Books with Multiple Readings

Books with Multiple Readings with
Sarah Hulsey
4 days, Thursdays
May 30th, June 6th, 13th, 20th
10 - 3 PM
8 participants maximum
Cost: $450 +$45 materials fee

This class will focus on developing and creating books that incorporate ambiguity and multiple readings, through a combination of content and book structure. The class will consist of demos and model-building of a range of structures that can be read or viewed in several different physical orders or paths. These include: dos á dos books, French door bindings, gate folds, pages that throw up or down, combination structures, and others. Students will be encouraged to incorporate their own existing work or to make new work for which these structures are appropriate. This class is geared towards artists working in printmaking, drawing, paper cutting, and other 2D art forms. 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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