Participants will be introduced to new and innovative book structures – the nested accordion and the scrolling codex, (both designs developed by Peter and Donna Thomas) and students will also learn the basic bookbinding skills needed to create them.
Materials will be provided but students may want to bring special paper and their own tools. Optional materials list provided upon registration.
Advanced students will have time to put text in their books and will want to come prepared with a short 4 – 10 word quote to work with.

The public is invited to hear Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen speak at the Friends of Hannon Library annual membership reception, May 12, 2011, 5:00 PM, in the library’s Meese Meeting Room (#305). Refreshments will be served. Following a short business meeting, Paulann Petersen will begin at 6:00 PM speaking on “What We Can Learn from Walt Whitman and Nazim Hikmet.”

Famous east coast Artists from 1910 – 1970, Rothbort, Donskoy, Frankel and more…Museum pieces for sale!

“A Man Named Pearl.” Angered by neighbors’ comments that he wouldn’t “keep up his yard,” Pearl Fryar teaches himself Topiary Sculpture and becomes the first African American in his Bishopville, S.C., neighborhood to win the coveted Yard of the Month award. This acclaimed documentary traces Fryar’s inspiring story, as he grows into a legendary hortuculturist, welcoming thousands of tourists eager to catch
a glimpse of his stunning works of art.

Covering the Business of being an artist.

Bert Anderson’s new play, Mr. Brightside and the Bonfire Nights, based on real events, is playing May 9 and 11, with proceeds benefitting Mediation Works, a community dispute resolution center. The play focuses on Justin Pollard, a formerly upstanding 19 year-old, who is expelled from his first year at university and sent home, and what turns him into a dangerous felon. Tickets: $15.00, students with ID $5.00; available at Paddington Station in Ashland or Grocery Outlet in Medford

Bert Anderson’s new play, Mr. Brightside and the Bonfire Nights, based on real events, is playing May 9 and 11, with proceeds benefitting Mediation Works, a community dispute resolution center. The play focuses on Justin Pollard, a formerly upstanding 19 year-old, who is expelled from his first year at university and sent home, and what turns him into a dangerous felon. Tickets: $15.00, students with ID $5.00; available at Paddington Station in Ashland or Grocery Outlet in Medford

The Afrofunk Experience, “The Bay Area’s Dance Kings”. Tasteful, precise and very funky. $10

Original Artwork (prints, paintings, assemblage pieces), Costumes, Fabulous Original Leather Masks Cash or Check only
Directions: Take N. Mountain over I-5, turn right on E. Nevada, Turn Right on Pomadour Dr.
At the top of the hill, stay left at the Y in the road. Look for a long tree lined driveway on the right just past [...]

We continue to highlight the Year of Paper with additional monthly themes. April’s theme is May Poles. Look for artwork related to the theme throughout all three floors of the Art Center