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Intersections: College Book Art Association 2020 Conference

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Posted by: College Book Art Association
Deadline: Mon, July 8th, 2019

The College Book Art Association is now accepting proposals for panels and exhibition submissions for its upcoming conference, Intersections: CBAA 2020, taking place in New Orleans January 2-4, 2020.

 

Conference Panel Proposals:

Intersections: CBAA 2020 will take place January 2-4, 2020 in New Orleans, LA. To approach the theme of intersections, we invite artists, students and professionals, educators of all kinds, community activists, academics, and organizers to address the ways that book arts has engaged with and can intersect with themes of inclusion, intersectionality, expansion, accessibility, and equity.  We are hopeful that this conference will act as a site to bring together communities and generate new conversation about book arts as a field.

 

Presentations on artist books that address these themes, contextualizations of book arts within these realms, or wide-ranging proposals that address the art of the book—its history, successes and failures, and paths for the future, are encouraged.

In addition to current members, we extend the invitation for paper and panel submissions to people and groups who may not have previously been involved with the College Book Art Association. Centers for art that work within communities, zine artists and printmakers, emerging artists and educators, book arts MFA students and academics, researchers and historians, librarians, bibliophiles, and makers of any stripe with a vested interest in the art of the book, are all welcome to apply. Membership is not a requirement to submit a proposal.

 

Member Exhibition Submissions:

College Book Art Association Members are invited to submit work to Intersections: Book Arts as Convergence. This exhibition seeks to explore areas of convergence, diversity, inclusion and intersectionality through the Book Arts. The CBAA conference itself is an intersection of many diverse voices and approaches, with a rich variety of cultures, individuals and institutions represented. In addition to the academic tradition of the CBAA, this year’s conference in New Orleans celebrates the non-traditional, the outsider/outlier, the expression of our culture in our lives and in our artwork. Whether it is an exploration of the intersection of text and image, structure and content, or artist and viewer, through exhibiting these works, we celebrate the crossroads, overlaps, conversations, and potential for shared experience and expansion.

Submissions should explore the boundaries of the book using a wide interpretation. These include, but are not limited to: artist’s books, sculptural books, book objects, altered books, broadsides or book works that involve digital media, performance, or installation.

 

Find links to both submission pages and further details at:

https://cbaa.submittable.com/submit

 

Posted on Mon, July 1st, 2019
Expires on Mon, July 8th, 2019

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