This virtual workshop takes place across four sessions on Mondays, November 1–22 from 6–8:30pm ET.
- Mon, Nov, 1 6–8:30pm ET
- Mon, Nov 8, 6–8:30pm ET
- Mon, Nov 15, 6–8:30pm ET
- Mon, Nov 22, 6–8:30pm ET
About the Workshop:
In this online workshop for all experience levels with Instructor Elizabeth Castaldo, students will be introduced to the process of creating artists books—from idea to execution—over the course of four sessions. Students will begin with concept—learning strategies for brainstorming, best practices for thinking about and working with sequential and image-based content, and how the relationships between idea, material, process, and forms inform a finished work of art.
Castaldo will teach three book structures that students can choose between for their respective projects: accordion, pamphlet, and drum leaf binding. At the end of the workshop, each student will have created their own one-of-a-kind artist book.
This class is a great opportunity for artists of any discipline who want an introduction to the world of artist’s books and is also perfectly suited to anyone curious to explore artistic expression with the book form!
Class size is limited to ensure an optimal student-to-teacher ratio. Register now before the remaining spots fill up!
Required Materials:
- Ideas, images, and materials to work with or incorporate into your artist’s book. This can include collage materials, photos, special papers, decorative papers, drawing material, etc.
- Text weight paper for inner pages of pamphlet and accordion
- Cardstock or heavy text weight paper for inner pages of drum leaf binding
- Cover weight paper for book covers
- 3M 416 double-sided transfer tape or similar
- Needle
- Bookbinding thread or other heavyweight thread
- Bone folder
- Awl
- Pencil and eraser
- X-acto knife or snap off Olfa knife
- A small metal triangle
See if any of the required materials are available in CBA's shop–>
About the Instructor
Elizabeth Castaldo is an artist, printmaker, and bookbinder living and working in Peekskill, NY and New York City. She received her MFA from SCAD Atlanta where she was a Dean’s Fellow in Printmaking and her BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Elizabeth works with printmaking, drawing, and collage to make works on paper and artists books that explore nature and the body. She has completed residencies at the Center for Book Arts and Printmaker’s Open Forum. In November 2020, Her solo exhibition, Proximate Magic, was presented at Saint Joseph’s College in Patchogue NY. In 2019 Elizabeth’s work was included in the traveling exhibition, “Freed Formats: The Book Reconsidered”. She organized the exchange portfolio “Earth/Mother” for the SGCI 2020 conference “Puertografico”. She teaches printmaking and book arts at Parsons School of Design and the Center for Book Arts. Elizabeth’s work is held in many private and institutional collections including at Savannah College of Art and Design, Carnegie Melon University, Yale University.
elizabethcastaldo.com
@ecastaldo_artandbooks
All images courtesy of the instructor.