Arts workshops at the San Francisco Center for the Book are the creative heart of bookmaking – where concept, materials, form and content come together. You'll find courses on varying approaches for creating an artist's book, the many art processes to capture your vision, and structures to spark your imagination.
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Title | Instructor | Summary | Status |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 2
Start: Saturday, February 13, 2021, 1:00 PM
End: Saturday, February 20, 2021, 3:00 PM |
Nina Eve Zeininger |
With just a few simple tools, a bit of paint & paste, learn to decorate and pattern your own paper for book covers, endsheets, or wrapping paper. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 3
Start: Friday, January 22, 2021, 5:00 PM
End: Sunday, January 24, 2021, 4:00 PM |
Shawn Sheehy |
Can't get no "satisfaction"? This movables workshop will help! |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 3
Start: Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 4:00 PM
End: Thursday, January 28, 2021, 6:00 PM |
Ellen Sheffield |
A workshop for artists and/or writers who want to expand their visual and literary practices by exploring text in the book format. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 2
Start: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 4:00 PM
End: Thursday, February 4, 2021, 6:00 PM |
Rea de Guzman |
Explore the fun and intuitive nature of collage in this introductory workshop. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 1
Start: Saturday, March 20, 2021, 2:00 PM
End: Saturday, March 20, 2021, 4:30 PM |
Elaine Chu |
Learn how to work with melted beeswax, paper ephemera, and found images to create stunning art! |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 1
Start: Sunday, February 7, 2021, 2:00 PM
End: Sunday, February 7, 2021, 4:00 PM |
Elaine Chu |
Create beautiful monoprints using gel plates and objects found in nature. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 1
Start: Monday, January 25, 2021, 3:00 PM
End: Monday, January 25, 2021, 5:00 PM |
Bettina Pauly |
Learn to create great images using a simple stencil in this introductory workshop. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 2
Start: Saturday, February 6, 2021, 9:00 AM
End: Sunday, February 7, 2021, 11:00 AM |
Radha Pandey |
Learn how to naturally dye papers which you can then transform into paper thread or kami-ito. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 2
Start: Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 4:00 PM
End: Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Tim Svenonius |
Learn principles and practices for tapping into your creative flow and maintaining a drawing journal habit. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 2
Start: Saturday, March 6, 2021, 10:00 AM
End: Sunday, March 7, 2021, 12:00 PM |
Solange Roberdeau |
Learn to apply metal leaf to paper, wood and stone as a compositional element. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 1
Start: Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 4:00 PM
End: Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 6:00 PM |
Stephanie Jucker |
Make an easy and useful handmade book to store all sorts of mementos! |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 3
Start: Friday, March 5, 2021, 5:00 PM
End: Sunday, March 7, 2021, 4:00 PM |
Shawn Sheehy |
Adapt classic pop-up structures to make YOUR OWN novel structures, and bind them up with a scroll-like technique. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 2
Start: Monday, March 22, 2021, 4:00 PM
End: Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 6:00 PM |
Rea de Guzman |
Learn how to transfer laser prints onto various surfaces such as canvas, paper, and wood. |
Open |
| Arts |
Sessions: 1
Start: Sunday, February 21, 2021, 10:30 AM
End: Sunday, February 21, 2021, 1:30 PM |
Judi Tentor |
Learn how to use this historic alternative photographic process to create multiple prints from hand drawn negatives and photograms from your chosen objects. |
Open |
| Arts |
Sessions: 3
Start: Saturday, March 13, 2021, 10:00 AM
End: Saturday, March 27, 2021, 12:00 PM |
Raoul Martinez |
Learn Fraktur calligraphy, a baroque version of blackletter. |
Open |
| Arts |
Sessions: 3
Start: Sunday, March 14, 2021, 2:00 PM
End: Sunday, March 28, 2021, 3:30 PM |
Kate Laster |
How in this time of social distancing can we connect through art and tenderness? MAIL ART! |
Open |
| Arts |
Sessions: 3
Start: Sunday, March 14, 2021, 10:00 AM
End: Sunday, March 28, 2021, 12:00 PM |
India Johnson |
Equal parts creative writing and bookmaking, this workshop's primary aim is play! |
Open |
| Arts |
Sessions: 2
Start: Thursday, March 18, 2021, 4:00 PM
End: Thursday, March 25, 2021, 6:00 PM |
Stephanie Jucker |
Create a unique artist’s book using textiles, stitching, inks and collage. |
Open |
| Arts |
Sessions: 2
Start: Monday, March 15, 2021, 3:00 PM
End: Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 5:00 PM |
Michelle Wilson |
Explore embroidery stitches on paper as a markmaking tool and means to embellish prints, photos, and artist books. |
Open |
| Binding, Arts |
Sessions: 4
Start: Monday, February 1, 2021, 3:00 PM
End: Monday, February 22, 2021, 5:00 PM |
Matt Runkle |
Explore the conceptual and practical ways of thinking when making artist's books, with a focus on editioning. |
Open |
| Binding, Arts |
Sessions: 1
Start: Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 3:00 PM
End: Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 5:00 PM |
Bettina Pauly |
Learn this visually intricate, classic artist book structure. |
Open |