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Fibers Through Time 2010
A Fiber Odyssey
Extend Your Adventure into Artist's Books |
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| Instructor: Curt Dornberg |
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 If you enjoy fabrics and can’t resist decorative paper, imagine the fun of creating your own artist’s books. Take “A Fiber Odyssey” to create an artist’s book from cover-to-cover. During your fiber journey, fill three “baskets” to your goal:
1. A Basket of Shapes. Learn a variety of small book structures and receive directions and demonstrations on how to create them.
2. A Basket of Expressions: Learn a variety of ways to print, decorate, and illustrate the pages of your books.
3. A Basket of Ideas: Learn to present a narrative, a sequence, or a process in words, pictures, or both.
Your three “baskets” contain everything you need to create stunning books – the goal of your very own Fiber Odyssey. | | Take Home: | Your “three baskets” full of samples and exercises for creating innovative, colorful artist's books. An artist's book of your own design and a box in which to present it. | | Skill level: | All levels | | Materials fee: | $20.00 | | Supply List: | - Several glossy magazines for obtaining collage papers.
- A few magic markers such as Prismacolor in your choice of colors
- A few hanks of embroidery floss in your choice of colors
- Small- and medium- size inexpensive watercolor brushes
- Exacto craft knife with extra blades
- Clear acrylic gridded ruler 18" (EZQuilt Draft N'Cut is excellent)
- Small scissors with pointed ends such as Fiskars
- Bone folder (available at most art supply or craft stores)
- White craft glue such as Lineco Brand
- Your favorite handwoven or surface-designed fabrics (several, about 12 x 18 inches each) or several fat quarters
- 1 yard of Wonder Under Web (without the peel-off paper backing) | | Reference: | http://www.curtdornberg.com |
| Instructor Bio:
Curt is a weaver, surface designer, bookbinder, and box marker. His artist’s books combine all these interests. Curt is a member of the Handweavers Guild of America, the Guild of Book Workers, Tucson Handweavers and Spinners Guild, and PaperWorks: The Sonoran Collective of Book and Paper Artists. In 2009, he returned to school, this time to study the book arts at Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy. His artist’s books were exhibited most recently in the 2009 Best of the Plains traveling exhibition and at the Business-of-Art Gallery in Colorado Springs. |
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