Celebrate the release of artist and author, Andy Sturdevant's new Birchwood Palace Industries publication The Outer Periphery: Amateur Spacecraft Designs from the U.S. Patent Office, 1960-2022.
Andy will show some favorite selections from the book, along with additional commentary and conversations with special guests Navin Ramalingam, Associate Attorney in the Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation Group at Robins Kaplan LLP; Trina Fernandez of the Center for Photography for Non-Photographers, and musical guest DJ Tonedef.
Tang and astronaut ice cream will be served for refreshments. You can preview DJ Tonedef's playlist here.
About The Outer Periphery:
A collection of over a dozen patent illustrations for functioning spacecraft, designed by amateurs, hobbyists, sci-fi enthusiasts, engineers, and cranks. Ranging from “somewhat plausible” to “completely off the wall,” these drawings beautifully capture the delirious optimism of the space age. In the years between Sputnik and Challenger, sitting in your garage drafting a design for, say, a rotating spacecraft that produced an electric dipole on four rotating spherical conducting domes perturbing a uniform spherical electric field seemed not just like an interesting hobby, but an obligation to the future of humankind. Black-and-white illustrations from U.S. Patent Office files. Saddle stitched, 5.5" x 8.5". Product number BP014.
About Andy Sturdevant:
Andy Sturdevant is a writer, artist, and designer living in Minneapolis. He has written off and on about art, history and culture for a variety of publications, including ArchitectureMN, Mpls St. Paul, MinnPost, The Growler and the late, great City Pages. He is the author of three books of nonfiction, including the Minnesota Book Award-nominated Closing Time: Saloons, Taverns, Dives, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities with Bill Lindeke.
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