Event Info
Course Code: 24FBB001I
This 4 day, in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Mondays, November 18th–December 9th, 2024 from 11:00AM to 2:45PM.
- Monday, November 18th, 11:00am–2:45pm
- Monday, November 25th, 11:00am–2:45pm
- Monday, December 2nd, 11:o0am–2:45pm
- Monday, December 9th, 11:00am–2:45pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on November 15th, 2024 at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This in-person workshop is taught by CBA instructor María Verónica San Martín.
This workshop will explore both the conceptualization and making process for developing artist’s books. The workshop begins with a contextual lesson on the book as an art medium, allowing students to draw inspiration for their own projects from published artists’ books. Then students will learn two binding structures—dos-a-dos and flag book—that they can choose between for their respective projects.
Subsequent lessons will cover printmaking topics like creating images by monoprint, woodcut, or collage techniques. At the end of the course, each participant will have created their own artist’s book. The class will conclude with a final critique and discussion of each student’s piece. This workshop is designed for all experience levels, though some previous book arts knowledge or experience is helpful.
Fun Fact: Artist have been creating experimental book forms full of beautiful and daring illustrations for centuries, however, contemporary artist books gained traction during the avant-garde period of the 1960s, with artists such as Dieter Roth and Ed Ruscha.
About Maria Veronica San Martin
Maria Veronica San Martin (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and printmaker working with archives, artist books, and performance art. She is a Whitney Museum ISP fellow artist, a board member of Booklyn Art and teaches at Parsons, The New School (NY), Mixteca (NY), Penland School of Craft (NC), and Miami University (OH). She has received two New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grants, three Chilean government grants, and a Sustainable Arts grant. Maria has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, with four solo exhibitions in 2023, a commission for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a recent performance at Lincoln Center, a public artwork at Rockefeller Center, and a participation at New York Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work is part of more than 80 collections highlighting the MET, the Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Center and the Museum Meermanno
San Martín is currently exhibiting at the Polygraphic Triennial of Puerto Rico, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Governors Island in the US, the National Center for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Memory in Chile, while preparing her next solo show in New York and Spain, continue printing series “Moving Memorials” composed of 203 artist books and working for her next workshops at the MET with New Latin Wave.
All images courtesy of the instructor.
Class size is limited to 12 participants to ensure an optimal participant to Instructor ratio. Register now before spots fill up! Registration for this workshop closes on November 15 at 11:59pm. Tuition for this course is $525 + a $25 materials fee. If you cannot comfortably pay tuition but are interested in taking this class, please consider filling out our financial assistance application here. We will notify you if you are selected to receive a scholarship before the start date of the class. To view more information about our current scholarship opportunities, please visit this link.
