[Waitlist] Cabinet of Paper Mechanical Curiosities with Shawn Sheehy (Online)

Schedule: Dec 11 & 18, 2020: 5:00pm - 7:00pm (PT);
Dec 12 & 13, 2020: 10:00am - 12:00pm (PT); 
Dec 19 & 20, 2020: 10:00am - 12:00pm (PT); 
Registration will close 14 days prior to start date to allow time for kits to be shipped 

Consider five small shallow boxes, each folded from a single sheet of heavy stock. Imagine binding these drawer-like boxes into something reminiscent of a book block, complete with its own cabinet-like case. Inside each of these boxes you construct something mechanical from paper that can be used many ways. You have just built a Cabinet of Paper Mechanical Curiosities—a 4D Whitman’s sampler of movable delicacies, made entirely with paper.

This workshop removes the restraint of FLAT from the codex page. The first box explores movable paper engineering fundamentals. By adding a sculptural component, the second amplifies a model from the first box. The third is a tiny automata. The fourth contains a classic crankie. The fifth box employs a shutter structure to mysteriously bring an object into view. You will make this movable mechanical magic out of little more than card stock, glue, and simple hand tools. Both paper engineering beginners and advanced practitioners will be accommodated and challenged by this material.

Location/Venue:  Online with San Francisco Center for the Book
For more info & pictures:  https://sfcb.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=3971
Cost/Fee:  $ 375
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Their workshop calendar: https://tinyurl.com/tayfd9y

Instructor and bio: Shawn Sheehy has been teaching book arts courses and workshops on the national level since 2001. His broadsides and artist book editions have been collected by such prestigious institutions as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. His pop-ups have been featured twice in both Hand Papermaking magazine and Vintage magazine. Sheehy's trade pop-up book Welcome to the Neighborwood (a mass-market version of his artist book) was released in 2015, winning numerous awards. The mass-market version of his artist book Beyond the Sixth Extinction was released through Candlewick in October 2018. He holds an MFA in the Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago.