August 28 & 29, 2010
Saturday & Sunday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch break)

Instructor: Frank Brannon
$203 + $20 materials fee

Weekend papermaking classes for the novice and those with some previous experience. You’ll learn techniques for forming sheets of handmade paper using pulp prepared in our Reina beater. The distinctive quality of handmade paper inspires many uses. We’ll look at examples of how handmade papers are used in artwork, book arts, printmaking, cards and envelopes. This is a hands-on weekend geared to familiarizing you with our new papermaking facility.

Please bring the following items:

• Plastic apron if you have one, and wear rubber-soled shoes and clothes you don’t mind getting wet

August 21 & 22, 2010
Saturday & Sunday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch break)
AND August 23, 2010
Monday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Instructor: Larry Lou Foster
$273 + materials fee $40

The Pocket Diary is modeled after mid-19th century books and the Pocket Photo Album is a copy of those from the 1870’s. The simplicity of a case binding combined with complex details such as a tongue and strap closure, gusseted and plain pockets, and 100% rag hand- ruled paper result in an elegant, useful and unusual book. The Photo Album with tongue and strap closure, has room for 12 small photographs. This class is the culmination of years of research and studio hours spent building models and perfecting the book structure from actual historical examples.

August 18 & 19, 2010
Wednesday & Thursday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch break)

Instructor: Larry Lou Foster
$223 + materials fee $40
Material fee includes: Tools, Paper, Wheat Paste, PVA, Powdered pigments, Printmaking block.

Larry Lou Foster is a modern master of the traditional paste paper art form. In this class Ms. Foster will demonstrate traditional combed and pulled patterns as well as contemporary variations of the same, making “block printed” papers, using ‘pattern jigs’ for editions and finishing papers. Explanations of patterns, techniques, tools and materials will be covered. Ms. Foster encourages creative thinking about edition work as well as ‘one-of-a-kind.’’

Please bring the following items:

• 4 bowls with 4 plastic bags large enough to put bowls into
• 1 large spoon
• 4 small sponges
• 1 spray bottle or atomizer for water
• 1-pint wide mouth canning jar or similar straight sided jar with top
• 1 plastic bucket, gallon size
• rags for clean-up
• (optional) Any scraps of good paper, any size, that is strong when wet (Arches, Bugra, Bryon Weston, Mohawk)
• (optional) Any acrylic, casein, gouache paints or any powdered pigment you may want to use in addition to the colors provided
• (optional) 1 3/8” x 36” dowel rod

August 11, 18, 25 and September 1, 8, 15, 2010
Wednesdays: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Limited to 6 students.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Handset Letterpress Printing (Letterpress1) and one letterpress class focused on image making, or equivalent experience or classes in printing.

Instructor: Jessica White
$253. (Includes a $25 studio fees to cover inks, solvents and other expendable supplies needed for printing and contributes to the on-going upkeep of the presses and paper cutters.)

In this class we will integrate text, image, and the book structure into one project while increasing participants’ familiarity and experience with letterpress printing. Building on technical printing knowledge, students will explore the concept of the whole book: how choices made about content and form affect the process as well as the finished object. Classes will include demos as well as discussions about project planning, design principles, materiality of letterpress prints, and time-based reading inherent to book structures. Each student will design and produce a book using text, image, and structure of their choosing.

Please bring the following items:

• Pencil
• Notebook
• Project ideas/text/images