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What's New??!!
The Popuplady
is available for presentations,
lectures, exhibits, interviews, consultations, and workshops on all topics
related to pop-up and movable paper and ephemera.
Email The Popuplady
popups@popuplady.com
It's that time again!
The Movable Book Society's biennial
conference is now
scheduled.
Please join your fellow collectors and aficionados in
Washington, D.C., September 18-20, 2008.
Click here for conference
registration form.
Besides interesting workshops, lectures, and a book sale, our
keynote speaker will be
Theo Gielen of the Netherlands.
Mr. Gielen is well-known
to readers of Movable Stationery for his in-depth, informative articles
on the history of pop-up and movable books.
Don't miss this opportunity to surround yourself with fellow devotees of
pop-ups and rub elbows with the paper engineers and artists whose books
you avidly collect!
You needn't be a member to attend but if interested, please
join
The Movable Book Society.
The Popuplady is
looking to acquire original art, maquettes, dummies, sketches, correspondence,
or any preliminary work used or prepared for pop-up books, advertising, promotional
items, etc. Please
contact her with any offers at
popups@popuplady.com
 Lots
of new places to visit on the LINKS page,
including VIDEOS. The Popuplady has spent hours searching
for interesting videos. She's chosen the 'Must Sees.'
Last addition: 07/02/08
A
Passion for Pop-Ups: 20
Years of WOW!!
The Popuplady talks about
her collection,
from
the
catalog
Ideas
in
Motion,
SUNY
New
Paltz,
NY
Also from the catalog, a
comprehensive
History
of
Pop-up
and
Movable
Books
A Glossary of
Pop-up Terms
Click here to Learn the Language,
Talk the Talk
another Kubasta exhibit! [Now
closed]
NOT POP-UPS:
The Other Illustrated Books, Ephemera, and Graphic Designs of
Vojtech Kubasta (1914-1992)
with searchable
images from
the exhibition
The
Life
and
Art
of
Vojtech
Kubasta
(1914-1992)
The
Kubasta
catalog
has
just
been
awarded
The
Mary
Ellen
LoPresti
Award
for
Excellence
in Art Publishing
Exhibition
Catalog-Honorable
Mention
by
The
Art
Libraries
Society
of
North
America-Southeast
Chapter
Read
the biography of
the
world's
most
prolific
paper
engineer
from the catalog of
the exhibition,
Pop-ups,
Illustrated Books, and Graphic Designs of Czech Artist and Paper
Engineer, Vojtech Kubasta (1914-1992)
The Kubasta pop-up catalog is still
available.
See
the pdf version of the catalog now!
(Catalog cover from Flying Through The Universe)
~a
full retrospective~
from
the collection
of The Popuplady
and the
archives
of Kubasta's
daughter
January 25-April 30, 2005
at the Bienes Center for Literary Arts, Broward
County Library,
Ft. Lauderdale,Florida
with 150 items* and a 4-color catalog with pop-up, including 4 Essays:
KUBASTA
IN
CONTEXT:
Prague: History and Art in Vojtech Kubasta's Golden City by Belena Chapp;
The Life and Art of Vojtech Kubasta by Ellen G.K. Rubin;
The Fairy Tale Movable Books of Vojtech Kubasta by Gerry Bohning;
My Father, My Best Friend Reminiscences of Vojtech Kubasta:
A Daughter's Perspective by Dagmar Kubastova Vrkljan.
and Opus VK-Kubasta's self-prepared bibliography.
* Items
include:
postcards,
greeting
cards,
posters,
clay
objects,
personal
papers,
Picasso
sketch,
photos
The
Popuplady's
First Book!
The
Hanukkah
Puzzle
Book-
A Book in 8 parts....For 8 Days of Fun!
See the The Hanukkah Puzzle Book's animated
images.
ages
1-5 (Now
on sale!)
Available from Amazon.com, Pitspopany
Press with free shipping in the Continental US, and
your local bookseller.
Here's
what
those
who know
are saying:
"The Hanukkah Puzzle Book is a unique set
of ...books." "These books are highly recommended for
ages 3-6." -AJL (American Jewish Librarians) Newsletter
"The Hanukkah Puzzle Book is creatively conceived for
young kids..." -The Jewish Week
 Including:
The Story of Hanukkah starring The Maccabees!
The
Rules of
the Dreidel
Game!
Foods & Gift-giving
How to set and light the menorah candles!
(Don't you ask each year how to do it?)
Revised
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