Book Arts
Ideas & Aesthetics

Saturday, June 3
12 - 3pm
Bushwick Brooklyn
Just off the L Train, Jefferson Station
This hands-on workshop is open to all creatives and thinkers. Most materials and tools are provided, just bring your ideas and questions and I will show you how to transform them into the conceptual framework of an artists book - "the structure of a book is no longer a passive vessel for content but a specific visual medium with its own possibilities and limitations: a new space in which ideas can be activated.”
Seating is limited, Email aprilmarten@outlook.com to reserve your spot.
Workshop fee $65
Artists Books
Making conceptual artists books is an important part of my art process. Thinking through ideas via three-dimensional and four-dimensional formats allows me to move beyond the flat 2-page-spread of a sketchbook and into space and time. I creates works both from fine art material and found objects. Altering existing old books is an opportunity to reconsider how knowledge and ideas are distributed. Each altered book is a hopeful portrait of how destruction can feed creation.


Southern Hypocrisy, 2008
UNCC Special Collections, North Carolina


Collection of the Artist, NFS
Cherry Pickers: The Despoiling of Virgin Minds, 2015
Performance Art Artifact
Davidson College


Return to Sender, 2016
private collection
Altar Book I 2015, private collection
Altar Book II, 2016, nfs

America's Longest Lasting Roll: Rapidly Dissolving, 2016
Scroll

Jehovah's Sutras, 2016,
Altered Book Pages
Folded Paper Mouth, Wood & Glass Box private collection

Ceramic and Paper, 2016

Between the Divine and Man, 2016
Accordion Book, Paper, Silver Leaf


Folded Book, Found Paper, 2016 NFS

Baby's First Bible, 2015,
Altered Book

Pamphlet Stitch Booklet, Envelope & Card
Found Paper, Original Photographs, Rice Paper, Linen Thread

You Will Have A Women President in 2017, Ceramic, paper and Acrylic, Limited Edition (14)
private collections



interior view

alternative view

Simplicity, Folded Book, 2016
private collection