Projects and Exhibitions of The Bone Folders’ Guild


  • March-May 2026

    • “The Book as Sculpture”; Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI

  • February 2021

    • 20th Anniversary:  Make An A2 size envelope with the theme “Emerald”

  • May 10, 2017

    • Member live book making meeting - Honeycomb design book

  • December 13, 2016 - March 5, 2017 

    • “15” exhibit, Overture Center for the Arts

    • January 14, 2017:  “Make & Take a Book”; Overture Center for the Arts

  • October 2012

    • “Finding the Not-So-Lost Art of Bookmaking” , Wisconsin Book Festival Exhibit at Anthology

      • Slinky book demo

      • Make and Take File Folder Folio

      • Altered Golden Book Demo

  • February 2011

    • “An Annotated History of the Bone Folders’ Guild, a Ten Year Anniversary Project” - a Zine publication, in 3 parts.

    • Exquisite Cat, a Tenth Anniversary member project, finishing    

  • September 2011

    • “A Dog-Eared Decade Launches the 21st Century” exhibit during WI Book Festival at the Wisconsin Studio, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI

  • July - September, 2010

    • “Contained”, Overture Center for the Arts, member exhibit

  • October 2, 2010

    • “Between the Lines:  Unspoken beliefs” exhibit, Wisconsin Studio, Overture Center for the Arts

    • “2”x2”:  Small Book Works”  BFG members with members of the Milwaukee Book Arts Salon, at the Golda Meir Library, UW-Milwaukee

  • Summer 2010

    • Art Journal Swap between members

  • October 2009

    • “Courage to Create:  Courage to Cross Boundaries”, exhibit during the Wisconsin Book Festival; at State Street Gallery, 109 State St., Madison, WI

  • October 20, 2008 - 

    • Media Mention - “Making a book with the BoneFolders’Guild”, by Linda Falkenstein, thedailypage.com, Isthmus, Madison, WI

  • October 1-31, 2008

    • “Changelings:  Artists Books that Transform & Inspire” exhibit during the Wisconsin Book Festival, at the Kohler Art Library, UW-Madison

  • October 2007

    • “Domestic Tranquility” theme of the Wisconsin Book Festival interpreted by members for an exhibit titled “People in Paper Houses Shouldn’t Throw Books”, Anthology, State Street,Madison, WI

  • October 2006

    • “SIXTY BOOKS: Checked in, Madison Public Library, Central Branch. After a year in circulation books made by members of the Bone Folders’ Guild will be on display. Visitors will still be able to work in them.

  • October 2006

    • “Books on the Runway: A Fashion Show of Wearable Book for the Mind and Soul” exhibit during the Wisconsin Book Festival; at the Wisconsin Union Theater, Memorial Union, Madison, WI

  • April, 2006

    • 2”x2” book exchange with Milwaukee Book artists           

  • Mareh 2006

    • “Fairy Folio” BFG member Exchange Project

  • February-April 2005

    • “A Progressive Conversation Party”, an Exhibit at the Golda Meir Library, UW-Milwaukee

  • October 2005 - October 2006

    • “A Way with Journals: The Launch of the SIXTY BOOKS Project” : 12 Bone Folders’ Guild members each made 5 books for the “SIXTY BOOKS” project.  One book went to each of the 60 branches of the Wisconsin South Central Library System. The books were  circulated for a year. Patrons were encouraged to draw, paint, even tell a story in its pages. The SIXTY BOOKS were collected and were on display during the 2006 Book Festival. Some were then returned to their branch; some were placed in storage. All of the pages and covers of all of the books were digitized and are available here:  https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AWIBookFestival 

  • October 2005 - January 2006

    • “Paper Heritage, the Art of Book & Paper, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin

  • October 2004

    • “A Progressive Conversation Party'', handmade books  inspired by “Ethel cotton’s Course in Conversation” Series exhibit at the Kohler Art Library, UW-Madison

  • April 22, 2004

    • Media Mention, Issue 32; 4-22-04 Libraries @ UW-Madison “Bone Folders’ Guild looks at death in book art exhibit”

  • February 2004 

    • Member project led by Suzanne Berland; braided spine book

  • January - April 2004

    • “If Death were A Woman: Interpreted”, exhibit at the Golda Meir Library, UW-Milwaukee

    • News Release: by Max Yela, UW-Milwaukee; “If Death Were a Woman” Exhibition; maxyela@uwm.edu

  • December 2003

    • “Pen, Page & Paint” exhibit at the River Arts Gallery Center, Sauk City, WI 

  • October 1-31, 2003 

    • Members made a book, interpreting the poem, “If Death Were a Woman”, by WI poet Laureate Ellen Kort. The books were exhibited a Canterbury Books, Madison, WI: River Arts Center Gallery, Sauk City, WI

  • April 2003

    • Member Challenge - Make a Zine

  • February 2003

    • “Alter Ego”, the theme for a member challenge project

  • May 2, 2003

    • “The Book As Art”, Gallery Night exhibit at the Wisconsin Center for Book & Paper Arts, Madison, WI

  •  April 2003

    • “Flash Books” Live project at the meeting. Suzanne explained how we each would make a book in a given amount of time (2 hr meeting time) thus making a book in a “flash”, Members brought in magazine ephemera, made an original layout for a 1 page book 5.5” x 4.25”. We then photocopied, folded down into a book, with enough to exchange with participants at the next meeting

  • May 2002

    • Member project “Zines” each participant made a page for a “Zine” 8.5”x11.5” recto/verso. The idea was that we were supposed to be make the design using “found” objects, ephemera

  • September 2002

    • Altered Book project for members. Everyone brought in a book (used, new, whatever) and at the meeting we exchanged on a round robin basis each time “altering” a book in some way

  • February 2002

    • 1st Anniversary Member Exchange:  3” triangle shaped books to Exchange (then bind together)

  • Fall 2001

    • “Tools” Challenge to make a book with that theme

  • July 2001

    • Member project: make enough signatures with the theme “Dream” to exchange. Then bind them into a book

  • May 6, 2001

    • Media mention: Wisconsin State Journal Staff, “Arts in PIeces”; Wisconsin Center for Paper Arts, Madison, WI

    • Member project: make enough signatures with the theme “Heat” to exchange. Bind the signatures into a book

  • February 2, 2001

    • “Beginnings” Inaugural project for the 1st meeting of the Bone Folders’ Guild, held at Wisconsin Center forBook and Paper Arts, 811 Williamson Street, Madison, WI- book artists meet bringing an A-2 envelopes with the theme of “Beginnings”, enough to exchange with other participating members. After the exchange, the challenge was to bind the envelopes by the next meeting.