From Concept to Book with Wendy Call & Yuka Petz

Date: Saturday, April 19, and Saturday, April 26, 2008
Time: 10 am - 4 pm
Location: 2100 Building, 2100 24th Ave. S. (in Rainier Valley), Seattle, WA [map]
Cost: $130 + $10 materials fee

This intensive two-day workshop will explore exercises to start your content flowing and ideas of how to apply your text to non-traditional book structures as you develop your own, original artist’s book. Week 1 will focus on short writing exercises to establish your book’s content and we will learn the ins and outs of the double accordion book structure, including approaches to page layout, while emphasizing the handmade. You will go home with a mock-up of your final book and have a week to review and revise before coming back for Week 2, when we will produce our final books in class. Everyone will learn and work with the same book structure, but no two books will be alike. Great for writers and anyone who wants to explore the creation of original artists’ books.
 
Instructor Biographies: Wendy Call is writer-in-residence at Richard Hugo House, Seattle’s literary center, and a 2006 Seattle CityArtist. She co-edited the anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Plume/Penguin, 2007). Excerpts from her nonfiction book-in-progress, No Word for Welcome, have won awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook and Ucross Foundation, while grants from 4Culture, Artist Trust, and the Oberlin College Alumni Association supported the research and writing of the book. Wendy’s writing has appeared in English, Spanish and French in more than twenty magazines and literary journals, often with her photographs. Yuka Petz caught the bookbinding bug after making her first book in third grade and has been making books and paper ever since. She has a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and has studied papermaking at the Dieu Donné papermill in New York and the Awagami Factory in Tokushima, Japan. Some of her work can be viewed at http://yuka.petz.cx.

Please contact Maggie Booth at maggieb@seattlebookarts.org for more information, or to register at the student rate or SCBA supporter rate. To register for this class, please click the link below and pay using a credit card, debit card, or PayPal account. You may also print and mail in a registration form with your payment.

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