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Winter and Spring 2012 Classes at VABC
Look at the great classes coming this winter and spring. Instructors, dates, fees, listed below. Learn letterpress with wood, how to make an enclosed box for a book or other treasured item, and how to design with type.
And be on the lookout for the return of our intensive bookbinding course. It will be, like “Design with Type,” eligible for the UVa Education benefit. If you have been UVa faculty or staff for more than one year and you receive the benefit, you could take this class at no cost. To read more or see application, click here.
More classes on the way! Maybe you want to bookmark our full class schedule page for reference.
Bookmakers corner drop in classes are taking shape too.
Japanese Wood Block Class
Instructor: Lana Lambert
Dates: April 28th (1st class) and May 5th (2nd class) 12 Noon – 4pm
Fee: $150 members, $175 non-members
The Japanese Woodblock Printing or Moku Hanga process is as beautiful as the prints it produces. In an age of getting-it-done-yesterday-everything-all-the-time-prefabulousness, a process that lets you slow down and reconnect with natural materials and work with your hands is invaluable. It also offers the portability of any flat surface and does not require a press. The process satisfies both the need for sculpting in three dimensions (block carving) and producing two dimensional imagery (printing). In this two day workshop, students will learn how the Japanese pulled masterful prints using only a block of wood, a bit of rice paste, and a bit of pigment. Students will learn carving techniques and a light history of Edo era printing on the first day. After carving the block at home for a week, students will learn printing techniques on the second and last day. Experience the beauty of this water based printing technique and take home your own hand carved block as well as an edition of sumi ink prints.
Contact: kmcfadden@virginia.edu for inquiries and registration
Intensive Bookbinding Certification: Coptic Binding
Instructors: Kristin Adolfson and Lindsey Mears
Tuition: $500 (Member and Nonmember price, UVa Education Benefit Eligible) VABC Members not using Education Benefit receive $50 discount ($450)
Dates: Tuesday, March 27 to May 1 Six Tuesdays, 5:30-8:30pm At: The Virginia Arts of the Book Center 2125 Ivy Road (Ivy Road Shopping Center)
Contact: kmcfadden@virginia.edu for inquiries and registration
In this Intensive Bookbinding Certification course we will master coptic binding, a “glueless” bookbinding technique. The course will begin with a paste paper workshop to create decorative covers for our books. We will then cover everything from the importance of paper and grain direction, cloth and board types, stitching techniques, bookbinding tools, planning and measuring, sewing, and other bookmaking embellishments. By the end of the class, students will have a bookmaking vocabulary, two to three coptic sewn books, as well as the skills to create their own hand-bound book projects. VABC Certification for Coptic Bookbinding upon successful completion of the class.
March 27: Paste Paper workshop April 3: Introduction to tools, paper, bookcloth, thread, folding, signatures April 10: Creating the covers, hole drilling April 17: Coptic sewing – sewing on the bench April 24: Continuation of coptic sewing May 1: Finishing work session, sharing, evaluations
Design with Type Certification Course*
Instructor: Josef Beery
Dates: Sat, Apr 28 through Sat, Jun 2 6 Saturdays, 10 a.m. - Noon
Fee: $500 (Member and Nonmember price, *UVa Education Benefit Eligible) VABC Members not using Education Benefit receive $50 discount ($450)
Contact kmcfadden@virginia.edu for inquiries and registration.
In this Design Certification Course students will receive a strong introduction to typography and design for print. The course will be held in the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, home to a letterpress printing laboratory with hundreds of cases of wood and metal type. The course will outline the history of printing, type design, and book production. Students will learn the basics of design for the printed page through hands on work. Students will use conventional page layout software on their own desktop computers to complete assignments in the design of posters, brochures, magazine articles, and books. At the completion of the course students will receive a certificate of mastery in “Design with Type.”