Past Visiting Artists:

2010

Dean Ebben (New York, NY): Alternative Photographic Processes: Cyanotype and Acrylic Lifts and Alternative Printmaking: Gelatin and Gum Arabic Printing

2009

Cynthia Thompson (Memphis, TN): Layer Upon Layer: Stencils in Papermaking and Printing

Shawn Sheehy (Chicago, IL): The Mechanics of Movables

Karen Randall (Northampton, MA): Four-Color Printing from Polymer

Peter and Donna Thomas (Santa Cruz, CA): Ukuleles and More: The Found Object Book

2008

Galen Berry (Oklahoma City, OK): Introduction to Marbling and Advanced Marbling

Picasso Gaglione and Darlene Domel (Chicago, IL): Tape Tips: Embellishing with Rubber Stamps

Paul Moxon (Mobile, AL): Vandercook Maintenance

Béatrice Coron (Brooklyn, NY): Cutting for Design

Prudy Kohler (San Francisco, CA): Polaroid Transfers

Peter and Donna Thomas (Santa Cruz, CA): More Making Books By Hand: Exploring Miniature Books

Karen Hanmer (Chicago, IL): Quick, Expressive Rebind with Colored Edges

2007

Benjamin Rinehart (Appleton, WI): Cylindical Boxes

Doug Beube (Brooklyn, NY): Bookworks (Altered Books)

Macy Chadwick (Oakland, CA): Letterpress Printing a Collaborative Artists' Book

Amos Paul Kennedy (Akron, AL): Exercising the First Amendment: Poster Printing

Daniel Kelm (Easthampton, MA): The Book Restructured: Wire-Edged Binding

Carol Barton (Philadephia, PA): Pop-Up Structures and Paper Engineering

Peggy Skycraft (Estacada, OR): Marbling with Acrylic

Robbin Ami Silverberg (Brooklyn, NY): Wet & Dry Bound Artists' Books

Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith (Brooklyn, NY): Instant Artists' Book: A Letterpress Collaboration

Karen Hanmer (Chicago, IL): Flag Books: Interplay of Text and Image

Rory Sparks (Portland, OR): Edge Decoration; Traveling Took Box; Hardware for Books; Faux Etching on the Vandercook

Barbara Mauriello (Hoboken, NJ): The Art of the Box

2006

Paul Moxon (Fairhope, AL): Letterpress Finesse; The Vandercook Workshop

Benjamin Rinehart (Appleton, WI): Holiday Books, Cards and Ornaments; Unique Boxmaking

Picasso Gaglione and Darlene Domel (Chicago, IL): Rubber Stamping: Tape Tips 101

Emily Martin (Iowa City, IA): The Magic Box

Kitty Maryatt (San Francisco, CA): The Three Perfections

2005

Hooshang Partovi (San Diego, CA): Wiring Books for Sound and Light

Barbara Tetenbaum (Portland, OR): Pressure Printing: The Deck of Cards

Gaylord Schanilec (Stockholm, WI): Wood Engraving

Monique Lallier (Summerfield, NC): Full Leather Binding in the French Style

Kitty Maryatt (San Francisco, CA): Letterpress Doctor

William Drendel (Chicago, IL): You Call That a Book?!

Helen Hiebert (Portland, OR): Chochin: Collapsible Japanese Lanterns; Illuminated Paper Panels

Diane Maurer-Mathison (State College, PA): Suminagashi; Making Paste Papers

Emily Martin (Iowa City, IA): Secret Belgian Binding; Cross Structure Bindings

 

 

VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOPS

MCBA welcomes renowned artists from across the nation and abroad to share their unique skills in our studios.


Paper as Narrative
with Jessica Peterson
Saturday & Sunday, October 9-10; 10am-5pm
All skill levels welcome

How can paper become an integral part of your book? This workshop will explore how to use paper as part of your book’s narrative, as opposed to just a substrate for text and image. We will explore pulp painting techniques, inclusions into handmade paper, and different techniques to add texture and color to dry paper (both commercial and handmade).

$195 ($175 members) + $20 supply fee

Register for this workshop

 


Experiments in Pressure Printing
with Sarah Bryant
Saturday & Sunday, October 9-10; 10am-5pm
Some letterpress experience required

Pressure printing creates a textured printed surface that can be beautifully combined with the crisp lines and fields of color typical of letterpress. It is a simple process to learn, and can add a new dimension to printed work or be used on its own for quick image making. In this 2-day workshop students will learn the basics of pressure printing, including how to make a pressure plate, how different amounts of impression can affect the color and texture, and how to combine pressure printing with linoleum block printing. Students will also have time to experiment on their own and produce their own prints.

$195 ($175 members) + $30 supply fee

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Printing a Multi-Color Wood Block (or, How to Print Like Gaylord Schanilec)
with Gaylord Schanilec
Friday, November 12; 6-9pm +
Saturday & Sunday, November 13-14; 9am-5pm
Printing experience helpful

A follow-up to this summer's wildly popular "Multiple Color Woodcuts and Wood Engravings", this workshop focuses on getting the most out of printmaking on the Vandercook press. Students will work intensely on the printing process, focusing on make-ready, inking, and registration. Though Schanilec's prior workshop is not a prerequisite for this workshop, first preference in registration will go to students who completed that workshop.

$275 ($250 members) + $20 supply fee

Register for this workshop

 


Magic Boxes
with Emily Martin
Saturday & Sunday, November 13-14; 10am-5pm
All skill levels welcome

This intriguing variation on the Jacob’s ladder makes a lidded box with divided compartments. The lid can be opened in two directions and different compartments are revealed depending on the opening direction chosen. The Jacob’s Ladder is a 2,000-year-old Chinese toy, it and its variations have many wonderful applications for contemporary artist bookmakers. Construction and operation of the Jacob’s ladder will be fully explained. Students will assemble a model of the magic box using a variety of patterned Japanese paper.

$195 ($175 members) + $40 supply fee

Register for this workshop

 


Magic Boxes
with Emily Martin
Saturday & Sunday, November 13-14; 10am-5pm
All skill levels welcome

This intriguing variation on the Jacob’s ladder makes a lidded box with divided compartments. The lid can be opened in two directions and different compartments are revealed depending on the opening direction chosen. The Jacob’s Ladder is a 2,000-year-old Chinese toy, it and its variations have many wonderful applications for contemporary artist bookmakers. Construction and operation of the Jacob’s ladder will be fully explained. Students will assemble a model of the magic box using a variety of patterned Japanese paper.

$195 ($175 members) + $40 supply fee

Register for this workshop

 


Hamilton Road Show: A Printing Adventure
with Jim Moran and Bill Moran
Presentation: Friday, November 19; 6-7pm
Printing: Saturday, November 20; 10am-5pm
and/or Sunday, November 21; 10am-5pm
Vandercook printing experience required

Spend a day nurturing your inner printer. After getting inspired with a slideshow of printed projects from the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum on Friday night, you’ll get a chance to play with type and plates from the museum’s collections. Using large wood type and vintage advertising plates from Hamilton’s Globe Printing Collection, participants will be able to make their own restrikes, collages and broadsides. The Globe Collection, which offers a peek at American advertising culture from the 1930's to the 1950's, provides a rare opportunity to work with a vintage collection of printing history.

YOU MAY ATTEND ONE OR BOTH WEEKEND PRINTING DAYS.
When registering, please specify Saturday, Sunday or both.

$115 ($95 members) + $10 supply fee for 1 day (please specify which day)
$215 ($195 members) + $10 supply fee for both Saturday and Sunday

Register for this workshop

 

 

 


 

 

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is open to the public:
Tuesdays: 10 am to 9 pm
Wednesdays through Saturdays: 10 am to 5 pm
Sundays: noon to 4 pm
Mondays: closed

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is located in
the Open Book Building in downtown Minneapolis
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612.215.2520
Fax: 612.215.2545
Email: mcba@mnbookarts.org

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