Workshops Online Thinking With Our Hands

Thinking With Our Hands

Course Code: 26SPD100V

This four-week, virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Mondays, January 26th - February 16th, from 10AM to 12PM ET

Monday, January 26th, from 10AM to 12PM ET
Monday, February 2nd, from 10AM to 12PM ET
Monday, February 9th, from 10AM to 12PM ET
Monday, February 16th, from 10AM to 12PM ET

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on January 12th, at 11:59pm Eastern Time.

About the Workshop:

This virtual workshop at the Center for Book Arts is led by instructor Shirin Salehi. Designed as a follow-up to the critical development workshops offered in 2024, this new four-session program builds on the theoretical foundations explored earlier, with a focus on practical application. The workshop aims to deepen participants' understanding of these concepts and foster the development of new personal or collaborative projects.

Participants will have the opportunity to create a new book art project or explore interdisciplinary art within the framework of ‘bookness.’ Whether working on a new proposal or continuing an ongoing project, participants should be committed to dedicating time throughout the month-long workshop. They are also expected to present their work in progress virtually during the final class session.

Prerequisite: This workshop is primarily intended for returning students, though new students with experience in conceptualizing artist’s books are welcome to apply.

Required Materials:

Please come to the first online session with either a conceptual outline or a starting idea for your project, or with materials from a work in progress.

About the Instructor

Shirin Salehi (she/her) is an Iranian visual artist, art educator, and translator living and working in Madrid. With an interdisciplinary body of work that explores media such as printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and artist’s books, Shirin Salehi’s practice investigates the poetic dimension of language, focusing on ideas such as illegible writing, erased matter, and hiddenness in images. Trained in printmaking, her work delves into the nuances of time and imprint, exploring both within language itself. She has been an artist in residence at the Academy of Spain in Rome (2021), the Academy of France in Madrid (2014), and Fondazione Il Bisonte in Florence (2016). In 2022 she was nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award in Norway. In her commitment to social issues, she has been combining her artistic practice and teaching with the work of an interpreter and mediator for Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers and refugees since 2020.

All images courtesy of the instructor.

Class size is limited to ensure an optimal participant to instructor ratio. Register now before spots fill up! Registration for this workshop closes on January 12th at 11:59pm ET. The price of this class is $185. This class will be recorded and the recording will be viewable for up to 30 days after the class. If you cannot comfortably pay tuition but are interested in taking this class, please consider filling out our financial assistance application here. We will notify you if you are selected to receive a scholarship before the start date of the class. To view more information about our current scholarship opportunities, please visit this link.

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$185