BIOGRAPHY
Robert Walp began his bookmaking career in the Spring of 2000 at Vermont College in Montpelier, Vermont. He has participated in numerous book arts workshops since then and in 2006 earned an MFA in the Book Arts from The University of Alabama, where he received the Raymond F. McClain Book Arts Award in April 2006. His work can be found in many collections including The University of Vermont Bailey Library, Dartmouth College Rauner Library, Brown University Rockefeller Library in Providence, Rhode Island, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, and The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. Robert works from his studio in the Adirondacks under the imprint of Chester Creek Press and teaches workshops at several art centers in New York. The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake, Bluseed Studio in Saranac Lake, the Town of Chester Public Library, and the Lake George Arts Project among them. He is a member of The Guild of Bookworkers and is curator of the Book Arts Collection at the Town of Chester Public Library.
RESUME
Robert Walp
PO Box 316
Chestertown, N.Y. 12817
bob@chestercreekpress.com
July, 2007
Education:
March 2006 - MFA in the
Book Arts, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
Alabama.
January 2001 - Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts Major,
Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont.
December 1975 - A.O.S. Degree, Culinary Arts, Culinary
Institute, Hyde Park, New York.
Teaching:
May 10-11, 2008- Introduction to Bookbinding, Great River Arts, Bellows Falls, Vermont.
May 3-4, 2008 - Open Studio Letterpress Workshop, Bluseed Studios, Saranac Lake, New York.
March 13, 2008 - Introduction to Bookbinding, Lower Adirondack Regional Art Center, Glens Falls, New York.
October 27, 2007 - Introduction to Letterpress Printing, Chester Creek Press, Chestertown, New York.
October 20, 2007 - Hinged Lid Boxmaking, Chester Creek Press, Chestertown, New York.
July 13, 2007 - Introduction to Bookbinding. The Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, New York.
July 27, 2007 - Introduction to Boxmaking. The Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, New York.
April 28, 2007 - Beginning Letterpress, Bluseed Studio, Saranac Lake, New York.
March 1&2, 2007 - Byzantine Binding Workshop. Assistant
for Anna Embree. New York Academy of Medicine Preservation
Labaoratory, New York City.
August 1, 2006 - Ethiopian Binding Workshop. The
Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain
Lake, New York.
August 8, 2006 - Introduction to Boxmaking.
The Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain
Lake, New York.
August 4, 2005 - Introduction to Boxmaking.
The Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain
Lake, New York.
August 2, 2005 - Introduction to Bookbinding.
The Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain
Lake, New York.
July 19, 2005 - Paste Paper Workshop. The
Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain
Lake, New York.
August 22 to December 17, 2004 - Teaching
Practicum,
The University of Alabama Book Arts Program. Binding
I, Anna Embree, binding instructor.
December 19, 2004 - Paste Paper Workshop. The
Town of Chester Public Library, Chestertown, New York.
August 5, 2004 - Paste Paper Workshop. The
Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain
Lake, New York.
July 26 & 27, 2004 - Ethiopian Binding Workshop. The
Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain
Lake, New York.
August 8, 2003 - Introduction to Bookbinding.
The Town of Chester Public Library, Chestertown, New
York.
November 16, 2002 - Introduction to Bookbinding.
The Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain
Lake, New York.
July12, 2002 - Introduction to Bookbinding.
The Town of Chester Public Library, Chestertown, New
York.
Exhibitions:
May 31 - July 9, 2008 - Great River Arts Faculty Exhibit, Spheris Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire.
January 11 - February 8, 2008 - The Illustrated Word, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene,Oregon.
June 1 - August 23, 2007 - 2007 Central New York Book Arts Exhibit, Syracuse University Special Collections Library, Syracuse, New York.
March 2006 - Juried show, Guild of Bookworkers
Centennial Celebration Exhibit, The Grolier Club, New
York City.
August 27 to March 1, 2005 - Invitational show, It Takes
a Village to Make a Book,Chattahoochie Valley Art
Museum, LaGrange, Georgia.
April 29 to June 10, 2005 - Juried show, The Intensive
Spirit. Steamboat Springs Art Council, Steamboat
Springs, Colorado.
October 1 to November 31, 2004 - Juried show, Heart
and Hands. The
Nebraska Book Arts Center, The University
of Nebraska, Omaha.
May 14 to June 19, 2004 - Member’s Show, Adirondack
Lake Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, New
York.
July 6 to August 2, 2002 - Solo show, Town of Chester
Public Library, Chestertown, New York.
March, 2002 - Member’s Show, Lower Adirondack
Regional Arts Council, Glens Falls, New York.
March, 2001 - Member’s Show, Lower Adirondack
Regional Arts Council, Glens Falls, New York.
Publications:
Winter 2006 - Bibliographica 6, http://finepress.wordpress.com
October, 2006 - Guild of Bookworkers Centennial
Exhibition Catalog.
Guild of Bookworkers, New York City.
Awards:
April 15, 2005 - Raymond F. McLain Book Arts
Award, The
University of Alabama, School of Library and Information
Studies.
Collections:
Adirondack Community College, Glens Falls, New York
Bailey Library, University of Vermont, Montpelier
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Cerritos Public Library, Cerritos, California
Dartmouth College, Rauner Library
The Library of Congress
Rare Books and Special Collections
Louisiana
State University Special Collections Library
Loussac Public Library, Anchorage, Alaska
The New York Public Library Special Collections
Rockefeller Library, Brown University: Providence,
Rhode Island
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont
Town of Chester Public Library, Chestertown, New
York
University of Iowa Libaries, Iowa City
Workshops Attended:
May 3 - May 13, 2002 - Paper and Book Intensive,
Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine.
June 18 - 22, 2001 - Book Intensive,
Eric Alstrom, AVA Gallery and Art Center, Hanover,
New Hampshire.
April 28, 2000 - Sewnboards Binding,
Eric Alstrom, AVA Gallery and Art Center, Hanover,
New Hampshire.
November 4, 2000 - Papermaking workshop, Beverly
Sky, Rugg Road Paper Co., Boston, Massachusetts.
Work Experience:
1981 to Present - Owner, Chester Creek Studios
and Chester Creek Press, specializing in
woodenware, custom hardwood furniture, web site
design, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and
publishing.
Other Activities:
October 2006 to Present - Curator, Book
Arts Collection, The Town of Chester Public
Library, Chestertown, New York.
January 2004 to Present -
Member, Guild of Bookworkers National and New
England chapters
October 2000 to Present - Vice Chair, Friends
of the Town of Chester Public Library, Chestertown,
New York.
October 1998 to September 2000 - Chair, Friends
of the Town of Chester Public Library, Chestertown,
New York.