Course Code: 25FBB001I
This 4 week, in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Tuesdays, October 14th - November 4th, 2025 from 11:00AM to 2:45PM.
- Tuesday, October 14th, 11AM to 2:45PM ET
- Tuesday, October 21st, 11AM to 2:45PM ET
- Tuesday, October 28th, 11AM to 2:45PM ET
- Tuesday, November 4th, 11AM to 2:45PM ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on September 30th at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
About the Workshop:
This workshop will explore both the conceptualization and making process for developing artist’s books. The workshop begins with a contextual lesson on the book as an art medium, allowing students to draw inspiration for their own projects from published artists’ books. Then students will learn two binding structures—dos-a-dos and flag book—that they can choose between for their respective projects.
Subsequent lessons will cover printmaking topics like creating images by monoprint, woodcut, or collage techniques. At the end of the course, each participant will have created their own artist’s book. The class will conclude with a final critique and discussion of each student’s piece. This workshop is designed for all experience levels, though some previous book arts knowledge or experience is helpful.
Fun Fact: Artists have been creating experimental book forms full of beautiful and daring illustrations for centuries, however, contemporary artist books gained traction during the avant-garde period of the 1960s, with artists such as Dieter Roth and Ed Ruscha.
About the Instructor
Maria Veronica San Martin (she/her), born in Chile in 1981, is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, printmaker, and educator. A Whitney Museum ISP fellow, she is part-time faculty at Parsons, The New School, and an instructor at the Center for Book Arts and Mixteca. San Martín has also been a visiting professor at Miami University (OH), an instructor at Penland School of Craft (NC), and has led workshops at The MET, Bard College, Trinity College, Veralist, Interference Archive, and The Weeksville Heritage Center. She is a board member of Booklyn, an artist collective and nonprofit.
San Martín’s work engages with the cultural impacts of history, memory, and trauma through archives, artist books, installations, sculptures, and performances. Her work is held in over 80 collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pompidou Center, the Walker Art Center, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Whitney Museum, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, and the Contemporary Art Center, both in Chile.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally at The Print Center, Philadelphia; Goethe Institute, Montreal; Un Lugar, Madrid; Fordham University, New York; Trinity College, Connecticut; NAC Gallery, Santiago, Chile; Museum Meermanno, The Hague, Netherlands; Animal Gallery, Santiago, Chile; Center for Book Arts, New York; National Archive of Chile, Santiago, Chile; BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, New York; Cultural Center of Antofagasta, Chile; and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. Her work has also been featured at the Triennial of Poli/Grafica de Puerto Rico: Latin America and the Caribbean; Lincoln Center, New York; Public Art at Rockefeller Center in collaboration with the Climate Museum, New York; the LA Art Fair with the Museum of the Americas, California; the Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York; the International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. San Martin has received four times the Fondart Chilean Government grants; a Sustainable Arts Grant; two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. San Martin has been performing and talking about her projects “Moving Memorials,” “Dignidad,” and “The Javelin Project,” in museums, public spaces, and cultural centers since 2016.
All images courtesy of the instructor.