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• Posted To e or not to e? to Buffalo Rising
  In the quest for the best e-reader, qualities such as resolution, similarity to the feel of holding and reading a book, portability and battery length are are discussed and compared. From the Kindle® to the Nook® to the iPad®, all want to become the reader of choice. There is still a technology that has 10x higher resolution, infinite battery length and 1000x more titles than all e-book readers combined. Yes, you saw this coming...real books. Nothing simulates or resonates with an book lover more than the feel, the look and even the smell of a real book. While the Kindle...
• Posted "Remembrances: An Exhibition of Prints, Books, and Drawings" to Buffalo Rising Events
  "Remembrances: An Exhibition of Prints, Books, and Drawings" will be presented from Friday, January 21, through Saturday, February 19, 2011 at the Western New York Book Arts Center, 468 Washington Street (at Mohawk), Buffalo. This special 3 person show was...
• Posted Exhibition Opening "Remembrances" to Buffalo Rising Events
  "Remembrances" EXHIBITION January 21 - February 19, 2011 This special 3 person show was curated from our annual members exhibition and features the work of printmaker Amanda Maciuba, Book Artist Sandra C Fernandez and illustrator Francisco Amaya. The works in...
• Posted Monumental Ideas In Miniature Books to Buffalo Rising Events
  "Monumental Ideas In Miniature Books" will be presented from Friday, January 7, through Saturday, February 19, 2011 at the Western New York Book Arts Center, 468 Washington Street (at Mohawk), Buffalo. The MIMB is a collection of 142 books handcrafted...
• Posted New Year's Eve at the WNY Book Arts Center to Buffalo Rising
   Ring in the New Year with a great downtown Buffalo view at the Western New York Book Arts Center. The Book Arts Center's 3rd Annual New Year's Eve Party is quite possibly the best place in town to watch the Electric Tower Ball Drop - and more! Groove to live downtempo jazz by featured musician David Kane on the first floor, and kick up you heels to the DJ stylings of Matt Olmsted on the beautiful second floor. The night would not be complete without the opportunity to bid on artwork in the Silent Auction by regional and national artists,...
• Posted Last Minute Panic Holiday Marketplace to Buffalo Rising
  Friday Dec 17 & Saturday Dec 18. In the spirit of community and conspicuous consumerism, a great way to buy thoughtful obligatory gifts and support your own community is by shopping locally and buying locally made items. This is nothing new, but always worth remembering when the thought of your shopping dollars going out of town could in fact stay here and support local artisans. Of the many holiday shopping opportunities this year, the "Last Minute Panic Holiday Marketplace" at the WNY Book Arts Center stands out as an edgy arts and crafts event with over 20 vendors who make,...
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• Posted Kickstarting arts community needs to Buffalo Rising
  Fundraising for art projects is one of the toughest things to attempt in a recession. Traditional funding sources like foundations and grant makers generally have less to give and more and more applications to consider. New models for fundraising such as the online Kickstarter offer a unique way for people to pitch their projects directly to the public to enable micro-donation, and just like a long-tail model predicts, those micro-donations can add up to significant amounts. Several local projects have seen the value in this new method of fiscal tree-shaking. Just recently, the non-profit WNY Book Arts Center (WNYBAC) in...
• Posted The Art of The Broadside to Buffalo Rising
  The history of Buffalo and the printed word is a long-storied one. The treasures in the Poetry Collection at UB and popularity of the Babel series from Just Buffalo Literary Center show that this city still figures prominently on the world stage of poetics. Buffalo's oldest non-profit press, White Pine Press, has published some of the most notable poets over the last 40 years. This week, White Pine Press teams up with Buffalo's newest non-profit dedicated to the visual art of the printed and written word, the WNY Book Arts Center for a unique fundraising event. This special benefit sale...
• Posted Starshaped Press at the WNY Book Arts Center to Buffalo Rising
  This Thursday and Saturday, the WNY Book Arts Center we will be offering two unique workshops with guest instructors from Starshaped Press in Chicago.  Starshaped Press is a letterpress studio committed to keeping their work as authentic to the old ways as possible, meaning that all projects are printed using hand-set antique metal and wood type. In holding to the belief that there is no digital equivalent to the inherent beauty and imperfection of type that is sometimes 100 years old, Starshaped has adopted the motto: "All Metal, All the Time (Except When it's Wood)." This level of commitment to...
• Posted Bobo Reunion Gig at Mohawk Place to Buffalo Rising
  The Buffalo music scene is as diverse and fragmented as any major American city. People speak of local legends who have made it in the big time (ie commercial success) and when rattling off names associated with Buffalo, the range of styles is staggering: Ani DiFranco, Spyro Gyra, Cannibal Corpse, Mercury Rev, Moe, Goo Goo Dolls, Harold Arlen?One local band worthy of a larger audience but seemingly destined for mythical status only is Bobo . The cognoscenti of the Buffalo bar band scene seldom have an indifferent reaction to Bobo and its focal point/lead singer Jimmer Phillips. This pop/pub-rock/punk band...
• Posted Bookfest bookfest bookfest bookfest bookfest to Buffalo Rising
   "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language, used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. More info on this odd phenomenon can be found at Wikipedia. The card shown above is freshly printed using vintage type at the WNY Book Arts Center. Saturday at WNYBAC you too can print one of these during Bookfest. Book Fest is a free event held from 12-6pm on Saturday June 26 at the WNY Book Arts Center at 468 Washington Street in downtown Buffalo. The...
• Posted Drive By Press in Buffalo to Buffalo Rising
  Drive By Press was created to educate and share the contemporary practice of printmaking with students and art audiences across America. DBP has visited well over 100! Universities, Colleges,and public schools, traveling over 100,000 miles!Today they are at the Buffalo State College printmaking department in Upton Hall demonstrating printmaking techniques. Visitors are welcome to drop by.Following a week-long residency at the WNY Book Arts Center Printshop, Drive by Press will display a special one-day exhibit of highlights from their traveling collection and the work created during their week at WNYBAC!The special one-day exhibit/reception with printing demos and lots of art is Friday April...
• Posted Small Press Getting Bigger to Buffalo Rising
  The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair is an annual rite of Spring on Porter Avenue at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. With three fairs under his belt and counting, Chris Fritton, the organizer of the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, is bringing together another event not to be missed: A free event with lots of handmade and self published books and art. The 4th annual Buffalo Small Press Book Fair takes place on Saturday March 27, 2010. In keeping with the popular format change from last year, the fair will host a number of free workshops that take place concurrent with...
• Posted Recipe for an Edible Evening to Buffalo Rising
  "Eating your words" may be a figure of speech, but once a year, people around the world (and now in Buffalo), can literally eat their words at the International Edible Book Festival. The International Edible Book Festival is an annual event held on April 1st across the globe. This potluck dinner meets art show pushes the limits of how the word "book" is defined, uniting bibliophiles, book artists and food lovers in a celebration of the ingestion of culture and its fulfilling nourishment. Participants create edible books that are exhibited, documented and then consumed. It is also important to note...
• Posted Pecha Kucha at WNYBAC to Buffalo Rising
  PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers and artists to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that showcases several disciplines creating a diverse and exciting display of creative work. Of the many officially sanctioned cities worldwide who have embraced this unique mash up between a 19th century artists' salon and speed...
• Posted WNY Book Arts Center Workshops to Buffalo Rising
  More and more people are realizing that the DIY (Do-it-yourself) movement is really on to something. Making your own books, prints and other objects has a level of gratification that cannot be compared. In tight economic times, making your own gifts can be doubly gratifying. As the art of fine crafts shows (as seen at the recent Burchfield Penney Art Center Exhibit: Art in Craft media), craft can be much more than busy-work for kids. One specific area of craft, the growing book arts community in Buffalo has more resources than ever.  Along with the recently announced Just Buffalo "Studio How...
• Posted See how they print to Buffalo Rising
  Image by oddsock via FlickrIt's not everyday that an art exhibit has an actual piece produced at the opening reception. Tonight, Friday Jan 29 from 6-9pm is the official opening of the Hero Design Studio retrospective: Pulled to the Limit at the Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington at Mohawk).  Visitors can see the exhibit, but also see the folks from Hero print the final color on a 4 color commemorative exhibit poster for this exact exhibit. They will be using the homemade press (a vacuum table that employs an actual vacuum cleaner as its motor) that printed most of...
• Posted Last Minute Panic Holiday Marketplace Downtown at WNYBAC to Buffalo Rising
  At the risk of being too advertorial, holiday shoppers who love Buffalo can come downtown from 12-6 today and peruse locally produced handcrafts, books, artwork and more with the Last minute gift buying panic marketplace at the main gallery, 1st floor of the Western New York Book Arts Center 468 Washington St at Mohawk in Downtown Buffalo. For shoppers who love Buffalo and know people who hate Buffalo, the surprisingly popular letterpress greeting card stating "Buffalo Hates you too!" is available in the WNYBAC shop along with such unlikely gifts as the Seth Godin Action Figure and the locally made...
• Posted Be Global, Shop Local to Buffalo Rising
  The Old Adage, Think Globally, Act Locally has many possible applications. The global recession has hit Buffalo hard and it has become a struggle for many small businesses to stay open. For the people of the city of Buffalo and all of Western New York, one of the best possible ways to help preserve the things that make Buffalo great is by supporting them now more than ever. The Allentown Shop Krudmart had many fans and supporters but still was not able to keep its doors open due to more pats on the back and heaps of verbal support than...
• Posted Catherine Parker - New Paintings to Buffalo Rising
  Catherine Parker is a renowned local painter in her own right. The fact that she is Charles Burchfield's daughter just adds a level of notoriety to her persona. While her work has some of the same DNA as her father's work, she has her own distinct style that followers of her work can recognize as truly her own. This Friday October 16th 6-9 p.m. a new series of paintings based on the 16th Century poet George Herbert will debut at the Western NY Book Arts Center. The paintings will make a visit on October 24th To the Westminster Presbyterian Church at 724...
• Posted WNY Book Arts Center Fall Workshops to Buffalo Rising
  More and more people are realizing that the DIY (Do-it-yourself) movement is really on to something. Making your own things has a level of gratification that cannot be compared. In tight economic times, making your own gifts can be doubly gratifying. As the art of fine crafts shows (as seen at the current Burchfield Penney Art Center Exhibit: Art in Craft media), craft can be much more than busy-work for kids. One specific area of craft, the growing book arts community in Buffalo has more resources than ever.  Along with the recently announced Just Buffalo "Studio How To" workshops at WNYBAC, The...
• Posted Rockford Files to Buffalo Rising
  ...he also nails, saws, glues and otherwise dissembles and re-assembles what some people might otherwise dismiss as junk into clever and precious artwork. As Richard Rockford says on his website: "I try to create art that causes the viewer to start seeing old things, discarded things, items around them everywhere, as having beauty of color and texture. I take old surfaces - wooden panels, ink-stained blocks, deconstructed household furniture - and without changing their color and texture, I make them part of something colorful, genuine and beautiful."Rockford's work is reminiscent of the Dadaists and Constructivists of the early 20th century but there are clear and...
• Posted Booking Saturday Downtown to Buffalo Rising
  With festival season upon us, many people venture into downtown Buffalo with a single destination at a time in mind. With Taste of Buffalo this weekend and preceding Thursdays at the Square, other pockets of activity can be found not to far from the epicenter of the crowds. As with many things about Buffalo, there is plenty here, you just have to know where to look. For book lovers, a Saturday trip to downtown Buffalo can be a very rewarding experience. Starting at the Central Library at Washington St & Lafayette Square, book collectors of all budgets can peruse...
• Posted Book Arts Center Opens Downtown to Buffalo Rising
  The Western New York Book Arts Center is the home of the not-for-profit organization: The Western New York Book Arts Collaborative (WNYBAC), focusing on Art, Design & Craft. Located on Washington Street at Mohawk in downtown Buffalo at the site of the old Slotkin Building, WNYBAC is now open to the public. The space features a gallery, bookshop, event space, printing studio, library, & printing history museum.   The public Grand Opening this past Thursday was also the opening reception for the first WNYBAC members' exhibition. The exhibit features established and emerging artists, craftspeople, designers, and self published authors. Work is...
• Posted Buffalo Artists/Crafters Thriving on Etsy to Buffalo Rising
  The online marketplace phenomenon known as Etsy is redefining the DIY craft movement and presenting a world of individual artisans at the world's largest handmade goods fair. Part eBay, part FaceBook, this online community of handmade goods is representing work from... everywhere, but Buffalo based Etsy-prenuers are making a go of things is grand fashion. Carol Wannemacher who goes by the moniker Crowbiz has been featured in the April issue of Country Living magazine and NPR for her line of retro text and image based baubles. Like many Western New York based Etsy vendors, she has had a positive...
• Posted "Donner Party, your table is ready..." to Buffalo Rising
  Longtime Buffalonian Gabrielle Burton returns to celebrate publication of her new book, Searching for Tamsen Donner, a melding of history and memoir in which she retraces some of Donner's journeys in an attempt to solve the mystery of this historical figure.  Burton's Heartbreak Hotel, a novel set in Buffalo, won the Maxwell Perkins Prize. Talking Leaves...Books, Just Buffalo Literary Center and Hallwalls, along with the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative, are pleased to announce a reading and book signing of Searching for Tamsen Donner (University of Nebraska Press, in the American Lives Series edited by Tobias Wolff). This free event will take...
• Posted Buffalo Small Press Book Fair Returns to Buffalo Rising
  For the third year in a row, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum will host the much lauded Buffalo Small Press Book Fair.  The event is a cornucopia of indie publishing, small press poetry, artist's books, comics, and zines showcasing the work of artists from all over the Northeastern US and Southern Ontario. Organized by local authorpreneur Chris Fritton, the book fair has been successful at pulling together disparate facets of the often insular writing community.  In addition to becoming a haven for networking, the fair gives artists, authors and publishers a chance to display and sell their work to a large...
• Posted From Spain to the Mohawk to Buffalo Rising
  When you hear that a band from Barcelona is playing in Buffalo, you might expect flamenco guitars and castanets. Poet in Process have garnered a large following in their native Spain but not by having a "Spanish" sound. Playing Sunday for an early show at Mohawk Place, this may be the perfect way to wind down after St. Patrick's Day parade festivities in Buffalo. Their style has the full 80s alt-rock guitar based sound of U2 or Echo & the Bunnymen combined with female dream pop vocal stylings reminiscent of the Sundays and the Cardigans. Their lead off MySpace...
• Posted Printing & book binding the old fashioned way to Buffalo Rising
  The Western NY Book Arts Collaborative (WNYBAC) has announced its Spring 2009 workshop series. This second series presented at the new home of WNYBAC at 468 Washington Street in downtown Buffalo covers some basic intro classes in letterpress printing (the kind that Johann Gutenberg started about 1450) & hand book binding. In addition to reasonably priced workshops, WNYBAC is dedicating every 4th Wednesday evening of each month to demonstrating its printing, typecasting and book finishing equipment. These "demo days" are free for members and only $10 for non-members. The Book Arts Center will open officially in May of 2009....