Tuesday, 26 April 2016

The Art of Letter, Word & Book - May 2016 at OddFellows Gallery


Show opens May 5 to May 30

Daily 10:30am - 5:00pm
Opening Party - Sat. May 14th  (5pm – 8pm)

Flockworks’ 4th Annual Exhibit exploring the “Art of Letter, Word & Book”, includes calligraphy, letterpress, artist books, deconstructed books, words into other art and other related installations by more than 40 artists.

One of the pieces exhibited will be Felice Rice’s DOC/UNDOC - A mixed-media production housed in a hi-tech aluminum case, which contains her book DOC/UNDOC of performance texts by artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and critical commentary by art historian Jennifer González, video by Gómez-Peña and artist Gustavo Vazquez, and sound art by Zachary Watkins.

There will also be an Open Writing Project by Karen Lewis of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference and a Writer’s Open Mic on May 21st from 3:30pm-5pm.

And the event will close with Book Mobile “Races” – a compilation of fanciful “cars” made from books that will race each other and be judged for distance, speed and ‘literary character’ on May 29th from 2pm-4pm.