This week, a new (?) idea launched in the U.S. It’s called 48 Hour Magazine. I say the U.S. because this idea was actually already done in Galway, Ireland a few weeks ago, though on a different scale. You can download their issue here. In the U.S. version, a group of writers, art directors and [...]
The Essay as Artist Book A late post today, but I wanted to share an update on my manuscript project. Here are a few spreads from the second chapter, which will be released as an artist book in the next few weeks, after cleaning up some finishing touches. Any feedback is totally welcome. Otherwise, see [...]
Regina Silveira’s room of screenprint transfers. The Philagraphika Print Show is coming to a close this Sunday in Philadelphia and I wish I could check it out in person. The print collaborative (as they were originally called) was established in 2000 and they have a comprehensive website for the desert-stranded. Paul Morrison’s 40-foot wall exterior, [...]
My Polaroid Camera arrived! It’s wonderfully enormous, measuring a whopping 6 x 4.5 x 2.5 inches, as compared with my 2.5 x 3.5 x .5″ digital camera. As this is my first Polaroid, I’m still figuring out what to take pictures of and how, but the colors are really beautiful. My first photo of flowers [...]
The Essay as Artist Book The Backyard of the House at 48 Northview Drive by Margaret Kimball | BOOK INFO It’s here! As part of my thesis work, I’m introducing a new open-edition artist book series in which I self-publish each essay (chapter) of my manuscript as it is completed. (Of course, the essays might [...]
Issue 57 of the Sonora Review, the oldest student-run literary journal in the country, is finally here! The issue features poetry from Jeffrey McDaniel and Peter Jay Shippy, new fiction by Amelia Gray, and super duper nonfiction by Steven Church and Lia Pupura. Get your copy online or come check us out at the Tucson [...]
The full cover for the essay. Last week I received a totally flattering phone call from two editors, Joan Chapman and Claudia Sternbach, at the literary journal, Memoir (and), to whom I sent an illustrated essay called The Backyard of the House at 48 Northview Drive. They selected my piece as the winner for the [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the University of Arizona’s Special Collections scouting the stacks for artists’ books to include in an upcoming exhibition, The Secret Lives of Artists’ Books: Stories of Nonfiction (that I’m curating!). The Reading Room at Special Collections at the University of Arizona With [...]
For two weeks or so I had this idea that I just needed to see. In our letterpress lab, there are dozens of these old (or still-in-use) logos, many of which harken back to another time. So, I ordered some beautiful Pop*Tone Papers from French and, as soon as they arrived, got to work on [...]
As requested, smaller prints are now available in my Shop. These archival prints will help support the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans. $10 of each print sold will go directly to the lovely folks there to help preserve the delicate estuaries and life on the Sea of Cortes. Also, feel free [...]