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BCI Instructors Book

Posted by Rob Kempinski on Jul 14 2009

Bonsai Clubs International (BCI), consistent with its mission is committed to the ongoing bonsai eduction of its members, and to an extent the wider bonsai community, recently released a book for its member clubs that shows an assortment of top notch BCI bonsai artists from around the world. The Instructors book is to help clubs in the selection of lecturers, demonstrators and workshops tutors for clubs and regional events. It features BCI member artists from many different countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, India, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, USA, and Venezuela.

It is a beautifully produced large format book that I feel adds to the Bonsai community body of knowledge. For example it is showing to the world many relatively unknown (to the west at least) Chinese artists.

Here is the cover of the book.

Each artist has their photo, a bio, and at leat one photograph of one of their trees. Here’s a few samples. The book was too large for my scanner so I used my camera to photograph the pages.
From China,

From Italy,

and from the USA, yours truly.

BTW, in the interest of full disclosure I am a BCI Vice President.

How can you get a copy of the book? There’s a couple of ways. You can buy one from the BCI Bookstore. Better yet, if you recruit 15 members for BCI (including yourself if you’re not already a member) you get the book for free for your club. So why not join now! Just Google BCI or go here

http://www.bonsai-bci.com/index2.html