Handmade for the Holidays! Get the holiday season started with some personal art time, and make some holiday gifts while you’re at it. Hajosy Arts is happy to present 3 one-day workshops beginning December 12 in Cristina Hajosy’s home studio. Enamel Suminagashi, Paste Paper Projects, and Personal Photo Albums.
Read the rest of this post...Paper Marbling Workshop – Hajosy Arts private studio – Wednesday, November 30th
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. Your floating designs may be free-form, combed, or even blown. Join Cristina Hajosy at her home studio for Paper Marbling Workshop. 10am to 4pm, Wednesday, November 30
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Hand Sewn Artist’s Books with Paste Papers – Sunday, June 26
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...Etsy Artists of Boston Mother’s Day Pop-Up Shop – Saturday, May 7
Just in time for Mother’s Day, a selection of 30+ talented local artists will take over an Arsenal Project storefront to offer handmade jewelry, soaps, candles, pottery, illustrations, confections, woodwork, textiles and Hajosy Arts’ beautiful books and marbled papers!
Read the rest of this post...New Book Arts Workshops – Fruitlands Museum – Harvard, MA
This all-day workshop takes the bookmaking process from start to finish. Hand stitching is a technique for sewing the sections, or “signatures,” of a book together. This workshop will cover four different stitch patterns on both soft and hard covers. The pamphlet, long stitch, the chain stitch with beads, and the “Dos Equis” will be completed.
Read the rest of this post...December Events – Holiday Gifts, Arts and Crafts Show/Sale and Hajosy Arts Holiday Open House!
December Events It’s time to get the holidays off to a great start with several upcoming events. Come visit Cristina in her home studio at Hajosy Arts’ Open House. See her latest artwork and explore the previous decades of art from fine art photography, printmaking editions, and artist’s books. A large collection of small works […]
Read the rest of this post...New Workshop at MassArt! Paper Marbling Weekend – January 9-10, 2016
Spend a weekend learning several types of paper marbling with Cristina Hajosy. Make a mountain of unique paper designs for use in mixed media projects, collage, bookbinding, greeting cards, calligraphy, or printmaking. Many cultures have explored the notion of floating colors on the surface of liquids as a way to create decoration. Each style of marbling has its own design potential, color saturation, workflow, and even predictability. We’ll cover Turkish Ebru, Japanese Suminagashi, and several modern variations. Each student will have their own vat for printing. All materials are included, along with great paper and cardstock choices, custom colors, and course handouts. January 9 and 10, 2016 from 10am to 4pm
Read the rest of this post...Beyond the Book IX – Group Exhibition – Boston Public Library, Brighton branches, Nov 21, 2015 to Jan 23, 2016
The Book as Art! Here’s your opportunity to explore an amazing selection of artist’s book, altered books, and related book arts. Beyond the Book IX is an exhibition specifically of works of art in book- or book-like form. Meet and greet many of the artists. Light refreshments served at the Opening Reception – Saturday, November 21 from 11am – 1pm. Exhibition runs November 21, 2015 — January 23, 2016 at both Brighton & Faneuil Branches, Boston Public Library
Read the rest of this post...2015 Holiday Open House – December 5/6
Come join Cristina at her Holiday Open House! Saturday, December 5 from noon to 8pm and Sunday, December 6 from noon to 6pm. Visit Hajosy Arts for unique holiday gifts, artist’s books, fine art prints and photography, and an intimate look at the art education and creativity that she shares. Gift certificates for private instruction, art playdates, and group classes available! Open House discounts on upcoming art workshops for the Winter term. Learn more about what Cristina teaches, the techniques and projects that are covered, and how to harness more creativity in your art practice and life.
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Artist’s Books – Flag Books – November 11, 2015
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. Is it some type of struggle, or perhaps a union? Viewers enjoy the visual movement and performative qualities of flag books. They beg the viewer to play and to keep interacting with the artwork. There so many approaches to content. Excellent for creative poetry, wish lists, sweet nothings, photographs, abstract designs, and more!
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Japanese Puncture Artist’s Books – Sunday, August 23, 2015
This all-day workshop will explore another beloved book structure, the Japanese Puncture binding. It’s also referred to as a “stab” binding, but I prefer the more formal and elegant title. This technique is especially useful because it joins individual sheets. The sheets can be edited and sequenced by the artist, then bound, resequenced and bound again, and again – verses filling a bound book. A little freedom can spark creativity. This is my favorite artist’s book for visual journals, print collections, photo albums, signature books, and upscale scrapbooking. Private Bookmaking Workshop – Japanese Puncture Artist’s Books – Sunday, August 23, 2015 from 10am to 4pm
Read the rest of this post...Date Change! Private Workshop – Paper Marbling Projects – Sunday, August 30, 2015
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.
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