ARTISTS' BOOKS SHOW TO BE HELD AT U.VA.

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 1 -- In conjunction with the
Virginia Festival of the Book, the University of Virginia's
Fayerweather Gallery will present the Artists' Books Show March 7
through April 3.  As part of a collaborative effort with Second
Street Gallery and the Bayly Art Museum, the show will exhibit works
by book artists from across the United States.
	Artists whose works will be exhibited at Fayerweather
Gallery include Susan Baker, Douglas Beube, Orazio De Genarro, Jamie
Palacios, Bernard Maisner and Lenore Tawney.  Tawney, considered an
important contemporary fiber artist, was featured in a major
retrospective at the American Craft Museum in 1990.  
	 An opening reception will be held at 4:30 p.m., Thursday,
March 7, in Fayerweather Gallery, located on Rugby Road.  Curator
Betty Seigner will introduce the show in a gallery talk at 5:30
p.m.  Hosted by Second Street Gallery, a panel discussion in which
artists will discuss their work will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday,
March 28.  The panel, moderated by U.Va. rare books scholar Terry
Belanger, will include Douglas Beube, Phyllis McGibbon, whose work
is on exhibit at Second Street Gallery and David Freed, whose work
is on exhibit at the Bayly Art Museum.  Maisner, an illuminator,
will give a gallery talk at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall Room 160. 
	The Virginia Festival of the Book, sponsored by the Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities, will be held in Charlottesville March
28-31.
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February 29, 1996

	FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact Kelly Williams in the art
department, at (804) 924 6123 or 924-6127.