Paper Decoration Intensive: Part 2-Paste Paper
Event Info
This in-person workshop takes place at CBA on February 24–25, 2024 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
- Saturday, February 24, 10:00am–4:00pm
- Sunday, February 25, 10:00am–4:00pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on February 11th, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This in-person workshop is taught by Ana Cordeiro.
Paste paper is one of the oldest and most versatile paper decoration techniques. Paste papers can be seen through the history of books as cover wrappers, end papers, and box liners. By dragging, combing, and manipulating the surface of the wet sheet, artists have made a variety of complex, 3-d looking patterns for use in bookbinding projects. Participants in this workshop will learn how to properly prepare the paste mixture to achieve the classic paste paper look so that they can make their own paste papers from their own home. Instructor Cordeiro will demonstrate several of the core pattern making techniques and give participants the opportunity to develop some of their own techniques.
Participants will also learn how to create similar patterns using frittage and found patterns and textures and gampi layering, and finally, you’ll work with CBA’s hot stamping machines to learn how to emboss text and ornaments on your final creations. Make a variety of decorative papers to use in your next bookbinding project!
Required Materials:
All materials provided by CBA.
About Ana Cordeiro
Ana Paula Cordeiro makes books by hand, photographs with film, prints from lead type, and writes either sparingly or profusely on unbound folios, which she then proceeds to bind into volumes. In 2018 she co-organized the multi-media installation Introspective Collective. In 2019 she contributed to a book publication about bookmaking called Bookforms. And in 2020 she was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and an Honorable Mention at the International Human Rights Arts Festival Creators of Justice Award for her essay Citizen. This fall, she had an interview published by The Interior Beauty Salon. Originally from Brazil, she is based in New York and does all her work at The Center for Book Arts communal shop. Her artist books are collected privately and institutionally.
