Marbled Papers and Bindings by Norma Rubovits

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I can´t add new entries to the blog

with the frequency I want,

but sometimes it is very easy to do it and also a great pleasure,

so I include this one.

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During the last three months of this year it will be possible to see in

Chicago

an exhibition with marbled papers and bindings of

Norma Rubovits.

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Who was so lucky to be in this city during this time,

must not lose the opportunity to see the works, absolutely exquisite,

of Norma.

(It’s possible to see in this blog one of her famous "vignettes",

in an ancient entry: "Some influences", March, 2009).

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Congratulations Norma, and thank you very much, always.

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Now I accompany the announcement of the Newberry Library...

Marbled Papers and Bindings by Norma Rubovits
A Newberry Library Exhibition

September 30 - December 31, 2010
Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery

Norma Rubovits is a Chicago treasure. This exhibition pays tribute to her enormous creativity across forty years in two related fields, fine binding and paper marbling. In each discipline she took the traditional craft and transformed it into original, imaginative art. View nineteen bindings she made and sixty sheets of her own marbled paper—just a few fruits of Norma Rubovits’s fantasy and skill as an artist over a long career. The objects on display were chosen from among five thousand items that make up the Norma B. Rubovits collection at the Newberry Library, donated by her since 1991.

Acknowledgements
The Newberry Library would like to thank Norma Rubovits for her long-standing friendship, support, and contributions, including the papers on display in this exhibit. The Norma B. Rubovits collection of marbled and decorated papers are housed in the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library.

The Newberry also wishes to thank Robert Williams, Bill Drendel, and Rob Carlson for their contributions to this exhibition.

Curators:

	Paul F. Gehl
	Barbara Korbel
	Giselle Simon

Related Programming

Curator’s Gallery Walk
Thursday, September 30, 5:30 pm
Paul F. Gehl, exhibition co-curator

Join co-curator Paul F. Gehl on a 30-minute gallery walk of the Norma Rubovits exhibition.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.

Contemporary Paper Marbling
Saturday, October 23, 1:00 pm
Speaker: Steve Pittelkow

Since its invention in Japan and Central Asia in the tenth century and its later adoption by the Turks, the decorative paper technique known as marbling (ebru in Turkish) has been transformed and reinvented by practitioners in many countries. Marbling’s popularity as a decorative paper technique has waxed and waned over the last centuries, even as new materials have become available and production methods invented. Today it holds a comfortable place in the world of decorative art and craft. Join us for a presentation highlighting the rich history of marbled paper and how it remains a vital element of book and paper arts. Steve Pittelkow will also demonstrate several familiar patterns and a few unusual ones, too.

Steve Pittelkow is a bookbinder and paper marbler in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Steve’s papers appear in museum collections and are used by binders and book artists.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.

Curator’s Gallery Walk
Saturday, October 23, 3:00 pm
Giselle Simon, exhibition co-curator

Join co-curator Giselle Simon on a 30-minute gallery walk of the Norma Rubovits exhibition.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.

Curator’s Gallery Walk
Saturday, December 18, 11:00 am
Barbara Korbel, exhibition co-curator

Join co-curator Barbara Korbel on a 30-minute gallery walk of the Norma Rubovits exhibition.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.

Admission & Hours

• Admission to all exhibits at the Newberry Library is free and open to the public.
• Galleries are open Monday, Friday, Saturday from 8:15 am - 5:00 pm, and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, from 8:15 am - 7:30 pm. We also have holiday closings.