Travel Journal & Artist Book

Travel Journal & Artist Book
with Esther K Smith

2 days, Wednesday and Thursday
September 17th & 18th, 10 AM – 4 PM
Cost: $300 + $25 materials fee
8 participants maximum

Do you save the paper bags from your croissants when you are in Paris?
I did last time I was there-- do they still have them?
Do you hang onto the city maps and brochures? And the paper tickets?
Even paper towels that can be so different from what we know?
And the concert programs? And exhibition postcards?
Even if your trip is a visit to your family in Denver or a staycation— do you have bits and pieces or photos or family memorabilia? And do they pile up?

Bring the ephemera from your trips and together we will make them into a travel journal/artist book!

First day we will work on quick models of some basics--stitched pamphlets, accordion spines, even flag books—they will lead you into this more complex book.

Then we will start planning, designing, collaging and making our travel journals--and continue working on those Day 2.

Materials List:
-Each student should have a copy of "How to Make Books." Copies will be available for purchase at the studio.
-Ephemera from trips & travels

Esther K Smith wrote and designed How To Make Books and a number of other book arts books. Esther hand makes collaborative limited editions and artist books at Purgatory Pie Press with letterpress printer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers. Their works are in collections at Boston Museum of Fine Arts, New York City's Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Cooper Hewitt, and Whitney and other public and private collections throughout the world. Selected exhibitions include Harvard University, Smith College, The Metropolitan Museum, and London's Victoria & Albert Museum. Esther taught the long running artist books class at Cooper Union--and as a visiting artist has taught at book arts centers, colleges and universities from New York City to Wisconsin, to San Francisco to London and Berlin.

Image Credit: Book by Lindsay Stadig and Photographed by David Michael Zimmerman

This class is limited to 8 attendees.
Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio
27 Dunstan Street, West Newton, MA 02465
Free parking is provided.