2016WKSP-05 Rhythm in the Visual Book: A Two-Day Workshop

Visiting Artist

2016WKSP-05

Rhythm in the Visual Book: A Two-Day Workshop

Instructor: Lise Melhorn-Boe

Location: CBBAG bindery

Duration: 2 days, Saturday & Sunday March 5-6

Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Course Fee: $170 members / $230 non-members

Materials Fee: $20.00 payable to instructor

Prerequisite: none

Registration deadline: February 17

N.B. this must be a fragrance free gathering.

In this workshop we will explore the relationship between text and images in an artist’s book. We’ll talk about which comes first—does it make a difference? Through a series of exercises, we will examine ways of using images and text to create movement in a book. Looking beyond image as illustration for text, we will explore how images can modify or contradict the text.

For Saturday, the students should bring magazines to cut up, or any images of the student's own to cut up, i.e. rejected / left-over prints or drawings, paintings on paper, fabric, etc. for exercises in pacing. On Sunday, students will be using some of the concepts learned on Saturday to create a dummy for a possible project, so will need images and, if desired, text of their own.

Lise Melhorn-Boe has been making and exhibiting books and sculptural bookworks for thirty-five years. Her work is in several public and university collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canada Council Art Bank, Library and Archives Canada, the National Gallery in Ottawa, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Sudbury, The Timmins Museum Centre, the Art Gallery of Algoma, the Emma Ciotti Gallery (Iroquois Falls), the Art Gallery of Temiskaming (Haileybury), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa), the Lake Galleries (Toronto) and the gallery at the University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus, as well as White Water Gallery and W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery in North Bay.