{{Short description|American paper engineer (born 1947)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2017}} {{notability|1=Biographies|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox person | birth_name = {{nowrap|Sally Blakemore}} | image = | caption = Sally Blakemore (right), Sister's Rice Festival, Guizhou Province, 2014 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|4|15}} | birth_place = Odessa, Texas | education = North Texas State University, University of Texas, Austin | occupation = Book artist, paper engineer, artist | website = {{URL| artyprojects.com }} }}
'''Sally Blakemore''' is a paper engineer and pop-up book packager based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is best known for ''NASCAR Pop-up: A Guide to the Sport'', which includes two dozen pop-ups and a 12-second sound chip. Blakemore also heads Arty Projects Studio, a pop-up and novelty book packaging company.
==Biography== Blakemore has a bachelor’s of art degree in painting and sculpture.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bluemel|first1=Nancy Larson|last2=Taylor|first2=Rhonda Harris|title=Pop-up books: a guide for teachers and librarians|date=2012|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|isbn=9781591583981|pages=32–33}}</ref> She also exhibited with the International Society of Copier Artists.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Untitle|journal=The ISCA Quarterly|date=Fall 1988|volume=7|issue=1}}</ref>
Blakemore is a self-taught paper engineer. "I bought my first pop-up book in 1979, at the age of thirty-three. Tor Lokvig's paper engineering in ''Haunted House'' by Jan Pieńkowski totally intrigued me and made me laugh with glee. I studied each mechanic, took it apart, and put it back together again. It was my education in the making."<ref>{{cite journal|title=In Conversation with Sally Blakemore|journal=Movable Stationery: quarterly publication of the Movable Book Society|date=November 2009|volume=17|issue=4|page=1}}</ref>
As a child, Blakemore, who had dyslexia and synesthesia, could not read at all. According to one interview, she said "I liked to look at the comics and the weather map in the newspaper. It was very humiliating. I could not make the leap from a printed word to the meaning of the word....I could not spell at all and phonetics didn't really make sense....It is so strange that I somehow got into publishing!"<ref>{{cite web|last1=Olmon|first1=Kyle|title=In Conversation with Sally Blakemore|url=http://www.kyleolmon.com/work/articles/blakemore.html|website=www.kyleolmon.com|accessdate=June 11, 2017}}</ref>
For nearly two years in the 1990s, Blakemore worked as art director for paper engineer' James Diaz's White Heat Ltd. company, where she learn the basics of pop-up and novelty book production.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bluemel|first1=Nancy Larson|last2=Taylor|first2=Rhonda Harris|title=Pop-up books : a guide for teachers and librarians|date=2012|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|isbn=9781591583981|pages=32–33}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Steinberg|first1=David|title=Profitable Pop-Ups|journal=Albuquerque Journal|date=September 27, 1998|page=C6}}</ref>
As head of Arty Projects Studio, Blakemore once spent a month in Malaysia overseeing the commercial production of the pop-up book ''Ancient Dwellings''. The first print run was 10,000 books and involved 400 women in hand-assembling the book.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Zibart|first1=Rosemary|title=Books That Go Pop|journal=The Santa Fe New Mexican|date=September 12, 2004|page=E-1}}</ref> One of the company's most successful novelty book is Peek-A-Moo!, a lift the flap book by Marie Torres Cimarusti, with over 390,000 copies in print.<ref>{{cite journal|title=In Conversation with Sally Blakemore|journal=Movable Stationery|date=November 2009|volume=17|issue=4|page=2}}</ref>
In 2010, Blakemore was the keynote speaker at the Movable Book Society Conference in Portland, Oregon.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Rubin|first1=Ellen G. K.|title=Magic and Passion in Portland|journal=Movable Stationery: Newsletter of the Movable Book Society|date=November 2010|volume=18|issue=4|pages=18–19}}</ref>
==Selected bibliography== Pop-up books paper engineered by Sally Blakemore: * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=2004 | title= Ancient Dwellings of the Southwest | publisher= Western National Park Association | oclc=55753594 }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=1998 | title= Circus!: A Pop-up Adventure | publisher=Little Simon | oclc=39980741 }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally (one of 28 paper engineers) | year=2010 | title= Handmade Paper in Motion, Portfolio 9, Pop-ups | publisher=Hand Papermaking | oclc=692218926 }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=2009 | title=NASCAR Pop-up: A Guide to the Sport | publisher=Gibbs Smith | oclc=259258649 }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=1997 | title= Pooh's Christmas Box | publisher= Disney Press | oclc=38088764 }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=2005 | title= Pop-Up Aesop | publisher= Getty Publications | oclc=61478174 }}
Pop-up artists' books by Sally Blakemore: * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | title= Gurls (Investigating the sublimation of women worldwide) }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=2001 | title= July 16, 1945: New Mexico's History of the Atomic Bomb }}
Books illustrated by Sally Blakemore: * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=2015 | title= Algebra survival guide: A conversational handbook for the thoroughly befuddled | publisher=Singing Turtle Press | oclc=877851011 }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=1996 | title= Bats: Extremely Weird series | publisher=John Muir Publications | oclc=33819625 }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=1991 | title= Frogs: Extremely Weird series | publisher=John Muir Publications | oclc=33862847 }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=1996 | title=Spiders: Extremely Weird series | publisher= John Muir Publications | oclc= 716690645 }} * {{Citation | last=Blakemore | first=Sally | year=1991 | title= Reptiles: Extremely Weird series | publisher=John Muir Publications | oclc=607201998 }}
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External sources== * Official Sally Blakemore Website http://www.artyprojects.com/ * How to Make a Pop-up Book (2016 educational video) narrated by Blakemore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHsmfGhBhQM * Paper Play (2016 video) narrated by Blakemore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju_1Xl5igsk
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