Art You Can Eat! Edible-book Art Tea Party Exhibition Serves Up Food For Thought

A banquet of books will be served up for the public's viewing---and feasting---pleasure at the Seventh International Edible Book High/Low Tea hosted by the Los Angeles Book Arts Center and the City of West Hollywood on Saturday, April 1, 2006 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Book art to be eaten promptly at 4 pm. The tea party is a celebratory exhibit of books as art---art you can eat because it's made of food instead of paper.

These delightful, delectable works of art will be on display at Kings Road Park, 1000 Kings Road, West Hollywood. Between 2 P.M. and 4 P.M., book-, art- and fun-lovers of all ages are invited to create book art and view this year's entries and entrees, meet the artists, and learn more about book art. Kids will also enjoy a special activity where they can make their own books to take home with them. At 4 p.m., all of the book art on display will be served up with tea and coffee. This event is FREE and open to the public.

WHAT'S ON THE MENU?
The Edible Book Tea Party combines the creative and culinary talents of many of the Southland's preeminent book artists, book lovers, chefs, food lovers and children who will be transforming fantasies of literature into a feast for the eyes and palate.

Every type of book---children's classics, detective novels, biographies, romance---will be sculpted from a smorgasbord of foodstuffs. Imagine chocolate shoes whose tongues tell tales. Or, baklava books with pages made of filo dough. In past years, artists have designed text on mobiles made from fruit roll-ups that looked like stained glass and written poetry on growing lettuce, which was harvested for a salad. Photographs of these artistic creations from previous edible-book events can be viewed at www.books2eat.com


A CONSUMING PASSION FOR BOOKS
Book artists see the book as an art form. They share a passion for books in every possible medium of artistic expression, from painting and drawing to sculpting and bookbinding.

The Los Angeles Book Arts Center (LABAC) is dedicated to serving as a creative, intellectual and technical resource for artists, collectors, dealers, curators and individuals interested in the book and paper arts. The non-profit Center's mission is to help build a strong book arts community in the Los Angeles area by offering exhibitions, lectures, classes, meetings and continuous online discussion groups. LABAC offers a broad range of classes in the book arts, drawing and calligraphy, paste papers and monoprints, book structures, cases and boxes, and everything between and beyond. For more information or to participate, please call 310-657-2616, or visit the LABAC Web site at www.LABookArts.com.