Summer Book to Art Club

 

As the last bit of our FUTURE TENSE:  IMAGINED WORLDS FROM THE MARGINS programming,  this summer, we will be focusing on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, an important novel that has spawned many adaptations, art in other mediums, and important discussions about feminism, bodily autonomy,  and dystopian America.  While not exactly a beach or hammock read, Atwood’s work offers fertile ground for creative interpretation and we hope you join us for reading, artmaking, and virtual discussion.

How to Participate:

1. Read the book.  There are many inexpensive physical copies available via online retailers (used & new).  It is also available for download as a free e-book. You can also heck out some of the great cinematic adaptations available, including the most recent, Hulu network’s The Handmaid’s Tale. 

2.  In July, we’ll be creating alternative book covers and movie posters for The Handmaid’s Tale, which will be featured in a virtual exhibit in the Fall.   Translate your vision of the story into whatever medium strikes your fancy–collage, paint, photography, printmaking, illustration, & more…

3.  Join us all along in our Book to Art Discussion Board, where we will be hosting virtual discussions of the book’s themes, the adaptations, and its place in the feminist canon, as well as in dystopian literature, and more.  Also, keep an eye on our social media, where we will be collecting resources and other points of interest related to the book and its adaptations.

All Book to Art Club activities are open to the Columbia College Chicago community and the greater public.

Fall 2019 Book to Art Selection

In celebration of our LETHAL LADIES:  THE WOMEN OF TRUE CRIME focus, we are venturing into non-fiction territory with Corinne May Botz's The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, whose subject matter explores the life and work of master criminal investigator Frances Glessner Lee and her amazing crime dollhouses. We will be meeting to discuss the book, Glessner Lee's work in general,  her legacy on other art forms, AND to  make paper dioramas of our own favorite crime scenes.

Book to Art Club Meeting

Wednesday ,October 9th

7pm-9pm

Library, 1st Floor 

How to Participate:

1. 

Check out a copy of The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death at the Library (copies are also available via I-Share Interlibrary Loan).

2.

Watch this space and Library social media for more resources and further reading on Glessner Lee's  life and work.

3.

Join us on October 9th, where we'll have discussion and diorama making supplies aplenty for you design your own paper crime scenes (both real or imagined, benign or grisly--your choice!)

Book to Art | War of the Worlds

Join us next week for our first Book to Art Club meeting of the semester, as we continue our discussion of HG Well's War of the Worlds and work on our final zine project due out in May.  Stop by to contribute to the project and check out our first floor display devoted to this classic and all it's visual embodiments.


Book to Art Club
Wednesday. February 27th, 7-9pm
Library, 1st Floor

For a sampling of the amazing illustrations that have accompanied the text over the years, check out the resources below:

Terrifying 1906 Illustrations for HG Wells' THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
http://flavorwire.com/516131/terrifying-1906-illustrations-of-h-g-wells-the-war-of-the-worlds

The Very First illustrations of HG Wells' WAR OF THE WORLDS
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/the-very-first-illustrations-of-h-g-wells-the-war-of-the-worlds-1897.html

Edward Gorey Illustrates HG Wells' WAR OF THE WORLDS
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/edward-gorey-illustrates-h-g-wells-the-war-of-the-worlds-in-his-inimitable-gothic-style-1960.html


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Started by the Library-As-Incubator Project, the Book to Art Club is a book + art-making club that exists virtually and in-person at libraries around the world. Our selection for this year is HG Wells' War of the Worlds, a story told time and again through various media--films, comics, radio. Come for some general discussion (of both the book and other incarnations) and make some art. At the end of the year, we will turn our collective endeavors into a book art/zine project in time for the Manifest Celebration.

Book to Art Club | War of the Worlds

Join the Library for our second Book to Art Club meeting of the semester, Wednesday, November 14, 7-9pm on the 1st Floor.

Started by the Library-As-Incubator Project, the Book to Art Club is a book + art-making club that exists virtually and in-person at libraries around the world. Our selection for this year is HG Wells' War of the Worlds, a story told time and again through various media--films, comics, radio. Come for some general discussion (of both the book and other incarnations) and make some art. At the end of the year, we will turn our collective endeavors into a book art/zine project in time for the Manifest Celebration.

(Henrique Alvin Correa, 1906)

For a sampling of the amazing illustrations that have accompanied the text over the years, check out the resources below:

Terrifying 1906 Illustrations for HG Wells' THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
http://flavorwire.com/516131/terrifying-1906-illustrations-of-h-g-wells-the-war-of-the-worlds

The Very First illustrations of HG Wells' WAR OF THE WORLDS
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/the-very-first-illustrations-of-h-g-wells-the-war-of-the-worlds-1897.html

Edward Gorey Illustrates HG Wells' WAR OF THE WORLDS
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/edward-gorey-illustrates-h-g-wells-the-war-of-the-worlds-in-his-inimitable-gothic-style-1960.html

Book to Art Club ! This Wednesday!

Our Book to Art Club selection for the 2018-2019 school year is HG Wells' classic WAR OF THE WORLDS! Get your hands on a copy early--limited copies are available at the library or through ILL (or is downloadable through Project Gutenberg online for free @ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36 )

Our first READ, TALK, MAKE session happens on September 19th, 7-9pm, Library , 1st Floor, where rumor has it we will be making alien collages!

DARK FOREST

limited edition of 50
Columbia College Library Book to Art Club
(2018)

 This limited edition book arts anthology project was created as the final project of the 2017-2018 Book to Art Club section Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Featuring prints, broadsides, postcards, and pamphlets from Columbia College Community artists & authors, the collection provides a dynamic look at beauty and darkness of fairy tales and folklore. Proceeds from the anthology will go toward future Book to Art programming.

Started by LIBRARY AS INCUBATOR, the Book to Art Club brings art-making and book discussions together in the creation of creative projects based on the title chosen.

 https://tinyurl.com/darkforestanthology

Stop by the Library's 1st Floor Circulation Desk (624 S. Michigan)  or visit https://tinyurl.com/darkforestanthology to purchase online through dancing girl press.

We had an amazing time at Zine Fest on Saturday and gave away a whole bunch of resource zines and sold a whole bunch of Chicago Crypto Society publications (our little HOAX week spin-off project.)  Keep an eye out in the Library's Zine Exchange for our extras & unsold materials, as well as some new crpto zines due out this summer...it's also not to late to pickup a free copy of Breton's Birthday, or purchase a copy of DARK FOREST at the circulation desk (our Grimm projects) the proceeds of which go toward future AofR programming!

Tomorrow Night!

Join the Library and the Aesthetics of Research for our Fall 2017 installment of The Book to Art Club featuring our first title Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Started by the Library As Incubator Project, the Book to Art Club is a book + art-making club that exists virtually and in-person at libraries around the world. a way to find hands-on, creative ways to engage with literature – where the process of art-making is more important than the product! 

Because we want as many points of entry as possible for our first go, any edition of the Tales of the Brothers Grimm will do (and the varying illustrations are a bonus!) Stop by the library to check out one of our copies, or get one through interlibrary loan (or scope out the versions of the tales available online.) Each session, we will be exploring a variety of art and craft techniques, culminating in a year’s end collaborative limited edition book arts project. 

We will have a wide selection of supplies on hand—paint, markers, colored pencils, paper, collage materials, glue, scissors, etc. and will be doing some brief technique demos to get you started, including collage, printmaking, paper puppets, and book sculptures.

Thursday, February 8th, 6-8 pm, Library 1st Floor

Join us this Wednesday night for our final READ!  TALK!  MAKE! session of the semester!  6-8 pm, 1st Floor.

Read! Talk! Make!

Our Book to Art Club will be hosting our second READ TALK! MAKE! session on December 13th.  Thanks to all who participated in our first session last week devoted to collage--this time, we'll be experimenting with some paper puppets and paper theater techniques.  We're working toward creating our own handmade volume of Grimm tales by the time the year-end Manifest Celebration rolls around.

READ! TALK! MAKE!

This semester, we are joining Library As Incubator's BOOK TO ART Club. Our first book? Grimm's Fairytales! The perfect set of tales for your autumn bookworm tendencies. On November 8th, we'll be getting together to talk about what we've read and work on art projects inspired by the tales! We'll also be pulling together our own handmade volume featuring the tales and attendant artwork, which we'll be working on through the rest of the academic year.

!) hunt down a copy of Grimm Tales (an edition will do..) We have a few in the library or available through Interlibrary Loan.

2) brainstorm some creative project ideas as you read

3) Come to our READ, TALK, MAKE session on November 8th to discuss & play with some techniques and work on projects...

Read! Talk! Make!

Join the Library and the Aesthetics of Research for our Fall 2017 installment of The Book to Art Club featuring our first title Grimm’s Fairy Tales.  Started by the Library As Incubator Project, the Book to Art Club is a book + art-making club that exists virtually and in-person at libraries around the world. a way to find hands-on, creative ways to engage with literature – where the process of art-making is more important than the product!

Because we want as many points of entry as possible for our first go, any edition of the Tales of the Brothers Grimm will do (and the varying illustrations are a bonus!)  Stop by the library to check out one of our copies, or get one through interlibrary loan (or scope out the versions of the tales available online.)

We will have a wide selection of supplies on hand—paint, markers, colored pencils, paper, collage materials, glue, scissors, etc. and will be doing some brief technique demos to get you started, including collage, printmaking, paper puppets, and more. We will also be creating a handmade book of our own combining our favorite Grimm stories with  images of created  to illustrate the tales.