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Update #6: getting there.
i've been meaning to give you an update for weeks now, but there isn't much news. however, i've gotten quite a few questions about when the book will be done (rightfully so!), so i thought i'd at least give you some info.
binding the books has been slow going, but i'm working on it, i promise! it's gotten tough with other projects that have come down the pike this fall, but we're getting there--and i mean it. because i'm pretty stubborn and very optimistic (and new to making books), i thought for sure i would have been done many months ago with no help. but these babies need to get done and sent off to you, and i've finally recruited some help. so next monday, i have some great friends coming over for a book binding party, and i (again with the optimism) think we will make some significant progress! my goal is to have your books in the mail by the end of november. i sincerely apologize for the delay. i really didn't think it would take quite this long (the other update i have brewing in my head is a little list of "things i learned about creating a kickstarter project". maybe that will help shed some insight on why everything is taking a long time.
one other note: i was looking at my backer report today and realized that the words describing the $25 reward include "six poems and prints by me" or something to that effect. the $25 chapbook actually does not contain images inside, and i think that wording was the result of copying, pasting, and missing that wording in the final edit. i'm so sorry. in my mind, that version of the book was never intended to be illustrated (and is not, although it is quite a nice little edition). i literally just caught that description and i certainly do not want to mislead anyone.
and to end on an exciting note! i recently sold a copy of the artist's book (the $35 reward version) to the hennepin county library's special collection! which is quite exciting. when it opened in 2005, the hennepin county's central library housed the third largest collection in the united states. i'm not sure where it currently ranks, but it's a big freakin' library. i'm so excited that one of my books has found a home there.
Update #5: you're invited, etc.
the official POEMS + PRINTS reading is scheduled for tuesday, august 3 at 7pm.
at the open book, second floor in the target performance hall
1011 washington ave. south, minneapolis, mn
more details can be found/you can rsvp on facebook if you like (though no rsvp is necessary):
http://www.facebook.com/event.php...
i would love to meet any of you who have been so kind to back this project and who are able to make it.
of course, this also means that the residency is winding down and you will be getting your postcards/books/broadsides soon! realistically, sometime in august.
thank you again for your generous support, i am so grateful.
Update #4: chapbooks are done!
i have been posting more updates on my blog (www.laurabrownart.wordpress.com). just about exactly one month before the reading and presentation, which is scheduled for tuesday, august 3. more information to come on that. i'm pretty excited to have the chapbooks finished, i just think they are so adorable (it's okay to say that about my own work, right?). i've hit some snags with logistics as i learn the process (working with letterpress is--i'm guessing--like learning a new dialect of a language you already speak. i get the basics, but there are tons of tiny differences that make it challenging. which is good. i like it). i'm hoping to post more updates more regularly, although i'm also getting to the point where i don't want to show too much because i like surprises. . . .
Update #3: i have been remiss!
i HAVE indeed been posting updates about poems + prints, but i have been posting them on my blog (since that's where i post all kinds of things). i do hope that you will come over and have a look. it is all very exciting for me, and i find myself thinking about each one of you (or wondering about those of you i don't know personally) as i work on the project. so please join me over at laurabrownart.wordpress.com for all the details.
Update #2: more papermaking progress!
so. . . after the paper has been hung to dry (which is done in groups of four), the sheets get separated and then spritzed with water to make the fibers relax a little and then they get dried again in a big drying contraption involving laybers of cotton blotters, cardboard, and cinder blocks on top. and then the paper is all flat! and i have a big stack of beautiful, unique, imperfect sheets of paper sitting on my dining room table, all ready to be made into book pages and broadsides!
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POEM + PRINT ON A SCREEN: get a pdf version of the chapbook, read it online or print it out wherever you choose + get all the updates with photos!
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POEM + PRINT IN THE MAIL: An original, letterpress printed poem postcard (printed exclusively for kickstarter backers!) will arrive in the mail, covered on one side with my original artwork and a poem by a Midwestern writer, and the other side with my hand-written expression of gratitude (I have really great handwriting). Also, receive regular updates with photos and progress of the project.
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POEMS IN YOUR POCKET: Poem postcard thank you + updates + a pocket-sized chapbook of six poems and six original prints by me. The pages will be printed digitally, the cover will be letterpress printed on handmade paper, all bound by my own two hands (and made with love).
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POEMS + PRINTS IN YOUR POCKET: The poem postcard + updates + the illustrated and letterpress printed version of the chapbook. Six poems and six original prints by me, all bound by my own two hands (and again, made with love).
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POEMS + PRINTS IN YOUR POCKET (AND A FRIEND’S!): Just like the poems + prints in your pocket, but get a second copy to share for only ten dollars more! You get the option of having it sent directly with a custom message or receiving it and choosing the who and when at your own whim.
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POEMS, PRINTS + RECOGNITION: The poem postcard + updates + both the illustrated version of the chapbook AND the set of six broadsides. PLUS! Your name appears on the colophon at the end of the book so everyone in the world knows you made it possible!
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POEMS, PRINTS + A PARTY: On top of everything in the RECOGNITION package, please join me and the poets for a special private gathering before the reading this summer so we can all tell you how much we appreciate your support. Bring a friend if you want. If you are not in Minneapolis, but want to send someone in your place, just let me know.
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POEMS, PRINTS + NAMING RIGHTS: That’s right, in addition to everything in the PARTY package, if you pledge $1,000 you can name the project (nothing vulgar, punny, or idiotic, please!). Also, please join me in the studio for an afternoon to get a behind-the-scenes, in-process look at the project. Again, bring a friend! And again, if you are not in Minneapolis but would like to send someone else, just let me know.
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i make prints, paper, and books and i want to make more.
Laura, that is so cool that your book is in the library! :) Congrats! I also think it's great (and totally understandable) that you have been so busy with projects and things that the book project got put on hold. Business in the art world must be good. Hope so!
Love you!
Laura Jacobson