Event Info
Course Code: 25SPV003V
This four-day, virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Wednesdays, April 16th – May 7th from 10:00AM —12:00PM ET.
- Wednesday, April 16th, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
- Wednesday, April 23rd, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
- Wednesday, April 30th, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
- Wednesday, May 7th, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on April 2nd, at 11:59 PM ET.
About the Workshop:
In this virtual workshop for all experience levels, Instructor Shirin Salehi invites the participants to reflect on the poetics of the hidden in the conception of an Artist’s book project, raising questions on how we connect to the notion of the unseen, the silent and the subtleties of language in our current visually overexposed times.
Salehi will offer a curated selection of case studies for the group to discuss and draw multiple lines and connections through poetical thinking. All students are encouraged to actively participate in discussions throughout the workshop. Though conceptual discussion is the basis of the class’s structure, the instructor will guide each participant on their ideas and intuitions in order to create the initial structure of a personal book art project.
The course is open to artists, poets, thinkers, and all creative individuals interested in participating in critique and theoretical discussions related to book arts and artworks with a specific emphasis on bookness.
Required Materials:
No materials or tools are needed in advance of the course. The Instructor will help each participant identify what they need based on their respective projects.
About Shirin Salehi
Shirin Salehi (she/her) is a Spanish-Iranian visual artist, art researcher, and teacher living and working in Madrid and New York.
Shirin Salehi’s practice explores the relationships between thinking and making in the language of printmaking, exploring a register that usually focuses on the reproduced image to explore the dialectic between the concepts of time, memory, matter, and gesture of inscription. She investigates the expansion of printmaking from its grammar to other territories of interdisciplinary exploration working with sculpture, video, still images, and artist’s books. From the relationship between her two cultures emerges her interest in the tensions in the illegible image, the failed translation, and the veiled.
In parallel to her work as an artist, she is also an art teacher, a translator of Persian poetry, and an interpreter for asylum seekers. She has developed workshops on artist’s books and artistic thinking in multiple centers. She has taught at the Center for Book Arts in New York and at the LENS School of Cinema and Photography. In 2021 she was invited by the Foundation Amigos del Museo del Prado as a lecturer for the program Enfoques.
All images courtesy of the instructor.
Class size is limited to ensure an optimal participant to instructor ratio. Register now before spots fill up! Registration for this workshop closes on April 2nd at 11:59pm. The price of this class is $185. This class will be recorded and the recording will be viewable for up to 30 days after the class. 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.