Event Info
This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on February 13 – 27, 2024 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
- Tuesday, February 13, 6:00 – 8:00pm
- Tuesday, February 20, 6:00 – 8:00pm
- Tuesday, February 27, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on February 6th, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This virtual workshop is taught by CBA instructor Ellen Sheffield.
Learn how to generate text for artists’ books using conceptual techniques including “text as image,” “text as narrative,” and “text as lyrical expression.” Enjoy experimentation with typographic systems, text itineraries, as well as Dada and Surrealist approaches.
Your instructor will demonstrate various artistic methods for rendering text like mark making, transfers, stencils, stamps, and rub-on type. Parcitipants will have the chance to apply these techniques in a simple accordion-structured book of their own making. No previous book making experience required.
Required Materials:
- 3 x 5 notecards
- Sketchbook or copy paper
- Writing implements
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Old magazines and newspapers for collage
About Ellen Sheffield
Ellen Sheffield is a visual artist, poet and teacher based in Gambier, Ohio and Point Richmond, California. Her works on paper and artist’s books play with image and text intersections to create unexpected readings. Collaborations with poets, experiments with found text and working with visual scores are some of the ways she engages with themes of race, place, memory and language perception. She is an Emeriti Instructor of Art having taught Book Arts and related courses at Kenyon College’s Art Department and she continues to teach virtual workshops for arts centers around the country. Her artist’s books have been collected by the Beinecke Library Yale University, Scripps College, Rhode Island School of Design, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and others.
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 February 6th at 11:59pm. The registration fee for this class is $130. This class will be recorded and the recording will be viewable for up to 30 days after the class.