Have you ever sent a Hershey’s chocolate bar through the mail “as is”? How about a ball of string, or a floppy disk? This introductory workshop will introduce students to the fascinating world of sending “wacky” mail! Class begins with a discussion of mail art history, as well as a student/teacher show-and-tell. (We will do a brief gallery walk thru of the “mail/art/book” show on the day of class.) From there, students will work on two different projects: the first is collage created in black and white, used for a collaborative project. The second class project involves students creating work for mail art call-for-entries. Class wraps up with a mini “exhibition” of artwork created in class.

Materials to bring: optional: white gel pen (to write text on dark areas of paper)/black Sharpie pen (to color in areas of black), flat collage materials that you would like to work with, such as photos/ephemera/ small bits of decorative paper, etc.), primary "mark-making" medium that you like to work in. Examples: rubbing stamping, pen & ink, graphite pencil, felt pen, colored pencil, etc.

Workshop + Materials Fee: $75.00

Date & Time: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 | 6:30pm-9:30pm

Location:  375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Note: Please read the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class

About the Instructor | Jennie Hinchcliff

As a “near-native” of San Francisco, Jennie Hinchcliff has been teaching classes in bookbinding and related arts since 2001. Her bookworks can be seen in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Special Collection, the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, and the Franklin Furnace Archive (among others); she has shown work at the San Francisco Center for the Book, Pyramid Atlantic, the New York Art Book Fair and the Tokyo Art Book Fair. Jennie’s work often incorporates one-of-a-kind elements such as found typography or handwritten correspondence, harkening back to the spirit of Dada artists and writers.

Jennie's personal work can be seen in the books "1000 Artist Journal Pages" (Quarry Books, 2008), "The Creative Entrepreneur" (Quarry Books, 2009), and most recently “500 Handmade Books: Volume 2” (Lark Books, 2013). She is a co-author of "Good Mail Day: A Primer for Eye-Popping Post", which explores mail art and correspondence in its' many styles and formats. Her blog "Every Day Should Be A Red Letter Day" promotes the idea that letter writing can be done anytime, anyplace, anywhere by anybody.

Blog: www.redletterdayzine.wordpress.com

twitter: @redletterzine