BOOK ARTS 101: Hist Whist
Instructor John Cutrone
Two dates to choose from for this erie introductory immersion:
Thursday evening October 27, 2016 from 6 to 9 PM or
Sunday afternoon October 30, 2016 from 1 to 4:30 PM
Tuition Schedule: Self-determined (your tuition is a gift to the JCBA Education Fund)
This Book Arts 101 workshop begins in the witching hour
with the All Hallow's Eve magic of "Hist Whist" by poet e.e.
cummings. We tune into that Halloween spirit by turning our
eye toward the spookier items in the Jaffe Collection
followed by a visit to our haunted print shop as we work our
spell to transmogrify you into a book artist, at least for
this one eerie night. Is anything what it seems? Who knows.
We'll begin with a screening of a brief video about JCBA and
the amazing collection of artists' books that is at its
core. We'll follow this with an in-depth viewing of some of
the artists' books in the collection––books that will
entertain, inspire, and astound. We'll honor the season and
Halloween by finding some particularly spooky and autumnal
books from the collection, and you can expect a local ghost
story or two, as well, from the instructor's cache of
Convivio Dispatches from Lake Worth.
After a necessary break for coffee and cookies, we’ll move
on to the JCBA Letterpress Studio, where each participant
will print a sheet of paper from type set by hand from
JCBA's collection of historic wood type. These sheets will
be the covers for the books we’ll make, a brief history of
the book arts that we’ll bind by hand in the Single
Signature Pamphlet stitch, a simple bookbinding technique
that you can use again and again in your own book projects.
You’ll go home with a book you made yourself––one that you
can read as sleep calls later that night, as you reflect on
the new outlook on books (and maybe even life) that you’ve
found earlier that evening at JCBA. “For there is great joy
in knowing how to do things.” All levels.
Instructor
John Cutrone is Director of the Jaffe Center for
Book Arts. He is a graduate of the MFA in the Book Arts
Program a the University of Alabama. Aside from his work at
JCBA, he is also a writer and a partner in Lake Worth's
Convivio Bookworks, a book arts studio specializing in
limited edition letterpress printed books and broadsides. He
is the author of the Convivio Book of Days blog, which
explores the quirkier side of seasonal traditions. (www.conviviobookworks.com)
Registration
Advance registration is required for all JCBA workshops. To
register, email JCBA Director John Cutrone regarding which
date you wish to attend:
Thursday evening October 27, 2016
Sunday afternoon October 30, 2016
