The weather has turned warm here in Northern California (that’s the magnolia tree in my front yard) and I’ve been outside as much as possible. But no one ever seems to want to enjoy the season at hand — my mailbox is full of enticing summer bookmaking programs, making me want to skip right to July.
The Wells Book Arts Center in upstate New York has three week-long sessions, with intriguing titles like “Moving Parts: The Book as Kinetic Sculpture” taught by Dolph Smith and “Considering Text and Image” taught by Inge Bruggeman. A brochure is available here.
A new intensive debuts this year in England, at Wellington College in Berkshire, organized by two teachers well known here in the Bay Area — Dominic Riley and Michael Burke. You can find out all about it on their website.
Anyone know of any more?
The Book Arts Program at the University of Utah (part of the Rare Book division of the J. Willard Marriott Library) is wonderful. It has workshops year-round, summer intensives in design bookbinding with Don Glaister (Shape, Scrape and Paint: Altering Surfaces) and Tim Ely (Cracking the Code with Mixmaster Scrap, and excellent workshops for K-12 teachers.
Wells: A wonderful venue, lovely country, great people and food, clean rooms with windows and/or AC, a lake to swim in, and absolutely perfect studios. Worth every penny. Teachers like Carol Blinn, Laura Wait, Shanna Leino. Do GO!