Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA) is pleased to sponsor the
Nature and the Book exhibit at the Miller Library January 4-30. PSBA is a non-profit educational organization founded in 2010 for the purpose of creating a spirit of community among book artists and those who love books. Members use a wide variety of creative means and methods to create interactive artist books that delight the viewer, convey an idea, communicate an experience, express a concern, spark a conversation, and/or tell stories. The group offers free membership for students and strives to encourage support for emerging book artists. For more information about PSBA, please visit their website:
https://pugetsoundbookartists.wildapricot.org.
From the artists:
In this exhibit, we are pleased to share the work of a number of accomplished local artists. Artists have always been interpreters for and often advocates of issues that affect our world. Striving to protect our natural world, celebrate the joy of nature, and revel in the beauty of our environment, the books on display showcase how artists have used the format of the book to express their love of nature and our environment.
Over 19 featured artists take the viewers on a journey; for example, a walk in a local meadow, an exploration of bark beetles, an examination of local native plants, an understanding of the emerging ecosystems of Mt. St. Helens. These works showcase the enduring power of the book as a powerful catalyst for sharing ideas and inspiring us through the integration of text, images, and three-dimensional interactive structures.
Readers are invited for a reception and remarks Saturday, January 20, from 12 to 2 pm.
The Miller Library has Augustine Henry’s own copy of the seven-volume
The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland (co-written with Henry John Elwes, 1909-1913), and we discovered his handwritten note referring to the tree of the Noche Triste (Sad Night) in Mexico, citing an 1896 article describing the Tree of the Sad Night as
Cupressus mexicana. We wanted to know what a note about
Cupressus was doing in among the Taxodium pages (instead of in volume 5, with
Cupressus species, including
C. mexicana).
