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