “read” in their own way. They may or may not include words or images, but you will find they always have something to say.

 Books on view at Maine Fiberarts spiral, hang from the ceiling, spill over, are hand-stitched, feature watercolors, have metal pages, are comprised of receipts, or are made of glass. One can even be worn! The books are inventive, unusual, disconcerting, and beautiful. Stories are told through images, pages, imagination and form.

 Since the year 2000, statewide nonprofit Maine Fiberarts has hosted exhibitions that change every two or three months. The group also hosts an online Maine Fiberarts Tour of artists’ studios, fiber farms and other craft destinations at www.mainefiberartstour.com. Visit the gallery in Topsham from Tuesday-Friday, 10-4, Saturday, 11-2, or at its flagship website at www.mainefiberarts.org.

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“Handmade Artists’ Books” are on view at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main Street, Topsham through September 30. A reception with poetry readings by Gary Lawless and Stephen Petroff will take place August 29, 1-2:30 p.m. The show includes sixty-two books by 22 Maine artists that spiral, swing, spill, hang, include receipts, or are made of glass. See www.mainefiberarts.org for information and a gallery of images. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10-4; Saturday, 11-2.

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