2020 Update

129.  Susan Mills, longtime host of Bookbinding Now, here with a 2020 update.

128.  Sandra Brownlee is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada where she practices weaving, tactile notebook keeping and teaching.  Guest host Robin Muller is a textile and book artist also based in Halifax.

127.  Martha Cole is a fiber artist who has explored artist books for 30 years. Wheat paste application is her primary medium. Guest host Robin Canham is a librarian and bookbinder who serves on the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild national board.

126.  Hedi Kyle is the coauthor, with Ulla Warchol, of The Art of the Fold, a step-by-step guide to making a broad selection of her original structures, Laurence King Publishing, 2018.  Robin Muller guest hosts.

125.  EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss is a special project of the CODEX Foundation, a collective global exclamation: "ENOUGH!" It will take place in multiple locations throughout the U.S. and abroad during the Summer of 2021. Sam Pelts is the organizer and coordinator of the project.

124g.  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   Here and There is Everywhere   Susanne Padberg has been the owner of Galerie DRUCK & BUCH since 1994 – first in Tübingen and now in Vienna. The gallery, next door to the Freud Museum in Vienna, specializes in international contemporary book art.  As a traveling book art gallerist and curator in both Europe and the United States, she has encountered a number of differences in the book art world here and there. Despite that, she addresses three aspects – collecting, mission/contents/aesthetics, and book form.

124f.  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   FLAG Victoria Bean is a London based artist, writer, and visual poet, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and co-founder of Arc Editions. She is the co- editor of The New Concrete, an anthology of visual and concrete poetry in the 21st Century that features a hundred artists and writers who work across a variety of disciplines like art, poetry, graphics and literature.

124e.  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   Black Truffles, Vibrant Colours Set Between Black and White   Till Verclas — While still an art student in Hamburg in 1979, Verclas founded his own printmaking studio, going on to work with renowned German and American artists such as Baselitz and Twombly. Verclas works not only in printmaking, but also in large-scale sculpture in bronze, wood, and steel. His artist's books are often made as a reaction to the sculptural installations. Verclas's work can be found in public collections across Germany and the United States.

124d.  THOMAS MILROTH  The 7th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 3-6 in Richmond, California, with a Nordic focus, including artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Thanks to Codex for making the symposium recordings available to all.   Swe Den Thomas Milroth discusses the interaction between Danish and Swedish artists in Denmark and Copenhagen leading to an early outburst of artists' books and printed matter in the 30s, the 40's, and today. He emphasizes the book art activity in South Sweden and Denmark as well as the story of the early thoughts about an alternative space for art.