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The Summer 2012 course schedule is online!
for course descriptions and to register. This class will cover three simple structures for artists or writers looking to bind their own small editions. We will complete two paperback structures and one simple case binding, as well as making custom bookcloth and proper use of the guillotine for trimming books. Students are encouraged to bring their own content (text, images, etc..) to work with.
Nancy Loeber
July 14 - 15 , Saturday and Sunday, 10am - 4pm
Embarrassed by your handwriting, but like the look of a hand-written text? Want to use handwriting to create a one-of-a-kind book, but would rather use someone else's? Writing rhythmically and re-designing unsightly, illegible letters, noticeably transforms your writing. Then, experimenting with different pens and speeds, learn to express different tones of voice. By the end of this workshop, you'll have a new relationship with your handwriting and learn to develop writing that is fit for a manuscript!
Karen Gorst
July 14
Saturday, 10 am to 4pm
Leather, linoleum cuts and more..... Come experiment and expand your skills with these creative approaches to working with leather. Students will explore leather dyeing with aniline pigments and emboss designs into leather using linoleum cuts and found objects. Learn to pare leather to use as on-lays to compliment your designs. By the end of the class students will make a small pamphlet book using samples of their new techniques. Bring your design ideas and your curiosity!
Biruta Auna
July 21 - 22
Saturday and Sunday
10am - 4pm
Color Field Monoprints
In this workshop we will explore the technique of using the Vandercook proof press to pull color field monoprints. This will involve using a blank plate on the press bed, inked by hand, which will then interact with the ink of the rollers. By doing multiple runs on the same paper a complex dense field can be built up, suitable to stand on its own or as a background to print text or images on. The workshop will concentrate on providing as much press time as possible to participants in order for them to expand and explore the numerous possibilities presented by this techniques and create their own series of prints. All levels are welcome. Delphi Basilicato
July 28 - 29
Saturday and Sunday
10am - 4pm
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Volunteer at the Center for Book Arts!
We are looking for work/study volunteers and interns to help with administrative tasks, special events, exhibitions, publicity, and more. Hours worked may be exchanged for workspace rental or tuition for the Center's courses. For more information, please click here to see our Opportunities page.
To apply, please send your resume and statement of interest to:
The Center for Book Arts
28 W 27th St, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
or
mjin@centerforbokarts.org
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Learn a new skill this summer, or brush up on your favorite techniques. This summer is an opportunity to expand your bookmaking toolkit under the tutelage of book arts experts. Check out our roster of summer workshops.
Deadline to register: One week before class starts.
This intensive, beginning workshop is designed to enable artists to use the book format in their work as a means of expanding, preserving, and restructuring ideas. Students will make four to five books, including an accordion book, a long-stitch book, a tacket binding, and variations on the pamphlet binding, as well as a simple box (or two). The properties of bookbinding materials will be discussed in detail.
Barbara Mauriello
July 23 - 27 , Monday through Friday, 10am - 4pm Create images using the ancient traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e style of printing by hand, still widely used in Japan today. We will carve simple images into blocks and print them. We will make multi-colored block prints using a variety of carving techniques. The use of proper tools (carving, brushes and others), quite different from those used in Western printmaking, will be thoroughly discussed. Each student will make two or three prints in small editions during the workshop. Suitable for all levels of experience.
Takuji Hamanaka
August 13 - 17 , Monday through Friday, 10am - 4pm The world of boxes is large, magnificent and full of surprises. A tray, a case, a lid and a flap: four simple architectural elements- and hundreds of ways to combine them! Working with cloth and patterned papers, we will construct portfolios, hinge-lidded boxes, partitioned boxes, boxes with unusual closures and other decorative details. Please bring with you photographs, postcards, letter, buttons, ribbons, all sorts of doodads and ephemera - anything that will personalize your boxes and make them truly unique.
Barbara Mauriello
August 6 - 10 , Monday through Friday, 10am - 4pm This introductory course will familiarize students with the basic materials (paper, cloth, board, and adhesives), techniques (folding, sewing, gluing), and history of bookbinding. Students will make several structures, including a pamphlet, a flat and a rounded case bound multi-section book, and a photo album.
Nancy Loeber
August 20 - 24, Monday through Friday, 10am - 4pm
In this course you will learn the basics of hand typesetting and letterpress printing. We will cover the essentials of good presswork, including inking, imposition and impression and move on to discuss typefaces, paper, incorporating illustrations and adding color. This course concentrates on the traditional methods of hand typesetting, using the Center's collection of lead and wood type. This course requires no computer experience. You will develop your own small composition, such as greeting, business or postcards and, time allowing, complete a second project. Bring words and ideas to class and be ready to roll up your sleeves. Letterpress I is a prerequisite for renting in the printshop.Roni Gross
July 30 - August 3 , Monday through Friday, 10am - 4pm
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Upcoming Exhibitions:
Join us July 11th at 7pm for the opening reception
Main Gallery:
Book As Witness:
The Artist's Response
Studio and Foyer Galleries:
Tell Me How You REALLY Feel: Diaristic Tendencies:
The Center for Book Arts, 28 W 27th St, 3rd Floor
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-4pm
Organized by Maria G. Pisano
This exhibition presents artists who are continuing the tradition of creating book works as keepers of our collective memory, and who use the book form to create pieces dealing with death and destruction as a result of global conflicts, prejudice, terrorism, natural disasters, and individual losses.
Tell Me How You REALLY Feel: Diaristic Tendencies
Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director, & Rory Golden, Artist & Former Executive Director, The Center for Book Arts Our annual artist members show with invited artists, focuses on artwork that has been inspired by the concept or content of graphic novels, memoirs, and travel journals with a strong visual presence. |
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28 West 27th Street, Third FloorNew York, New York 10001
The Center's Visual Arts Program and related Public Programs are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Dedalus Foundation, the New York Community Trust - Van Lier Fund, and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Additional support for the Center's programs is provided in part by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Elbert Lenrow Fund, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Randolph Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, Poets & Writers, and the Pine Tree Foundation of New York. Programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Support for the Center's Collections Initiative comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Major funding for the Center's Capacity Building programs is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Chervenak-Nunalle Foundation, the Hyde & Watson Foundation. Special support for the Center's Artist-in-Residence program has been provided by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The Center also acknowledges the generous support of its patrons and members.
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