March 6 - 7, 2020
San Antonio’s first and longest running contemporary art non-profit, Blue Star Contemporary (located in the heart of the Blue Star Arts Complex), is pleased to present the Novel Ideas Art Book Fair which will take place on March 6 and 7, 2020. The first and only art book fair in the region coincides with Blue Star Contemporary’s spring exhibitions featuring the work of Emilia Azcárate, Ann Clarke, Arturo Herrera, Candace Hicks, Rand Renfrow, Benedikt Terwiel, Hye-Ryoung Min, and Sarah Welch. Also complementing the fair are Contemporary Art Month San Antonio; and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference taking place in San Antonio, March 4 to 7 of 2020.
Novel Ideas Art Book Fair is a two-day art book fair organized by Blue Star Contemporary featuring artists’ books, monographs, zines, printed ephemera, and more. Conceived as a platform and community-building event for artists and producers operating primarily in the Southwestern US region and Mexico who are dedicated to books as medium and material, the Novel Ideas Art Book Fair includes a range of exhibitors, both publishers, and artists. Novel Ideas includes programming such as talks, pop-up workshops, signings, an after party hosted by Paper Tiger, and four complementary onsite exhibitions.
The fair presents noted artist and curator Julie Ault as their keynote speaker for the event. Julie Ault is a curator, writer, editor, artist, and designer who began her career establishing the temporary exhibition as art form. Her talk is on Saturday, March 7 at 3 pm and is hosted at SAYSí 1518 S Alamo St.
Admission
$15 – Friday, March 6, 2020 opening night (CAM supporters receive $5 discount at the door with CAM sticker)
$20 – Saturday, March 7, 2020 all day
Door cover charge – Saturday, March 7, 2020 7-11pm closing concert at Paper Tiger
$40 – All access pass to all the above, advance purchase only, limited edition artist print by Rand Renfrow for the first 40 purchasers.
BSC members, TPR members, and members of any of our museum month partner organizations receive a $5 discount on the all access pass.
Participating 202o exhibitors include
- Animal Facts Club (Wimberley)
- Annie May Johnston (Austin)
- Artpace (SA)
- Bill’s Junk (Houston)
- Cattywampus Press (SA)
- Cortney Cassidy (Oakland)
- Coyote Bones Press (San Antonio)
- Feral Editions (SA)
- Flowerpot Books (SA)
- French & Michigan (SA)
- Glasstire (TX)
- Hare and Hound Press (SA)
- Hellen Jo (LA)
- M12 (Colorado)
- Lawrence Markey (San Antonio)
- Lorenzo Gomez (San Antonio)
- Pey-Jing Li Mehrinfar (San Marcos)
- Mixed Media Press (Mexico City)
- Modernizm Zine (Houston)
- MOSAIC Student Artist Program (San Antonio)
- Mystic Multiples (Houston)
- Rand Renfrow (Austin)
- San Anto Zine Fest (SA)
- Southwest School of Art (SA)
- Spend Time Zine Mart (Austin)
- Sybil Press (SA/Baltimore)
- Texas State University Photography Program (San Marcos)
- TPR/David Martin Davies (TX)
- Trilce Ediciones (Mexico City)
- UT Riso Room (Austin)
- Yes, Ma’am Press & Xicana Vegan(SA)
Special event: March 6, 2020 | 5–9 pm
Special event: March 7, 2020 | 10 am – 6 pm
Julie Ault Keynote Lecture at 3pm
116 Blue Star
San Antonio, 78204 TX
(210) 227-6960
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