Explore automatic drawing, chance, and memory inspired by Surrealists’ experiments with spontaneous mark-making. Through simple prompts, participants will create unexpected connections between images, words, and personal memories to be incorporated into their own artist book.
Participants are invited to bring two to five small pieces of personal archival materials to use for their projects. This can include photographs, letters, notes, postcards, receipts, photocopies, fabric, or other paper-based materials. Archival material could be old or recent, personal or everyday, and does not need to tell a complete story.
The drawings and archival materials will then become the basis for a three-hole pamphlet-stitched artist’s book. No prior bookbinding experience required; all skill levels welcome.
Recommended for adults and teens. Space is limited and RSVP is required.
This workshop is designed in collaboration with the Center for Book Arts.
María Verónica San Martín is a multidisciplinary artist and assistant professor of Art at Smith College. Working across artist books, printmaking, performance, installation, and archives, she explores memory, dignity, and resistance in Chile and the Americas. A fellow of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program and a scholar at the Center for Book Arts, she created Moving Memorials, a series of over 200 handmade artist books using various printmaking techniques. Her ongoing project Dignidad, developed in collaboration with Chile’s National Archive, combines large-scale kinetic metal books, sound, and performance to explore memory and material culture. Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Lincoln Center, Museum Meermanno, and Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights.
Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of artistic practices related to the book as an art object. Founded in 1974, Center for Book Arts is the oldest nonprofit dedicated to uplifting and furthering the book arts and book art through education, preservation, exhibition, art-making, and community building.
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