| INTRODUCTION
TO LETTERPRESS
with
Mindy
Belloff
(Beginning Letterpress)
Wednesday, December 9, 6:30-9:30PM
or
Monday, December 28, 6:30-9:30PM
(check this website for monthly class additions)
$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 movable 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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WEDDING
INVITES
Do it Yourself in Letterpress!
with
Mindy
Belloff
(All Levels Letterpress)
4 eves Thursday 6-9:30PM
November
12, 19,
December 3, 10
$360 plus $20 studio fee
(+ some outside
paper/envelope costs)
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Description:
With close guidance, you will make your own wedding
invitations as you learn to design your cards, hand
set your text using “real” fonts from our
metal foundry type collection, and print them with perfection,
one at a time on our awesome Vandercook press. You will
create a one or two-color main invitation + reply card
for your special day and print them in elegant letterpress.
Choose our paper which takes letterpress beautifully,
or supply your own. This is perfect for a quantity of
50-125. If you are planning on a larger edition, you
may rent additional time outside of class (please inquire).
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THE
ARTIST'S BOOK: A PERSONAL JOURNEY
with Mindy Belloff (Book Arts Level II)*
Tuesday eves. 6:00-9:00PM
*
Dates Ongoing *
(4 or 6-session
class)
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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. (Pre-requisite:
Introduction to Artist's
Books:
Understanding & Planning Your Edition or permission
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LETTERPRESS
WORKSHOP
with Mindy
Belloff
(Letterpress - All Levels)
Saturday 10:00AM-4:00PM
November 21
$125 plus $20 materials fee
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Description:
In this one-day intensive you will have a block of time
to experiment with metal and wood type. Create beautiful
note cards, print a quotation, & work on a group
broadside. Increase your knowledge of operating a Vandercook
proof press, learning composition, inking and impression.
A great way to begin your letterpress journey and sign
up for additional independent class sessions.
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BOOK
RESTORATION
with
Joseph A. Osina
(Bookbinding & Repair - All Levels)
Sunday
10AM-4PM
November 22 -
FULL
$135 plus $10 materials fee
Next Session: Saturday, December
12
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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.
Pull all those broken books from your shelves and get
them looking like new in a few 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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| MINIATURE
ARTIST'S BOOK EDITION
TEXT & IMAGES
with Mindy Belloff
(Book Arts/Letterpress All Levels)
Weekend
Intensive:
Friday 6-8PM, Saturday & Sunday 10AM-4PM
November
27, 28, 29
$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 of 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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POLYMER
PLATE PRINTING
Holiday Cards, Art Prints,
& More!
with Mindy Belloff
(Letterpress Printing All Levels)*
4 Wednesday
eves,
6:30PM-9PM
December 2, 16, 30, Jan. 7
$230 (+ outside plate costs approx. $40)
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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.
Complete a number of independent projects - many beginning
students have printed their holiday cards, so come see
what all the fuss is about! (Basic computer knowledge
required of Word, Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign,
or Quark.)
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| CLAMSHELL
BOX
with
Mindy Belloff
(Bookbinding All Levels)
Saturday
& Sunday 10:00AM-4:00PM
Weekend Intensive
December
5 & 6
$235 plus materials fee $30
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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
6" x 8".
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ADVENTURES
IN LETTERPRESS
with
Mindy
Belloff
(Beginning Letterpress)
3 Monday eves, 6:30-9:30
December 7, 14, 21
$165
plus 20 materials fee
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Description:
Discover the elegance of working with
movable metal and wood type. Extend your current art
making practice, integrating conceptual ideas and narrative
elements into a broadside edition poster, card, or print
series. Experiment with hand painting & combining
digital, photographic and painterly images utilizing
multiple colors and overlays + add lyrical writing and
poetry, as you develop your individual projects. Learn
composition, inking, impression, make ready and press
adjustment on the Vandercook. Come get your hands dirty,
and make beautiful, multiple impressions!
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| IMAGE
PRINTING: LINOCUT
EDITION
with
Mindy Belloff
(Prints/Letterpress All Levels)
One
day session: 10:00AM-4:00PM
Sunday, December 13
$125 plus $20 materials fee
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Description:
Create an image and print am edition in one day! Using
a linoleum relief block, 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 cutting a block + intro to printing
on the Vandercook includes adjustment and trouble shooting
on the press. You will print a series in the stidio
and be shown the "green" way to create additional
prints at home.
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| CLASSIC
BOOKBINDING
with
Mindy Belloff
(Bookbinding All Levels)
Friday
6-9PM, Saturday 10:00AM-4:00PM
December 18 & 19
$165 plus $30 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
papers (watercolor
paper is optional),
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. A great structure for journal
writings, drawings & collage.
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| THE
ART OF THE BOOK:
UNDERSTANDING
& PLANNING YOUR EDITION
with
Mindy Belloff (Book Arts Level I)
Sunday, 10:00AM-4:00PM
December
20
$135
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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 learn 4 different
bookbinding structures and 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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| BOOKBINDING
BASICS
with
Joseph A. Osina
(Beg., Adv Beg, Intermed)
Saturday
& Sunday:
9:30AM-3:30PM
January 9 & 10
$235 plus materials fee $40
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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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FROM
COMPUTER TO PRINT:
POLYMER WORKSHOP
with Mindy Belloff
(Letterpress Printing All Levels)*
Friday October 9 6:00-8:00PM
Sat & Sun October 24 & 25 10AM-4PM
$275 (+ outside plate costs approx. $40)
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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 utilize the correct
specs for plates. You will gain an understanding of
paper properties and color printing, as you complete
a couple of small independent projects to get you started:
note cards, poetry broadside, business cards or letterhead.
(Basic computer knowledge required of Word, Adobe PhotoShop,
Illustrator, InDesign, or Quark.)
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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, November 1
$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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| A
BOX IN A DAY
with
Joseph A. Osina
(Bookbinding All Levels)
One
day session: 10:00AM-4:00PM
Saturday,
November 7
$125 plus $20 materials fee
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Description:
Construct a box with a separate lid, covered with decorative
paper, sized 4" x 6" (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 our enclosure.
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LETTERPRESS
INTENSIVE WEEKEND
with Mindy
Belloff
(Letterpress - All Levels)
Saturday & Sunday, 10:00-4:00PM
November
14 & 15
$225 plus $20 materials fee
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Description:
In this weekend intensive you will explore basic to
advanced hand typesetting. Whether you are a beginner
discovering the elegance of working with movable metal
and wood type, or more advanced, extending your current
art making practice, you will have a block of time to
experiment and create beautiful cards, prints, &
broadsides. You will also increase your knowledge of
operating a Vandercook proof press.
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WOOD & METAL TYPE
POSTERS
with
Mindy Belloff
(Letterpress
AII Levels)
3
evenings: 6:00-9:00PM
TBA
$165
plus materials fee $20
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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 hand
printing 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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INSTRUCTOR
BIOs
Artist
Mindy Belloff, mixed media installation and book
artist, has also taught at the: School of Visual Arts,
New School University, Metropolitan Museum; 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), & student of nature;
teaches at Hampshire College & printmaking in Cuba;
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
& binding; exhibited internationally; collections include
the Metropolitan Museum & Library of Congress.
Artist
Sage
Reynolds,
bookbinder and designer, begn making paste papers 30
years ago and
enjoys revealing his secret paste recipes for successful
painterly papers. www.sagereynolds.com
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Artist Maddy
Rosenberg,
painter, printmaker, book artist; art work exhibited throughout
the U.S. and Europe; public collections include MoMA,
Tate & 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. www.midnightpapersales.com
Artist
Suzanne
Vilmain, from Santa Fe, utilizes layering techniques
in her book arts and series of ephemeral memoirs; she
teaches printmaking, binding, letterpress, and marbling
workshops and is interested in collaborations, surrealist
techniques of exquisite corpse and deconstructing the
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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 provide your name and contact information
via e-mail and/or mail 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.
PRIVATE INSTRUCTION:
Please ask about one-on-one instruction in letterpress printing
and the art of the book.
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 materials
fee. 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; Precision Guillotine;
Great selection of 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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Universal III A/B Letterpress
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