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WISH YOU WERE HERE

A collaborative project between book artists–coast to coast

THE PROJECT: San Diego Book Arts invites its members, and those of six other book arts organizations, to come together to CELEBRATE “WHERE YOU LIVE” through a hand-crafted USPS-compliant postcard exchange and freestyle bookmaking project. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to share your love, perception, or impression of where you live, a place you likely got to know inside and out this past year, with fellow book artists. TAKE PART! What a fun way to welcome fellow artists into your home, yard, neighborhood, city, region, or state. What a cool way to take a virtual journey through their abode or environs–from the Pacific Coast through the Southwest and up into New England. 

Timeline

  • April 1 Registration Opens

  • April 21 Registration Closes

  • May 1 Project Kickoff with Group Assignments

  • June 15 Deadline for Mailing Postcards

  • August 1 Deadline to Complete and Photograph Books

How It Works

  1. Groups of 16 artists will be matched into mini collaboratives.

  2. Each artist will design and mail “where you live” themed postcards to their group members.

  3. Each artist will design and craft their own “Wish You Were Here” book that displays all 16 postcards from their group.

  4. All “Wish You Were Here” books, from all groups of 16, will exhibit online and in TBA locations.

Requirements, Registration & Rules