Colette Fu's Pop-up Books

15/10/2024

Possible Futures: The Thirtieth Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium (NJBAS) will be held on Friday, November 1st, 2024, from 10:00 am to 5:15 pm at the Teleconference Lecture Hall on the fourth floor of the Archibald S. Alexander Library at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

The event is free and open to the public.

The day begins with a hands-on workshop led by Catherine LeCleire and Suzie Tuchman and accompanied by a continental breakfast with plenty of coffee. All attendees, regardless of experience, are welcome to attend.

The formal program will consist of eight artist presenters. Following opening introductions to celebrate our anniversary, artists Patricia Malarcher, Lois Morrison, and Irmari Nacht, and renowned chef, author, and artists’ book collector Giovanna Bellia La Marca, will discuss possible futures with reference to their past-and-ongoing work in what we have named our “Wise Women Panel.” After the panel, featured artists Colette Fu, Liz Mitchell, Iviva Olenick and Tammy Wofsey will show and talk about their work. Karen Guancione, NJBAS Artistic Director, will serve as symposium moderator and emcee. The audience will be able to engage all the artist-presenters in an afternoon Q and A and share their news during an open mic session...

Possible Futures: The Thirtieth Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium (NJBAS) will be held on Friday November 1st, 2024, from 10:00 am to 5:15 pm at the Teleconference Lecture Hall on the fourth floor of the Archibald S. Alexander Library at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. (close to several...

29/08/2024

https://www.groundsforsculpture.org/events/pop-up-card-workshop-mid-autumn-festival/

The Mid-Autumn Festival, or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture – a time when family and friends unite and celebrate. To ring in the occasion, learn to make magic picture cards, aka pop-up cards, while enjoying mooncakes and boba tea with artist Colette Fu. F...

03/07/2024

Looking through old photos from my trip to Daliangshan 大涼山 in southern Sichuan province, in the mid 1990's. Alot are blurry, over or underexposed, on fake film, lots of scratches on 35mm film (before I understood you could scratch negatives!).

17/06/2024

“How can we remake our relationship with monuments?” This is the question posed to both artists and visitors of the new exhibition at Grounds For Sculpture entitled “Slow Motion.”

02/04/2024

2 years ago I had a wonderful visit to the Getty Research Institute. It's great to come back and talk more about pop-up books!

Join us Thursday, April 11, 2024, from 4 pm - 6 pm
Pop Up/Stand Up: Artists Books and Social Justice
GETTY CENTER, Museum Lecture Hall
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_4095.html

Many of us are familiar with pop-up books: we read them as children and remember how they brought stories to life. In this dynamic storytelling medium, some artists have recognized a unique opportunity for social activism. Join artists Colette Fu and Beth Thielen in a conversation with Rachel Rivenc, the Getty Research Institute's head of Preservation and Conservation, as they delve into how their art practices enact social justice.

13/03/2024

Pop Up/Stand Up: Artists Books and Social Justice
GETTY CENTER
Thursday, April 11, 2024, from 4 pm - 6 pm
Museum Lecture Hall
Free | Advance ticket required

Many of us are familiar with pop-up books: we read them as children and remember how they brought stories to life. In this dynamic storytelling medium, some artists have recognized a unique opportunity for social activism. Join artists Colette Fu and Beth Thielen in a conversation with Rachel Rivenc, the Getty Research Institute's head of Preservation and Conservation, as they delve into how their art practices enact social justice.

Colette Fu makes complex three-dimensional compositions that incorporate photography and pop-up paper engineering. Her elaborately constructed pop-up books activate her photo-documentation of ethnic minorities in the Yunnan province of China to dynamically preserve their cultures and identities. Fu's pop-up books have received numerous awards including a 2023 Art Works Grant, a 2020 Joan Mitchell Artist and Sculptor's Grant, the Meggendorfer Prize, and a Fulbright award. She also creates room-sized pop-up installations where people can enter her books.

Beth Thielen has worked as an artist and educator with incarcerated and at-risk populations for over 30 years. Her artist books express the inhumanity of the prison system. Thielen's work and the work of her students are represented in the Getty Research Institute, the Hammer Museum of Art, the Library of Congress Special Collections, the Houghton Library at Harvard, and the Spencer Collection at the New York Public Library, among others. She is the recipient of awards from the Puffin Foundation, the Kalliopeia Foundation, and is a Blue Mountain Center and Rauschenberg residency fellow.

Dr. Rachel Rivenc is the head of Preservation and Conservation at the Getty Research Institute, where she oversees the conservation of the GRI's vast special collections. Previously she worked at the Getty Conservation Institute where she researched materials and processes used by contemporary artists and rLoshttps://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_4095.html

Many of us are familiar with pop-up books: we read them as children and remember how they brought stories to life. In this dynamic storytelling medium, some artists have recognized a unique opportunity for social activism. Join artists Colette Fu and Beth Thielen in a conversation with Rachel Rivenc...

03/02/2024

Join us at WSW this summer!
https://wsworkshop.org/events/category/summer-art-institute/sai-bookarts-classes/