Pages, Pockets and Windows — Layered Media in Book Form (Aptos, CA)

Whether you're new to Book Arts or a long-time practitioner, this workshop offers opportunities to learn new concepts, as well as new techniques and methods for construction. Learn a versatile structure and explore options for layering media and ideas. Students will dye Tyvek to make a thin but strong concertina (narrow accordion) spine for their pages. These layered pages can be approached in a variety of ways to reflect each maker’s style and may incorporate mark making, color washes, paper cutting, windowed pages, or even pockets! Students will learn to create and attach a personalized hard cover.

Students can bring any of their own artwork on paper, collage, or fabric materials to integrate into the structure. Students will leave class with a unique finished artist's book and countless ideas for further iterations.

Location/Venue: Cabrillo College - Main Campus - VAPA 2005
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Cost/Fee: $160
Material/Studio fee: $25

Their workshop calendar: https://tinyurl.com/yd3axub8

Instructor: Victoria May uses fabric and stitching as the basis for mixed-media sculptural and installations May's work is meticulous and fervent with a strong craft ethic. Objects range in form from books to sculptural objects. May received her MFA from San Jose State University in 2001 where she studied Installation Art and Photography. She is based in Santa Cruz and teaches at many local colleges. In 2010 she received a Santa Cruz County Rydell Fellowship. Her work has been published in FiberArts and in the Princeton Architectural Press publication By Hand.