Books for Exhibition and Display

Books for Exhibition and Display
with Sarah Hulsey
4 days, Saturdays
May 25th, June 1st, 8th, 15th
10 - 3 PM
8 participants maximum
Cost: $450 +$45 materials fee

Creating an artist’s book for display introduces a unique set of challenges. This class will focus on the creation of book structures in which a large portion of the content is visible at once, allowing them to function well in the exhibition context. We will cover variations on single- sheet books; map folds, both historic and contemporary; accordions and their derivatives; and accordion-based album structures. The class is geared towards printmakers and other 2D artists who are interested in creating artist books for display and exhibition. No bookmaking experience required.

Sarah Hulsey is an artist whose work draws on her background in linguistics to explore the structure of language in a visual domain. She received a BA in linguistics from Harvard, a PhD in linguistics from MIT, and an MFA in book arts and printmaking from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She has had solo exhibitions in Cambridge, Boston, and Philadelphia and numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Hulsey is a 2020 recipient of the Artist Fellowship Award in Drawing and Printmaking from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work is held in over 40 public museum and library collections including the Library of Congress, Yale University Haas Arts Library, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, the Letterform Archive, and the Ampersand Foundation in Johannesburg, Sout Africa, among others. She is represented by Bromfield Gallery in Boston, MA.

Free parking is provided.

27 Dunstan Street
West Newton, MA 02465
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