PRUDY KOHLER

After over 25 years of classroom art teaching, visiting artist Prudy Kohler spent several years in arts philanthropy.  A practicing artist in photographic transfer mediums, she is the founder of ART FOR LUNCH, which provides hands-on arts workshops in businesses for team-building. Prudy lives in San Francisco, where she teaches workshops at the San Francisco Center for the Book.

Polaroid Transfers
with Prudy Kohler
Saturday & Sunday, April 12-13; 10am-5pm
All skill levels welcome
$195 ($175 members) + $15 supply fee

Discover the magic of photo transfer processes. You will produce manipulated photographic images that stand alone as fine art pieces or can be easily reproduced to become part of an edition of artist books. Starting with your own film or digital photographic prints (which remain intact) or with prints made on site, you will transform them into instant prints. Then you will give them a painterly appearance as you transfer them to paper using a non-toxic, highly accessible process. Bring color or black and white prints, 35mm slides (higher contrast, saturated colors work well), and/or a few objects (leaves, flowers, etc.) to use for on-site prints. You will complete several finished pieces that can be further enhanced with hand coloring techniques, which will also be taught.

Special note: Even though Polaroid has recently decided to discontinue their instant films, including the film typically used for this photo transfer technique, Prudy has successfully changed over to a Fuji Film product which is (and should continue to be) commercially available. She will share this new product at the workshop.  

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SAM HITI

Visiting artist Sam Hiti is an independent comic book creator whose credits include work for Nickelodeon, Disney, Nike and The New York Times, and is working with major Hollywood studios to turn his work into a live action film. Published works include Tiempos Finales, Long Dark Train, Ghoulash, and the upcoming Death-Day.

Developing Comics 101
with Sam Hiti
Wednesdays, May 7 & 14, 6-9pm;
Saturdays, May 10 & 17, 12-5pm
All skill levels welcome
$225 ($200 members) + $5 supply fee

In Developing Comics 101, learn theory and process in developing ideas for comics and breaking down the key stages of making a comic book, minicomic or graphic novel from a popular and unique artist in the industry.

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BÉATRICE CORON

Visiting artist Béatrice Coron was born and raised in France but has been living in New York since 1984. Her vast catalog of work includes books, installation pieces, sculpture and large-scale public art pieces. She has exhibited extensively throughout the world and her work is included in collections at the MOMA, The Getty, Walker Art Center, and many other public and private collections. Béatrice teaches regularly at the New York Center for the Book and Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts and has led workshops at many other institutions all over the world. Examples of her work will be on display in MCBA's exhibition Black/White [and Read].

Cutting for Design
with Béatrice Coron
Saturday & Sunday, May 31-June 1; 10am-4pm
All skill levels welcome
$225 ($200 members) + $10 supply fee

A creative approach to papercutting: participants will learn to use papercuttings as images and as tools for stenciling while experimenting with 3D structures for artist books. During this workshop we will explore how to balance positive and negative space and the different ways to adapt photographs and illustrations to papercuttings. Tips, tricks and resources will be provided.

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NINA BAGLEY

Visiting artist Nina Bagley is a writer and jewelry, altered book and mixed-media artist from the mountains of western North Carolina. She has been a professional jewelry designer since 1988 and started teaching workshops nationally and internationally in 2000. Her artwork has been featured in collections, catalogs, and books and magazines across the United States and Canada. Whether in metal or paper, Nina's work incorporates text with image and bridges a gap between book arts and other art forms.

Gatherings: A Portfolio of Framed Shadowboxes
with Nina Bagley
Saturday & Sunday, July 12-13; 10am-5pm
All skill levels welcome
$290 ($260 members) + $15 supply fee

Spend two days learning several different “framing” techniques to create shallow shadowboxes on vintage book covers from such everyday items as dowel rods, box tops, matchboxes, and mica. Create several art pieces that can be tucked within a ribboned “portfolio” that will hold your treasured artwork as a unified piece, lovely to place on a coffee table or shelf, or easily untied and disassembled so that your shadowboxes can be hung as individual designs on the wall. This will be a time of discussing various methods to work with dimensional items from nature, or relatively flat treasures gathered throughout the years, using wire, nails, brads, glue, and fabric to take your work “off the page”, to the next dimension. Techniques covered will include wire wrapping and the “Nina Knot”, clasp making, and mica work.

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