Event Info
Course Code: 24FPT104V
This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Wednesday, October 16th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
- Wednesday, October 16th, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on October 9th, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This one-day, virtual workshop is taught by instructor Sheryl Oppenheim.
Suminagashi (translation: spilled or floating ink) is a style of marbling that originated in Japan by the year 1100. It is the oldest form of marbling and is just done with water and ink!
Participants will learn about the history of suminagashi marbling and look at examples of work by contemporary work and practitioners. After learning about materials and how to prepare them, you will learn a variety of techniques as you practice suminagashi, experimenting with different paper and methods.
Students will come away with marbled paper of their own as well as a newfound knowledge of the suminagashi technique. No previous experience required!
Required Materials:
This class requires a variety of specialty materials. A full list of materials will be shared with you upon registration.
Please contact education@centerforbookarts.org with any questions on materials for this workshop.
About Sheryl Oppenheim
Sheryl Oppenheim was born in 1983 and raised in Orlando, Florida. She is a painter, paper marbler, and maker of illegible books, an idea she first became interested in after seeing the work of Bruno Munari, and through her proximity to books, bookbinders, and marbled paper at her first job in New York, at a bookbinding supply house.
She began marbling paper in 2011 and began learning Suminagashi in 2016. Her artist books and prints are included in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
She has participated in recent exhibitions at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Sadie Halie Projects, Deanna Evans Projects, International Print Center New York, Small Editions, and the Cranbrook Museum of Art. Oppenheim received her BA from Brandeis University and her MFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. She lives and works in New York City.
All images courtesy of the instructor.
In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. The amount you choose to pay goes directly toward our instructors and toward creating scholarship opportunities for the future. Please note that this class will not be recorded so please be sure to come to the live session for this one.
