WISH YOU WERE HERE
A collaborative project between book artists–coast to coast
San Diego Book Arts invites members of NEBA to join them and five other book arts organizations, to come together to CELEBRATE HOME through a hand-crafted USPS-compliant postcard exchange and freestyle bookmaking project. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to share your love, perception or impression of home, a place you likely got to know inside and out this past year, with fellow book artists.
TAKE PART!
What a fun way to welcome fellow artists into your house, neighborhood, city, region, or state. What a cool way to take a virtual journey through their abode or environs–from the Pacific Coast through the Southwest and up into New England.
How It Works
1. Groups of 16 artists will be paired into mini collaboratives.
2. Each artist will design and mail a “home-themed” postcard to their group members.
3. Each artist will design and craft their own “Wish You Were Here” book that displays all 16 postcards from their group.
4. All “Wish You Were Here” books, from all groups of 16, will exhibit online and in TBA locations.
Timeline
April 1: Registration Opens
April 21: Registration Closes
May 1: Project Kickoff with Group Assignments
June 15: Deadline for Mailing Postcards
August 1: Deadline to Complete and Photograph Books
Requirements, Registration & Rules
Participants must be a current member of a participating organization.
Register at https://forms.gle/icwh5jt5EASKiNqK8
Rules are posted at the above link.
Questions? Contact Susan Marsh, NEBA Membership Coordinator
Participants
Project Host
San Diego Book Arts (SDBA)
Project Partners
Bay Area Book Artists (BABA) California
North Redwoods Book Arts Guild (NORBAG) California
Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA) Washington
PaperWorks Arizona
Santa Fe Book Arts Group (SFBAG) New Mexico
Suggested postcard templates 4 x 6 inches in 140lb. paper with printed address lines:
Strathmore – Watercolor Postcard, 15 Sheets at Blick.com
Fabriano Studio Watercolor Postcard Pad – 20 Sheets at Blick.com