THE STUDIUM CODEX AT KALA ART INSTITUTE

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Friday, February 8, 2013
1-4pm

Fine Art Book Illustration: Linocut and Collage Approach
Location: Kala Art Institute Studio
Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Vladimir Zimakov

This workshop will focus on using printmaking techniques in creating rich visual compositions in the context of book illustration. Vladimir will demonstrate and discuss how he uses and combines different hands-on approaches in his work, as well as showcase works by notable illustrators. During the second part of the class, the students will be creating compositions using a variety of materials. Emphasis will be placed on using different techniques in combination with one another. The relationship of type and image, composition structure, narrative, as well as helpful technical tips and tricks will be discussed.

Vladimir Zimakov is a Los Angeles based book artist, designer and illustrator who works in a variety of techniques including linocut, silkscreen and letterpress among other traditional and digital media. Vladimir has worked with world’s leading publishing houses such as Penguin, Random House, Faber and Faber, the Folio Society and Vita Nova and illustrated books and book covers for the works of Gustav Meyrink, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Herman Melville and A.T.A. Hoffman among others. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in America, Europe and Russia. www.vladimirzimakov.com

Saturday, February 9, 2013
9am-12pm

Conceptualizing the Book
Location: Kala Art Institute Gallery Classroom   
Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Sarah Horowitz

Delve into the process of creating a mock-up for your future artist book. Rather than learning specific type of stitching or printing technique, you will take your raw ideas for your book and create a fully thought out mock-up that will be your template for creating the actual book. We will examine how to convey the concept of your book through page sequence, layout, structure, content, and materials. By creating this flexible structure, you will be able to envision exactly how the book will come together, potential problems you will face, and what you may need to research in advance of production to make the final book a success. This workshop will be particularly helpful to you if you've ever felt like you didn't know how to begin or took a book almost through to completion only to discover fatal flaws. Please come with one or more ideas for a book you'd like to create, including text you'd like to use (print it out several times in various sizes and typefaces!), ideas for images, swatches of colors, cloths, and papers that inspire you.

Sarah Horowitz lives and works in Portland, Oregon where she has been a member of Atelier Mars printmaking studio for the past twelve years and a print and drawing instructor at Portland State University for seven years. Horowitz’ work is based primarily in drawing, printmaking, and book arts with a focus on formal aesthetics and the natural world. Her limited edition books are published under her imprint Wiesedruck (Wiese = river on the border of Germany and Switzerland; druck = press) and can be found in collections across the country including at Yale University Bieneke Library, Boston Public Library, The New York Public Library, and the Portland Art Museum. She has received grants from Portland State University and the Regional Arts and Culture Council as well as residencies at Caldera and the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. Her work is represented by Froelick Gallery in Portland and Armstrong Fine Art in Chicago and can be found on her website: www.wiesedruck.com.

Saturday, February 9, 2013
9am-12pm

Paper Tasting
Location: Kala Art Institute Studio    
Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Denise Lapointe, Papeterie Saint-Armand

Denise Lapointe of the Papaterie Saint-Armand will provide an opportunity to 'taste' paper in different ways. Paint, pastel, ink, watercolour, folding sanding, tearing- anything goes. Learn about not only about the papers of Saint-Armand but paper in general. Bring your favorite tools and material to try them out on an assortment of papers.

Denise Lapointe 's background in printmaking has made her a helpful part of the Papeterie Saint-Armand since 1992. The mill founded by David Carruthers in 1979 makes a wide range of papers quite a few can be seen on the tables of the CODEX exhibitors. The main caracteristic of Denise Lapointe's work is her sense of material; she has been sanding, rusting, waxing, folding and more recently weaving papers for her different projects. Her etching/letterpress studio is located in the mill. Her last realization: “L’arbre raconte” is an eight foot woven paper tree part of an exhibition at the Montréal Botanical Garden. She is currently struggling to build a folding set of moose antlers for the centrepiece of her coming book “Les cris de l’orignal”. www.st-armand.com

Saturday, February 9, 2013
1-4pm

Everything you wanted to know about mezzotint but were afraid to ask
Location: Kala Art Institute Studio    
Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Judith Rothchild

Learn the process of mezzotint from professional artist Judith Rothchold. This workshop will provide a brief introduction to making mezzotints with hands-on experience, rocking, burnishing and printing. After a quick over view of the history of the technique, the  tools used and the principles, students will rock small plates, burnish and scrape them and finally, pull proofs.

Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusett. She now lives in the Languedoc region of France where she has been producing beautifully rendered individual mezzotints and artist books since 1996. Her work has been exhibited at more than fifty solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, and is in numerous public collections. Rothchild attended Sarah Lawrence College before completing her artistic degree at the Rhode Island School of Design. She then moved to France in 1974 where she has continued her work in both pastel and printmaking, as well as working collaboratively with her partner, Mark Lintott making artists books under the name Editions Verdigris.

Saturday, February 9, 2013
1-4pm

Pedagogy and Practice, an intimate discussion about using artists' books to teach across disciplines
Location: Kala Art Institute Gallery Classroom   
Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Marshall Weber

Artists books are becoming ubiquitous in university library collections and are well used in the arts and library science disciplines. But they also are valuable teaching tools in diverse disciplines ranging from the sciences to the humanities. Drawing from hundreds of hours of conversations with dozens of the most accomplished librarians and curators in the field Marshall Weber will present various artists' books and describe how they have been used in diverse curricula as inspirational primary research material. The workshop will analyze the various ways in which artists books can be used both in and out of the classroom. This workshop is vital for artists who are seeking an academic context to assist in promoting their books, for educators exploring the innovative use of the book arts across disciplines, and for librarians looking to engage students, faculty and funders in their artists' book collections.

Marshall Weber is a freelance curator, arts educator, and an interdisciplinary artist known for his innovative artists’ books, collage, and public performances. He is represented by Munch Gallery in New York City and Booklyn. Weber co-founded Artists Television Access (ATA) in San Francisco, one of the longest running alternative media art centers in the US (still kicking!). Collected and exhibited internationally, Weber was an Interdisciplinary Arts Fellow of both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Intermedia Arts/McKnight Foundation. Weber is also a cofounder of Organik, the collaborative art-making group, and the directing curator of the Booklyn Artists Alliance, the largest non-profit artist-run international association of book artists. In 2011 he directed the Booklyn archive project which resulted in Booklyn’s archives being acquired by the Library of Congress. In September of 2012 Weber and Chinese artist Xu Bing co-curated the Diamond Leaves exhibit, the largest and first major museum exhibition of artists books in China, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing. Weber has also organized several innovative funding projects for activist art organizations, including a fine art print portfolio to benefit the Occuprint project of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Currently Weber is specializing in matching artist archives and collections with university collections.