Resources
Okay book arts, letterpress, and papermaking enthusiasts…you’ve emailed me and I’ll be listing all kinds of resources and links, especially in Southern California. Check out the LINKS on the sidebar of this site. This list is not exhaustive and primarily serves as a beginning step to plunge wider and deeper.
BOOK ARTS
I’m working on links, but here are some Southern California classes open to all ages:
• Kim Garrison is teaching book arts at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa
• Eva Vacca is teaching book arts and printmaking at Angels Gate in San Pedro:
http://angelsgateart.org/classes.html
• San Diego Book Arts
• I am offering book arts classes at Irvine Fine Arts Center and the International Printing Museum.
Don’t miss visiting the Cerritos Public Library which as a fabulous book arts collection as well as many other collections listed in LINKS.
Besides the educational institutions listed in my links, just found about Mills College’s MFA in Creative Writing & Book Art, the first of its kind. They are now taking applications for Fall ‘09. Email grad-admission@mills.edu. Mills College is located in Oakland, CA (though not in Southern Cal, at least there is now one MFA Book Arts program on the West Coast!)
LETTERPRESS
Go first to www.briarpress.org. It has most everything you need to start your letterpress journey. Click on the Workshops category for national listings of classes.
I’m working on links, but now here are some local Southern California classes:
• Lala Press in Los Angeles offers letterpress instruction and press rental time. Check out their beautiful work on their site.
• Otis Lab Press in Los Angeles
• Gerald Lange’s class at Otis
• Letterpress classes at the Armory Center for the Arts
• The International Printing Museum is offering classes, see listing on my Classes page
Places to visit: Besides the above, don’t miss visiting Scripps College Press in Claremont, CA.
PAPERMAKING
• Hiromi Paper is a must-go at the Bergamot Art Center in Santa Monica.
• Hand Papermaking magazine
• Jill Littlewood in Santa Barbara is an outstanding papermaking artist.
• Denise Figuerdo teaches papermaking at Cal State Long Beach
• Colin Browne is a papermaker in Sierra Madre
• Local colleges with papermaking facilities include CSULB and Scripps College.
• I’ll be starting up papermaking classes at the Irvine Fine Arts Center and the International Printing Museum.
Where are all the papermakers in Southern California? Email me if you find contacts.
OTHER LINKS:
I have to give credit where credit is due. I learned everything about papermaking from:
• Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD
• Ellen Mears Kennedy in Bethesda, MD
• Jocelyn Chateauvert of SC (took her workshop at Women’s Studio Workshop)
• Amanda Degener of Cave Paper
Papermaking workshops/intensives can be found all over, the most notable being:
• Haystack
• Penland School of Crafts
• Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts