Pretend it’s a City: A Collage Class
In this workshop, students will develop unique landscapes, specifically cityscapes, out of collaged images.
Relief Printmaking at Home with Hannah Batsel
Relief printmaking has countless applications for illustration and book arts, but it can often require expensive equipment, dangerous solvents, and lots of studio space. In this workshop, students will learn three methods for relief printmaking at home using solvent-free materials and a small tabletop press -- or even just a wooden spoon.
Diary Comics with Marnie Galloway
In this hands-on workshop, award-winning cartoonist Marnie Galloway will teach you the foundations of thinking with comics by learning how to make your own diary comics.
Writing for Children's Books with Juliet Bond
So you want to write for youth and you’re new to the business? Great. But writing stories for kids means going beyond the fun of a great idea. You must grasp the secrets of the industry while also mastering plot, word choice, word count, and voice. This workshop digs deep into the layers that create strong stories.
Pulp Painting Nature with Don Widmer
Participants will learn the technique of pulp painting, creating imagery within sheets of handmade paper using plant pulp as a medium. We will design and cut our own stencils using nature as our inspiration. Then we will create sheets of paper, including round sheets, in keeping with the theme of the Treewhispers project. Participants will apply colored pulp using their stencil forms to the fresh sheets of paper. The wet sheets can be taken home to dry. Wear clothes that can get wet.
Character Building with Audrey Niffenegger
This is a workshop for fiction writers, or anyone interested in creating characters for comics, graphic novels, creative non-fiction, etcetera. Students will concentrate on techniques for building groups of characters with complex interior lives and interesting relationships.
About the Bark #1 with Melissa Jay Craig
Kozo fiber, the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), makes beautiful, ethereal yet strong traditional papers. It is also a fascinating material in and of itself. Its strands separate into luscious lace-like patterns; it can be cast over objects and layered for strength, pounded into heavy sheets, or used to make delicate bark drawings.
Papercuts with Ken Gerleve
Papercuts with Ken Gerleve
November 23, 2024
1pm - 4pm
About the Workshop
In this class, students will learn the basics of paper cutting images, and will make a few of their own. This will include designing images, transferring them to paper, cutting safety and methods for display and storage. This introductory workshop will be led by instructor Ken Gerleve, and is a prerequisite for Gerleve's upcoming 2025 Tunnel Books and Toy Theaters workshops.
About the Instructor
Ken Gerleve is an interdisciplinary artist who uses narrative and image to tell stories, which are often darkly humorous. His artwork juxtaposes the traditional elements of the Gothic with contemporary culture. This can take the form of an illustrated book of original verse narrative, animation, puppet building and performance, or installation. He often uses Scherenschnitte, or paper-cutting, and dimensional book structures, like Tunnel and Carousel books, to create sculptural scenes reminiscent of the silhouette animations of Lotte Reiniger. Ken earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago.
Paper Models with Tom Greensfelder
Paper Models
October 26th, 2024
1pm to 4pm
About the Workshop
When I tell people that I've been collecting paper models for almost 25 years, the first thing I'm asked is "What are paper models?"
This workshop will not only enable you to answer that question, but you will also be able to proudly display a paper model that you built yourself.
During the workshop I will give a brief overview of the history of paper models and a short demonstration of technique. Everyone will get two paper models to construct... an Old Knight's Castle from Denmark and Ali Baba Entering the Cave of the 40 Thieves from Spain; both issued in the 1920s.
About the Instructor
Tom Greensfelder is founder of Greensfelder Design, where he has served clients from cartoonists Nichole Hollander and Lynda Barry to myriad arts organizations. He has taught at SAIC, Loyola University, and the Newberry Library and served on boards including Artists Book Works, CCCBPA, Chicago Calligraphy Collective, and, for 17 years, Teatro Vista (Chicago’s only equity Latino theater company). He has been collecting Paper Models for almost 25 years.