Course Code: 25MPD100V
This four-day, virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Mondays, June 2nd - 23rd, from 10:00AM —12:00PM ET.
- Monday, June 2nd, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
- Monday, June 9th, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
- Monday, June 16th, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
- Monday, June 23rd, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on May 19, at 11:59 PM ET.
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 Shirin Salehi
Shirin Salehi (she/her) is a Spanish-Iranian visual artist, art researcher, and teacher living and working in Madrid and New York.
Shirin Salehi’s practice explores the relationships between thinking and making in the language of printmaking, exploring a register that usually focuses on the reproduced image to explore the dialectic between the concepts of time, memory, matter, and gesture of inscription. She investigates the expansion of printmaking from its grammar to other territories of interdisciplinary exploration working with sculpture, video, still images, and artist’s books. From the relationship between her two cultures emerges her interest in the tensions in the illegible image, the failed translation, and the veiled.
In parallel to her work as an artist, she is also an art teacher, a translator of Persian poetry, and an interpreter for asylum seekers. She has developed workshops on artist’s books and artistic thinking in multiple centers. She has taught at the Center for Book Arts in New York and at the LENS School of Cinema and Photography. In 2021 she was invited by the Foundation Amigos del Museo del Prado as a lecturer for the program Enfoques.
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 May 19 at 11:59pm. 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.