Event Info
Course Code: 24FPV100V
This one-day, virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 from 1:00 pm–3:30 pm.
- Wednesday, December 11th, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on December 4th, 2024 at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This online class is taught by instructor Maria G. Pisano. The accordion book structure is a flexible form that can be adapted to many book themes, and one is the Altered Page Book.
A blank page holds a lot of potential, one can alter it via folding, cutting, collaging, adding and subtracting parts, and more. Learn about sequencing, layering and folding to arrive at your pages. These in turn will be assembled to become part of an accordion book you have created with your unique designs.
Do you acquire and save ephemera in your travels and daily life, do you have lots of beautiful papers and scraps that you saved for a special project, any old prints that you want to repurpose? We will use all your stored riches to collage the pages and create a new book work to store them in.
Required Materials:
- Basic bookbinding kit
- collage materials such as decorated pages, your own or purchased, handmade papers, paste papers, ephemera, old print proofs, etc
- Cover weight/cardstock (65lb) paper for covers, spine and pages
- Multicolor, light for pages and darker for covers and spine
- Covers and Spine – 3 pages – each 8.5 x 11
- Pages – 4 or more also measuring 8.5 x 11
About Maria G. Pisano
Maria G. Pisano (she/her) is a book artist, printmaker, curator and educator. Memory Press works are represented in The Library of Congress, 9-11 Memorial Museum, National Library of Medicine, Columbia University, NY Public Library and many more. Currently her book Caudex Folium is in the exhibit “Towers Rising“, at the 9-11 Memorial Museum in NYC, and in 2022 her work was in “And Yet We Rise: A Retrospect of the Days and Times Surrounding 9/11″ at the American Consulate in London. She has curated a number exhibits including Book as Witness: The Artist’s Response at CBA in NYC and Crossroads: Book Artists’ Impassioned Responses to Immigration, Human Rights and Our Environment, at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, NJ. Ms. Pisano contributes to book arts publications and has presented lectures at the Library of Congress, College Book Arts Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America. Her article “Mark To Impress” was published in California Society of Printmakers and The Blue Notebook in the UK. She continuously gives workshops nationally and internationally, at her studio, libraries and institutions such as Bridwell Library, TX, CBBAG and Center for Book Arts in NYC.
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. This class will be recorded and the recording will be viewable for up to 30 days after the class.
