BAI Classes
The Book Arts Institute offers a wide-range of classes/workshops in letterpress printing, fine printmaking, book arts and papermaking. Classes change seasonally. To schedule a class/workshop, get more information about scheduled classes/workshops, or suggest a topic that you would like to see taught, please e-mail Gary Marc Remson, Museum manager. We can be reached directly at (310) 515-7166. You may also download the PDF registration form here, fill it out and email it back to either bookarts@printmuseum.org or gary@printmuseum.org. If you need to download Adobe Acrobat, go here.
All classes/workshops are $120, which includes basic materials and lab fee unless otherwise noted.
Cancellation Policy: Please note that if you cancel 14 days or more before your class/workshop, you will receive a credit that must be used within 90 days from the date of cancellation. If your class/workshop is canceled by the Book Arts Institute you will get a full refund. If you cancel less than 14 days before the class/workshop and we are able to fill your spot from a waiting list, you will receive a credit (less $25 administrative fee) that must be used within 90 days of your cancellation. If we are unable to fill the spot no refund or credit will be issued.
Vandercook Classes July 10 July 17 August 21 October 16 October 23
Windmill Press Classes August 21 October 16
Platen Press Classes July 10 August 14 September 25 (canceled) October 2
Papermaking Classes
Printmaking Classes July 17
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Vandercook Letterpress I: Introduction with Madeleine Zygarewicz
July 10, 2010 9:30am-4pm August 21, 2010 9:30am-4pm October 16, 2010 9:30am-4pm
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Learn the basics of hand setting metal type and working with images before printing two small projects on a Vandercook Proof Press. Course is designed for the beginner interested in learning the fundamentals of letterpress printing.
Vandercook Letterpress II with Madeleine Zygarewicz
July 17, 2010 9:30am-4pm October 23, 2010 9:30am-4pm
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This course will take your basic skills with Vandercook Letterpress and advance them with projects complex registration of multiple colors; working with handset type, cuts and polymer plates; press adjustments; and problem-solving techniques to train your “printer’s eye” in order to achieve beautiful, high quality letterpress objects.
Instructor Bio: Letterpress printing has captivated Madeleine Zygarewicz for over 12 years, cranking presses throughout the country and abroad. She received her BA in Book Arts at Mills College in 2000. Shortly after, she had a residency at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany to print a collaborative artist book, Body of Text. Her work can be found in special collections around the country and has been exhibited internationally. Inspired by the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, she established her imprint Panorama Press, offering a wide survey of printed matter ranging from greeting cards, posters, invitations as well as limited edition prints and artist books. Her days at the print shop include feverishly hand cranking, boning, scoring and stuffing letterpress printed matter while her Jack Russell Terrier naps in the sun. She is also a letterpress printer at Two Piglets and an art teacher at Oakwood School.
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Printing on a Windmill
August 21, 2010 9:30 am-4pm October 16, 2010 9:30am-4pm
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Spend the day learning to operate the fastest, most productive, and most complicated of all platen
presses —The Heidelberg Windmill. You’ll learn everything from oiling the press to setting up for a run and printing your cards. You will be taught by industrial trained professionals with years of experience.
Some letterpress experience advisable. Windmill manual required, for sale at $15 for enrolled students.
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Printing on a Platen Press I with Gary Marc Remson
July 10, 2010 9:30am-4pm September 25, 2010 9:30am-4pm (canceled)
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Learn the basics of operating a floor model platen press. From locking up your form to simple press adjustments, you will learn ways of correcting for all the mishaps that can occur as you move through the process on the way to your final project run.
Printing on a Platen Press II with Gary Marc Remson
August 14, 2010 9:30am-4pm October 2, 2010 9:30am-4pm
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After learning all about platen press printing in “Printing on a Platen Press I” you will find that there is a lot more to operating a platen press. In this class you will be shown how to correct for type that is not type high, easy techniques for multi-color registration jobs, what exactly is a work-and-turn or work-and-tumble, and other techniques to make your next letterpress project the talk of the printing world.
Instructor Bio: Docent Gary Marc Remson has been a significant contributor to Museum activities for several years. His interest in print started with an exploratory class in junior high school that infected him with the printing “bug,” something that has bitten most of the Docents and staff. He took all the printing classes he could through junior high and high school and ended up with a Bachelors in Industrial Studies. His intention was to teach Graphic Arts in the LA Unified School District. However, during college he was introduced to Dr. Richard J. Hoffman. He was the inspiration for Gary’s printing prowess. Gary learned from Dr. Hoffman that there are two halves to creating a printed piece: designing and the printing of a book or broadside. Gary chose to concentrate on the printing side. Shortly after Gary graduated from Cal State Los Angeles, Richard Hoffman retired from teaching and founded the Colombian 415 Chapel. Most of the people in the chapel were people Gary grew to know through college but he was introduced to others, like Ernest Lindner. Ernie used to talk about creating the Printing Museum at the Chapel’s monthly meetings and Gary helped him a number of times with displays of his collection.
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Introduction to Papermaking with Rachelle Chuang
Learn the basic techniques for making your own paper, along with the history of handmade paper in the Western tradition. You will make paper with inclusive elements and learn how to set it all up at home. Practical and portable papermaking will be emphasized. Prepare to get wet! A list of supplies will be emailed to you before class.
Rachelle Woo Chuang has studied hand papermaking with several established papermakers and organizations since 2000. In 2006 she received her MFA in Book Arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. PA. She is an adjunct professor in the Art and Graphic Design Departments at area colleges, teaches book arts and letterpress workshops, and runs her own freelance art and design business. She lives in Aliso Viejo, CA with her husband and son.
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Beginning Printmaking: Monotype/Collagraph with Sandy Cvar
July 17, 2010 9:30am-4pm
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Learn two printmaking techniques in one day! Explore the unlimited image and print possibilities with a variety of approaches to monotype and create low-relief plates to make unique collagraph prints.
Sandra (Sandy) Cvar is a working artist that received her Fine Arts Degree in Printmaking from California State University, Long Beach and has had her work shown in Europe, Asia and the United States. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards including Tijian Academy of Fine Arts in China. Her most recent one-man show was at Shorewood’s Malaga Cove Gallery Space.