{"id":9246,"date":"2018-08-10T15:54:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T22:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9246"},"modified":"2018-08-19T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T23:06:49","slug":"altered-books-in-bisbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/10\/altered-books-in-bisbee\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Books in Bisbee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myheraldreview.com\/news\/community\/giving-old-books-new-life-bisbee-preps-for-annual-altered\/article_f3d6eff0-9aa2-11e8-a2b8-97de0d4090ca.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Sierra Vista Herald\/Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\">Giving old books new life: Bisbee preps for annual Altered Books Show and Auction<\/h1>\n<p>By Emily Ellis<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bTw3I6wfPAM\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BISBEE \u2014 In the age of tablets and smartphones, hard copies of books have become a thing of the past for many \u2014 something to stuff in a closet or toss in the dumpster.<\/p>\n<p>But in Bisbee, artists are giving such forgotten books the star treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Bisbee\u2019s annual Altered Books Show and Silent Auction, a Friends of the Copper Queen Library fundraiser, returns to town this month for its eighth year. The event showcases works of art made from books that are auctioned off to raise funds for the library. Anyone can submit an art piece for the auction, which have ranged from lamps sculpted to resemble famous literary characters to dresses made of book pages in the past, said library program coordinator Alison Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, even before I worked at the library, it is the best art show in Bisbee,\u201d she said. \u201cA variety of artists build these amazing things. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myheraldreview.com\/news\/community\/giving-old-books-new-life-bisbee-preps-for-annual-altered\/article_f3d6eff0-9aa2-11e8-a2b8-97de0d4090ca.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Herald\/Review<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Sierra Vista Herald\/Review Giving old books new life: Bisbee preps for annual Altered Books Show and Auction By Emily Ellis \ufeff BISBEE \u2014 In the age of tablets and smartphones, hard copies of books have become a thing of the past for many \u2014 something to stuff in a closet or toss in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}