Printmakers Workshop Series
When:
Repeats every month on the first Wednesday until Wed May 02 2018 except Wed Jan 03 2018. Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Where:
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Location
Who: This workshop is designed for 7th grade and up (typically 12 years and up).
Younger siblings are welcome to enroll if a parent or other responsible adult is willing and able to serve as their classroom assistant. Participating parents are also welcome. Due to space limitations, only enrolled students and activity engaged chaperones and PCAs may be present in the classroom. Please read the parent policy below.
How much:
Cost for Child/Student (adjusted): $138.00
Cost for Participating Adult/Student (adjusted): $138.00
Cost for Adult Educator and Chaperone: $0.00
Cost for Adult Educator and PCA: $0.00
Please register by: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 12:45pm
Description
This is a 7-workshop series led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple and organized by Nic Rosenau. It was designed by Séamus Blake, Cindy Gipple, and Angela Hed Vincent.
This unique series of workshops is limited to just 10 students ensuring individualized attention and plenty of “elbow room” for the creative process.
Students who complete the series will be presented with an embroidered DIY Printmakers patch and a signed Certificate of Skill Mastery at the final workshop on Wednesday, May 2, 2018.
Over the course of the first 5 workshops, students will create a 7x7-inch two-pocket hardcover case holding a 5x3½-inch hardcover meander personal symbol book and a 5x3½-inch softcover pamphlet-stitched book, using their own Suminagashi marbled paper for their front and back covers (and in some cases endpages). The hardcover case, hardcover meander and softcover pamphlet will feature each student's own personal symbol as a framed coverplate. At the sixth workshop, students will use their own Suminagashi marbled paper to create an origami wallet with interior sewn pamphlet. A final stand-alone workshop will explore the printing press.
Suminagashi Paper Marbling
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
1:00pm – 2:30pm (90 minutes)
Suminagashi ( 墨 流 し ) [sue-me-NAH-gah-she] paper marbling is the ancient Japanese technique of decorating paper with inks. It is believed to be the oldest form of marbling, originating in China over 2,000 years ago and practiced in Japan by Shinto priests as early as the 12th century. Suminagashi means literally “ink-floating” and involves doing just that. Japanese Sumi-e inks are dropped carefully to float on a still water surface and then blown across to form delicate swirls, after which the ink is picked up by laying a sheet of paper atop the ink covered water.
Combining fluid mechanics with artistic talent, an artist can control the floating pigments to form concentric rings of colors with a brush, other tools, or even their breath to create images suggestive of mountain ranges, landscapes, clouds and animals before printing them on a sheet of paper.
Learn more:
- Suminagashi: The Ancient Art of Japanese Marbling
- Paper marbling: History in East Asia
- The art of Suminagashi or Japanese paper marbling
- Suminagashi (Another New Design Studio)
Over the remainder of the series, your completed Suminagashi marbled papers will be used to create a 5x3½-inch hardcover meander personal symbol book, a 7x7-inch two-pocket hardcover case, a softcover pamphlet-stitched book, and an origami wallet.
Personal Symbol Printing
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
1:00pm – 2:30pm (90 minutes)
Design a personal symbol to mount and print on the printing press!
A personal symbol is an image that is unique to you! Students should arrive with an idea for their own personal symbols. Before the workshop, students should take time to think about objects and actions that carry personal meaning for themselves, considering images that represent important aspects of their personalities, their heritage, or convey an important message about who they are. No numbers, letters or family crests, please!
The images will be cut into a Speedball Flexible Printing Plate. These plates are made of a vinyl material that is soft and flexible and can be cut with school scissors or linoleum cutters.
Once all personal symbols are created, the symbols will be placed together on a print plate, inked with a teal ink, and then each student will get to crank the printing press handle to run one sheet through the printing press to print his or her own copy.
Learn more:
Your completed print will be used to as the interior of a 5x3½-inch hardcover meander symbol book. The result will be a unique limited-edition meander book.
Hardcover Meander Symbol Book
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
1:00pm – 2:30pm (90 minutes)
Create a 5x3.5-inch hardcover 10-page meander book. The meander (or maze) book gets its name from the way the paper is cut and folded to make the pages.
The meander will contain all 10 of our group's personal symbols and be covered using your Suminagashi marbled paper. Your own personal symbol will then become a coverplate framed in charcoal grey.
The result will be a unique limited-edition meander book.
Hardcover Case
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
1:00pm – 2:30pm (90 minutes)
Create a 7x7-inch hardcover case with book tape using your Suminagashi marbled paper for the front and back covers and endpages and your personal symbol as a coverplate framed in charcoal grey.
The pockets will be added at the March Workshop.
Softcover Pamphlet-Stitched Book
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
1:00pm – 2:30pm (90 minutes)
Create a 5x3½-inch softcover pamphlet-stitched book using your Suminagashi marbled paper for the cover and your personal symbol as a coverplate framed in charcoal grey. The inner pages will be 8 folded blank sheets of drawing paper.
Then create two charcoal grey pockets for your hardcover case to hold both your hardcover meander symbol book and your newly created softcover pamphlet.
Origami Wallet
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
1:00pm – 3:00pm (2 hours)
Create an Origami wallet with sewn pamphlet from your Suminagashi marbled paper.
This wallet, designed by Hedi Kyle, has a tuck-in closure and a card pocket perfectly sized to hold a homeschool ID, a bus pass and/or an ATM card.
Choose from a selection of non-patterned bright cover-weight paper for the cover for your sewn pamphlet and from a variety of text papers for the 6 folded inner pages.
Pressure Printed Poster with Sign Press
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
1:00pm – 3:30pm (2½ hours)
Create an 11x17-inch poster and experience the power of multiples in printmaking!
Begin by creating a template for your own multi-tone print design through a process of paper cutting and collage. Then print three impressions of your individual design on a Vandercook printing press using midnight blue ink on the paper color of your choice.
Then set your own letters by hand, choosing your font and letter size, and use the sign press to print your word or phrase in black ink over your pressure print image — then return your letters to their proper trays.
Turn each impression into a unique monoprint by adding color and other embellishments by hand.
This poster will be unique to you! Students should arrive with an idea for their poster image and their printed word or short phrase. Before the workshop, students should take time to think about objects, actions, words and phrases that carry personal meaning for themselves, considering images and words that represent important aspects of their personalities, their heritage, or convey an important message about who they are.
Payment information
Payment must be received by: Wed, Oct 4, 2017 - 1:00pm
- Please plan to send your payment the same day that you register.
The organizer will expect to receive your payment within 3 days of your date of registration — or by the payment deadline above, whichever comes first.
The organizer needs your full payment by the payment deadline so that she can pay MCBA on time.
- Immediately after you register, you will be emailed payment instructions from admin(at)homeschoolrecess(dot)com.
Make sure your email filters recognize this address as a legitimate sender. If you don't receive this email, please check your spam, junk or bulk mail folder. Contact the organizer if you are unable to find it; if you receive no response to your email, please call the organizer.
You are not officially registered until the organizer receives your payment.
- When the organizer records your payment, you will be emailed a payment receipt from admin(at)homeschoolrecess(dot)com.
If you've sent your payment and haven't received a payment confirmation, please contact the organizer by email or phone.
- If the organizer doesn't receive payment within 3 days of your date of registration or by the payment deadline, whichever comes first, the organizer may remove your family from the registration list.
You will be notified with an email from admin(at)homeschoolrecess(dot)com should this unfortunate event occur.
If you are unable to send payment immediately, please contact the organizer to make other arrangements. This protects the organizer from non-payment due to payment instructions blocked by overly aggressive spam protection.
- If you need to cancel your registration, please do so via an email request to the organizer.
Non-payment is not an acceptable way to cancel your registration. If you wish to cancel, please be respectful of the volunteer organizer's time and send an email request.
If you fail to send a cancellation request by the cancellation deadline, you will remain responsible for reimbursing the organizer for the cost of your family's participation.
- To help the organizer identify you in the registration database, please include your username and field trip number along with any requests. This information can be found in your payment instructions email message and on the registration form on this page.
Payment plan
You do have the option of making monthly payments (6 payments of $20 plus a final payment of $19) by arrangement with the event organizer. Please be aware that while you may make monthly payments, you may NOT renege on your commitment to pay the full amount, even if you withdraw your child(ren) from the series before it is complete — no matter what the reason for the withdrawal. The organzier simply cannot afford to cover your family's fees out of her own pocket. You MAY arrange to sell your remaining workshops to a replacement, but you will remain responsible for ensuring the organizer is fully reimbursed (that is, if your replacement fails to make the payments, you will still need to make them).
Monthly payments deadlines:
• Due by 5pm on Friday, September 15, 2017 for Wed, Oct 4's Suminagashi Paper Marbling workshop
• Due by 5pm on Friday, October 13, 2017 for Wed, Nov 1's Personal Symbol Printing workshop
• Due by 5pm on Friday, November 17, 2017 for Wed, Dec 6's Hardcover Meander Symbol Book workshop
• Due by 5pm on Friday, January 19, 2018 for Wed, Feb 7's Hardcover Case workshop
• Due by 5pm on Friday, February 16, 2018 for Wed, Mar 7's Softcover Pamphlet-Stitched Book workshop
• Due by 5pm on Friday, March 16, 2018 for Wed, Apr 4's Origami Wallet workshop
• Due by 5pm on Friday, April 13, 2018 for Wed, May 2's Pressure Printed Poster with Sign Press workshop
The organizer needs to receive your payment(s) by the payment deadline(s) so that she can pay MCBA on time.
Cancellation information
Cancellation deadline: Tue, Sep 12, 2017 - 5:00pm
TO CANCEL BEFORE THE DEADLINE: (1) Please let the organizer know as soon as possible via email. TO CANCEL AFTER THE DEADLINE: (1) Let the organizer know as soon as possible via email. (2) No refunds can be made as the organizer has already paid for your workshops. (3) You may transfer your registration to another family by posting the availability to the HSAdventures Yahoo Group (and elsewhere as appropriate). (3a) Any reimbursements should be handled privately between you and your substitute. (3b) Please let the organizer know about the substitution. TO CANCEL ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT: (1) It is not cool to just not show up. Please let the organizer know if you are unable to attend — via email, text message or voice mail.
Additional information
Please arrive by:
Please plan to arrive about 15 minutes early in order to have plenty of time to find parking, check in with the organizer, visit the restrooms and otherwise be prepared for our workshop to start on time. Please plan to be early to avoid being late due to inadequate maps, confusing road signs, road construction, heavy traffic, parking difficulties, inclement weather or uncooperative children.
Where to meet:
Please gather in the lobby of Open Book, by the coffee shop, unless directed elsewhere by the staff. Please check in with the organizer when you arrive.
Food policy:
No food or beverages inside the classroom. Open Book Café is located in the lobby on the first floor for before or after gathering snacks.
Alternate plans:
MCBA has a policy of not cancelling workshops due to adverse weather. Should MCBA cancel the workshop for any reason, any refunds would be at the sole discretion of MCBA.
Parking information:
There is limited free parking is available in the Open Book lot adjacent to the building, and metered street parking, pay lots and public ramps are all available nearby. Reserved handicapped parking spaces are located near both the front and rear entrances to the building. Please do not park in spaces reserved for building tenants or staff. Be advised that events in the building may limit availability of spaces in the Open Book lot and that Metrodome events can affect parking availability in the neighborhood.
Directions:
The Open Book building is located in downtown Minneapolis on Washington Ave. S. between 10th and 11th Avenues, near the Metrodome and just across I-35W from the University of Minnesota’s West Bank campus. Bus: MCBA is located on Metro Transit bus routes 7 and 22. The nearest stop is at Washington Ave. S. and 11th St., just down the block from Open Book’s front doors. Rail: MCBA is located five blocks east of the Downtown East/Metrodome light rail station.
Please login to register for this field trip.
If you have already registered for this field trip, please login to view your current registration status.
