Memory Theatres: The Books of Bea Nettles
Thursday February 9 at 4:30 PM Jaffe Book Arts Gallery
Visiting
Artist Bea Nettles will share a history of her involvement with the book form
since the early 70s. The lecture will be followed by a book signing.
www.beanettles.com
Bea Nettles is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana. Her exhibition career began in 1970 when her work was shown in
“Photography Into Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Recognition as an experimental photographic artist followed and her work has
been featured in over two hundred exhibitions throughout the world.
Her photographic work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Chicago
Tribune, Art in America, Art Week, Saturday Review, Art News, and the
photography magazines American Photographer, Popular Photography and Modern
Photography. It has been featured internationally in magazines in Italy,
Portugal, Australia, England and France.
Nettles is also known as a book artist. Her books appear in 500 Handmade Books (Lark Books, 2008), The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience (Lark Books, 2004), The Book of Alternative Processes (Delmar, 2001) and reviewed in Bonefolder (Fall 2008), Umbrella (Spring 2005 and Winter 1988) and JAB12: The Journal of Artists Books (Fall 1999). Interviews appear in Ampersand (Fall 2005), on the Book Artists and Poets podcast from University of Alabama, and a full hour lecture given at Duke University has been posted to YouTube.
Numerous public collections and special collections libraries, including the Jaffe Collection at FAU, contain her work and she has received two National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships and grants from the New York and Illinois State Arts Councils.
Nettles has taught thousands of students since 1970. Her classic textbook Breaking the Rules: A Photo Media Cookbook reached two generations of readers. She has delivered lectures and workshops internationally and is widely recognized for her innovations in mixed media photography and photographic books.
This is a free event, though donations to the non-profit Jaffe Center for Book Arts, which is devoted to the study of hand papermaking, letterpress printing and bookbinding, are encouraged. Cash, checks and major credit cards are accepted for both donations and purchases.
JCBA is located on the third floor east of Florida Atlantic University's Wimberly Library. To get to the Wimberly, enter the campus of Florida Atlantic University at the main entrance on Glades Road. This is West University Drive. Continue to the second traffic light you come to and turn right here, onto Volusia Street. You will soon see the parking garage on your left, and the building just east of the garage is the Wimberly Library. Visitor Parking is available at the metered spaces in the library parking lot; the meter system accepts payment with cash, coin or credit card.