April 27 – 28, 2013
Saturday and Sunday  10 – 5 pm

Instructor: Heather Allen Hietala
Cost:  $252 (including a $35 materials fee)
Sorry, this Workshop is full.

Description: This workshop will introduce the wonders and potential of working with steel wire and hog gut also known as sausage casing. Steel wire has linear elements and strength while the gut is sheer and skin like. They can be used to make three-dimensional forms separately or together in one piece to create magical translucent skins over a wire armature. The first day we will focus on exploring the inherent properties and potential each material has to offer. We will work the wire with hand tools to create forms that stand by themselves or as a skeleton or framework for the gut. Gut will be explored as a skin to create paper like sheets suitable for writing and even letterpress. Come explore these exciting materials.

The materials fee includes gut release papers, a variety of steel wire, vice, tools, jigs, pumice soap, vinegar, paint, steel wool, thread, inclusions, fabrics

Please bring the following items:

• up to date tetanus shot!
• journal for note taking and favorite writing implement
• work clothes or an apron as the still is dirty
• old cotton rag for wiping steel
• comfortable pliers 6” or so with a wire cutter
• small vice grips
• small wire cutters
• small pointed scissors
• safety glasses goggles
• needle tool, micro spatula or other sharp pointed metal tool
• 2 – 16 oz yogurt container with lid
• sponge
• small hand towel
• small enamel or plastic cafeteria tray
• thread and needles for embellishment
• favorite painting drawing tools
• odd bits of wire that you have collected
• odds ‘n ends of things to experiment with or use as inclusions, scraps of metal, seeds, string or other things to enclose in the gut

Jan 22, Feb 19, Mar 19, Apr 16, May 14, and Jun 18th
Tuesday 6:30 – 9:00 pm

Instructor: Heather Allen Hietala
Cost: $232  (no materials fee for the class)
(suggested that one has taken Keeping Creative Visual Journals)

Description: Drawing on the idea of a daily journal practice you will explore and expand your own personal artistic style. Often it is less daunting or intimidating to explore the development of new ideas and images in the smaller format and repetitive nature of a journal. This class works uses specific parameters and the student’s established journal practice in a non-verbal, purely visual practice. By developing and maintaining a non-linear journal over 6 months we will explore how journals can lead to exciting artistic discoveries and insight. Having taken Keeping Creative Visual Journal can be helpful but not necessary.

Supply list:

• bring 3-5 actual pieces of your work, to introduce yourself to the first class
• current journal
• any blank journals/ sketchbooks lying around = potential journals
• favorite journal writing implement
• glue stick
• scissors
• anything that you naturally use to doodle, sketch or design such as
• favorite pens/pencils/colored pencils
• watercolors and brush
• markers/pastels
• stamp and stamp pads
• collage materials
• thread and needles
• hole punches

April 20 & 21, 2013
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am -5 pm

Instructors: Eleanor Annand and Beth Schaible
Cost: $237 (including a $20 materials fee)

Description: Have you ever wanted to recreate embellished type or bring your own quirky hand drawn type to life? If so this workshop will teach you the skills you need to design, carve, and print your own type designs.  As a class we will take on the challenge of creating our own hand carved alphabet. Through this process we will cover a brief history and anatomy of typography, technique for drawing type, transferring designs to a block (wood or linoleum), carving techniques, printing on a Vandercook , two color registration and all the fun stuff that happens in between. Come ready to explore the vast world of typography.

Supplies to bring:

• 2 – 5”x7” linoleum block mounted
• 2 – 5”x7”x3/4” wood blocks
• Speedball Carving Tools
• Exacto Knife
• Sketchbook
• Pencils
• Fine tip sharpie
• Inspiration (favorite typography books…)

Supplies provided:

• 500 sheets 8.5×11 80# stark white  French Paper
• carbon paper
• tracing paper
• special exacto blade (will find out number)

April 12 – 14, 2013
Friday – Sunday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Recommended Letterpress Printing l and ll or equivalent.

Instructor: Laurie Corral
$347  (includes a $25 studio fee for inks, solvents and other supplies needed for printing)

Description: Letterpress III focuses upon the printing press itself: roller height adjustment, tympan packing, inking and general maintenance. Through a small printing project, participants will first re-familiarize themselves with the process of letterpress printing, and then we will look at the press in detail. Troubleshooting in printing related to the press will be covered with the goal of each participant ready to work independently in the letterpress studio.

Please bring the following items:

• Ideas and printing paper to complete a brief 2-D work

March 20, 27 & April 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013
Wednesday evenings, 6-9 pm  (6 weeks)

Instructor: Annie Cicale
Cost: $277

Description: Book artists are usually concerned with the relationship of word and image in their work. Learning the basics of typography and page design are essential to elevating the book from a dashed off  to a piece where the design supports the concept. We will work with your handwriting to develop expressive textures, hand lettering with a slowed down print script, and if desired, some formal calligraphy. The basics of typography will be reviewed, and some of these can be used to make polymer plates for editions of a book. Page design will be introduced as well, with analyses of various grid systems in their historical context as well as in contemporary design. We’ll put all this together with broadsides or books, one-offs or editions, and discuss how the design of the textural parts of your work can be used to support your ideas.