This all-day workshop takes the bookmaking process from start to finish. Hand-designed papers can be used for all book components, just the covers, just the endpapers, or even just the text block. With unlimited color and texturing choices, Paste Paper is an exciting, easy technique to add to your repertoire.
Read the rest of this post...New Workshop at MassArt – Artists’ Books Intensive – August 9 and 11, 2016
This 2-day intensive will introduce more than a dozen different binds from historical to modern, from streamlined to sculptural. We’ll explore the connections between content and structure, outside vs. inside, and layers of meaning for interesting, engaging visual books.
Read the rest of this post...PIVOT – Group Art Exhibit – Newton Open Studios – through June 17, 2016
Newton Open Studios artists were asked to submit works that represent a new direction. The new direction might be an experiment, a conscious reinvention, or an accidental discovery. For each of these artists, this pivot has created fertile new ground for creativity.
Read the rest of this post...Japanese Puncture Book Workshop – Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA – August 13, 2016
This all-day workshop will explore a beloved book structure: the Japanese puncture (or “stab”) binding. This technique is especially useful as it joins individual sheets into a text block. The sheets can be edited and sequenced by the artist, then bound, resequenced, and then bound again and again! Perfect for visual journals, print collections, photo albums, signature books, and upscale scrapbooking, you will find the Japanese puncture book has endless uses. Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Mass. with Cristina Hajosy on Saturday, August 13, 2016
Read the rest of this post...Contemporary Paper Marbling – 3 Day Workshop – Concord Art – August 2016
This 3 day workshop will explore contemporary paper marbling. We will create beautiful stone patterns and playful combed designs. Using various techniques, we will expand the concepts into unique creations that highlight the floating and freeform nature of this medium. Concord Art, August 2-4, 2016 with Cristina Hajosy
Read the rest of this post...Commissioned Book Arts – SECHC 2016 HealthCare Hero Awards – Presentation Portfolios
It’s been lovely to work with South End Community Health Center again this Spring. I was commissioned to create 16 hand-bound presentation piece for their HealthCare Hero Awards Ceremony. The process began with a vibrant color photograph of a building mural. A Dream of Sunday Afternoon in Blackstone Park (1998) The mural was directed by Heidi […]
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