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The Weather Within and Without

Works by Caryn Martin and Stephanie Wolff

Kohl Gallery

Washington College, Chestertown, MD

January 23 - March 1, 2024

February 21, 5 pm, Martin and Wolff in conversation 

Work from Stephanie's longterm project Along the Banks of My River will be exhibited alongside the work of Caryn Martin, another artist who uses weather as a theme in their art. 


Codex Foundation's 9th International Biennial Book Art Fair & Symposium

February 4–7, 2024

Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, California

Stephanie is looking forward to being an exhibitor at this event. Find her at Table 31A.


Residency and New Artist Book

Stephanie was delighted to be chosen as Book Artist-in-Residence at Maine Media Workshops + College in 2022. She spent a month this spring of 2023 in Rockport, ME working on her new book: The Pocket Sky Atlas. Images and information are posted on the Artist Books section of the website.


Recent Presentation and Publications


Stephanie was invited to present a Make and Take project for The Movable Book Society in May 2023. They have posted the recording of this tutorial (the Square Paper Folder) on their YouTube channel.


Stephanie wrote about Book Arts Subscriptions in the Volume 5 (2022) edition of Openings: Studies in Book Art, the CBAA journal, which was published in December. Open access and freely available directly here: https://journals.sfu.ca/cbaa/index.php/jcbaa/index or through the CBBA website https://www.collegebookart.org/


She also wrote a blog post for the CBAA Book Theory blog in November, Artist Book Projects: Some Considerations. It's available via the main page of the CBAA website at https://www.collegebookart.org/ or directly here: https://www.collegebookart.org/bookarttheory/12987658


Past Exhibitions


Degrees of Commitment: Climate, Ecosystems, and Society

Sandra J. Blain Galleries 

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

Gatlinburg, TN

Juried by Gina Siepel and Isabel Vargas

September 5 - December 16, 2023

Images of the exhibition are on the Arrowmont website, along with associated events.

Stephanie's artist book, The Pocket Sky Atlas, is included in this exhibition of a wide range of mediums.


Postcards for Perec

Stephanie made a postcard for this project. You can learn more on Instagram @postcards_for_perec or on project organizer Linda Parr's website: https://lindasusanparr.com


The postcards (and some poster reproductions) have been exhibited in various locales since 2021, including:

University of Essex, Special Collections Library

Cardiff University, Special Collections and Archives, Arts and Social Studies Library

University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library, Washington, USA

Istanbul Planning Agency, Turkey

The Street Gallery at Bath Spa Art and Design University

Winchester School of Art Library

Bower Ashton Library of the University of the West of England, Bristol 


Beyond Words

Stephanie had two one-of-a-kind books in this exhibition, Night Sky and A Change in the Weather.

Long River Gallery, White River Junction, Vermont

September 2, 2022 - November 26, 2022

https://www.longrivergallery.com


Mending the Spaces Between: Reflections and Contemplations

Stephanie had a paper construction in this exhibition.

Norwich Historical Society, Norwich, Vermont

May 20, 2022 - November 30, 2022

https://norwichhistory.org


Wild/LIFE: Guild of Book Workers Triennial Traveling Exhibition

Stephanie's book, Dark & Stormy Night, was included in this exhibition.


Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati, OH

July 5, 2022 - September 22, 2022


Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

May 2, 2022 - June 24, 2022


Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

February 21, 2022 - April 22, 2022


North Bennet Street School, Boston, MA

January 7, 2022 - February 11, 2022 


Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA

September 3, 2021 - December 7, 2021


American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco, CA

June 2, 2021 - August 7, 2021


10x10=AVA 

AVA Gallery & Art Center, Lebanon, NH

July 9, 2022 - August 12, 2022

Stephanie had a two-dimensional piece in this fundraising exhibition for the gallery.


Unseen

Stephanie had two books included in this exhibition: Hidden Attachments and 

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [The Beaufort Wind Scale].

form + concept, Santa Fe, NM

August 11, 2021 - November 20, 2021

https://www.formandconcept.center

23 Sandy Gallery partnered with form + concept to present this exhibition and 

has an online catalog of the show: https://23sandy.com/collections/unseen


Where We Live

Stephanie's book Place Memory was included in this exhibition.

Focus on Book Arts Exhibition

Virtual exhibition July 15, 2021 - August 30, 2021

Available online at FocusonBookArts.org


International Art of the Book Exhibition 2021

Stephanie's books The Swiss Cheese Defense and Place Memory were

included in this exhibition.

Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY

July 9, 2021 - October 15, 2021


40th Anniversary Exhibition of the New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers

Stephanie's book Place Memory was included in this exhibition. She participated in an online lecture titled "A Wider Purpose: Maker Talk with Members of the Guild of Book Workers, New England Chapter." Video currently available at the Kate Cheney Chappell '83 Center for Book Arts at USM, direct link here: https://video.maine.edu/id/1_nl6oov6a or via the Events tab at www.negbw40thanniversary.com


Dartmouth College Library

September 1 - November 16, 2021


Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA

May 15 - August 7, 2021 


University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME

January 29 – April 30, 2021 (virtual)


Available online at www.negbw40thanniversary.com


Content: Artist Book Exhibition

Stephanie was honored to receive the Construction Award: Content Creation for her book, The Lake of Beauty, included in this exhibition.

The Artery, Davis, CA

April 2, 2021 - May 1, 2021


Pandemonium

Stephanie's books, The Swiss Cheese Defense and The Covid Codices, were included in this exhibition curated by Abecedarian Artist Books.

Tallyn's Reach Public Library, Aurora, Colorado

March 2021