Greetings!
We are excited to announce the topic of the 2022 Contemporary Artists' Book Conference is: Re-Envisioning Artists’ Book Visibility.
We are currently accepting session proposals for the conference happening October 13-16, 2022. Please consider submitting a short proposal and sharing this RFP with you network of thinkers, artists, writers, and organizers.
In Action,
The CABC Committee
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The Contemporary Artists Books Conference (CABC) planning committee invites paper and panel proposals for our 2022 conference, which will focus on “Re-Envisioning Artists’ Book Visibility.” The CABC planning committee asks: how do people find and experience artists’ books?
We invite proposals that explore what visibility means; practical and ethical elements of description; challenges and opportunities for collections, artists and book fairs; the presence of the book in the public sphere; publishing and other relevant areas and approaches. We encourage proposals that draw from ethics, feminist studies, critical race studies, queer theory, activism, and non-western perspectives to broaden and deepen our understanding of how people experience artists’ books. Our hope is for the conference to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of artists’ books; thus, we welcome submissions from art historians, artists, designers, critics, curators, librarians, collectors, booksellers, and practitioners in other fields. Graduate students and early-career artists and scholars are encouraged to apply. We anticipate that sessions will be conducted virtually over Zoom. Proposals are due July 21, 2022 before midnight.
All speakers will receive an honorarium for participating.
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The field of artist’s books is the fastest growing artistic discipline internationally. Only 60 years old, this field unites over 100,000 people nationally and even more across the globe, but we still need your help to grow!
Supporting the field by investing in the critical dialogue about contemporary artist’s books builds public awareness for this art form. Your contribution will enable the Contemporary Artists' Book Conference reach a larger audience therefore creating a stronger, more diverse community of artists, collectors, and scholars for the book as art.
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Funding for the 2021 CABC was provided in part by support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support was provided by The Booklyn Rail, Central Booking, Sorted Library, and Small Editions. |
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Our members are one of the most important and vital parts of our organization. Your support helps us to grow the book arts community and sustains free and pay-as-you-wish programming all year round. Consider joining today!
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Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object. The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary visual and literary arts, while being a model organization locally, nationally, and internationally within the field. |
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