Exhibits

Upcoming Exhibits

Check the newsletter for information on entering your work in the next exhibit.

Past Exhibits

2024 Anything Goes Exhibit
July 6-13, 2024
Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2024 Celebration of the Book Exhibit
In Conjunction with Santa Fe Book Arts Group
February 15-March 22, 2024
Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2023 Anything Goes Exhibit
In Conjunction with Santa Fe Book Arts Group
July 8-15, 2023
Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Exhibiting Artists: Juliana Coles, Paul Duggan, Anne Engelhardt, Esther Feske, Julie Filatoff, Adele Frances, Terry Garrett, Corky Harrell, Annie Hooten, Cynthia Leespring, Susan Lenarz, Susan Lord, Elizabeth McKee, Laurel Moorhead, Margy O’Brien, Kate Padilla, Eileen Patterson, Rose Marie Prins, Rosemary Rae, Ginger Rice, Mita Saldana, Micaela Seidel, Helen Spielman, Ruth West Starr, Gerry Thomason, Julie Wagner, Nicole White, Linney Wix, Susan Wright

2017 Annual Members Exhibit: The Handmade Book
May 8-31, 2017
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Main Library
Libros had a free hands-on bookmaking demonstration for the public during the show.

2016 Annual Members Exhibit: Homage to the Greats
April and May 2016
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Main Library
Libros presented two free demonstrations that were open to the public: Simple Japanese Stab Binding and Whirlwind Books.

2015 Annual Members Exhibit: Books as Art
April 10-May 30, 2015
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Main Library

2014 Annual Members Exhibit: Handmade
Monday, April 7-Friday, May 31, 2014
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Main Library

2013 Annual Members Exhibit: Correspondence
April 8-May 31, 2013
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Main Library
Libros presented free demonstrations of hands-on bookmaking and assisted visitors in making their own album of photo postcards to take home. Shown is a selection of entries.

2012 Annual Members Exhibit: Journeys—Inner and Outer
April 2-May 31, 2012
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Main Library and the Erna Fergusson Library
This exhibit celebrated the wonderful books created by Libros members from Life’s Journeys—out in the great wide world or inside their own psyche. Shown: Star Book by Margy O’Brien.

2011 Members Exhibit
June 1-30, 2011
Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos, New Mexico
There was also a display of letterpress-printed poetry broadsides by Tom Leech of the Palace Press at the Palace of the Governors. Shown: Libros Members installing the exhibit at Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos.

2011 Annual Members Exhibit: Wordplay
April 4-May 28, 2011
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Main Library
The second month of the show featured collaborative books from the Libros archive and was curated by Esther Feske.

New Mexico State Fair

Each year Libros members exhibit their work in the Bookbinding Division of the Creative Arts Competition at the New Mexico State Fair. The competition is held in the Creative Arts Building at Expo New Mexico in Albuquerque.

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to our STATE FAIR WINNERS!

ADULT NON-PROFESSIONAL
Artists Sculptural Books without Text or Imagery

1st Karen Davidson - 2nd Cate Hartman

Artists Sculptural Books with Text or Imagery

1st Lynda Lawrence - 2nd Gail Murray - 3rd Maria Elena Clavez

Artists Sculptural Books with a Container

1st Cate Hartmann

Blank Books

1st Haley Gibson - 2nd Cate Hartmann - 3rd Karen Woolsey

Collaborative Books

1st Nichole Peters

Miniature Books

1st Emily Marshall

Original Handmade Journals

1st Karen Woolsey

Best of Show

Lynda Lawrence

ADULT PROFESSIONAL

Altered Books

1st Beverly Wilson

Artists Sculptural Books with Text or Imagery

1st Jacques Dorier- 2nd Ginger Rice - 3rd Julie Wagner

Artists Sculptural Books with Container

1st Jacques Dorier - 2nd Ginger Rice - 3rd Beverly Wilson

Blank Books

1st Esther Feske

Box Making

1st Yvette Rosenberg - 2nd Jacques Dorier - 3rd Ginger Rice

Collaborative Books

1st Ginger Rice - 2nd Esther Feske - 3rd Jacques Dorier

Miniature Books

1st Ginger Rice - 2nd Esther Feske - 3rd Jacques Dorier

Original Handmade Journals

1st Jacques Dorier - 2nd Beverly Wilson - 3rd Esther Feske

Zines

1st Mits Saldana - 2nd Yvette Rosenberg - 3rd Jacques Dorier

Best of Show

Jacques Dorier

A BIG THANKS to EVERY ONE WHO HELPED OUT:

Jacques Dorier, Debbie Finfrock, Julie Goodding, Cate Hartmann,

Beca Kulinovich, Patti Page, Ginger Rice, Amy Sproul,

Stevie Williams and Karen Woolsey

From Mita Saldaña, chair, and Esther Feske, assistant

Shown: WordPlay, a one-page book by Judith Roderick.

2010 Annual Members Exhibit: The Accordion Book—Variations on a Theme
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Main Library
We featured all the different ways that the accordion book is designed.