Seatle's ABAD : The Book [212]

ABOVE, ARTIST WILLIAM EVERTSON SHOWS OFF HIS COPY OF SEATTLE ABAD. EVERTSON HAS PARTICIPATED IN 20 OF THE 27 ABAD EXHBITIONS SINCE 2009.

If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the Seattle ABAD project, you can purchase one here: SEATTLE A BOOK ABOUT DEATH.  Printed book is $60 and a digital copy is only $5.  Get both for $60.  The monies earned help to defray the costs of production and benefit QUETZALCOATL GALLERY which went to great expense to launch the exhibition in 2012.

Buy the book, click here: QUETZALCOATL GALLERYThe publication is 230 pages and perfect bound.  A Book About Death Seattle, exhibited at the Quetzalcoatl Gallery, Seattle WA. Nov 11-Dec 10, 2011, is being documented in a book that will archived in the Cornish College of the Arts library. http://www.cornish.edu/about/history/   ABAD Seattle, curated by Kathleen McHugh and Almandra Sandoval included an international exhibition of art and an interactive work by Matthew Rose. The wall of images created a rich cultural space for literary, social and music events by The Tangletown String Band, Choroloco, Jacque Larrainzar, Sin Fronteras, and readings by published authors. ABAD Seattle book are posted on the blog: http://abadseattle.blogspot.com   

RAY JOHNSON'S A BAD ARCHIVE AT CW POST [211]

CW Post College is archiving the ABAD collection along with two boxes of New York City catalogs, invitation and announcement cards from the 1980s donated to the college by Matthew Rose.

CW Post is located on Long Island in New York.

The Post librarians and specialists who have archived and stored the collections are : Top, Jarron Jewell, Senior library assistant; middle, Erin de Marco Library School Graduate student, Queens College and bottom, Bonnie Gallagher, Library School Graduate student, LIU Post.

Joan Harrison who helped with the entire effort of getting the works into the collections at CW Post, curated wide ranging exhibition documenting Ray Johnson & A Book About Death.  She writes: "Don't you love the signage?  A BAD Archive.  Ray would have loved that and would have had to make a 'Good' archive."