Hajosy Arts is pleased to announce a new workshop with Cristina Hajosy at LexArt! Flag books have wonderful sculptural possibilities. With multiple angles of view, they provide interesting double narrative potentials, contrasting viewpoints, or “yin and yang”, if you will. Viewers enjoy the visual movement of flag books. They beg the viewer to play and to keep interacting with the artwork. There are so many approaches to content. Excellent for creative poetry, wish lists, sweet nothings, photographs, abstract designs, and more. 2 Tuesday mornings, October 27 and November 3, 2020 at Lexington Arts & Crafts Society.
Read the rest of this post...New at LexArt – Flag Artist’s Books – starts May 13 – CANCELED
Hajosy Arts is pleased to announce a new workshop with Cristina Hajosy at LexArt! Flag books have wonderful sculptural possibilities. With multiple angles of view, they provide interesting double narrative potentials, contrasting viewpoints, or “yin and yang”, if you will. Viewers enjoy the visual movement of flag books. They beg the viewer to play and to keep interacting with the artwork. There are so many approaches to content. Excellent for creative poetry, wish lists, sweet nothings, photographs, abstract designs, and more. 2 Wednesday evenings, May 13 and May 20, 2020 from 6-9pm at Lexington Arts & Crafts Society.
Read the rest of this post...New at LexArt – Lotus Artist’s Books – starts April 15 – CANCELED
Hajosy Arts is pleased to announce a new workshop with Cristina Hajosy at LexArt! Enter the world of sculptural artist’s books. This workshop will concentrate on Lotus Artist’s Books. These fascinating book structures can challenge and expand notion of bookbinding into paper arts, sculpture, photo displays, holiday decorations, jewelry and more. 2 Wednesday evenings, April 15 and April 22, 2020 from 6-9pm at Lexington Arts & Crafts Society.
Read the rest of this post...Paste Papers Art Workshop – Tuesday, April 7 – Hajosy Arts
Paste Papers Workshop with Cristina Hajosy in her Canton home/studio. Tuesday, April 7, 2020 from 10am – 4pm. All materials and lunch included. Design your own paper patterns!
Read the rest of this post...Japanese Puncture Stab Books – Tuesday, March 31 – Hajosy Arts
Japanese Puncture Stab Books Art Workshop at Hajosy Arts. 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. Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from 10am to 4pm.
Read the rest of this post...Star Books workshop – Sunday, Feb 9 – Eliot School
Star Book is an artist’s book workshop with Cristina Hajosy at The Eliot School. Sunday, February 9 from 9:30am to 12:30pm. A handmade star book can be presented as an artist’s book or as a hanging ornament. Excite viewers with the visual movement and performative qualities of this unusual book structure. Learn basic bookmaking techniques and experiment with hand-marbled papers, mixed media and collage scraps to customize your books.
Read the rest of this post...Altered Books – Sunday, March 17, 2019 – Eliot School
Transform books, old or new, into art objects. The book becomes a canvas, a sculpture or a reliquary of personally meaningful content. Draw inspiration from the book’s author or content, or purely use the book as a structure. Incorporate paper cutting, collage, bookmaking and other processes. Cristina will have books on hand, or bring your own, along with small objects and images to include. Sunday, March 17, 2019 from 10am to 4pm at The Eliot School, JP, Boston with book artist, Cristina Hajosy.
Read the rest of this post...Paste Paper Workshop – Hajosy Arts – Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019
Paste Papers Workshop with Cristina Hajosy in her home studio. Sunday, February 3, 2019 from 10am to 4pm. All materials and lunch included. Paste Paper, one of the earliest forms of decorative papers, is commonly used for bookbinding, as well as calligraphy, printmaking, collage, stamping, and origami. Paste Paper is created using acrylic paint or similar pigments mixed in a suspension of paste. After being applied to a dampened sheet of paper, the colored paste can be patterned by pulling various utensils across the paste. Design your own paper patterns!
Read the rest of this post...Paste Paper Designs – Art Workshop Hajosy Arts – Thursday, August 30, 2018
It’s the last day of August art camp! Paste Paper Designs Workshop with Cristina Hajosy in her home studio. Thursday, August 30, 2018 from 11am to 3:30pm. All materials and lunch included. Paste Paper, one of the earliest forms of decorative papers, is commonly used for bookbinding, as well as calligraphy, printmaking, collage, stamping, and origami. Paste Paper is created using acrylic paint or similar pigments mixed in a suspension of paste. After being applied to a dampened sheet of paper, the colored paste can be patterned by pulling various utensils across the paste. Design your own paper patterns!
Read the rest of this post...Altered Books Workshop – The Eliot School – Sunday, June 17, 2018
Transform books, old or new, into art objects. The book becomes a canvas, a sculpture or a reliquary of personally meaningful content. Draw inspiration from the book’s author or content, or purely use the book as a structure. Incorporate paper cutting, collage, bookmaking and other processes. Cristina will have books on hand, or bring your own, along with small objects and images to include. Transform used books into art objects. Learn bookmaking, paper cutting, drawing, collage and decollage techniques to reinvent used books into something new.
Read the rest of this post...Paste Papers Workshop – Hajosy Arts, Canton – Saturday, January 6
Paste Papers Workshop with Cristina Hajosy in her home studio. Saturday, January 6, 2018 from 10am to 4pm. All materials and lunch included. Paste Paper, one of the earliest forms of decorative papers, is commonly used for bookbinding, as well as calligraphy, printmaking, collage, stamping, and origami. Paste Paper is created using acrylic paint or similar pigments mixed in a suspension of paste. After being applied to a dampened sheet of paper, the colored paste can be patterned by pulling various utensils across the paste. Design your own paper patterns!
Read the rest of this post...Artist’s Bookmaking Open Studio Workshop – Hajosy Arts – December 12 and 14
Experience an open studio bookmaking workshop with Cristina this fall! You’ll chose the book structure, the papers, the book cloth, all the materials you’ll need to complete a personal artist’s book. With 20 different techniques from which to choose, the hybrid possibilities are endless. Have a series of prints, photos, or personal ephemera that needs the perfect portfolio or handmade box? Have a specific book structure in mind? These days will provide a creative, open environment that is structured to be an introduction for beginners or an open studio for intermediate or advanced students.
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