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Recycling Our Stash with Rosie Kelly [cancelled!]
Saturday, May 30 & Sunday, May 31 2009, 9 a.m.-4:00
p.m.
Hudson's Bay High School, Vancouver, WA
$75 PSC Members $100 non-members ($25 membership
included: please include a completed membership
form when registering)
We all have a stash of stuff - under our beds, in our flat files, and/or strewn about our studios. Right? Here is an opportunity to give them new life. You will paste fragments from your stash papers onto Arches Text Wove paper in a single signature handmade book. While we are at it, we will be considering principles of design: contrast, harmony, gesture, repitition, texture.
To prepare for the workshop: make black/white copies of a collection of your marks, calligraphy, collage elements, class notes, practice sheets - whatever. Make copies on plain copy paper, size 8 1/2 x 11. You can probably get lots of the above on a single sheet. I suggest that you make 5 different collections of "stuff", copy them and bring them along for elements that will go into your book.
Supply List: 1 full sheet of Arches Text Wove - cut or torn in half, B/W photo copies on plain paper of collections from your stash (as described above), metal ruler, cutting mat, scissors, xacto knife, glue stick, embossing tool, removable tape (Scotch brand has this), black marker - such as fine point Sharpie, Zig - whatever you have: preferably pointed or round tip. Black or colored ink pad if you have it. We will do some freewheeling handwriting to use for collage and design elements in the book. Bring several sheets of plain copy paper for this exercise. If some of the things in your stash tell you they want to come out and play, bring them along. But remember this is a two day workshop...so some of your treasures may need to wait for your next book... Handouts will include a copy of an article, "Surrealist Book Game", by Diana Trout which appeared in Bound and Lettered. It was my inspiration for this workshop.
About the instructor: "Word Art" is Rosie's chosen art form to celebrate poetry, evoke the treasures in our unconscious mind and spark the creative muse in us. Her works have been shown in many books, she has taught in fifteen states, New Zealand and Japan and her work is exhibited in many galleries including the Newberry Library in Chicago where she received the 1995 "Purchase Prize."
