Book Art Critique Workshop
Event Info
This four-week, virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Wednesdays, November 8 –December 13, 2023 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
- Wednesday, November 8, 1–1:30pm (half-hour introductory session)
- Wednesday, November 29, 1–3pm
- Wednesday, December 6, 1–3pm
- Wednesday, December 13, 1–3pm
- + A 20-minute one-on-one Zoom session with the Instructor
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on November 1st, 2023 at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This virtual workshop with Center for Book Arts founder Richard Minsky presents a methodology for book art self-critique, curatorial selection, and criticism based on the balance of material, image, and metaphor. Several other critical methodologies for book art are explored, including haptic, metadata, and activist.
Each participant brings a work for discussion: artists should bring their own works. Curators, librarians, critics, collectors, and dealers can bring whatever work they would like to discuss.
Each participant will schedule a private Zoom session with Richard in advance of their presentation to the group.
Required Materials:
- A reading list will be sent to participants before the start of this workshop.
- Participants should bring a work of book art to present in the critique group. In-process works are welcome to be presented.
About Richard Minsky
Richard Minsky is an American scholar of bookbinding and a book artist. He is the founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City.
Minsky was born in New York City in 1947. In 1960, Minsky obtained his first printing press at the age of 13. In 1968, he graduated cum laude in economics from Brooklyn College. Minsky was awarded a fellowship at Brown University, where he received his master’s degree in economics. He pursued a Ph.D. at The New School for Social Research, but left after two years to pursue bookbinding, art and music. He studied bookbinding while at Brown with the University’s master binder Daniel Gibson Knowlton.
He founded the Center for Book Arts in 1974 after fourteen years experience as both a bookbinder and printer. Minsky served as the Center’s Executive Director until 1977 and its President until 1978. He also served as the Director of Program Development and an instructor in hand bookbinding at the Center. Richard serves on the Book Art Theory subcommittee of the College Book Art Association. The Richard Minsky Archive is at Yale.
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 November 1st at 11:59pm. Tuition for this workshop is $140, and the first session will be a half-hour introductory session.
