DogEar Festival Returns to Celebrate Artists’ Books and Printmaking

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s (BIMA) popular DogEar Festival returns April 4-6, a celebration of all things related to the art forms of artists' Books and printmaking.

Open free to the public, the immersive three-day event will again bring together artists, community, curators, scholars, and creatives for lectures, hands-on printmaking, a whimsical edible book 'Chompetition', pop-up print market, and a concert with the Bushwick Book Club.

This year’s festival centerpiece is BIMA’s current artists’ books exhibition Power of the Presses, a survey of contemporary artists’ books, broadsides, and diverse print works that examines the creative potency of printing as an art form. Festivalgoers will have the opportunity to engage with the many facets of bookmaking as a contemporary art form, and witness firsthand how artists use the printed page as both a medium and a canvas.

Other festival highlights include:

• Pull a Print with celebrity printer, book artist, and printmaker Amos Kennedy, Jr.

• Representing the Under-Represented – Why Artists’ Books Matter,  conversation between Elizabeth Ajunwa, Director of the Library and Research Center at National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) and Catherine Alice Michaelis, Curator of the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection at BIMA.
• The Printed Matter Market
, work by regional printers in the museum’s lobby including broadsides, posters, and zines by regional artists and printmakers
• St. Rita’s Amazing Traveling Bookstore & Textual Apothecary, a large van that holds all sorts of used books