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ADULT WORKSHOPS BY CATEGORY:
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ADULT WORKSHOPS FOR WINTER AND SPRING 2010
Workshops are listed below in chronological order. Please make every effort to register AT LEAST one week in advance of any workshop. Decisions about whether to cancel a workshop or add sections are typically made one week prior to the start of a workshop. If you wish to register for a workshop less than one week in advance, please call 612-215-2520 to confirm that registration is still available. JANUARY 2009
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Multicolor Japanese Water-Based Woodblock Printing Make a multicolor woodblock print from start to finish while learning a water-based, portable printing method that is easy to practice at home. Learn special effects such as gradations and textures. Experiment to make each print different, or work to produce consistent prints for a small edition. Supply fee includes a set of five Japanese carving tools. This workshop is full; registration is closed. To be added to a waiting list in case of any cancellations, call 612 215 2520.
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Letterpress Open Studio Open Studio provides access to tools and equipment, plus fellowship! Open Studio sessions are not workshops; they are opportunities to work independently under the supervision of an experienced artist who can answer questions, share tips and tricks, and help you hone your skills. Work on your current project in a friendly and supportive environment. Register at least one week in advance to reserve a press. Reservations are first-come-first-served, and students must have had an introductory course on the press they are requesting (Vandercook, platen, sign). $40 ($35 members)
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Letterpress I (Monday section) This workshop is full. Please stay tuned for additional sections of Letterpress I coming up this summer! (Schedule will be announced on or around April 1.)
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Letterpress I (Wednesday section) This workshop is full. Please stay tuned for additional sections of Letterpress I coming up this summer! (Schedule will be announced on or around April 1.)
FEBRUARY 2010
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Introduction to Screenprinting $250 ($225 members) + $45 supply fee
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VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOP $195 ($175 members) + $35 supply fee
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Advanced Binding: Half Bound Leather Advance your bookbinding skills! This workshop will introduce using leather in bindings. Students will sew a blank book on sunken cords with a tube spine lining to make a smooth rounded back. The binding will be finished with a leather-covered spine and corners and hand marbled paper. $250 ($225 members) + supply fee: $75 includes leather paring knife / $60 if you provide your own knife Due to a schedule conflict, this workshop has been cancelled.
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Visual Journal Collective Do you keep a visual journal? Do you wonder how others approach this art form? Would you like an opportunity to get to know peers and be inspired by their work? Are you interested in a forum for exchanging information on the newest pens, paints, and other supplies? Do you want to commit time to practice your drawing skills or find a sketching partner? Do you just want to touch base each month with people who understand journaling? Join facilator Roz Stendahl at MCBA's Visual Journal Collective. This group is open to all visual journal artists of any skill level. We'll discuss methods, materials, and media. Group members will be encouraged to participate in round robin journals and theme projects. At every meeting we'll have discussion, share our work, and engage our minds with a fun journaling exercise. Read more about Visual Journaling at Roz's blog. FREE and open to artists at all skill levels. No need to pre-register, just drop in!
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Letterpress Open Studio Open Studio provides access to tools and equipment, plus fellowship! Open Studio sessions are not workshops; they are opportunities to work independently under the supervision of an experienced artist who can answer questions, share tips and tricks, and help you hone your skills. Work on your current project in a friendly and supportive environment. Register at least one week in advance to reserve a press. Reservations are first-come-first-served, and students must have had an introductory course on the press they are requesting (Vandercook, platen, sign). $40 ($35 members)
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A Pair of Japanese Bindings $95 ($85 members) + $25 supply fee
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Rag Paper Bring worn-out cotton and linen clothes or sheets and recycle them into handmade paper. Experiment with beating durations, combining different pulps, making thick and thin paper, and textures resulting from different drying methods. $195 ($175 members) + $5 supply fee
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Intro to Polymer Platemaking for Letterpress Bring your digital designs to reality through letterpress printing. Learn about digital design issues including film output, plate processing and printing basics. Bring photos, drawings, text or digital layout to the first session. Students will make plates and print their work. Examples and resources along with detailed instructions for processing your own plates will be provided. $195 ($175 members) + $45 supply fee
MARCH 2010
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Cutting Equipment Training + Bookbinding Open Studio Open Studio provides access to tools and equipment, plus fellowship! Open Studio sessions are not workshops; they are opportunities to work independently under the supervision of an experienced artist who can answer questions, share tips and tricks, and help you hone your skills. Work on your current project in a friendly and supportive environment. Bookbinding Open Studio's supply fee covers select text papers, select thread and PVA; supply your own bookboard, cloth, decorative papers and other needs. If you aren't already trained to use our cutting equipment, here is your opportunity! Through hands-on training you will learn the capabilities of each piece of MCBA’s cutting equipment, and how to use them correctly and safely. Completion of this training will permit you to rent this equipment and use it independently. $15 supply fee ($10 members)
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Boxmaking Made Easy An intensive weekend workshop that will focus on three types of boxes: a small cube with a fitted lid, a cigar-style box with a hinged lid, and a portfolio box. Students will explore a variety of papers and methods for decoration with possibilities for more complicated structures. $195 ($175 members) + $40 supply fee
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Non-Adhesive Bindings: Elegance Without Glue $195 ($175 members) + $35 supply fee
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Marbling Open Studio Open Studio provides access to tools and equipment, plus fellowship! Have you taken a marbling workshop, but still feel a little uncertain about working independently? Gain confidence by participating in Open Studio. Open Studio sessions are not workshops; rather they are opportunities to work independently under the watchful eye of an experienced artist who can answer questions, share tips and tricks, and help you hone your skills. Bring your own paint and paper. MCBA will supply alum, combs, cups, eyedroppers and 16" x 20" tanks of carragheenan.$40 supply fee ($35 members)
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Visual Journal Collective Do you keep a visual journal? Do you wonder how others approach this art form? Would you like an opportunity to get to know peers and be inspired by their work? Are you interested in a forum for exchanging information on the newest pens, paints, and other supplies? Do you want to commit time to practice your drawing skills or find a sketching partner? Do you just want to touch base each month with people who understand journaling? Join facilator Roz Stendahl at MCBA's Visual Journal Collective. This group is open to all visual journal artists of any skill level. We'll discuss methods, materials, and media. Group members will be encouraged to participate in round robin journals and theme projects. At every meeting we'll have discussion, share our work, and engage our minds with a fun journaling exercise. Read more about Visual Journaling at Roz's blog. FREE and open to artists at all skill levels. No need to pre-register, just drop in!
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Letterpress Open Studio Open Studio provides access to tools and equipment, plus fellowship! Open Studio sessions are not workshops; they are opportunities to work independently under the supervision of an experienced artist who can answer questions, share tips and tricks, and help you hone your skills. Work on your current project in a friendly and supportive environment. Register at least one week in advance to reserve a press. Reservations are first-come-first-served, and students must have had an introductory course on the press they are requesting (Vandercook, platen, sign). $40 supply fee ($35 members)
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Letterpress II $275 ($250 members) + $45 supply fee
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Studio Equipment: Collapsible Punching Cradle $45 ($40 members) + $10 supply fee
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Urban Journaling Learn to observe and document your urban environment and experiences in an elegant, almost glue-free book construction. First, students will create an archival multi-signature, longstitch book with a reinforced spine and soft-wrapped cover. Text pages will be acid-free art paper perfect for all sketching media. Next, students will learn observational and journaling techniques through discussion, demonstration, and examples from the instructor's journals. (Optional cover decoration methods students can execute outside of class will also be presented.) Following a lunch break, class will reconvene for an afternoon of sketching and journaling at the Mall of America. People, objects, architecture, conversations, behavior -- it will all fall under our scrutiny. Students will experience sketching in public with a group. (A brand new sketching pen -- the instructor's favorite -- is included in the supply fee.) For more in-depth information on topics covered in this workshop, visit Roz's blog. Her blog is also a great resource for learning more about visual journaling in general, and about the activies going on in MCBA's Visual Journal Collective, which meets the 3rd Monday of every month, 7-9pm, free and open to artists at all skill and experience levels! $95 ($85 members) + $20 supply fee
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Cutting Equipment Training + Bookbinding Open Studio Open Studio provides access to tools and equipment, plus fellowship! Open Studio sessions are not workshops; they are opportunities to work independently under the supervision of an experienced artist who can answer questions, share tips and tricks, and help you hone your skills. Work on your current project in a friendly and supportive environment. Bookbinding Open Studio's fee covers select text papers, select thread and PVA; supply your own bookboard, cloth, decorative papers and other needs. If you aren't already trained to use our cutting equipment, here is your opportunity! Through hands-on training you will learn the capabilities of each piece of MCBA’s cutting equipment, and how to use them correctly and safely. Completion of this training will permit you to rent this equipment and use it independently.$15 supply fee ($10 members)
APRIL 2010
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Book Arts for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers of Preschoolers (ages 2 to pre-K) Explore bookmaking as a way of developing early childhood literacy and a lifelong love of books. The class will begin with a discussion of age-appropriate storybooks and activities that can be used to get children ready for bookmaking. Most of our time will be spent creating basic M-fold, stick-binding and whipstitch books, and experimenting with variations of each. Special attention will be paid to using materials and tools that are accessible, reusable and inexpensive. Browse through commercial, artist-made and preschooler-made non-traditional books for more ideas. Handouts listing additional bookmaking and art opportunities for preschoolers will be provided. $20 ($18 members) per participant
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Skewer Binding $45 ($40 members) + $15 supply fee
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Miniature Books $195 ($175 members) + $20 supply fee
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Paste Paper $95 ($85 members) + $20 supply fee
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Visual Journal Collective Do you keep a visual journal? Do you wonder how others approach this art form? Would you like an opportunity to get to know peers and be inspired by their work? Are you interested in a forum for exchanging information on the newest pens, paints, and other supplies? Do you want to commit time to practice your drawing skills or find a sketching partner? Do you just want to touch base each month with people who understand journaling? Join facilator Roz Stendahl at MCBA's Visual Journal Collective. This group is open to all visual journal artists of any skill level. We'll discuss methods, materials, and media. Group members will be encouraged to participate in round robin journals and theme projects. At every meeting we'll have discussion, share our work, and engage our minds with a fun journaling exercise. Read more about Visual Journaling at Roz's blog. FREE and open to artists at all skill levels. No need to pre-register, just drop in!
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Letterpress Open Studio Open Studio provides access to tools and equipment, plus fellowship! Open Studio sessions are not workshops; they are opportunities to work independently under the supervision of an experienced artist who can answer questions, share tips and tricks, and help you hone your skills. Work on your current project in a friendly and supportive environment. Register at least one week in advance to reserve a press. Reservations are first-come-first-served, and students must have had an introductory course on the press they are requesting (Vandercook, platen, sign).$40 supply fee ($35 members)
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Cutting Equipment Training + Bookbinding Open Studio Open Studio provides access to tools and equipment, plus fellowship! Open Studio sessions are not workshops; they are opportunities to work independently under the supervision of an experienced artist who can answer questions, share tips and tricks, and help you hone your skills. Work on your current project in a friendly and supportive environment. Bookbinding Open Studio's fee covers select text papers, select thread and PVA; supply your own bookboard, cloth, decorative papers and other needs. If you aren't already trained to use our cutting equipment, here is your opportunity! Through hands-on training you will learn the capabilities of each piece of MCBA’s cutting equipment, and how to use them correctly and safely. Completion of this training will permit you to rent this equipment and use it independently. $15 supply fee ($10 members)
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Tab and Fold: Another Elegant Non-Adhesive Book Structure $45 ($40 members) + $25 supply fee
MAY 2010
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May through August 2010 workshop listings will be available when Summer Term programming is announced, on or around April 1.
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