[Full] Generative Measures: Research & Writing for Artist’s Books with Ellen Sheffield (Online)

Schedule:  Jun 16, 23 & 30 2021 — 4pm - 6pm (PT); 
5pm - 7pm (MT); 6pm - 8pm (CT); 7pm - 9pm (ET); 

This workshop will focus on non-traditional approaches to developing original content for artist’s books. A wide range of research tools will first be demonstrated to jump start ideas for projects. From these research seeds participants will respond to writing prompts and engage in experimental creative writing techniques to grow these ideas into prototypes for artist’s books.

Processes will be taught for getting text onto the pages of simple folded book structures including alternative mark making, transfers, rub-on type, stencils and rubber stamps.

This workshop is for visual artists who want to expand their research and writing skills and for writers who want to explore the artist book as a time-based medium and go beyond their usual practices.

Location/Venue:  Online with San Francisco Center for the Book
For more info & pictures:  https://sfcb.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=4057  
Cost/Fee:  $150
Material/Studio fee:  

Their workshop calendar:  https://sfcb.org/workshops 

Instructor and bio:  Ellen Sheffield’s works on paper and artist’s books use text and image intersections to create unexpected readings. Her interest in the juxtaposition of visual language: materials; design; mark-making; and printing processes, with written language: essays: poetry; and hybrid writing, continues to motivate art/word collaborations with Lewis Hyde, Fanny Howe, and Andrew Grace among others. Recently Ellen’s work explores themes of race and class in her rural community informed by research of local African-American history by her husband, Ric Sheffield, Kenyon College Professor of Sociology. Ellen’s studio, Unit IV Arts, is located in Gambier, OH, where she teaches in Kenyon’s Art Department. Her artist’s books have been collected by the Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature at Yale University, by the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College and by many others.