{"id":665,"date":"2016-05-05T22:23:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T05:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comma-wordpress.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=665"},"modified":"2016-08-24T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T05:27:16","slug":"from-craft-to-art-communicating-through-the-medium-of-book-art-a-talk-by-book-artist-lyall-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFrom Craft to Art: Communicating Through the Medium of Book Art,&#8221; a talk by Book Artist Lyall Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-666\" src=\"http:\/\/comma-wordpress.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harris.png\" alt=\"harris\" width=\"1125\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harris.png 1125w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harris-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harris-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harris-1030x523.png 1030w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harris-705x358.png 705w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harris-450x228.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please join us for COMMA&#8217;s next event in our year-long series, &#8220;The Desert of the Real.&#8221; Award-winning book artist Lyall Harris will be presenting \u201cFrom Craft to Art: Communicating Through the Medium of Book Art&#8221; on Thursday, May 5th at 3:00. This event, hosted in conjunction with UCSB Special Collections, will be held in UCSB Library&#8217;s Special Collections Conference room (3rd Floor of Davidson Library) with a reception immediately to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Since the late 90s, Lyall Harris\u2019 artwork has been exhibited in more than one hundred solo and juried group shows and recognized with over twenty awards, including <em>The George Hitchcock Prize<\/em> for painting from the National Academy Museum, NY, and a Purchase Award in Book Art from the University of Utah for a fifteen-book site-specific project. Her book art can be found in numerous Special Collection libraries across the United States, among these, Yale (Haas Arts Library), Stanford (Green Library), Indiana University (Lilly Library), Davidson Library (UCSB) and Smith College (Mortimer Rare Book Room). Harris has been the recipient of fellowships at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, NALL Foundation in Vence, France, and San Francisco\u2019s Grabhorn Institute.<\/p>\n<p><u>&#8220;From Craft to Art; Communicating Through the Medium of Book Art&#8221;<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Book art at its best is a medium where the maker\u2019s keen use of the material components creates a faceted, more comprehensive and potent language to express content. In this way, the parts themselves, in the context of the piece, become bearers of meaning that work collectively to cause a kind of \u201ctranscendence,\u201d from material to conceptual. This is where craft becomes art. Lyall Harris \u00a0will present an array of these \u201cliterary art objects\u201d\u2014variously spawned by particular texts, \u201cbook\u201d forms, specific materials, or images\u2014to illustrate my creative process and the unique potential of book art as medium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for COMMA&#8217;s next event in our year-long series, &#8220;The Desert of the Real.&#8221; Award-winning book artist Lyall Harris will be presenting \u201cFrom Craft to Art: Communicating Through the Medium of Book Art&#8221; on Thursday, May 5th at 3:00. 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