Fiber Arts as Book Arts: Fiber Book Forms
Event Info
This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on June 15, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Eastern Time.
- Saturday, June 15, 11:00am – 1:00pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on June 1, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
Participants in this workshop will learn how to use textile-specific materials to make several sample book covers and structures. Students will also make these sample book forms before experimenting on their own using these new materials and techniques.
This workshop will include an introduction to heavyweight and lightweight stabilizers (also called interfacing), a discussion of different kinds of fabrics (synthetic versus natural; protein fibers versus plant fibers; knit versus woven or non woven) and pros and cons to working with these. Participants in this workshop will use fusible interfacing to create a book cover, and will add embroidered works or images to this cover. You’ll also learn how to add inside pages to a fabric book and how to embroider on these pages using light-weight interfacing. If you’ve participated in the first session of this workshop series, you’ll use your naturally dyed fabric in your book, incorporating it in multiple ways, and you’ll discuss how to experiment with embroidery, bookmaking, and dyeing techniques to produce your next book project!
Required Materials:
- Fabric
- Embroidery needles & thread
- Scissors
- Fusible interfacing
About Iviva Olenick
Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn-based artist developing textiles from seed to fiber and dye and using textiles as texts. Her work has been exhibited all over the United States, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Design Atlanta; the Hunterdon Museum, NJ; Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, NYC; the Center for Book Arts, NYC; the Old Stone House, Brooklyn; Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn. Olenick is a faculty member of SVA’s MFA Art Practice program where she teaches Fibers. In addition, she gives artist talks and designs intensive textile-based workshops for museums and universities.
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 is part three in a series of four workshops focusing on incorporating fiber techniques into the book form. You may register for one, two, three, or all four sessions. You can sign up for Session 1: Natural Dying here, Session 2: Embroidery here, and Session 4: Kitchen Printing here. This class will be recorded and the recording will be viewable for up to 30 days after the class.
