In November the BAG members who joined the 2025 BAG Collaborative, Make Your Mark, gathered at Santa Fe Community College to assemble their books. Below are some photos by Gail Murray. Click below to begin slideshow.
Attendees hard at work.
Attendees hard at work.
Attendees hard at work.
Carefully folding.
BAG Secretary led the group through assembling the Australian Reverse Piano Hinge structure.
The Art and Practice of Wonder, an Artist's Talk with Julie Chen at the New Mexico History Museum Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 1 pm to 2:30 pm New Mexico History Museum,113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Open to the public; free with regular museum admission The Palace Press at the New Mexico History Museum is delighted to host visiting artist Julie Chen as our distinguished speaker on the contemporary letterpress and handmade books …
Saturday, October 11, 2025, 1 pm to approximately 3 pm Mountain Time (USA) Free; Open to the Public; All are Welcome Via Zoom (online): For security reasons we never put the Zoom link on our website. If you did not receive an email from Santa Fe Book Arts Group with the link, please check your email program’s “spam” or “junk” folder. Still not there? Email santafebag@gmail.com with your name and your email address. Agenda Welcome and Announcements by Linda …
One-Page Wonders: Explore the Art of Folded Books, a Workshop with Victoria Rabinowe and Freya Diamond Saturday, October 25, 2025; from 10 am to 4 pm NOTE NEW DATE! At the DreamingArts Studio; we’ll send the address after you enroll $100; must be a current BAG member to participate (Not a member? Join here.) Maximum of 10 students You will receive a list of tools needed after receipt of payment. All materials are included. Register …
A Day of Creative Dreaming: Where Dreams Awaken Creativity Through Writing and Collage A workshop with Victoria Rabinowe and Marta Aarli Sunday, September 28, 2025; 9:30 am to 5 pm DreamingArts Studio, Santa Fe, NM $150; art materials included Information and Registration: https://www.marta-aarli.com/dream-workshop-santa-fe.html (this is not a BAG-sponsored event) Step into the rich world of dream imagery and storytelling. In this immersive workshop, you will journey through a range of dreamwork practices that awaken your …
Santa Fe Book Arts Group Annual Art Flea Market Saturday, September 27, 2025, 10 am to 3 pmSt. John’s United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Click to open in new window. Save to your computer. Then post on social media or email to your friends and family. Thanks! Multi-vendor art flea market featuring: Paper! handmade | decorative | marbled | painted | vintage | more Books! …
Zhen Xian Bao Hardcover Sampler Workshop with Rosemary Rae Saturday, August 23, 2025, 10 am to 1 pm Mountain Time, and Sunday, August 24, 2025, 10 am to 12 noon Online via Zoom; live, will NOT be recorded $65; must be a current BAG member to participate (Not a member? Join here.) Maximum of 10 students You will receive a list of tools and supplies needed upon receipt of payment plus some "homework" to do …
Book Arts: Beyond Expectations This exhibition is open to artists creating handmade books, with paper arts and related media, as either an edition or a one-of-a-kind piece. Artist books, sculptural books, book objects, altered books, zines, and broadsides are all encouraged. This is a juried exhibit. Accepted work will be on display from September 12 through October 2, 2025. Submission Deadline: August 1, 2025, at 5:00pm. Entry Fee: $10 each entry; Maximum three entries. More …
Alicia Bailey has announced two calls for entry for artist's books: Printed Page V in Denver Submissions are now open for Printed Page V, a national juried exhibition, on view in Denver, Colorado, during Spring 2026. Curated by Abecedarian Artists’ Books in collaboration with Denver’s Mo’Print (month of printmaking) celebration. Deadline to submit is October 8, 2025. More information: https://bit.ly/PPV-submission-link Narrative Threads Submissions are now open for Narrative Threads, a national juried book arts exhibition, on …
BAG was saddened to hear of the passing of two BAG members, Lee Mann and Raphiel Benjamin. Lee Mann Lee Mann earned a PhD in art and taught for many years at various universities. She was a longtime member of both Santa Fe BAG and Libros. Above you can see some of her artwork that appeared in BAG exhibitions over several years. Lee is survived by her children and grandchildren. There will be a graveside …
The Santa Fe Book Arts Group Program Committee extends an invitation to submit proposals for workshops in the coming months. Proposals should include this information: Workshop title: Teacher’s name and bio: Contact Information (email, phone, text, and USPS address): Workshop description: Online or in-person workshop: Dates you have in mind: What students will learn (be specific, please): How this will be accomplished (be specific, please): What items students need to bring to class: Length of …
During this month's Santa Fe Book Arts Group meeting, three BAG members showed some tips, tools, and techniques. Go to: Decorated Envelopes | Best Ruler for Book Arts | Best Tools for Accurate Cutting Decorated Envelopes Gail Murray showed how she made a quick and good-looking envelope for mail art, etc. Supplies 1 sheet of 8.5” x 11” copy paper, plain, collaged, or decorated; or a calendar page or a magazine page, no smaller than …
On Saturday, October 28, Marcia Moore and Brooke Remmert presented the "Make a Book, Read a Book" workshop at the Main Library. Here are some photos by Brooke of the event. Remember, the Celebration continues through March 2024! Check the BAG website and newsletter for more details soon.
Recently we said goodbye to a dear friend, Douglass Rankin. Douglass was a potter, poet, photographer, printmaker, pastepaper marker, postage stamp collector, mail art maker, journal keeper, book artist, beekeeper, butterfly counter, bird and fish watcher, cat lover, gardener, cook, hiker, star gazer, traveler of paths least traveled, wife of Will Ruggles, and most of all, a great book arts friend. We miss you, Douglass! The photography in the slideshow tribute was supplied by Gail …
Today at the end of the BAG meeting Sally Blakemore will demonstrate two more paper engineering projects. This is part of an ongoing series for those working on the “Santa Fe Origins” collaborative book, and anyone interested in paper engineering. First are the animated tabs and pulls. This mechanic operates with multiple slots through the front that contain items that lift when the tab is pulled down. Use it for any kind of reveal-and-conceal idea; …
Thanks to BAG members Sally Blakemore, Barb Macks, Helen Fabel, and Lynn Grimes, Santa Fe kids are going to look at bugs in a whole new way. Recently the four artists decorated two windows at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum: one with Nature Bugs and one with Urban Bugs. “The installations are a wildly diverse experiment using materials as inspiration,” said Sally. “We created a Mylar ‘waterfall’ filled with bugs made from repurposed cookbooks from …
BAG President Linda Zwick challenged members to create faux postage stamps. (The U.S. Postal Service used to allow creation of custom postage stamps through approved third-party vendors, but ended the program in June 2020.) You can view the submissions in a video by clicking here.
Sally Blakemore, BAG's Artist-in-Residence, will be demonstrating pop-up engineering at the BAG member meeting on Saturday, April 10, 2021. She will do this because it's fun, but also to help those who are interested in being part of the "City of Mud" large pop-up book project. Here are two of Sally's designs. Click on the image to open in a new tab.
