Shawn Sheehy combines paper engineering with an interest in biology and cultural evolution to produce sculptural pop-up books. Shawn has taught workshops at PBI, Penland, the Centers for Book Arts in Chicago and New York, and many other venues across the U.S. His commercial pop-up clients include the American Greetings, PeeWee Herman and Vintage Magazine.
Visit Shawn at shawnsheehy.com.
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April 27-29, 2012
Friday – Sunday: 10am – 5pm (1 hour lunch break)
Instructor: Jessica C. White
Class fee: $346 (includes a $25 materials fee for inks, solvents and other expendable supplies needed for printing and contributes to the on-going upkeep of the presses and paper cutters.)
Prerequisite: Introduction to Letterpress Printing
Description: The goal of this class is to introduce the basic principles of typography and to implement them in a class book project. We will cover practical design choices including how to choose the right typeface, leading, word spacing and kerning. We will also explore the concept of the whole book: how choices made about content and form affect the process as well as the finished object. This class will include a quick introduction to InDesign and how to prepare files for making photopolymer plates. Each student will design and print one page of a class book project that will serve as a sampler for future book projects.
Please bring the following items to the first class:
Sandy Webster is an artist currently working in mixed media. She received her BFA with honors from Western Carolina University and her MFA from Vermont College. Her works have been shown in the US and internationally in solo and invitational exhibitions. She has been published in Fiberarts Design Books 1V, V, VI, several Lark/Sterling Publications as well as Handwoven, Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, and Textile Fibre Forum, Cloth, Paper, Scissors. Sandy has taught, lectured and juried throughout the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
For further information see her website at www.sandywebster.com
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October 20, 2011, Thursday, 7 – 9 PM
These two-hour orientations are geared for the person who has a curiosity for the world of Book Arts. What exactly is bookbinding, printmaking, hand papermaking and letterpress printing? Join us to learn about the basic areas of Book Arts and the types of work that we do through discussion and demonstrations. $15/session!
October 8th & 9th
Sat & Sun, 9:00 – 5:00
Heather Allen-Swarttouw, Instructor
$ 218 + materials fee $25 – $35, incense sticks, black and white gesso, India ink, papers, vellum, crayons, matches, Thiox and discharge cloth, iron, newsprint, miscellaneous supplies
The marks we make become a language, recording time, energy and narrative. Working with paper and cloth we will explore the beauty of marks and stitches made by hand and what they can symbolize and express. Using primarily black and white we will use additive, subtractive and repetitive processes to give marks meaning. Repetitive marks can convey a visual and physical pattern, a sense of language and of narrative. Scale, transparency, contrast and density will be expressed through marks created by painting and drawing, stitching, resisting, burning, and punching. Our samples will be collected into a personal book for reference and future exploration.
Please bring:
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