Hydrologies - Zines & Snow Stenciling in the Twin Cities

It was a busy weekend in Minneapolis for Book Bombs activities. After the opening of Urban/Urbane at Susan Hensel Gallery, there were still zines to be folded down:

Thanks to Micah Ludeke and Rachel Wandrei for folding help (and to Micah for the amazing chocolate chip cookie fuel).

And snow stencils:

Reader's Art Opening

Book Bombs had a blast as part of the Reader's Art 11 show at Susan Hensel Gallery on Friday night. Thanks to everyone who came out to chat about the project and about water, in conjunction with Book Bombs Zine #4: Hydrologies. Mary folded down zines on site and passed them along to visitors, who were invited to take the zines home and love them, pass them along to someone else, and/or leave them someplace for another person to find. Please contact us with any photos of the zines on site, and keep an eye out here in the coming days to see documentation of the Book Bombing of Minneapolis.

Note photo documentation of prior Book Bombs projects in the background, and thanks to Suzanne Fischer for taking and sharing these photos of the opening!

Book Bombs in Minneapolis!

Book Bombs is will be part of the upcoming exhibition, Readers' Art 11, Urban/Urbane, at Susan Hensel Gallery, in Minneapolis, MN. The exhibition runs from March 4-April 30, 2011, and features 29 artists exploring issues of urban living in artist book form.

Join us for the opening reception on First Friday, March 4, from 7-10 PM, where we will be distributing copies of Book Bombs #4. The weekend following will involve a public print bombing of Minneapolis, taking a quite a new form from some of our bombings past....

Mobility in the Bay Area

Any readers in the Bay Area? Keep your eyes peeled for this print! We enjoyed book bombing in such balmy winter weather, after print drops in Philadelphia blizzards earlier in the year.

San Francisco Print in Progress

The prints that Michelle started arrived in Philadelphia just before Mary left for the West Coast, thanks to the machinations of the postal service -- so Mary worked on them in flight.


Tonight is Book Bombs Retreat night -- preliminary planning for the coming year and preparing for our first West Coast print drop tomorrow. More images to follow soon!

West Coast Prepping for print bombing

For our next print bombing - this time in SAN FRANCISCO - Book Bombs is trying something a little different. The paper and print began on the West Coast by Michelle, and then traveled to the East Coast to be completed by Mary. Here are some images of what Michelle started.

The print is on paper made from Andean Pampas grass seed hair (see posts here and here about using the stalks and leaves of that plant). Above, a close up of a corner of a wet sheet.



A plane image was stenciled onto the wet sheets in paper pulp, made from leftover scraps of paper from our Axis Alley installation.


When dry, a woodblock of pampas grass seed hair was printed.


The prints have now been shipped off to Mary - keep your eyes peeled for how this print evolves.

A new print bombing is coming....

A new print bombing is in the works....stay tuned.