Book Arts: Creative Passports (San Diego, CA)

This is a basic course in book arts with a primary focus on creating content. We will draw on writing techniques popularized by writers Natalie Goldberg and Annie Lamont as well as visual exercises promoted by book artists Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum, focusing on making a creative passport to real or imagined lands and destinations, using maps as visual keys for our journey to your creative center. Collage, paste paper, altered books, printmaking, and the many presses in the Print Studio will all be available for our use during this fun class. This course is designed both for beginners and experienced artists who would like a kick start to tap into your own reservoir of unlimited creative intelligence.

“All you need is the plan, the roadmap, and the courage to press on to your destination.”—David Hockney

Fear not: “You don’t always need a plan; sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.”—David Hockney.

Both of David’s quotes above are true! Come join us this fall to plan your trip to uncharted delights!

Location/Venue: ATHENAEUM ART CENTER - AAC Print Studio, Logan Heights
For more info & pictures: https://tinyurl.com/y7lkc2yc
Cost/Fee: Member $220/Non-Member $240
Material/Studio fee: Included

Their workshop calendar: https://tinyurl.com/yaryuj4g

Instructor: Sibyl Rubottom was born a few blocks from the Hudson River in Manhattan, raised next to an estuary of the Long Island Sound in Mamaroneck, and got her first training in art at the Rhode Island School of Design, near Narragansett Bay.

Most of the major events in her life have been close to bodies of water — from the Connecticut pond on which she was married to the Ganges River in Rishikesh where she went to study yoga, and La Jolla’s Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean, where she has been a teacher and artist-in-residence since the early 1990s.