New Date! Private Paper Marbling Workshop – Sunday, August 30, 2015 from 10am to 4pm with Cristina Hajosy. Paper Marbling Projects – Our marbling experiments will begin with a basic overview of “proper” Turkish paper marbling, called “Ebru”. Students will have access to a variety of fresh, new marbling trays, as well as, aged marbling size, and even contaminated mixtures with unique and unpredictable outcomes. Learning the “rules” and breaking them, that’s what this workshop will encourage. Your floating designs may be free-form, combed, blown, or perhaps a mixture. Having several print surfaces evolving at the same time can fill in the down time between dropping the colors and the liquid flow, drift, and crackling. I find the transformations to be hypnotic.
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Lotus and Star Books – Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Enter the world of ornamental artist’s books. This is the first workshop in a series on interesting, sculptural books. Wednesday, July 22, 2015 This weekday workshop will concentrate on Lotus and Star books. These fascinating book structures can challenge and expand notions of bookbinding, paper arts, sculpture, photo albums, holiday decorations, jewelry… whoa! and it keeps going… origami, stationary, object d’art. Yeah, it’s a revelation. Spend the day with Cristina Hajosy at her home studio workshop. All materials, workshop handouts, and a light, fresh, vegetarian lunch are included. Private Bookmaking Workshop – Lotus and Star Books
Read the rest of this post...Private Workshop – Paper Marbling – Saturday, July 11, 2015
A day experimenting with paper marbling. We’ll focus on Turkish-style marbling. This method, “Ebru”, can produce lovely figurative designs of fish, flowers, birds. and abstract shapes or go with the traditional combed patterns. Saturday, July 11, 2015 from 10am to 4pm.
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Accordions and Beyond – Sunday, June 28, 2015
Private Book Arts Workshop with Cristina Hajosy. Sunday, June 28, 2015 from 10am – 4pm. Spend a summer day exploring accordion bookmaking with Cristina Hajosy in her home studio. Learn to construct these non-traditional, sculptural books with beautiful papers and book cloths. Students typically end the day with three or four unique artist’s books ready to be filled with your photos, poetry, artwork… heart and soul.
Read the rest of this post...Private Paper Marbling Workshop – Saturday, June 20, 2015
A day experimenting with paper marbling. We’ll focus on Turkish-style marbling. This method, “Ebru”, can produce lovely figurative designs of fish, flowers, birds. and abstract shapes or go with the traditional combed patterns. Saturday, June 20, 2015 from 10am to 4pm.
Read the rest of this post...Boston Poetry Slams – Attleboro Arts Museum – Annual – Spring – “Performance” Book Arts
Springtime means poetry at the Attleboro Arts Museum! On Thursday, May 28, the Museum will host the 9th annual Boston Poetry Slam, the Providence Poetry Slam, and other invitees in a live poetry competition to showcase local poets traveling to the 2015 National Poetry Slam. Visitors to the Museum that evening will enjoy a poetry open mic and top-notch performance competition, including an opportunity to judge the slam with Simone Beaubien as the SlamMaster. Poets, listeners, and art enthusiasts of all ages attended this high-energy literary event. Several visual artists will be creating artworks around the perimeter of the museum in reaction to the poetry slam… “performance” art, of sorts.
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