"VESSEL: The Guild of Book Workers (a Traveling Exhibition)"

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Gallery Exhibition | VESSEL: The Guild of Book Workers

About the Exhibition

The Guild of Book Workers invited all its members to participate in this 2015-­2017 traveling juried exhibition, Vessel. The book as vessel inspires a beautiful metaphor a craft for traveling, a container, a holder, a receiver, a transporter. Across time and culture, the vessel is at the center of many ceremonies and rites of passage. Native American cultures have regarded the vessel as a portal to a sacred realm. The book as craft is our vessel to sail the high seas, to hold our dearest memories, and to indicate the pulse of life. Guild of Book Workers members was invited to interpret the term ‘vessel’ as broadly or as narrowly as they wished. This exhibition will feature approximately 50 works by Guild members. Opened in the spring of 2015, the Vessel exhibition is traveling to up to nine venues across the U.S., incl. Cal Poly Pomona, closing in the spring of 2017. Selected works include fine and edition bindings, artist books, broadsides (letterpress printing, calligraphy, and decorative papermaking), and historical binding models. All works were selected by an independent jury.