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Women's Studio Workshop PO BOX 489 ROSENDALE, N.Y. 12472 914 658
9133 wsw@mhv.net
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ARTS INSTITUTE
BOOK ARTS
MIXED MEDIA MULTIPLES July 14 - 18 A book is a
container of ideas, a tool for communication. An editioned
book carries an idea farther than just one copy.
Participants in this class will learn to create editioned
bookworks employing simple tools and materials that can be
used in their own studio or home. This workshop will cover a
variety of binding structures, both standard and innovative,
and will explore a range of low-tech image making
techniques, including pochoir, stamping, rubbings, collage
and more. Participants will learn how to choose a structure
and select materials that work with their concept. After
completing a number of samples, students will plan an
artistsâ book for editioning. Students should bring a book
concept, whether in the form of a personal narrative, social
issue or formal exploration. Beginning and experienced book
artists and printmakers are welcome.
Rejin Leys is a mixed media and book artist, an art
educator and a coordinator of Coast-to-Coast: National Women
Artists of Color. Her books and other work have been
exhibited nationally. In 1995 she received a fellowship from
the New York Foundation for the Arts.
CHOOSE A FACE YOU CAN LIVE WITH: The Small Edition
Letterpress Artists' Book, July 21 - 25 This workshop is
an introduction to both bookbinding and letterpress printing.
Learning the basic techniques of sewing, cutting, covering,
typesetting and press work, participants will work on
individual editions of five books. Students will become
familiar with materials, (paper, cloth, board and
adhesives), and methods, (folding, sewing and gluing). Then
they will design and hand-set type, exploring the California
job case. We will discuss and demonstrate composition,
lock-up, inking and press maintenance. This workshop will
also cover printing from photo engravings and wood
blocks.
Margarita Becerra Cano holds an MFA in Video Art from
Syracuse University; and a BFA from Old Westbury College,
where she studied with Luis Camnitzer. In 1992, she received
a Diverse Forms Artistâs Project Grant for a video
installation in the Widow Jane Quarry in Rosendale; In 1993
she was awarded a WSW Artistsâ Book Production Grant for a
limited edition of Satanic Loves. Margarita is an
intermedia artist who currently teaches at the Center For
Book Arts and at the University of California, Santa
Cruz.
HANDMADE PAPER AND HANDMADE BOOKS July 21 - 25 Time
will be equally divided in this workshop between two
studios; making paper with Wendy Cain, and making books
with Susan Mills. Participants will customize paper
production specifically for designated books. Both
non-adhesive and cloth covered books and a cloth covered box
will be made. There will be an opportunity to work with
colored pulps and inclusions in the paper and to work both
collaboratively and individually on one-of-a-kind and small
editions. Experience in bookbinding or papermaking is
useful, but not necessary for a successful workshop
session.
Susan Mills (book making), is an artist and
bookbinder who lives in Nova Scotia and New York City. She
has taught at Nova Scotia college of Art and Cooper Union.
She has been making one-of-a-kind books since 1980. In 1995,
she was the recipient of the Womenâs Studio Workshopsâ
Artistsâ Book Residency Grant, during which she produced her
book, Ruderal Plants of Manhattan.
Wendy Cain (papermaking), holds an Honours Degree in
Fine Art from the University of Toronto, and is an Associate
of the Ontario College of Art, Toronto. Since 1972, she has
had eleven solo exhibitions, the last two at Galerie Maronie
and Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan. She has
participated in over one hundred group exhibitions, most as
a Canadian printmaker and papermaker. Recently, her work has
focused on the practices of hand papermaking, and she has
established a paper studio in Newburgh, Ontario. She
currently teaches printmaking and papermaking at the Ontario
college of Art and Design in Toronto.
SHOW DON'T TELL: Creative Writing for Visual Artists July 28
- August 1 This workshop is for visual artists who use - or
want to use - text in their artwork. Writing for a visual
context presents special considerations and challenges not
addressed in most writing classes. This workshop gives
participants the unique opportunity to strengthen their
writing skills and generate writing ideas while exploring
the relationships between work and image. Participants will
also learn how to give and receive constructive feedback as
writers and artists. You are encouraged to bring work in
progress with you.
Under the name bitchy buddha press, Indigo Som makes
letterpress-printed and photocopied artistsâ books, as well
as the occasional unique or altered book. Her artwork in
included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and
the Getty Center, among many others. Her writing has been
published in numerous journals and anthologies, including
The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian & Pacific
Islander Lesbian & Bisexual Women; Bamboo Ridge; and
Asian/Pacific American Journal.
NARRATIVE LABYRINTHS AND STRUCTURAL MAZES August 3 -
9 The successful visual book is a fine union of concept
and form. This book workshop, taught collaboratively by
artists Mary Stewart and Nancy Callahan, will stimulate
creative thinking about the relationship between idea and
structure. Using narrative themes that reveal themselves
through labyrinths, Stewart will guide participants through
visual, verbal and written exercises that generate concepts
and suggest forms for visual books. Callahan will in turn
guide the class through the creation of a wide variety of
book structures relating to labyrinths and mazes. Working
from the very simple to the more complex, each structure
will suggest, influence and inform the concept. Discussion
and exercises in each class will reinforce awareness of the
interrelationship between work and image, and between
structure and concept. Open to all artists, writers and
designers; some book experience helpful but not
necessary.
Nancy Callahan received her MFA in Printmaking and
Artistâs Books from Syracuse University, and has taught
Innovative Book Structures at Syracuse University, The
Center for Book Arts in NYC, Womenâs Studio Workshop, the
lee Art Center in Arlington, VA, as well as in her own
studio in upstate New York. Nancy has exhibited her prints
and books both nationally and internationally and has taught
for over 20 years. She recently received a Walter B. Ford
Grant, a Dresher Award and the Empire State Craft Alliance
Award for her research and development in the field of
artistsâ books. Currently she is Assistant Professor of Art
at the State University of New York at Oneonta.
Mary Stewart received her MFA from Indiana
University. She has received two grants from the
Pennsylvania council on the Arts and has participated in
over seventy exhibitions, nationally and internationally.
Recent projects have included collaborative choreography,
work with psychology-based figurative imagery and
investigation of forms of narrative using printmaking,
drawing, visual books and photography. Mary is currently an
Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University Stewart is
currently working on a series of books and drawings dealing
with Platonic conceptions of birth, death and
memory.
SCULPTURAL METAL BOOKS September 13 & 14 During this
weekend workshop, participants will use sheet metal to make
functional books without heat. Using simple hand tools and
mechanical joinings, the metal is worked by such methods as
folding the metal over on itself, piercing the layers of
metal or fashioning hand-made staple-like joining devices
and rivets. The books can accommodate both words and images
as well as elements in materials other than metal. This
workshop is inspired by the instructorâs recent experiences
in Mali (West Africa) where she worked with Malian sheet
metal workers to make pails and other utilitarian household
items by hand. The workshop will include a slide lecture by
the instructor about her experiences in Mali where she lived
in both urban and rural settings, working with traditional
and contemporary artists and artisans.
Janet Goldner is a lifelong artist/activist who has
lectured extensively on art, activism and feminism. In
1994-5 she received a Fulbright Award to conduct research in
Mali, West Africa. In 1993, she performed Woven Journey, a
performance piece about her first trip to Mali, at the
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC. Her recent sculptural work,
Sticks & Stones, utilizes text burnt into steel vases and
tablets, to examine American political concepts and myths
about identity and power, and particularly about racism and
white privilege. Her work is included in exhibitions and
collections throughout the US and
internationally.
INTRODUCTION TO HAND BOOKBINDING September 27 & 28 Learn
about hand binding by making books in this introductory
class. The basic tools, techniques and materials will be
covered. The emphasis will be on blank books with
traditional bindings such as pamphlets, accordions,
concertinas and both non-adhesive and cloth covered books.
Subsequent ideas will be discussed.
For information about instructor Susan Mills, Please
see HANDMADE PAPER AND HANDMADE BOOKS, July 21 -
25.
TUNNEL BOOK WORKSHOP October 4 & 5 The tunnel book,
also known in the 19th century as a "peep show", was
developed as a three-dimensional souvenir, used to document
and recreate for the viewer, important places and historical
events. The tunnel book format has also been used as a
structure for making illustrated childrenâs books and paper
theaters. Tunnel books are made from a series of cut-paper
images linked by a pair of accordion-folded paper walls,
which allow the paper ãframesä to expand and create the
illusion of deep space when viewed through an opening in the
front cover. Tunnel books can be made with a variety of
locking mechanisms, stands, hinges and complementary
enclosures; images can be drawn, printed, painted, collaged
or made in many other ways. In this class, students will
learn basic techniques for making tunnel books and
enclosures. They are encouraged to bring ideas for two
tunnel books and any images and materials which they want to
include in their books.
Mindell Dubansky is an artist, as well as a book
conservator and preservation librarian. She has made many
unique artist's books, sometimes incorporating the tunnel
book format, which she became interested in while studying
fine bookbinding at the Camberwell School of Art, in London.
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