Learn About Book Sculpture!

Be sure to mark your calendars for a fun Chattanooga Book Arts Collaborative meeting in June.

Learn how to create a sculpture out of a hard cover book.  Fold, cut and tear your way to creating a completely new sculptural form.  

Sunday, June 19, 2011

2:00 - 5:00 pm

Create Here

55 East Main Street 

Hassan Najjar, Manager of School and Family Programs at the Hunter Museum of American Art, will lead the workshop. 

 

You will need to bring a hard cover book that is several inches thick (you can pick some up in the "free bin" at McKays Bookstore).  Make sure you don’t mind if it is cut up and folded.

Also bring a glue stick, straight edge scissors and/or xacto knife or rotary cutter and a cutting board.

Also bring anything you like that will manipulate paper:  a corrugator, scissor/paper edgers, or punches, for example.  Hassan will also bring some of these with him.

 

There is a $10 fee per person for this workshop.

Filling the Pages

Sunday, May 15

2:00 - 5:00 pm

Create Here

55 East Main Street

Chattanooga TN

Join us!  Everyone is welcome -- from beginner to experienced artists.

Mandy Wilson will be leading a demonstration that will focus on creating content for the books you make. We will be doing collage and also an altered book page exercise based on Tom Phillips' "Humument."  Mandy will also have a handout with prompts, ideas and email resources.

Mandy will show examples of finished books that will inspire everyone to go home and fill one of the books that have been made in a previous class!  Be sure to bring some of your own books for "show and tell."  

Most supplies will be provided, but please bring the following with you:

• Rubber cement (available at Art Creations or WalMart)
• A good black pen
• Scissors or an X-acto knife
• An old magazine to use as a glue scrap
• Rubber stamps (optional)

Please note that we will NOT be meeting in the large room at Create Here where we normally meet (another event is scheduled in that space).  Instead, we will meet in the conference room at the back of the Create Here space.  Please come through the BACK DOOR, easily accessible from the parking lot BEHIND Create Here.  You can access that parking lot by turning north from East Market Street onto Rossville Ave; the parking lot will be on the left.  Enter through the doors with the CoLab logo on the door.