The following exhibitions will run concurrently with the conference:

THE HYBRID BOOK
This exhibition seeks to recognize three internationally known artist/designers whose concept and renderings of the book are vastly different. All three have made pioneering contributions to the art of the book.

Irma Boom is one of the most prominent book designers in Europe, winner of, among many other honors, the prestigious Gutenberg Prize for her complete oeuvre. In 1991 she founded Irma Boom Office, which works nationally and internationally in both the cultural and commercial sectors. Since 1992 she has taught at Yale University.

Gunnar Kaldewey is one of the world’s premier book artists who explores and transforms major writings through the visual, structural, and tactile properties and potential of the book. His work is widely collected and has been extensively exhibited, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among many other places.

Hedi Kyle combines a profound knowledge of book conservation—she was Head Conservator at the American Philosophical Society for seventeen years—and a wildly imaginative approach to book structure. A co-founder of the Book and Paper Intensive and an honorary member of the Guild of Book Workers, she is internationally known for her workshops and book designs. Those designs have been seminal, significantly influencing the field of artists’ books.

Buzz Spector, the important artist and critical writer, at present a professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University, will write the critical essay for the catalog of the exhibition.

RECENT WORK BY ALUMNI OF THE MFA BOOK ARTS/ PRINTMAKING PROGRAM,
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Program, this exhibition presents recent post-graduate work of its alumni, a celebration of the innovation and success of its graduates as professional artists. The show will be juried by Mindell Dubansky and Clarissa Sligh.

Mindell Dubansky is Preservation Librarian at Metropolitan Museum of Art and is a critical writer, curator, and book artist.

Clarissa Sligh is a prominent photographer, installation artist, and book artist. She presently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University.