Spring 2010 Evening and Weekend Community Workshops
Bookbinding Basics
Marlene Seidman
Saturdays: April 10, 17, 24 and May 1
9:30am-12:30pm
$150
This workshop is an introduction to the book form. Each week students will learn a new binding process, along with some historical uses and current examples of the form. Students will learn about the tools, techniques, and terminology of traditional bookbinding, as well as, build a variety of blank book structures, discuss content and form, and leave with a beginning knowledge of bookbinding construction methods. Structures participants will learn include but are not limited to accordion, blizzard, Japanese stab and a simple codex. No prior experience is necessary.
Marlene Seidman is a graduate of the Visual Studies Workshop/SUNY Brockport and received a Master of Education from Lesley University. She is currently the Visual Studies Workshop Business Manager and creates mixed-media artifacts as inquiries of social and ethnic customs. Marlene has taught bookmaking, alternative process photography, and media art at Visual Studies Workshop, U of R, and SUNY Brockport. Her installations, books, and photographs have been exhibited throughout the northeast and internationally.
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