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| INTRODUCTION
TO LETTERPRESS
with
Mindy
Belloff
(Beginning Letterpress)
Choose an evening session:
Wednesday, June 25, 6:00-9:30PM -
FULL
or Monday, July 21, 6:00-9:30PM
$75 plus $10 materials fee
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Description:
Get a taste of the elegant printing of the 15th century.
Experience the fun & fundamentals of letterpress: the
California job case, hand typesetting with moveable
metal foundry type, the origins of spacing & leading,
composition, lock-up, inking & impression on our Vandercook
Uni III. A great introduction to printing beautiful
impressions.
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THE
ARTIST'S BOOK: ADVANCED
with Mindy Belloff
(Book Arts Level III)*
6 Tuesdays
Evenings:
6:00-9:00PM
*
Dates Ongoing *
$345 plus materials fee $15
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Description:
From the historic to the digital and back again, continue
your mastery of book arts techniques, as you become
more proficient in your use of the Vandercook letterpress
and your ability to combine text with various printing
processes. Continue your personal journey & develop
a discriminating eye, as your book ideas become reality!
{Previous printing experience required: Introduction
to Book Arts, The Artist's
Book II, or similar}
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| BOOKBINDING
FOR ARTISTS
& PHOTOGRAPHERS
with
Mindy
Belloff
(Bookbinding All Levels)
3 Friday Evenings, 6:00-9:000PM
July
11, 18, 25
$185
plus materials fee $20
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Description:
Complete your digital photos, writings, and artwork
by creating an artist’s book. We will discuss
your specific project as you gain the skills to bind
single and folded sheets. Binding structures will include
a pamphlet sewn structure, a variety of accordion folds,
soft & hard cover Asian stab binding & precise
ways to cover board and inset titles. Learn proper adhesive
applications & techniques for folding, cutting,
sewing & tool usage to ensure a neat, professional
presentation of your artwork.
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A
BOX IN A DAY
with
Joseph A. Osina
(Bookbinding All Levels)
One
day session: 10:00AM-4:00PM
Saturday:,
July 12
$125 plus $20 materials fee
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Description:
Construct a box with a separate lid, covered with decorative
paper, sized 4"x6" (or similar) for photos, books, jewelry,
or personal objects. Learn the proper way to measure
and cut. Then customize your piece, as you play with
new, fanciful additions to your enclosure.
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A
BOOK IN A DAY:
PRINTING WITHOUT A PRESS
with
Mindy
Belloff
(Beginning Book Arts)
One day session: 10:00AM-4:00PM
Sunday, July 20
$125 plus materials fee $20
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Description:
Print a small book edition in one day, combining
text & image with hand printing & waterbased inks. Even
if you have never made an image before, you will gain
confidence and amaze yourself and your friends when
you show off your very own book! Create and design your
image, transfer the image, plan the printing sequence,
carve a soft block, and print it by hand with a brayer
and waterbased inks. Each letter of text will be set
in rubber fonts. Collage elements will be encouraged.
Soon you'll have no more blank books collecting dust
on the shelf. All aspects of this green printshop can
be re-created at home.
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| INTRODUCTION
TO ARTIST'S BOOKS
UNDERSTANDING & PLANNING YOUR EDITION
with
Mindy Belloff
(Book Arts Level I & Letterpress
Level I & II)
Saturday
& Sunday 10:00AM-4:00PM
Session B: July 26 & 27
$235 plus materials fee $15
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Description:
Combine text & images to effectively
communicate ideas, emotions and stories in the form
of an artist's book. Through examples & problem
solving sessions, brain storm your ideas as you create
a book macquette. Many examples of artist's books will
be discussed & digital processes covered. You will
print letterpress & intaglio, and will make 4 different
bookbinding structures. You will emerge with a solid
understanding of processes involved in producing an
editioned book.
(Follow-up recommended: The Artist's
Book:
A Personal Journey.)
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THE
ARTIST'S BOOK: A PERSONAL JOURNEY
with Mindy Belloff (Book Arts Level II)*
6
Thursday Eves: 6:00-9:00PM
May/June/July
* Dates Ongoing *
$345 plus materials fee $15
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Description:
Turn your conceptual ideas into an incredible object,
& expand your knowledge of designing & printing as you
gain the skills to formulate your unique or editioned
book. Work independently as you are guided to develop
your vision & choose the best techniques for your project:
letterpress, wood or linoleum relief, intaglio, drypoint,
typesetting, digital processes and/or polymer plate
printing. Create an intimate artwork, explore narrative
sequencing, & release your inner voice.
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| RELIEF
PRINT EDITION
with
Mindy Belloff
(Prints/Letterpress All Levels)
One
day session: 10:00AM-4:00PM
Sunday, June 7
$125 plus $20 materials fee
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Description:
Create a print edition in one day! Using linoleum relief
blocks, design & transfer your image, learn secrets
for carving your block, & print 1 or 2-color impressions
in perfect registration. An introduction to relief printing
and the Vandercook includes lock-up, press adjustment,
inking, make-ready, and trouble shooting on the press.
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| BINDING
A WATERCOLOR JOURNAL
with
Mindy Belloff
(Bookbinding All Levels)
Friday
6-9PM, Saturday 10AM-4PM
June 13 & 14
$165 plus $25 materials fee
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Description:
Learn to sew a blank book of multiple signatures in
this classic, versatile codex binding. This is a great
workshop for the beginner or more advanced binder. Working
with archival watercolor papers, learn proper scoring
and folding, the use of templates, and sewing techniques.
Then case in your pages with archival boards and adhesives,
creating a lovely silk wrapped hardcover book (approximate
size 7x11).
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LETTERPRESS
II
WOOD & METAL TYPE BROADSIDES
with
Mindy Belloff
(Letterpress
AII Levels)
4
Monday evenings: 6-9PM
June
16, 23, 30, July 7
$220
plus materials fee $20
(recommended after Intro Letterpress)
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Description:
Create
classic looking broadsides with our wood & metal
foundry type in
the tradition of musical posters, poetry and art prints.
You
will learn how to print on our Vandercook press and
will play with various handprinting
techniques on and off press, creating colorful, painterly
prints. Experiment with handmade papers, collage, and
overprinting on existing images. Each student will create
a series of prints or small edition broadside. A class
print exchange is encouraged for a unique portfolio
of prints.
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| PAPER
MARBLING
with Guest Artist Steve
Pittelkow
(All Levels)
Weekend Intensive:
Saturday &
Sunday 10AM-4PM
June 21 & 22
- FULL!
$235
plus materials fee $40
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Description:Learn
the magic of marbling in this intensive workshop on
the process and practice of this historic medium. Our
guest artist will share his secrets of over a decade
of paper marbling. Learn to mix the bath, experiment
with color, patterns & unique designs, and learn
proper treatment of paper and cloth. Each student will
leave with a portfolio of marbled papers for use in
future book and paper projects.
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| RESTORATION
MARATHON
with
Joseph A. Osina
(Bookbinding All Levels)
Sundays
10:00AM-4:00PM
TBA
September/October
$235 plus $20 materials fee
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Description:
Concentrating on traditional restoration techniques,
learn paper repairs using Japanese tissue, spine and
hinge repairs, re-sewing loose sections, and cloth re-backing
in this weekend intensive. Pull all those broken books
from your shelves and get them all looking like new
in two days of fun & intense work. Familiarize yourself
with the structure of the book while learning bookbinding
& restoration, proper use of tools, materials and
adhesives. Please bring several damaged cloth bound
volumes to class. All the books will have different
structural loss which we will explore as a class, learning
from these various mends together.
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| BOOKBINDING
BASICS
with
Joseph A. Osina
(Beg., Adv Beg, Intermed)
Sat
& Sun: 10:00AM-4:00PM
Weekend Intensive: TBA Fall
$235 plus materials fee $25
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Description:
Gain all the basic skills of binding in this fun weekend.
You will complete finished books to use as journals
or drawing books including an accordion fold structure
with hard covers, an Asian binding, and an album with
multiple sewn signatures inside silk covered boards.
Learn proper adhesive applications, use of archival
materials, professional techniques of folding, cutting,
sewing and tool usage.
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| MINIATURE
ARTIST'S BOOK EDITION
TEXT & IMAGES
with Mindy Belloff
(Book Arts/Letterpress All Levels)
Friday 6-8PM, Saturday & Sunday 10AM-4PM
Weekend
Intensive:
F/S/S TBA
$285 plus $20 materials fee
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Description:
In the tradition of the hand printed, illustrated book
a la Gutenberg, print a series relief blocks with 3
images and 3 pages of text. Learn all phases of creating
& printing an image: designing, planning, & transferring
the image; cutting the blocks; mixing colored inks;
and operating a press. You will set your text in metal
foundry type and print it on the letterpress. In this
intensive, you will make beautiful impressions in 2-colors,
completing an edition of 10 printed books in one weekend!
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| CLAMSHELL
BOX
with
Mindy Belloff
(Bookbinding All Levels)
Saturday
& Sunday 10AM-4PM
Weekend Intensive
TBA
Fall
$235 plus materials fee $25
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Description:
In this weekend intensive you will learn to measure,
cut, and glue with precision, as you construct a sturdy
2-tray clamshell box. This beautiful structure is an
art object in itself. You may use it to house a rare
book, artist book, album, or portfolio of prints. Trays
will be lined with Japanese papers and the box will
be covered in silk bookcloth. The size will be approximately
8"x10" (or slightly smaller).
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| THE
PRINTED BROADSIDE:
POETRY EDITION
with
Mindy Belloff
(Prints/Letterpress All Levels)
Weekend Intensive F/S/S:
Friday 6-8PM, Saturday & Sunday 10AM-4PM
F/S/S TBA
$285 plus $20 materials fee
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Description:
Broadsides are poster-like prints,
where text and image are combined on a single page.
Its historic uses have been expanded in contemporary
art practices & collaborations with poets.
Typeset your own poem, add an illustration, & produce
a 2-color limited print edition on our vintage letterpress.
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POLYMER
WORKSHOP
PROJECT: BUSINESS CARDS
with Mindy Belloff
(Letterpress Printing All Levels)*
4 Wednesday evenings: 6:30PM-9:00PM
New
Session TBA
$225 (+ outside plate costs ~$50)
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Description:
Polymer plates allow flexibility in printing image and
text. Combine digital design with classic letterpress
printing. Learn how to set up your computer files, consider
typography and composition, and set up specs for plates.
You will gain an understanding of multiple color printing.
In class, you will complete a one-color business card
project (up to 100 cards). (Basic computer knowledge
required: Word, Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, Quark,
or
similar.)
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INSTRUCTOR
BIOs
Artist
Mindy Belloff, mixed media installation and book
artist, teaches at the School of Visual Arts, The New
School & the Metropolitan Museum; previously at
the Center for Book Arts, Pyramid Atlantic, & WSW.
Permanent collections include the Victoria & Albert
Museum and NMWA; MacDowell Fellow; NEA Book Grant recipient.
www.IntimaPress.com
Artist
Steven Daiber,
book artist (Red Trillium Press), printmaker, & student
of nature; teaches at Hampshire College & various print
shops in Cuba in lithography, silkscreen, etching and
woodcut; public & private collections.
www.bookarts.com/gallery/daiber.htm
Artist
Joseph
A. Osina, printmaker,
book artist; book & paper conservator at NYPL; founding
member of Manhattan Graphics Center; teaches monoptype
& bookbinding; art work exhibited internationally; collections
include the Metropolitan Museum & Library of Congress.
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Artist
Steve
Pittelkow
teaches extensively and enjoys revealing his secrets for
successful marbling. Steve's papers appear in museum collections
and are used by binders and book artists nationally and
internationally.
Artist Maddy Rosenberg,
painter, printmaker, book artist; art work exhibited throughout
the U.S. and Europe; upcoming solo show April 2006 at
Safe-Ty Gallery in DUMBO; public collections include MoMA,
Tate Gallery, & Fogg Museum. www.maddyrosenberg.com
Artist
Leonard
Seastone, book
artist (Tideline Press); teaches book
arts and typography at Purchase College; public collections
include the New York Public Library and Columbia University.
Artist Gaylord
Schanilec, former
artist in residence at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts;
special collections include the Getty Museum, the British
National Art Library, and NYPL; archives at the University
of Minnesota. www.midnightpapersales.com
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REGISTRATION:
You may register by mail, or reserve a place by e-mail or
phone. Register early, as space is limited. Full payment reserves
your place in class and is due in full before the start of
a workshop. Please fill out the Registration Form and send
with check payable to: Intima Press, LLC Mail to: 32 Union
Square East, Suite 310, New York, NY 10003. Or, PayPal payment
to intimapress@yahoo.com. E-mail questions to intimapress@yahoo.com,
or call to inquire at 917-412-4134. We're happy to recommend
the right workshop for you! Please
click below on PDF File
for Registration Form & class listing.
Cancellation/Refund Policy:
Tuition is non-refundable for cancellations less than 7 days
before class. Cancellations more than 7 days before start
of class, tuition is refundable minus $40 processing fee.
If class is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, you
will be advised and fully refunded.
SUPPLIES: The cost of
ink, solvent, rags, and proof paper are included in tuition.
Students are expected to supply their own basic hand tools,
or may purchase a bone folder or linocut tool from the Studio.
*Additional plate and paper costs may be incurred, depending
upon your individual project.
EQUIPMENT: Studio equpiment
includes a Vancercook Universal III automatic motorized letterpress
with adjustable press bed - max. sheet size 18.5 x 28 for
printing linocut, woodcut, engraving plates, photopolymer
plates, wood & metal type; antique foot-pedal press (turn-of-the-century,
clamshell style) 9x12 chase; Golding Official clamshell press,
5x7 chase; Ettan Etching Press; Book press; Guillotine; Great
selection of lead foundry type, monotype, wood type, ornaments;
Library of artist's books, book exhibition catalogues, chapbooks,
and books on typography.
STUDIO RENTAL: Studio
& press rental available to students in good standing at the
discretion of the Studio.
STUDIO POLICIES: All policies
of the Studio are subject to the sole discretion of Intima
Press LLC, Studio on the Square, its managers, and members.
LOCATION: The Studio is
located at 24-32 Union Square East, on Park Avenue South,
between 15th & 16th Street, on the 3rd Floor, Studio #310.
Trains:
4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W to 14th Street, Union Square. Buses:
M 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 101, 102, 103.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Planning to spend
the weekend in the City? Ask us about our recommendation for
accommodations just around the corner from the Studio!
CALL:
Please call the Studio
917-412-4134 to inquire about the best classes for your interests.
(Please
note: There are no Studio Hours open to the public - By Appointment
Only.)
Studio
on the Square
32 Union Square East, Studio 310
New York, NY 10003 * 917-412-4134
(by appointment only)
www.StudioOnTheSq.com
www.IntimaPress.com
e-mail: IntimaPress@yahoo.com
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Winter
2008
Vandercook
Universal III A/B Letterpress
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