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**Class canceled by Emily on 6/11 due to low enrollment. Registrant notified**
Please note: Because we have instructors coming from out of state, registration for this class will close on Monday, June 10th, eleven days before the class begins to ensure this class meets registration minimum (6).
Do you have a favorite maxim? Many of us find a proverb or saying that resonates with us. We are thrilled to welcome two Montana letterpress printmakers, Stephanie Newman and Sukha Worob, to the BARN Book Arts Studio for this one-of-a-kind workshop!
In this class we will create an accordion book that displays, celebrates and illustrates a favorite maxim, proverb or folk saying. The chosen and accompanying text and selected illustrative images will be collaboratively printed onto book pages using letterpress prints and techniques.
At the end of this class every student will have experience using all the letterpress equipment and leave with a letterpress printed hand bound book.
In this class you will:
- Learn how to use a table-top letterpress;
- Learn and discuss roller-based monoprint techniques;
- collaboratively create a book from beginning to end, starting with a sketch layout and color palate and finishing with a complete product;
- Print pages in 4 colors;
- Learn to set type;
- Learn how to assemble a hard-cover accordion book and assemble pages, end boards, cover wrappers and spine.
There is a $40 materials fee included in the cost of the class.
Day 1 of the class students will view examples and discuss the process and end product of the class, discuss and test new techniques, print background images, and set type and ornaments.
Day 2 of the class will allow students to print the final layers of text and assemble books.
BARN is excited to welcome Sukha Worob and Stephanie Newman, two printmakers who run a community letterpress shop in Bozeman, MT called Quoin. Quoin is a place where Bozemanites can take workshops and classes in letterpress. This is a place where creativity and “making” are encouraged and supported.
Stephanie Newman's MFA is from UW-Madison. She has taught graphic design and letterpress for over 30 years at Montana State University. She won the prestigous Cox Award for Creativity in the Classroom. Twice she has been Artist in Residence at Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. Faux Pas Press, her fine press studio, has lately been designing and printing visual interpretations of literary quotes. Two years ago she was runner up for the Women's Studio Workshop Artist's Book Residency Grant. Last year she opened Quoin Community Print Studio in Bozeman, MT to make letterpress and book arts related experience and classes accessible to the community.
Sukha Worob returns for the second year to teach at BARN! Sukha Worob grew up in a small community in the high desert landscape of Prescott, Arizona. Worob obtained his BFA in Printmaking from Northern Arizona University in 2006, MFA in Printmaking from Montana State University in 2011, and M.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction from Montana State University in 2015. Worob's work explores contemporary approaches to the printmaking multiple through works on paper as well as installation and interactive works. His website can be viewed here: www.SukhaWorob.com
