WorkshopsDesignWayfaring: Artists’ Book as Landscape (Spring 2024)

Wayfaring: Artists’ Book as Landscape (Spring 2024)

This in-person workshop takes place at CBA on April 20, 2024 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Saturday, April 20, 10:00am – 4:00pm

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on April 13th, at 11:59 pm.

About the Workshop:

This in-person workshop is taught by CBA instructor Sarah Nicholls.

Artist Books are renowned as places to commemorate, preserve, and collect. How can you preserve a physical landscape within the pages of a book? This workshop will use Central Park as its inspiration for how a book can represent a specific place.

By walking, talking, thinking, observing, and collecting, students will learn about ethical foraging, the dérive as a strategy for moving through an urban landscape, walking as a generative process, memory, mapping, and more. Students will then collaborate to produce a short softcover zine made from materials collected during the exploration through the park. No previous bookmaking experience required!

Fun Fact: The term “dérive” is French and is best described as an unplanned journey through a landscape, in which participants stop focusing on their everyday relations to their social environment, honing in on the natural world.

Required Materials:

Pencil and notebook
Sturdy shoes
Sense of adventure

There will be required reading before the class. More information will be emailed to you upon registration.

All other materials will be provided by CBA at no additional charge to the students.

About Sarah Nicholls

Sarah Nicholls is an artist, printmaker, and writer whose work combines language, image, visual narrative, and time. Her ongoing projects on climate change, urban ecology, and the history of science and technology include a series of letterpress pamphlets as well as participatory programs like guided urban/nature walks. Nicholls’ limited edition artist’s books are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, Columbia University, and Stanford, among others. Her work has received support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Brooklyn Arts Council, and the Puffin Foundation, and she has participated in residencies at BRIC House in Brooklyn, the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, and Guttenberg Arts in New Jersey. Nicholls teaches letterpress and book arts at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design in New York City as well as the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

All images courtesy of the instructor.