The Annual Meeting of The Technical Society of Knoxville begins at 11:00 a.m.

TSK’s annual reports will be presented and members in good standing will elect officers and directors of the board.
Please make sure to arrive early if you have not already paid your 2026 dues.
If you wish to pay by credit card, please do so through this website as we are not set up to accept credit cards at our meetings.

The Luncheon Buffet opens at 11:30 a.m. 

Price for buffet lunch is $15 (includes complimentary parking in the hotel garage).

If you plan to eat, please RSVP This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Friday, January 9 at noon.

 If you choose not to eat, a charge of $7 will cover parking and event arrangements.

The featured presentation by Professor Lyons begins at noon.

Prof. Lyons will provide a brief introduction to the history of dimensional prints and book forms, works that engage not only the use of the printed sheet, but also involve three and sometimes four dimensions. An early example includes volvelles from the 13^th century which consisted of a series of drawn or printed discs which could be rotated to predict calendrical or astronomical phenomena.

In the 16^th century Andreas Vesalius used paper engineering to teach anatomy in books that had multiple layers to reveal the structure of the human body. This use of flaps — which could be used to reveal new scenes — was a common approach in books where the turning of flaps could reveal a story’s narrative.

In the 19^th century the production of dimensional and movable books was greatly enhanced through the use of color-lithography, especially by German publishers. Some of the forms I will present include “peep show” books, which are a form of tunnel book; carousel books, which also allow for a layered presentation of space; and what we often call pop-up books today, which use both parallel and converging folds to create dimension and movement when the book page is opened.

Beauvai Lyons has taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville since 1985. His one-person exhibitions have travelled to over 80 museums and galleries, and his lithographs are in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Washington, DC) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA). In 2002 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the Fine Arts Academy in Poznañ, Poland, and in 2014 he received the Santo Foundation Artist Award. 

The Anatomy of a Frog from The Encyclopedia of Nature, 1907

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