Artists' Books For students who want to explore making sequentially developed ideas in traditional and nontraditional book forms. Creating books is a powerful way to infuse your practice by finding new methods to come at ideas and themes, and it also increases visibility of your work and professional profile.
Students will learn how to conceptualize and produce artists' books through assignments, critique and exposure to tools and materials. The course also includes field trips to see the works and studios of people who produce artists' books and/or run presses and print shops.
Students will produce books intended for the production of multiple copies, rather than single copy hand-made volumes. Production techniques that will be covered and may be used for final production include silkscreen, offset, riso and digital printing as well as researching materials, papers and book binding methods. In addition to producing their own book works, students will research the history and methodologies of different book art practitioners, and study narrative and conceptual approaches to using sequential page formats.