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The Sketchbook Habit: Creating and Sustaining the Art of Daily Creativity, a Workshop with Lee Kellogg Saturday, September 16, 2023, 1 pm to 3 pm Mountain Time Online via Zoom $39 for BAG members; you must be a member to participate Register at https://santafebag.org/register-for-lee-kelloggs-sketchbook-workshop/ This fast-paced workshop will get you jazzed up for starting, restarting, and maintaining a sketchbook. Pull out any book (a blank book, one with a few pages your started years ago, …

Saturday, August 12, 2023, 1 pm to approximately 3 pm MT In person: Room 606 at Santa Fe Community College 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. Free; Open to …

The New Mexico State Fair will accept artist’s books for judging and exhibition. All the rules are here; PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY: https://cdn.saffire.com/files.ashx?t=fg&rid=NewMexicoStateFair&f=Bookbinding_-_2023.pdf Want to enter? You have two options: Deliver Your Artwork Yourself At the Creative Arts Building on the fairgrounds (building 7 on this map): Deliver your entries on Friday, August 25, or Saturday, August 26, 9 am to 5 pm. If you cannot go to the Fairgrounds to drop off your entries, …

Santa Fe Book Arts Group Art Flea Market Vendor Rules and Information Saturday, October 14, 2023, 10 am-3 pm (setup 8:30-10 am; takedown 3-4 pm) Yes, we know it’s the day of the eclipse At St. John’s United Methodist Church of Santa Fe 1200 Old Pecos Trail (at Cordova), Santa Fe, NM 87505 The Annual Art Flea Market enables BAG members to declutter their art studios. It is highly anticipated by other BAG members, the …

Saturday, July 8, 2023, 1 pm to approximately 3 pm MT, via Zoom (online) Free; Open to the Public; All are Welcome Agenda Welcome and Announcements by President Linda Zwick Fall Classes at Santa Fe Community College by Ro Calhoun Gouletas, Rebecca Bradshaw, and Sudeshna Sengupta Presentation by Marci Easterbrook (see below) Update on Exhibits of Members’ Works in 2023 and 2024 by Will Karp Upcoming Programs and Workshops by Linda Zwick Upcoming Salons by Gail Murray Artist Trading Card Update by RuthAnna Abigail July Mail …

Presented by the Santa Fe Book Arts Group Saturday, July 15, and Sunday, July 16, 2023; 9 am to 4 pm (with a break for lunch; nothing open on campus, please bring your lunch) Santa Fe Community College, Room 700 $185 for BAG members with most materials included; must be a member in good standing Register here: https://santafebag.org/register-for-marci-easterbrooks-workshop/ In this two-day workshop, Marci will lead us in hands-on surface techniques, then we’ll create three artist …

The Life Cycle of the Book Friday, June 9, 2023 10 am to 3 pm The lobby of the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Free; does not include admission to the galleries This exhibit includes 10 “exploded” books by Santa Fe Book Arts Group members. The exhibit is only open for five hours on one day, so please come by! (Click on any image to start slideshow. …

Santa Fe Book Arts Group presents Celebration of the Book October 2023 to April 2024 The Santa Fe Book Arts Group (BAG) will have several public exhibits during a six-month period to showcase the works of its members. Those scheduled to date include: Santa Fe Main Library (October 2023) Santa Fe Southside Library (October 2023) Santa Fe LaFarge Library (October 2023) Santa Fe Community College (March-April 2024) During that period of time BAG will also …

The Totem Mobile Salon with Kim Walter will be on Sunday, September 17, 2023, from 1 pm to 4 pm. It will be in person at Kim's house in downtown Santa Fe near the Capitol. The address will be provided upon confirmed registration. To attend you must be current on 2023 BAG dues. To register, email Gail Murray at gail@gpmurray.com. There is a maximum of six participants; after six, Gail will start a waiting list. …

…is at https://youtu.be/QyyokSo5HRI.  (In case you missed it or want to review it.) We'll leave this on YouTube for a few weeks. Thanks to Shawn for allowing us to record the demonstration. You can download the template here: https://santafebag.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/tulip_pattern.pdf

Santa Fe Book Arts Group is leading a joint collaborative book for BAG and Libros New Mexico Book Arts Guild. This will be BAG’s 2023 collaborative book. The structure will be a drum leaf binding, proposed by Gail Murray, and based on a drum leaf binding designed by Elizabeth McKee for a workshop she taught this year. The theme is “geometry.”  Pages will be 5” x 10”, folded to 5” x 5” for the book. …

Westward Bound II | August 17 – September 10, 2023 This is a national juried exhibition, open to artists at least 18 years of age. Eligible are artists’ book works either created by artists living/working in The American West or artists’ book works with content relevant to The American West. Westward Bound II will be on view from August 17 – September 10, 2023 at Spark Gallery in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. Important Dates March 5, 2023: Online submissions open. June …

Libros New Mexico Book Arts Guild and Santa Fe Book Arts Group are having a joint show, “Anything Goes,” at the Tortuga Gallery in Albuquerque. The show will be held Friday, July 7, through Saturday, July 15, 2023. The show is open to members in good standing only. This is a collaborative show and any member from either group is encouraged to enter. Click here to download the application. APPLICATION: The deadline to submit application, …

Mail Art–12 in ’23: Color Each month you will create a 4×6 postcard (using cardstock) that focuses on one color. Then email Linda Zwick (lindazwick55@yahoo.com) with your address before the third Saturday of the month. She will email you the name and address of your recipient the next week. You have the entire month to work on your card. Please mail it to your mail art recipient by the end of the month. (For example, …

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 …

The Santa Fe Book Arts Group Board voted to raise membership dues to $40 annually as of January 1, 2023. This is the first dues increase in several years. Members who renew by December 31, 2022, however, can do so at the 2022 rate of $30. Over the years Santa Fe BAG has consistently expanded the number and breadth of programs we offer as a membership benefit. Programs include meetings, workshops, presentations, and exhibition opportunities. This …

In this video we remember longtime BAG member Maia Sampson Michael. https://youtu.be/TlpFFqvEW9Y  

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.