Book arts workshops scheduled for 2010.

Sculptural Collage - Working with Found Materials
Instructor: Brian Dettmer
Date: Fri Mar 12, 2010 - Sun Mar 14, 2010
This workshop focuses on re-used and found objects. Use found media like books, cassette tapes and maps and alter them to become new works of art. Consider the original intentions of the material and the meanings and assumptions of the material and its uses to transform them into something new, either functional, pictoral or purely sculptural.

All on Board for Mixed Media
Instructor: Mary Beth Shaw
Date: Sat Apr 24, 2010 - Sun Apr 25, 2010
Experiment and play with all the boards and panels that are on the market today.  From the incredibly versatile Claybord to Gesso Board to Pastel Board to MDF to Wood panels, we will check out all the rigid substrates.  We will work on a number of pieces at one time, trying the same technique across the board (tee, hee) to see how they react and how unique effects can be achieved.  We will work with stencils and texture mediums, crackle paste that really cracks, gold leaf and 3D semi-sculptural elements. See how your end products can easily be bound into books or mounted on floating cradles.

Untold Tales; A Big and Tall Book
Instructor: Katie Kendrick
Date: Fri May 21, 2010 - Sun May 23, 2010
We will spend these three days building a tall and thick mixed media book, full of painted background pages, one or two finished encaustic coated paintings, and snippets of fabric and collage elements strewn through the many pages. You will leave with a book full of pages to fill in future weeks ahead with your own visual journaling and artwork.

Exquisite Corpse Book
Instructor: Daniel Essig
Date: Wed Jun 2, 2010 - Thu Jun 3, 2010
Combining a variation of a collaborative technique invented by Surrealists with a book form generally considered a child’s toy, we will create a unique journal with whimsical and intriguing covers. The nature of the Exquisite Corpse covers will hopefully lead to imaginative and collaborative content. The covers will be constructed from composite mica, tyvek and/or handmade papers incorporating drawings and collage.

Wooden Book with Centipede Binding
Instructor: Daniel Essig
Date: Fri Jun 4, 2010 - Sun Jun 6, 2010
The Greek binding is an ornate historical binding dating from the 7th century.   This stitch has many similarities to the Ethiopian Style binding, but has a strikingly different effect.  We will maximize this difference by sewing with 2 different colors of thread. The elegant sewing structure, combined with wooden covers, opens a wide range of possibilities for both the beginner and the advanced bookbinder.  Using simple hand tools, you will drill, shape, and smooth your book covers. 

Encaustic Painting Rediscovered: Age Old Techniques Updated for the Contemporary Artist
Instructor: Debbi Simon
Date: Sat Jul 31, 2010 - Sun Aug 1, 2010
Come explore encaustic wax painting in this new two-day workshop highlighting this age-old technique– while incorporating today’s tools, materials, and vibrant waxes. By starting with the basics, you will learn to work with the unique properties of wax to create textures that can be smooth and enamel-like, or extremely dimensional.  We will continue to build on these techniques learning to layer materials, alter the wax with a variety of hot tools, incise, add found objects like fibers, nature and small treasures, and embellish with additional color such as oil pastels, micas, dyes, stamp pads, spices and more.

Papermaking with Plant Fiber
Instructor: Nancee Wipperfurth
Date: Sat Aug 7, 2010 - Sun Aug 8, 2010
There is something magical about making paper by hand. You start with a fiber: the fallen leaves from the maple tree in your yard, or the bast fiber from the milkweed sticks you harvested from the roadside. You cook it, beat it, and pull it into a layer of wet pulp that dries into the most beautiful paper — comprised of textural earth tones and feathery deckle edges. When you use this handmade paper in bookmaking, it provides one more element where you have control of the aesthetic.

Alternative Photo Workshop II
Instructor: Dean Ebben
Date: Sat Aug 14, 2010 - Sun Aug 15, 2010
Learn new techniques; add photographic images to your work without the use of a darkroom. You can make a cyanotype anywhere if you have sun and water.  In this workshop, you will explore Cyanotype and Acrylic Lifts and Transfers. These are great processes for anyone who has wanted to use photography in their book making, painting, sculpture, or even quilting.

Twenty-Two
Instructor: Judy Wilkenfeld
Date: Thu Aug 19, 2010 - Sat Aug 21, 2010
Twenty-Two (22) was created for my partner, an artist. It is the story of our journey and the places and things that are important to us.  Learn to make a similar book using symbology, not words, to tell a story, putting mixed media works, assemblages and shrines into a book form. Take an exciting journey as you create your story using colours, materials and found objects to help build a book that is intended to last generations. 

Book of Reliquaries
Instructor: Judy Wilkenfeld
Date: Sun Aug 22, 2010 - Tue Aug 24, 2010
The Book of Reliquaries represents part of a major work on the life and times of Sara Coppio Sullam. It incorporates reliquaries to help tell the story during the early 17^th Century and The Inquisition period. In this workshop you will make a similar book, with your own story and style. You will learn how to make reliquaries, attach them and mixed media objects, works, assemblages and shrines into a book form.

Beguiling Book House
Instructor: Jill Berry
Date: Sat Sep 4, 2010 - Mon Sep 6, 2010
This workshop is about the transformation of one book into a house full of books. Starting with a vintage volume of children’s stories, the cover will become the roof of the Book House, and the pages books of stories that fill the rooms. We will match the stories we find to structures that best present them (a hopping structure might be about a frog) with instructions for many, many shapes and sizes of small books. Book making, box making, painting, collage, storytelling and some illustration techniques will be covered in this nostalgic journey.

Roll With It
Instructor: Michelle Ward
Date: Thu Sep 23, 2010 - Fri Sep 24, 2010
Learn to create interesting painterly surfaces with layers of texture, pattern, and color. We will brush, brayer, scrape, stamp and spray to create an informative dossier of over twenty techniques on a twenty-five foot roll of paper. Day one is focused on the process, and is fast-paced to stay one step ahead of the inner critic. Day two is focused on the project, where the completed work is manipulated into a journal where every page has its own foundation, ready for your personal entries. The composition of each layout is only the first of many discoveries that will take place as we review several methods for adding content to the painted backgrounds.

Parlor Tricks
Instructor: Michelle Ward
Date: Sat Sep 25, 2010 - Sun Sep 26, 2010
Fabricate a wickedly cool gothic mansion from paper! This vertical format triptych book is the perfect place to clear the cobwebs and work some magic. For two full days we will have a riot employing creative trickery with paint, stencils, and dimensional deceptions resulting in one-of-a-kind architectural tomes. Come to my neighborhood and we’ll cast some spells together. Address: Mysteria Lane (ha!)

Handbook of Elements
Instructor: Stephanie Lee
Date: Sat Oct 2, 2010 - Sun Oct 3, 2010
The earth offers tactile and durable materials for use in artistic expression. Metal and gypsum, both earth elements, are combined in this stout little book comprised of solder-flooded metal covers and plaster pages. In this project-focused workshop, students will learn how to transform and build up sheet metal, adding vintage and found elements to the cover of the book using basic metal-smithing techniques and materials.

Painted Cloth Diary Books
Instructor: Susan Shie
Date: Fri Oct 29, 2010 - Sun Oct 31, 2010
Bring out your freer inner self and get your creativity really flowing out again. In this three day program, you'll start a small book, exploring hand brush painting and line drawing with markers and airpen on white cotton fabric, to create diary paintings and turn them into quilted book pages. Draw freehand on Kona cotton with black permanent fine tip markers, then brush paint in the colors, and finally use the markers again, as well as an airpen, to write freehand on the surface, creating a verbal texture over the images in the story.