About this Event
About Mare:
Seattle native, Mare Blocker, comes from a family of artists and makers. Her first job, at five, was painting trees in the background of her grandfather’s landscape paintings, which they sold at the Seattle Center and Pike Place Market. She likes to say, "I grew up in the Fun Forest."
Mare has been making books since 1976 and founded The MKimberly Press in 1984. She has published 69 limited edition titles, almost five hundred unique artist’s books, and numerous broadsides and prints. Her work has been placed in over 100 museums, libraries, and public collections internationally. Mare has received two major publication commission awards; from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Center for Book Arts, NYC. Mare is scheduled for a solo exhibition at BIMA in October 2025.
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The "My Beloved Community Dictionary" began in 2016 and was completed in January 2025, with 100 artists and poets contributing to the book. Dictionaries, and the words in them, reflect the times they are written in. Project contributors will speak about their word choices, their acts of avowal, their calls, their pleas, their humor. Our Community.
Mare Blocker, My Beloved Community Dictionary, 2016-2025, Cynthia Sears Artists' Books Collection, photo by Laura Zander.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, 550 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island, United States
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