Arts for Humanity Pocket Books Workshop at Buellton Library

2022 Workshops

Due to the fluctuating nature of pandemic response, we are currently offer both online and in-person instruction. Please cheque back for updates to this page, including additional workshop offerings and any necessary cancellations.

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Relicensure points for educators are bachelor from the Utah State Lath of Didactics for all workshops. For more data: Email or call 801-585-6019.

In-Person Workshops

Letterpress Printing: Text + Image
Marnie Powers-Torrey & Emily Tipps

May 11–June 29
Wednesdays, v–8 pm

$340
REGISTER through Continuing Education

Get a handle on what it takes to crank out an edition of gorgeous letterpress prints. This active, eight-week class introduces the fundamentals of letterpress, from paper selection and cut to mixing ink and printing. Guided by the instructor, participants design and produce four individual projects using a variety of relief techniques and tools including metal and wood type, zinc cuts, linoleum blocks, pressure prints, photopolymer plates, and collagraphs. Students should expect to spend fourth dimension out of course each week to complete projects.

The Book Artist as Naturalist
Rebecca Chamlee

June 17–eighteen
Friday & Sat, ten am–5 pm
$200
Annals

For centuries, scientists, naturalists, and artists have preserved the ephemeral beauty of nature past press directly from forms found in the natural earth. This two-day workshop explores the botanical contact-printing process (eco-printing) to create images on paper with fresh and pressed plant materials. The first day, participants acquire botanical contact-press immersion techniques using dye baths on contrasted paper. On the 2nd solar day, the prints are used to create four not-adhesive books – a simple Jacob'southward Ladder, a reverse piano hinge structure, a multiple signature pamphlet and a 4-needle (retchōsō) Japanese volume with button and thread closure.

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Rebecca Chamlee is a self-taught naturalist and volume creative person who has published letterpress printed, limited-edition fine press and creative person's books under the imprint of Pie In The Sky Press since 1986. Her laurels-winning work is in prominent special and private collections throughout the U.S. and has been exhibited widely. Rebecca is an acquaintance professor at Otis College of Fine art and Design in Los Angeles where she teaches bookbinding, letterpress press, and artists' book classes and heads the Book Arts Minor program. She also holds workshops at her studio and book arts centers throughout the country.

Stretch & Sketch(volume)
Jazmin Gallegos

June xi
Saturday, 10 am–12 pm
$45
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Past combining thoughtful motion and bookbinding, instructor Jazmin Gallegos facilitates calm for both body and heed. Take part in a brief yoga session so move to the Volume Arts Studio for some bookmaking magic. Each participant walks away with a visual journal where meditative practices tin continue to grow. All materials and art media are provided—but bring a yoga mat and wear comfy clothes.

Responsive + Interpretive Narratives on the Risograph
Tricia Treacy

July 29–thirty
Fri & Saturday, 10 am–5 pm
$190
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In this workshop, participants experience accelerated collaborations through brief, brainstorming sessions and use of the Risograph as a generative tool for making. The ideation process begins with interpreting a story from audio samples and continues with prompts that allow participants to accidentally recreate/rethink/mash-upwardly stories. These audio stories and a shared reserve of establish images serve as catalysts for pocket-sized groups to visualize an intersection of the narratives and develop two-page spreads for inclusion in the commonage booklet. Each participant leaves with a copy or 2 of the editioned book-work and the skills to print on the spectacular Risograph. (Letterpress press may also be used as a tool in this workshop.)

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Tricia Treacy's exercise is often collaborative and a alloy of text-based media, artist books, design, installation, and/or print media. Processes of exploration, collaboration, and affinity with unique methods and protocols can be the content or the goad of her practice. She has initiated international collaborations that have resulted in publications, collaborated on a range of print based media, and presented creative inquiry at international venues. Tricia was awarded fellowships/grants from the American Academy in Rome, DesignInquiry and the Center for Craft, Inventiveness and Blueprint. Tricia is an Associate Professor in Studio Art at Dartmouth College and received her MFA in Printmaking/Book Arts from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Mokuhanga: H2o-Based Woodblock Press
Katie Baldwin

August 5–6
Friday, 10 am–half-dozen pm, Saturday 12–half-dozen pm
$200
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Learn how to achieve multiple colors in a woodblock image with perfect registration through the traditional technique of Japanese woodblock printing. This workshop is an introduction to the printing process mokuhanga, which uses water-based pigments (or sumi ink), a kento registration method, and hand printing with a baren. Teaching covers tools, materials, the carving sequence, and printing methods associated with this process. All participants take the opportunity to carve and impress a 2-colour image. Ane of the wonderful aspects of this procedure is that it does not require a printing, or a big workspace!

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Born in the Pacific Northwest, Katie Baldwin earned a BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and an MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Baldwin is a 2021 Fulbright Scholar conducting research at the International Print Center in Taipei, Taiwan. Her artist books and prints are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and Yale Academy, New Haven, CT; among others, and has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She is an Acquaintance Professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville where she teaches printmaking.

Family Bookmaking: Gather & Connect
Jazmin Gallegos

Baronial 20
Saturday, ten–11:30 am
$twoscore
Annals FOR IN-PERSON SESSION
REGISTER FOR VIRTUAL SESSION

Alive in-person session with the option to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual participants will receive a link and a materials kit prior to the workshop. To ensure time for shipping of materials kits, virtual participants should register a minimum of two weeks prior to the session. Recording will be available for thirty days after the session.

Children half dozen- to eighteen-years-one-time are welcome to bring an adult friend or family unit fellow member to explore bookmaking through the lens of a naturalist. Each pair of bookmakers receives 2 kits of materials and tin bring together us in-person or virtually. Each child and adult creates both a folded volume form with pockets for found materials and a sewn book fabricated of recycled materials to document findings in the wild. The workshop will also encompass simple postage-making and embellishments. After the workshop, head exterior to observe, collect, and connect with the natural earth that awaits!

Risograph Training

October 22nd
Session ane: Sabbatum, x-11:30 am
Session 2: Saturday, 12-i:30 pm
$15
Annals FOR SESSION one
Annals FOR SESSION 2

What is a risograph duplicator, and why is information technology suddenly all the rage? The Riso is a Japanese stencil duplicator that blends the functionality of photocopying with the artistry of screenprinting. In this training, participants learn the requisite skills and best practices for risograph printing by printing a previously designed project. After completing the workshop, participants are invited to apply for contained studio apply, and for a fee of $5/half hour, approved applicants are eligible to use the Riso for their ain projects.

Virtual Sessions

A Picture is I Thousand Words: Textual Portraits
Leslie Nichols

July xiv
Thursday, half dozen–7 pm MDT
Free
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Creative person talk followed by a cursory Q&A session, live via Zoom

Join Leslie Nichols to learn nigh her procedure for creating Textual Portraits. In this series, Leslie types words from classic texts to compose images of gimmicky women. These images visualize the historical context of women'southward lives and convey a sense of social heritage. In this presentation, she will introduce the Textual Portrait serial and share her methods of using the typewriter to create this piece of work.

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Leslie Nichols is an American artist known for her works created on manual typewriters which are featured in Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology and The Art of Typewriting. Her get-go experiments in letterpress were supported past an NEA Studio Residency Grant from the Women's Studio Workshop. Her piece of work has been recognized with boosted grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, AAUW, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Dandy Meadows Foundation. Selected collections that feature her work include Yale University, the Library of Congress, and the Sackner Annal of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Her studio is in Bowling Dark-green, Kentucky where she teaches at Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College.

Family Bookmaking: Get together & Connect
Jazmin Gallegos

Baronial 20
Sabbatum, 10–11:30 am
$40
REGISTER FOR IN-PERSON SESSION
REGISTER FOR VIRTUAL SESSION

Live in-person session with the option to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual participants volition receive a link and a materials kit prior to the workshop. To ensure fourth dimension for shipping of materials kits, virtual participants should register a minimum of two weeks prior to the session. Recording will exist available for xxx days subsequently the session.

Children six- to eighteen-years-sometime are welcome to bring an adult friend or family unit fellow member to explore bookmaking through the lens of a naturalist. Each pair of bookmakers receives two kits of materials and can join usa in-person or well-nigh. Each child and adult creates both a folded book form with pockets for found materials and a sewn book made of recycled materials to certificate findings in the wild. The workshop will besides embrace simple stamp-making and embellishments. After the workshop, head exterior to observe, collect, and connect with the natural world that awaits!

Your Place, Your Pace:
Bookmaking Sessions

Join u.s.a. for Your Identify, Your Step, a selection of pre-recorded workshops designed with your convenience in mind. Savor bookmaking from the comfort and privacy of your own home. Each session focuses on a different bookmaking technique and tin be completed in one sitting or at your ain pace. Take i, or take them all! Participants receive recording links and a materials kit, and are invited to inquire questions via e-mail. Availability is express—don't miss out!

All workshops are pre-recorded, virtual workshops. Participants receive recording links and materials kit. (An additional $25 will be billed for international shipping.)

Piano accordion Variations, session 1
Marnie Powers-Torrey

$35, materials kit & aircraft included
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The get-go session begins with two basic accordions, introduces a hinged-console accordion equanimous of pairs of boards, and then concludes with Hedi Kyle's honey flag book. This video sequence covers bones tips to building well-aligned accordions, which tin be trickier than the simple-looking form suggests. List of required tools.

Accordion Variations, session 2
Marnie Powers-Torrey

$35, materials kit & shipping included
Annals

The accordion is a basic book form that tin can be adapted in many creative means. The second session explores some options: a concertina with pockets, the retreating squeeze box, a three-tiered piano accordion, and a paper slipcase to house the set of books. The slipcase is flexible and tin can accommodate books from both sessions, if desired. List of required tools.

Endbands: Recipes and Techniques
Emily Tipps 

$40 materials kit & aircraft included
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Practise yous want your books to be a little more than gourmet? Endbands contribute to the structure and visual presentation of a book. In this workshop, participants learn to make a variety of these sewn (and stuck-on) beauties. The BAP provides the ingredients and recipes; participants only need a sense of taste for the details and the want to sample something new! This session covers half-dozen endband styles, which participants run up onto instructional "recipe cards" for easy future reference. List of required tools.

The Clamshell Box: A Safe Place for Books
Emily Tipps 

$65, materials kit & shipping included
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When non existence read, a book actually just wants to be left alone in a safe place. The clamshell box is an platonic enclosure to keep books protected from grit, h2o, and light damage, as well as the general wear and tear of life on the shelf. Each participant in this workshop constructs a model clamshell box of a set size. Instruction includes basic strategies for measuring objects and cut materials for hereafter custom boxes. List of required tools.

Coptic Binding
Amy Thompson

$45, materials kit & shipping included
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In aboriginal Egypt, the Copts used this binding technique for hundreds of years. Notable for the concatenation links across the spine and sewn-on boards, the binding is very flexible and can open to 360º for display. List of required tools.

Long-Stitch with Leather
Amy Thompson

$50, materials kit & shipping included
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The elegant long-sew has been used for inventive artists' books and beautiful journals, but don't exist fooled past the apparent complication of this exposed-sewing bounden. Participants receive one set of materials, and the instructor shares examples with an assortment of thread, buttons, covers, and closures to ensure that the long-sew together never gets erstwhile. List of required tools.

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