June 7 – 11, 2010
Monday – Friday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (1-hour lunch break)

Instructor: Jean Buescher Bartlett
$445 + $35 materials fee

Since workshops are essentially collectives, we will take advantage of the possibilities for joint improvisation and serendipity, like jazz musicians jamming.  Students will be encouraged and guided to work in a freely associative and nonlinear fashion on a book (or books) firmly grounded in tradition.  Our approach will be from the inside out, beginning with contents and then developing structures around them.  Some of the techniques that we will investigate in this process-oriented class are: listing, free association writing, materials’ investigation, directed research, mirroring exercises, and book part deconstruction.

Please bring the following items:

• prismacolor white PC938 pencil
• mechanical pencil
• white eraser
• 6-18″ metal ruler
• 4-6″ plastic triangle
• glue brush
• exacto knife and extra blades
• small self-healing cutting mat
• small sharp scissors
• bone folders
• clay needle tool or slender pointed awl
• paper knife or letter opener
• thin or light weight collage materials: decorative and text papers, photos, old prints and drawings, etc.

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