Handmade Board Book with Cyanotype Pages and Letterpress Cover (March 6 & 7)

Board Book with Cyanotype Pages and Letterpress Cover

This brand new exciting weekend workshop will introduce participants to cyanotype and letterpress printing, and to the artist’s book as a means to test and integrate mediums, images, and ideas. A loose prompt from the instructors (supplied via email beforehand) will guide thoughts about content and themes, and allow students to gather material or objects to use as “negatives.”

On Saturday we’ll collect botanical matter from the studio’s garden, coat paper with iron salts, and expose and develop prints in cyanotype’s iconic Prussian-blue-and-white color scheme. (We’ll use a light box in the event that sunshine doesn’t cooperate.) On Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning we’ll continue our cyanotype experiments while trading off in the letterpress area to set metal and/or wood type, and print our book covers. On Sunday afternoon we’ll assemble our books. Participants will leave with hands-on experience in cyanotype and letterpress, and eight-page board books.This basic mock-up structure, which opens flat, can be replicated to test ideas and techniques, collate prints or photographs, or tell written, visual, or mixed media stories.

Date/Time: Saturday and Sunday, Mar. 6-7, 10 am-5 pm with lunch break

Instructors: Meredith Miller and Lydia Neuman

Link to Meredith's webpage: here.

Cost: $350 (includes all materials)

Level: Open to all levels; no printmaking experience necessary

Instructor Bios:

Meredith Miller is an artist, printmaker, and bookbinder with over 30 years experience teaching at universities, community arts organizations, and independent studios. She is passionate about collaborative making, and helping people build confidence through material experimentation, craftsmanship, and creative problem-solving. She holds a BFA in Printmaking and Book Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and lives and works in Austin, Texas, where she operates Punchpress Studio, fabricates limited edition artist’s books, and teaches relief printing, typesetting, and book and box construction.

Lydia Neuman is a writer and artist focused on printmaking. She has worked as a technical editor, a museum curator, a production glassblower, and an art instructor, and believes that hands-on skills and “ownership” of arts and culture fortify us in subtle but important ways. She holds bachelor’s degrees in English (Bucknell) and Printmaking (RISD), and a master’s in Textiles (UT Austin), and has been awarded residencies and fellowships from Monson Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Penland School of Craft, Pilchuck Glass School, and the Women’s Studio Workshop. She lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico.