OCTAVOFEST 2010
Join the Celebration!

Join us in celebrating our region's active artist's community of book and paper innovators and our magnificent library and museum collections of fine and rare books. Join artists and book lovers to learn about our local rich resources and the exciting world of contemporary book and paper arts.

Visit local venues where printmakers, paper sculptors, conservators, and bookbinders are exploring, creating, preserving, and exhibiting works that use one of humankind's greatest technologies: books and paper. Start out with some of the featured events below or browse through the lectures, tours and demonstrations and the exhibits to make your own itinerary.

Octavofest Kick-Off at the Cleveland Public Library

• Friday, October 1, 6:00 pm
  "Curator, Educator, Artist: The Book Arts Revealed"
  • Opening Reception & Panel Discussion - with Cristine Rom, Gund Library Director at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Barbara Stanczak, Professor of Art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Bonné de Blas, Director of Art Books Cleveland.
  • The panel will discuss aspects of the artistic and visual experience of Book Arts such as collecting and exhibiting, composition and craftsmanship, and creation and marketing of these unique works.
• More Info.

Openings & Open Houses at the Morgan

• Saturday, October 2, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
  "Third Annual Open House and Silent Auction (Year of the Kozo)"
  Join us for great food, great live entertainment, and great art. This annual fund raiser is a proven hit and helps the Morgan Conservatory further its mission in producing and preserving the art of hand papermaking, book, and paper arts.
  Free event
  
• Friday, October 15, 6:00 pm- 10:00 pm
  "Double Exhibition Opening and then some! "
  
  • Bad Boys, Magic Ladies, and Timeless Masters
    The best of Contemporary American Block Printing by United States Artists
    Curator: Claudio Orso-Giacone
  • Third Annual Abecedaria Project: Art Books Cleveland
    Annual Salon Show – 19 of the best Artist book creators in the Cleveland Area exhibit their new work.
  • 2nd Annual Author Invitational and Open Mic @ the Morgan 8:00 - 10:00 pm
    Please join us from 8 to 10 pm as we feature readings by Jim Meirose, Meredith Holmes, Sammy Greenspan, and Robert Miltner as part of the city-wide Octavofest celebration of book and paper arts. Our guest emcees are John Burroughs and Dianne Borsenik of Lix and Kix. An open mic will follow.
    
• Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation -More info.

An Afternoon/Evening at University Circle

Wednesday, October 20th

• From 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm at the Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University (Dampeer Room)
  "Care and Handling of Paper Based Materials" by Jamye Jamison, Associate Paper Conservator, ICA
  More info.
  
• From 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm at the Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University
  Exhibit in Special Collections: "Significant Items from Special Collections" - Tour the Preservation Department.
  More info.
• 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
  Boxed Supper at the CMA or or enjoy dinner at one of University Circle’s restaurants.
  Call 216-707-2533 to Register and/or order a boxed meal - $15 per person
• From 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm at the Ingalls Library, Cleveland Museum of Art
  "Beautiful Books from the Ingalls Library Rare Book collection"
  More info.
• All day at the Gund Library, Cleveland Institute of Art
  Exhibit: "Celebrating books made by artists: selections for the Cleveland Institute of Art's artists' books collection"
  More info.

From Old to New: An Evening of Books and Art @ Cleveland State University

Wednesday, October 27

• At 4:30 - 5:30 pm in the Michael Schwartz Library, Rhodes Tower 401
  "Reimagining the Book - the Revolution in 16th Century Publishing"
  Amy Crist, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paper Conservation, Cleveland Museum of Art
• At 5:30 pm in the Cleveland State University Student Center Ballroom
  Tour CSU’s fabulous new Student Center with Sandra Emerick, Associate Dean of Students. The tour will focus on the art and architecture of the building, including a special viewing of the Depression era mural by artist Elmer Brown, restored by the Intermuseum Conservation Association.
• Dinner - On your own, at Bar Uno Restaurant in the Student Center or at a variety of eateries in the area.
• From 7:00 - 8:30 pm in the Cleveland State University Student Center, Room 313
  "Building an E-Book from the Ground Up"
  By Barbara Strauss, Head Technical Services Cleveland State University Michael Schwartz Library and Shawn Simmons, Art Books Cleveland
• More info.

Closing Reception at the Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA)

• Thursday, November 4, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
  By invitation only.
  More info.
• Sponsored by the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University.

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