We Are Pleased to Announce Our
Spring
2006 Workshops in the Book Arts!
Three workshops will be held in May of 2006. Regina Schroeder will be teaching Hand Papermaking in our Lost Arch Papermill from May 12th until noon on the 14th. Amy Pirkle will be teaching a Gelatin Printmaking and Basic Letterpress workshop from May 12th until noon on the 14th, and Julia Leonard will be teaching a Bookbinding Class from May 15th until noon on the 17th.
This will be an opportunity to work with three exceptional instructors in our studio-intensive environment. If you have never done it before these will be great introductions to the work, but the workshops will also present opportunities for experienced book and paper artists. Imagine springtime in beautiful Alabama working with these artists.
Please contact Steve Miller with any questions you may have, and to reserve a spot in these workshops. Each class is limited to nine participants.
Regina Schroeder
From Rags To Paper
from May 12th until noon on May 14th
Lost Arch Papermill, UA
All
papermaking materials supplied, $100
In
a single weekend, this class will work with cotton and linen
rag to learn the basics of papermaking. From rag to finished sheets
in two and a half days, the class will begin with pulping material
in our Hollander beater. Then we'll take on the papermaker's shake,
and create beautiful sheets. All skill levels are welcome; we will
cover the basics of good sheet formation, and get familiar with the
fantastic pulpy joy of handmade paper. Each student will leave the
class with sheets of exquisite paper suitable for drawing, printing,
bookbinding, and admiring as beautiful objects. Students will need
to bring a pair of old, thoroughly worn 100% cotton blue jeans to be made into rag paper. Other
materials and equipment will be provided.
Regina Schroeder is a second year Book Arts student at UA, and she's fascinated with handmade paper. She's been the teaching assistant for the Book Arts graduate papermaking class, and spends lots of her free time finding interesting rags and making them into paper.
Amy Pirkle
Gelatin Printmaking and Basic
Letterpress
from May 12th until noon on May 14th
Typographic Laboratory, UA. $100
We will explore a unique monoprint printmaking technique, using a plate of gelatin as the printing surface. By applying stencils, brayers, stamps and other texture-making tools, students will manipulate ink on the surface of the gelatin and pull deliciously vivid, luscious prints on their favorite printmaking papers. Students will also have the opportunity to combine text with their images, with an introduction to metal type and letterpress printing on a Vandercook printing press. The result will be beautiful one-of-a-kind broadsides or postcards, suitable for framing and display. This workshop is open to everyone—from beginners to students with some experience!
Amy Pirkle is a 2nd year graduate student in the Book Arts MFA program. Her undergraduate degree is in Painting, which shows through her love of colors and image-making emphasis in her printed work. She has been the teaching assistant in Binding 2, and will be teaching an undergraduate Book Arts class at UA during the 2006-2007 academic year.
Julie Leonard
Binding Structure and Story
from
May 15th until noon on the 17th
Typographic Laboratory, UA. $125
"…books which have an aura about them generate a mystique, a sense of charged presence. They seem to bear meaning just in their being, their appearance and their form through their iconography and materials."
Johanna Drucker
The visual, tactile and intimate qualities inherent in books make it a fascinating form for artistic expression. Artists' books can be visual, textual, sculptural; traditional or experimental in form. Rather than primarily a housing for information, a book's structure can be an essential contextual element.
In this workshop we will explore connections between ideas and structure; integrating text, image, paper and binding into non-traditional book forms that further enhance meaning. Short exercises will explore ways of gathering information, finding our stories, and translating these ideas into ''sketches' made in book form. Demonstrations will include several non-traditional book structures that are flexible and adaptable, making them particularly appropriate for presenting material in alternative forms. Students will make models of the various structures as well as having the opportunity to work on content development.
Julie Leonard maintains a studio in Iowa City, Iowa and teaches book arts and graphic design. She has taught book arts at The University of Iowa’s Center for the Book, Penland School of Craft, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and a number of art centers. She has been a visiting artist and teacher in the public schools in Western North Carolina and Iowa City. She is on the Board of the Penland School in North Carolina.