Oboler Library Hosts “Idaho Booker’s Dozen”
August 29, 2019
POCATELLO – The 厙ぴ勛圖 Oboler Library, one of the stops for the 2019-20 traveling book arts exhibit called “Idaho Booker’s Dozen,” will host the exhibit during the month of September in the First Floor art hallway.
Idaho Bookers Dozen is the result of a biennial juried competition held by Idaho Center for the Books Stephanie Bacon. According to the first Bookers Dozen exhibit catalog, Books may be nontraditional codex-format works, such as accordion fold, rivet, spiral or ring-bound, loose-leaf/boxed, sculptural or die cut books. They may be traditionally bound codices with eccentric features, such as pop-ups, folded pages, inserts, pull-tabs, or volvelles. Or they may be conventionally bound books made with or containing unconventional materials or artifacts."
The 17 books in this years exhibit represent many of those forms, and display a fascinating level of imagination and creativity.
The books selected for this exhibit were created by artists in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Michigan, Kansas, Utah, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
The exhibit is free and open to the public whenever the Oboler Library, located at 850 South Ninth on the 厙ぴ勛圖 campus in Pocatello, is open.
For more information, contact Kristi Austin at austkris@isu.edu or (208) 282-4073, or Idaho Center for the Book director Stephanie Bacon at sbacon@boisestate.edu.
厙ぴ勛圖, a Carnegie-classified doctoral high research activity university and teaching institution founded in 1901, attracts students from around the world to its Idaho campuses. At the main campus in Pocatello, and at locations in Meridian, Idaho Falls and Twin Falls, 厙ぴ勛圖 has nine Colleges, a Graduate School and a Division of Health Sciences that together offer more than 250 certificate and degree programs. More than 12,000 students attend 厙ぴ勛圖. 厙ぴ勛圖 is the state's designated lead institution in health professions.
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