Artist Steven C. Daiber

Steven C. Daiber – Artist Statement

El Mar is a whirlwind scroll of a Cuban geography book and the April 2006 Cuban newspaper Granma. Early in the month Granma reports on the Cuban national baseball team’s return from the in World Games and later in April Granma celebrates of the battle of Playa Giron an ill fated attempt by the US known here in the States as the Bay of Pigs. Printed on the newspaper are wood cut images of fish found in the waters off Cuba. Contemporary images of ball players, street scenes and the Black Panther William Brandt along with historical postcards are silk screened over pages of Cuban geography.

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Education

1981 Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.F.A. Painting

1978 University of Delaware, B.F.A. Painting

Exhibitions

2008 Beyond Reading: Books as Art, The Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VI
2007 ABC, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK
2007 Artists Books, Zea Mays Printworkshop, Florence MA
2007 Cutting Edge Books, Cal State East Bay, Haywood, CA
2006 Galleria Balacon, Habana Biennal, Havana, Cuba
2006 American Impressions, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2006 Artist Member’s Exhibition, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2006 Works with Paper, Univ. of the South, Sewanee, TN
2004 Galleria Trianna , Havana Cuba
2003 Artist Member’s Exhibition, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2003 Art of the Book 2003, The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild
2003 A Reader’s Art3, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI
2002 National Columbia Book & Paper Arts Biennial 2002, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2002 1st National Book Arts Exhibition, Bright Hill Center, Treadwell, NY
2002 Friends of Dard Hunter Paper Art Exhibit, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
2000 Word Pictures/Pictures Words, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky OH
1999 Beyond the Fold, Artists’ Books Traditional to Cutting Edge, Gallery of So. Orange, NJ
1999 Art that Binds, University of Delaware , Newark DE
1998 Art of the Book 98, The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, Toronto, Pointe-Claire, Calgary, Saskatoon, Halifax, Northwest Bookfest, Seattle ,WA
1998 Story Telling, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1998 Book/Art/Book, Central Branch of the Houston Library, Houston, TX
1998 Image as Text II, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
1998 Wood Engravers Network, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1998 Book Explorations ‘98, Kingston MA
1997 Northwest Bookfest, Seattle WA
The Anti-Archival Show, Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
1997 Image as Text, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
1996 Meekins Library, Williamsburg, MA
1995 Science and the Artist’s Book Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, DC,
1995 On Beyond the Book, Forum for Contemporary Art St. Louis, MO
1995 Gaia, Clark University, Worcester, MA
1995 Botanical Drawings from the Glasshouse and Nature, Smith College, Northampton, MA
1993 Works on Paper, ZONE, Springfield, MA
1993 Dead Reckoning, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
1993 Hibernation, Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Amherst, MA
1992 Re-collections, Clark University, Worcester, MA,
1991 Palimpsest, Washington Project for the Arts [WPA] Washington DC,
1991 Drawing Time, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art,
1991 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island New York, NY
1991 Outloud Artist Engulfed Against War, Art in General, New York, NY
1990 Audubon Naturalist Society, Chevy Chase, MD
1990 Science Books, Washington DC

Publications

William Gass,” A Defense of the Book”, Harpers Magazine,November, 1999
Judith K. Brodsky & Edward H. Hutchins, Beyond the Fold: Artists’ Books Traditional to Cutting Edge, Catalog of exhibition, 1999
Christopher Camuto,” Fishing Fine and Far Off”, Grays Sporting Journal, Spring 1999
Ed Van Putt, “Speckled Trout”, Kaatskill Life, Spring 1999
Annna Maria Goossens, “Judge these books by their covers” Daily Hampshire Gazette 3/23/99
Art of the Book 98, The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, catalog of exhibit 1998
Mel Watkin, On Beyond the Book, catalog of exhibit 1995
William F. Powers “Art That Speaks Volumes” The Washington Post, Washington, DC 6/3/95
Gloria Russell, “On Paper, Aspects...” Sunday Republican Springfield, MA 2/7/93

Collections

Stanford
Smith College
Yale
Getty Museum
Princestone
Swathmore College
University of California: Santa Barbara, Irvine, San Diego
University of Southern California,
Cerritos Public Library
Boston Public Library
The Banff Centre Library
Cambridge University Library, UK
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Lafayette College
Northwestern University
Michigan State
University of Delaware
Texas Tech.
Washington University
University of Minnesota
Williams College

Awards

2006 Taller Nelson Domingo, Taller de Serigrafia Rene Portocarrero, Havana, Cuba
2005 Taller de Serigrafia Rene Portocarrero, Havana, Cuba
2003-04 Taller Experimental De Grafica, Havana, Cuba
2000 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta
1992 U Cross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
1990 Chautauqua Institution, School of Art, Chautauqua, NY

Professional Experience

2005 Adjunct Professor of Art, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
2002 Visiting artist, School of Art and Design, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2001 Adjunct Professor of Art, Springfield College, Springfield, MA
2000 Conference Organizer, Panelist, Wood Engravers Network Symposium, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1999 Conference Organizer, Panelist, Art of the Book and the Book as Art, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1998-03 Adjunct Professor of Art, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1997 Conference Organizer, Panelist, Image and Text, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
1997 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
1995 Hampshire College, Amherst
1994 Adjunct Professor of Art, Clark University, Worcester MA
1993 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA



	Steven C. Daiber – Artist Statement El Mar is a whirlwind scroll of a Cuban geography book and the April 2006 Cuban newspaper Granma. Early in the month Granma reports on the Cuban national baseball team’s return from the in World Games and later in April Granma celebrates of the battle of Playa Giron an ill fated attempt by the US known here in the States as the Bay of Pigs. Printed on the newspaper are wood cut images of fish found in the waters off Cuba. Contemporary images of ball players, street scenes and the Black Panther William Brandt along with historical postcards are silk screened over pages of Cuban geography. Resume Education 1981 Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.F.A. Painting 1978 University of Delaware, B.F.A. Painting Exhibitions 2008 Beyond Reading: Books as Art, The Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VI 2007 ABC, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK 2007 Artists Books, Zea Mays Printworkshop, Florence MA 2007 Cutting Edge Books, Cal State East Bay, Haywood, CA 2006 Galleria Balacon, Habana Biennal, Havana, Cuba 2006 American Impressions, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 2006 Artist Member’s Exhibition, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY 2006 Works with Paper, Univ. of the South, Sewanee, TN 2004 Galleria Trianna , Havana Cuba 2003 Artist Member’s Exhibition, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY 2003 Art of the Book 2003, The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild 2003 A Reader’s Art3, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI 2002 National Columbia Book & Paper Arts Biennial 2002, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2002 1st National Book Arts Exhibition, Bright Hill Center, Treadwell, NY 2002 Friends of Dard Hunter Paper Art Exhibit, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR 2000 Word Pictures/Pictures Words, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky OH 1999 Beyond the Fold, Artists’ Books Traditional to Cutting Edge, Gallery of So. Orange, NJ 1999 Art that Binds, University of Delaware , Newark DE 1998 Art of the Book 98, The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, Toronto, Pointe-Claire, Calgary, Saskatoon, Halifax, Northwest Bookfest, Seattle ,WA 1998 Story Telling, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Book/Art/Book, Central Branch of the Houston Library, Houston, TX 1998 Image as Text II, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX 1998 Wood Engravers Network, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Book Explorations ‘98, Kingston MA 1997 Northwest Bookfest, Seattle WA The Anti-Archival Show, Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL 1997 Image as Text, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX 1996 Meekins Library, Williamsburg, MA 1995 Science and the Artist’s Book Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, DC, 1995 On Beyond the Book, Forum for Contemporary Art St. Louis, MO 1995 Gaia, Clark University, Worcester, MA 1995 Botanical Drawings from the Glasshouse and Nature, Smith College, Northampton, MA 1993 Works on Paper, ZONE, Springfield, MA 1993 Dead Reckoning, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. 1993 Hibernation, Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Amherst, MA 1992 Re-collections, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 1991 Palimpsest, Washington Project for the Arts [WPA] Washington DC, 1991 Drawing Time, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, 1991 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island New York, NY 1991 Outloud Artist Engulfed Against War, Art in General, New York, NY 1990 Audubon Naturalist Society, Chevy Chase, MD 1990 Science Books, Washington DC Publications William Gass,” A Defense of the Book”, Harpers Magazine,November, 1999 Judith K. Brodsky & Edward H. Hutchins, Beyond the Fold: Artists’ Books Traditional to Cutting Edge, Catalog of exhibition, 1999 Christopher Camuto,” Fishing Fine and Far Off”, Grays Sporting Journal, Spring 1999 Ed Van Putt, “Speckled Trout”, Kaatskill Life, Spring 1999 Annna Maria Goossens, “Judge these books by their covers” Daily Hampshire Gazette 3/23/99 Art of the Book 98, The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, catalog of exhibit 1998 Mel Watkin, On Beyond the Book, catalog of exhibit 1995 William F. Powers “Art That Speaks Volumes” The Washington Post, Washington, DC 6/3/95 Gloria Russell, “On Paper, Aspects...” Sunday Republican Springfield, MA 2/7/93 Collections Stanford Smith College Yale Getty Museum Princestone Swathmore College University of California: Santa Barbara, Irvine, San Diego University of Southern California, Cerritos Public Library Boston Public Library The Banff Centre Library Cambridge University Library, UK University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lafayette College Northwestern University Michigan State University of Delaware Texas Tech. Washington University University of Minnesota Williams College Awards 2006 Taller Nelson Domingo, Taller de Serigrafia Rene Portocarrero, Havana, Cuba 2005 Taller de Serigrafia Rene Portocarrero, Havana, Cuba 2003-04 Taller Experimental De Grafica, Havana, Cuba 2000 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta 1992 U Cross Foundation, Clearmont, WY 1990 Chautauqua Institution, School of Art, Chautauqua, NY Professional Experience 2005 Adjunct Professor of Art, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 2002 Visiting artist, School of Art and Design, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL 2001 Adjunct Professor of Art, Springfield College, Springfield, MA 2000 Conference Organizer, Panelist, Wood Engravers Network Symposium, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 1999 Conference Organizer, Panelist, Art of the Book and the Book as Art, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 1998-03 Adjunct Professor of Art, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 1997 Conference Organizer, Panelist, Image and Text, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX 1997 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 1995 Hampshire College, Amherst 1994 Adjunct Professor of Art, Clark University, Worcester MA 1993 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA





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