Recent News Bits
Daily Bread and Byzantine Binding were selected to be included in 500 Handmade Books, Lark Books, a division of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., Asheville, NC. The book is due out in Spring 2008. Book and Clamshell Box for First Lady Laura Bush: Amy Pirkle and Steve Miller, the director of the MFA in the Book Arts at The University of Alabama, were commissioned to create a one-of-a-kind genealogy book and presentation box for First Lady Laura Bush in May 2007. Miller designed the text and printed the book, while Amy designed and constructed the binding and clamshell box. The First Lady was presented with two copies of the handbound book and clamshell box, one for her and one for her mother, at the First Lady's Luncheon in Washington, D.C. Amy recently had a solo exhibition in the Hardman Art Gallery at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. The exhibition, titled The Familiar, ran from September 21- October 13, 2007. The book Kiyoko was chosen for the international juried exhibition, Beyond Words: Artists' Books, at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. It was on display from November 30, 2006-February 12, 2007. Kiyoko received a Purchase Award, making it a part of the permanent collection of the Jessie Ball duPont Library at The University of the South.
Solo Exhibitions: The Familiar, Hardman Art Gallery, Mercer University, Macon, GA, September 2007 Reflections, The Junior League Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL, May 2007 Fragments, MFA Thesis Exhibition, GorgasFifth Floor Gallery, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 2007 Juried/Group Exhibitions: 2008 35th Annual Bi-State Art Competition, Juried Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS Fresh Impressions: Contemporary Letterpress Printing, Juried Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR The Illustrated Word: An Exhibit of Letterpress Broadsides, Juried Exhibition, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR 2007 2007 West Alabama Juried Show, The Junior League Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL; received SECOND PLACE AWARD Artists’ Books 2007, Juried Exhibition, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Action/Interaction: Book/Arts, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, 2007 Southworks 2007, Juried Exhibition, 1902 OCAF Arts Center, Watkinsville, GA Art Students’ League Juried Exhibition, ASL Gallery, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; received MERIT AWARD University of Alabama Book Arts Students, Graduates and Faculty, Group Exhibition, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL Heart & Hands 2, National Juried Exhibition, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Michael Phipps Gallery, and University of Nebraska at Omaha (Traveling exhibition), 2006-2007 Beyond Words: Artists’ Books, International Juried Exhibition, University Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN; received PURCHASE AWARD, 2006-2007 2006 2006 West Alabama Juried Show, The Junior League Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL; received SECOND PLACE AWARD Bookopolis, 2nd Annual Exhibition, BookWorks, Asheville, NC The University of Alabama Book Arts Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Kentuck Gallery, Northport, AL