Hayley Ishihara
http://www.thepitchproject.org/2017/01/05/tpp-artist-book-fair/
The Pitch Project is a contemporary art in Milwaukee's Historic Walker's Point. The gallery is run by four co-founders Mike Brenner, Will Pergl, Sonja Thomsen, and Jason S. Yi. The Pitch Project Book Fair ran for 5 hours on February 4th, sponsoring book arts from 27 different artist groups, including Cander Arts, Duomo, Issue Press, Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellows, Spudnik Press. The book fair ended with Mariela Sancari's keynote speech about her own book project, Moises. All the artists had very different ideas and books which was refreshing versus a gallery that hosted many different aspects of one topic.
I found this event very interesting because I've always wanted to make my artwork into a book, but never knew how to do it. This gave me a lot of ideas since every artist had their own technique and their own art. One artist's table labeled Pink Stuff (http://www.pinkthingsmag.com/) displayed books about different aspects of feminism and also sold nipple stickers, which I thought was an appropriate touch. The Duomo table was selling different books that was full of UWM artwork in many mediums and at different talent levels. Duomo is a UWM club that has a juried show once a year to review the work from different art classes. Another booth I really enjoyed had a screen printing activity area. There were many different pieces that let you create your own "person" made of various heads, torsos and feet stamps. The table was full of everyones prints that were all very different with only six stamps per body part.
This first book fair was a success and well attended. I am looking forward to another event at the Pitch Project Gallery.
embed the links, name the screenprinting booth, and overall scene. the fair was a success...how do you know, your thoughts on why.
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