Upcoming Issues
JAB publishes both commissioned and submitted articles and occasionally invite guest editors to produce theme-based issues. In addition to feature articles, JAB also includes artist pages or inserts, and has regular columns such as the Received and Noted section which lists and reviews new books, announcements of upcoming book art events, and exhibit reviews. See the Submissions page if you are interested in submitting something for an upcoming issue.
Current upcoming plans include:
JAB27 (Spring 2010)
For JAB27 we have turned to Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY to look at photobookworks and the publishing of photo-based artists' books. Visual Studies Workshop (VSW), celebrating its 40th Anniversary, has considered the book a primary art form since its founding in 1969 and VSW Press has produced over 450 artists' books and critical resources. JAB27 will blur the historical, cultural, vernacular, and the poetic with new essays and reviews, as well as a new photobookwork, by artists, writers, and thinkers who are a part of VSW's historic community of interest supporting photographic, photomechanical, and digital publishing practice.
JAB28 (Fall 2010)
Visual Poetry, edited by April Sheridan, poet, Columbia College Chicago.
JAB29 (Spring 2011)
JAB29 will be dedicated to the Seminário Perspectivas do Livro de Artista held at the Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in November, 2009. Organized by Amir Cador and Maria do Campo Freitas, the speakers included Paulo Silveira ("The Critic and the Artist Book"), Felipe Ehrenberg ("Art and Politics"), Martha Hellion ("Gesture and Performance in the Artist Book"), and Bernadette Panek ("The Artist Book and the Museum"). The essays will be published in Portuguese and English as well as Spanish if space allows.