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2DPM207 The Art of the BookCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Learn the basics of book binding beginning with simple structures and building daily on your skills. Through demonstrations and hands on guided studio time, we’ll progress quickly from easy, magical books made from a single sheet of paper to more elaborate, hardcover, multi-signature books. No unusual or expensive equipment is required and everything covered in class can be easily continued at home. Participants in this workshop typically leave with at least 10 book structures and the inspiration and knowledge to create dozens more. We’ll produce books that can be used as journals, scrapbooks, photo albums or are a work of art themselves. This course is open to all. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Recently featured in Lark Publications, Masters; Book Arts, Peter Madden has been teaching and lecturing for over 2 decades at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, The Center for Book Arts in New York and San Francisco, The Guild of Book Workers, Wellesley College, Brandeis University and Harvard University. His one-of-a-kind handmade books are in many public and private collections through the US and Europe and have been acknowledged with a St. Botolph Club Grant, an Artists’ Foundation Printmaking Fellowship and a Massachusetts Cultural, Council award. He studied at Pratt Institute, Parson’s School of Design and Mass Art. SEE MORE INFO
petermadden.com | P Madden | Jun 4-Jun 7 | M-Th | 9a-4p | Tower-912 | 1.5 | 555 | |
CDGD317 Letterpress Fundamentals WorkshopCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Explore the nuances of impression, inking, and paper selection while enhancing your typographic sensitivity in this hands-on workshop. Demonstrations include typesetting by hand, on-press page composition, and printing multiples on a Vandercook cylinder press. The class also experiments with overprinting colors and printing illustrations. Bring words and ideas for your project to the first meeting. Some manual dexterity is necessary. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Keith Cross is a designer, printer and educator with extensive knowledge of hot metal and digital typography. He runs Milk Row Studio, a creative design studio in Worcester, MA. Keith is a member and former president of the Letterpress Guild of New England and a member of the Society of Printers. He holds a BFA from MassArt in graphic design and printmaking and teaches letterpress design/printing at the MassArt Press. SEE MORE INFO
milkrow.com | K Cross | Aug 10-Aug 12 | F, Sat, Sun | 9a-6p | Tower-912 | 1.5 | 555 | |
CDGD334 Letterpress: Intermediate Projects (See special schedule)SPECIAL SCHEDULE
no class July 3 COURSE DESCRIPTION
Expand your letterpress experience and take your projects further! You’ll create a single, semester-long project of your own design. Challenge yourself by setting longer texts, devising more complex compositions, and experimenting with inking and paper choices. You’ll examine advanced projects by former students and working letterpress artists as well as participate in individual and group critiques. Demonstrations will include pressure prints, rainbow rolls, file preparation and ordering relief plates from digital files, printing from different plate types, using linotype matter as well as locating specific typographic assets from foundries, etc. Other areas of exploration may include polymer plate printing and die-cutting. Prerequisites: one of the following courses or demonstrated letterpress experience- Letterpress Fundamentals Workshop, Letterpres (full semester course) or Artists’ Books on the Vandercook Letterpress. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Keith Cross is a designer, printer and educator with extensive knowledge of hot metal and digital typography. He runs Milk Row Studio, a creative design studio in Worcester, MA. Keith is a member and former president of the Letterpress Guild of New England and a member of the Society of Printers. He holds a BFA from MassArt in graphic design and printmaking and teaches letterpress design/printing at the MassArt Press. SEE MORE INFO
milkrow.com | K Cross | May 22-Jul 10 | Tu | 6p-10p | Tower-912 | 1.5 | 555 | |
NC258 Pop-Up and Dimensional Books (See special schedule)SPECIAL SCHEDULE
Fri (Jun 22) 6-9pm; Sat and Sun (Jun 23, 24) 10am-4pm COURSE DESCRIPTION
Experiment with dimension and movement on a flat page! We will use clever yet simple methods to create pop-ups. These can be colored, embellished and used in cards and books. They are useful techniques for teachers--the moveable parts spark students’ imagination. Cut and layered paper add light and shadow to a page. Includes a digital presentation and samples from the instructor’s collection. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
The prints and artist’s books of Stephanie Mahan Stigliano are included in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Houghton Library of Harvard University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, as well as numerous public and academic libraries nationwide. Selected exhibits include: Boston Printmakers Bieniennial at the 808 Gallery in Boston, MA; Imagine This in La Jolla, CA and Artists and Books and Time Remembered/Time Past at the Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA where her book was purchased for the permanent collection. The Fogg Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA purchased her four-color woodcut; and the University of Santa Barbara, CA purchased her collaborative collection of poetry, Unfolding Poems. She recently completed an arts residency at The Unitarian/Universalist First Parish of Malden, Malden, MA. Currently, Stigliano is participating in Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, an international traveling exhibition of artists’ books, Correspondence: the 9th International Book Art Festival, which will travel throughout Poland and Par Avion, a Boston-Strasbourg Sister City Art Exchange, Boston, MA, USA and Strasbourg, FR. Ms. Stigliano is a faculty member of the Visual Arts Department of Walnut Hill School for the Arts, of Natick, MA where she teaches printmaking and book arts. SEE MORE INFO
stephaniemahanstigliano.com | S Stigliano | Jun 22-Jun 24 | F, Sat, Sun | spec-spec | Tower-912 | 0 | 195 | |
NC429 Letterpress WorkshopCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Are you wrestling with the lack of texture and REAL type in your everyday pursuits? Then this letterpress workshop is the event for you. You’ll hand-set text and display type, contending with over 350 cases of metal and wood type in our collection. Once you’ve learned the ropes, leap from the turnbuckle and get ready for the melee it’s no-holds-barred letterpress posters! Learn how to quickly change colors on press with no wash-up. Set it and print it techniques escape the referee’s call on "delay of match." Grapple with composition and win with magnets. Concealing your identity is optional. Prerequisites: Enthusiasm, punctuality, ability to lift 50 lbs unaided. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Keith Cross is a designer, printer and educator with extensive knowledge of hot metal and digital typography. He runs Milk Row Studio, a creative design studio in Worcester, MA. Keith is a member and former president of the Letterpress Guild of New England and a member of the Society of Printers. He holds a BFA from MassArt in graphic design and printmaking and teaches letterpress design/printing at the MassArt Press. SEE MORE INFO
milkrow.com | K Cross | Jul 22 | Sun | 9a-5p | Tower-912 | 0 | 175 | |
NC847 Japanese Woodblock PrintingCOURSE DESCRIPTION
We will carve wood blocks and ink them with watercolors and nori paste to create painterly gradations of color called bokashi. Students will create two and three color prints and experiment with a variety of Japanese papers. This non-toxic print medium is colorful and subtle, and allows for transparent washes of color as well as detailed textures and wood grain. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Lisa Houck has been working as an artist in the Boston area for over 30 years. She works in a number of media, including etching, watercolor, handmade paper, oil on wood, and mosaic. She has recently created a 22’ long mosaic mural for a new park in Boston, the Frieda Garcia Park. Houck holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University. Her work is in numerous corporate and private collections including Children’s Hospital, Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. SEE MORE INFO
www.lisahouck.com | L Houck | Jun 14-Jun 15 | Th & F | 10a-4p | Tower-603 | 0 | 265 | |
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CDGD317 Letterpress Fundamentals WorkshopCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Explore the nuances of impression, inking, and paper selection while enhancing your typographic sensitivity in this hands-on workshop. Demonstrations include typesetting by hand, on-press page composition, and printing multiples on a Vandercook cylinder press. The class also experiments with overprinting colors and printing illustrations. Bring words and ideas for your project to the first meeting. Some manual dexterity is necessary. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Keith Cross is a designer, printer and educator with extensive knowledge of hot metal and digital typography. He runs Milk Row Studio, a creative design studio in Worcester, MA. Keith is a member and former president of the Letterpress Guild of New England and a member of the Society of Printers. He holds a BFA from MassArt in graphic design and printmaking and teaches letterpress design/printing at the MassArt Press. SEE MORE INFO
milkrow.com | K Cross | Aug 10-Aug 12 | F, Sat, Sun | 9a-6p | Tower-912 | 1.5 | 1005 | |
CDGD334 Letterpress: Intermediate Projects (See special schedule)SPECIAL SCHEDULE
no class July 3 COURSE DESCRIPTION
Expand your letterpress experience and take your projects further! You’ll create a single, semester-long project of your own design. Challenge yourself by setting longer texts, devising more complex compositions, and experimenting with inking and paper choices. You’ll examine advanced projects by former students and working letterpress artists as well as participate in individual and group critiques. Demonstrations will include pressure prints, rainbow rolls, file preparation and ordering relief plates from digital files, printing from different plate types, using linotype matter as well as locating specific typographic assets from foundries, etc. Other areas of exploration may include polymer plate printing and die-cutting. Prerequisites: one of the following courses or demonstrated letterpress experience- Letterpress Fundamentals Workshop, Letterpres (full semester course) or Artists’ Books on the Vandercook Letterpress. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Keith Cross is a designer, printer and educator with extensive knowledge of hot metal and digital typography. He runs Milk Row Studio, a creative design studio in Worcester, MA. Keith is a member and former president of the Letterpress Guild of New England and a member of the Society of Printers. He holds a BFA from MassArt in graphic design and printmaking and teaches letterpress design/printing at the MassArt Press. SEE MORE INFO
milkrow.com | K Cross | May 22-Jul 10 | Tu | 6p-10p | Tower-912 | 1.5 | 1005 | |
