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Welcome to Porter Creative Commons 2016!
This year's focus is BOOK ARTS.
These hands-on workshops with professional artists will inspire Porter Frosh to take a closer look at Core Course readings. In these workshops, participants will challenge the formal conventions of the book format, using repurposed books as canvases for mixed-media collages with found materials, transfer techniques, and drawing to create exciting new artworks along with learning some tradational book making techniques.
Students must sign up for 2 workshops, (1) Altered Book and (1) Book Making
2016 Workshop Book Arts descriptions
Altered Books (Weeks 3-5, Oct. 10- 29)
Workshop participants will challenge the formal conventions of the book format, using repurposed books as canvases for mixed-media collages with found materials, transfer techniques, and drawing to create exciting new works and structural alterations. The analogy between creative process and writing process gives students an experiential counterpoint for expression.
Book Making (Weeks 6-8, Oct. 31- Nov. 18)
In this workshop students will learn how to make a modular folded structure to create an accordion book with layers, windows and pop-ups. Explore conveying an idea or telling a story through text, images and structural shifts in the paper treatment. Use stencils and rubbings to translate abstract concepts into visual motifs that transition over the course of the pages. Workshops will consist of technique demonstrations, discussions about readings, and examples.
*Special Event Wednesday, Friday, Saturday with UCSC Alumna for Creative Commons Oct. 12-15
These hands-on altered book and narrative book making weekend workshops with Brooklyn-based artist and UCSC Almna Katerina Lanfranco will inspire Porter Frosh to take a closer look at what they are reading. Participants will challenge the formal conventions of the book format, using repurposed books as canvases for mixed-media collages with found materials and transfer techniques to create exciting new three-dimensional sculptural objects. Narrative structures, both linear and non-linear, will also be discussed.
Porter Creative Commons is located in the Sesnon Underground (Porter D140) next to Porter Activities.
Book Arts Workshops
Altered Book (Weeks 3-5, Oct. 10- 29)
Tuesday Workshop 1 (Weeks 3-5)
9:50-11:35am Altered Books with Jody
3:00-5:00pm Open LAB with Sesnon
Wednesday
9:20-11:05 am Altered Books with Jody
3:00-5:00pm Open LAB with Sesnon
Thursday
11:40am-1:25 pm Altered Books with Victoria
1:30-3:15 pm Altered Books with Victoria
5:20-7:05 pm Altered Books with Timothy
7:15-9:00 pm Altered Books with Timothy
Friday
10:40 am-12:25 pm Altered Books with Victoria
1:20-3:05 pm Altered Books with Victoria
Part II Book Making (Weeks 6-8, Oct. 31- Nov. 18)
Tuesday Workshop 2
9:50-11:35am Book Making with Jody
3:00-5:00pm Open LAB with Sesnon
Wednesday
9:20-11:05 am Altered Book with Jody
3:00-5:00pm Open LAB with Sesnon
Thursday
11:40am-1:25 pm Book Making with Victoria
1:30-3:15 pm Book Making with Victoria
5:20-7:05 pm Book Making with Timothy
7:15-9:00 pm Book Making with Timothy
Friday
10:40 am-12:25 pm Book Making with Victoria
1:20-3:05 pm Book Making with Victoria
Creative Commons Artist Bios:
Artists
Victoria May uses fabric and stitching as the basis for mixed-media sculpture and installation that addresses the tenderness and absurdity in the human condition. She currently teaches Book Arts and Textile Arts at Cabrillo College, San Francisco State University, University of California Santa Cruz, and in workshop settings. She is an avid advocate for material re-use. In 2010 she received a Santa Cruz County Rydell Fellowship. In 2015 she was named an Artist Laureate by Silicon Valley Creates. She exhibits in the Bay Area and nationally.
Jody Alexander received her MS in Library Science from Simmons College and her BA in Art History from UCLA. She is the 2015 recipient of the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship. In her work she binds books with found and discarded papers and fabric in a number of historical and modern binding styles. She combines these books with found objects to create sculptural works and installations. Her work has been published in a number of books including Masters: Book Arts: Major Works by Leading Artists, 500 Handmade Books (Vol. I & II), and 1000 Artists' Books: Exploring the Book as Art. She has taught book arts at San Francisco Center for the Book, The Center for the Book in New York City, and University of California, Santa Cruz.
Timothy Furstnau received his MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from UCSC and is interested in text art, conceptualism, Fluxus, and proposal-based practices, artist’s books, kinetic typography, motion graphics, and code-based, generative, and procedural textual work. He has been collaborating with Andrea Steves since 2009. They work on a project basis, across many types of media and disciplines, including curating, interior and exhibit design, performance, and social practice. Their projects explore ongoing interests in materialism and waste flows, language, the process and politics of collecting, and links between social and environmental issues.
Katerina Lanfranco is a Brooklyn-based artist whose body of work includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, and mixed media installations. She earned her BA from UC Santa Cruz and her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. Her work is represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) in Berlin, and the Corning Museum of Glass. Lanfranco is the founder and director of Rhombus Space, an exhibition space in Brooklyn where she curates concept-driven group and solo shows. She is also Chief Curator at Brooklyn’s Trestle Gallery. She will lead 6 workshops Oct. 14-15.
Creative Director: Shelby Graham has an MFA in photography and a 30-year career as an arts educator and experimental photographer, including exhibitions in the US, Tokyo and the Czech Republic. Graham has been the Director/Curator of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) since 1999. She has taught courses in photography, digital arts and new media, contemporary art and museum practices at UCSC, San Jose State University, Cabrillo College, and Seinan Gakuin University in Japan.
**Special Event Friday/Saturday with UCSC Alumna for Creative Commons Oct. 12-15
These hands-on altered book and narrative book making weekend workshops with Brooklyn-based artist and UCSC Almna Katerina Lanfranco will inspire Porter Frosh to take a closer look at what they are reading. Participants will challenge the formal conventions of the book format, using repurposed books as
Altered Books - with Katerina
Workshop participants will challenge the formal conventions of the book format, using repurposed books as the source and raw material to create sculptural artworks through techniques of folding, cutting, and gluing. Books will be transformed from objects that hold content and narrative, into objects that are read visually through the transformation of their purpose, shape, and form. Through this workshop participants will turn a used book it into a three-dimensional sculptural object.
Workshops are 1hour and 45minute sessions in the Sesnon Underground.
Wednesday, Oct. 12
3:20-5:05pm Altered Books with Katerina
5:15-7:00 pm Altered Books with Katerina
Thursday, Oct. 13 Artist Lecture in the Sesnon Gallery at 5pm
Friday, Oct. 14
3:20-5:05pm Altered Books with Katerina
5:15-7:00 pm Altered Books with Katerina
Saturday, Oct. 15
8:30- 9:00 coffee and treats
9:00 - 10:35am Altered Books with Katerina
10:45 am-12:30 pm Altered Books with Katerina
1:20-3:05 pm Altered Books with Katerina
3:15-5:00pm Altered Books with Katerina