Slipcases
Course Code: 25MBM202I
This one-day, in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Saturday, June 28th, from 11AM to 5PM ET.
- Saturday, June 28th, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on June 21st, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This in-person class at Center for Book Arts is taught by instructor María Verónica San Martín.
Do you have a favorite book, or set of books, that deserve a beautiful protective slipcase? In this course, students will create a custom cloth-covered slipcase for a book. Students will learn to measure to fit their book, line boards, assemble and cover a four-sided lined slipcase to house a book. We will talk about decorative options and ways to personalize the project. No binding experience necessary.
Required Materials:
- Olfa Snap-off Blade Utility Knife
- Bone folder
- sharp pencil and eraser
- Recommended: a teflon folder
- Small metal triangle
- glue brushes
- Participants should also bring one hardback book of their own to classroom create a slip case for it – no larger than 11” x 15 in any dimension”
All other materials will be provided by Center for Book Arts at no additional cost.
About María Verónica San Martín
María Verónica San Martín (she/her), born in Chile in 1981, is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, printmaker, and educator. A Whitney Museum ISP fellow, she is part-time faculty at Parsons, The New School, and an instructor at the Center for Book Arts and Mixteca. San Martín has also been a visiting professor at Miami University (OH), an instructor at Penland School of Craft (NC), and has led workshops at The MET, Bard College, Trinity College, Veralist, Interference Archive, and The Weeksville Heritage Center. She is a board member of Booklyn, an artist collective and nonprofit.
San Martín’s work engages with the cultural impacts of history, memory, and trauma through archives, artist books, installations, sculptures, and performances. Her work is held in over 80 collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pompidou Center, the Walker Art Center, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Whitney Museum, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, and the Contemporary Art Center, both in Chile.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally at The Print Center, Philadelphia; Goethe Institute, Montreal; Un Lugar, Madrid; Fordham University, New York; Trinity College, Connecticut; NAC Gallery, Santiago, Chile; Museum Meermanno, The Hague, Netherlands; Animal Gallery, Santiago, Chile; Center for Book Arts, New York; National Archive of Chile, Santiago, Chile; BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, New York; Cultural Center of Antofagasta, Chile; and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. Her work has also been featured at the Triennial of Poli/Grafica de Puerto Rico: Latin America and the Caribbean; Lincoln Center, New York; Public Art at Rockefeller Center in collaboration with the Climate Museum, New York; the LA Art Fair with the Museum of the Americas, California; the Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York; the International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. San Martin has received four times the Fondart Chilean Government grants; a Sustainable Arts Grant; two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. San Martin has been performing and talking about her projects “Moving Memorials,” “Dignidad,” and “The Javelin Project,” in museums, public spaces, and cultural centers since 2016.
All images courtesy of the instructor.