[GBW] Wells Book Arts Summer Institute

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The Wells Book Arts Center is pleased to announce the faculty and their 
courses for the 2008 Summer Institute. At our institute we teach courses in 
letterpress printing, hand bookbinding, and lettering arts both by hand and at 
the computer. We offer housing on campus in an air conditioned dorm and meals 
catered by a local gourmet bistro. Our instructors are among the top in their 
fields, both here and in Europe.

The courses in our first session, July 6-12, are all at the introductory 
level, and these faculty members are the first ones to come back to Wells as 
second-time teachers. Peter Bain, proprietor of the design firm Incipit, will 
teach ?Stems and Beziers: An Introduction to Typeface Design? using TypeTool 
for its simplicity in design and production process; basic knowledge of 
Illustrator is recom¬mended. Cheryl Jacobsen?s course ?Basic Italic 
Calligraphy,? will introduce participants to this elegant and versatile hand 
that is a good starting point for continued study of other hands; Cheryl 
teaches calligraphy at the Iowa Center for the Book. Shanna Leino?s class will 
explore the balance between technical aspects and conceptual development in 
her course ?Making Books: the Beginning!? Shanna teaches at the University of 
Georgia?s arts program in Cortona, Italy. Katherine McCanless Ruffin, the Book 
Arts Program Director at Wellesley, invites you to come get inky in her course 
?Letterpress Printing From A to Z.? These introductory courses are great as 
stand-alone courses, but they also serve as terrific introductions to the 
courses in the next three sessions.

Session 2, July 13-19, has courses for the novice and the more advanced. Keiji 
Shinohara, who teaches printmaking at Wesleyan University, is offering our 
first course to include Japanese printmaking. Students in ?East Meets West: 
Traditional Japanese Printmaking and Western Techniques? will learn 
traditional wood block carving techniques along with various printing 
processes, all by hand. Dolph Smith, widely known for books that are anything 
but static, will teach ?Moving Parts: The Book as Kinetic Sculpture? in which 
students will take advantage of all 22 possible moving parts in a 20-page 
book. Ewan Clayton will join us from his native England, where he is Professor 
of Design at the University of Sunderland, to teach a course on uncials 
entitled ?Calligraphy: The Dynamics of Movement.? Participants will create a 
portfolio of pieces that explore the beauty and versatility of uncials.

In Session 3, running from July 20-26, our faculty are Inge Bruggeman, Anna 
Embree and Sara Soskolne. Inge, who teaches book arts at the Oregon College of 
Arts and Craft, will teach ?Considering Text and Image,? in which students 
will use hand-set type and various letterpress image-making techniques as they 
examine the relationship between printed text and image. Anna teaches binding 
in the book arts program at the University of Alabama, and her class in ?Boxed 
In: Creating Custom-built Enclosures? will learn to make boxes for individual 
objects, items of unusual shape, or larger collections of materials. Sara, a 
designer at New York?s Hoefler & Frere-Jones foundry, will teach her 
typography students the joy of digital type design in ?More Than the Sum of 
Its Parts: Turning Letters into a Typeface.?

Our fourth session, July 27-August 2 will include classes in letterpress 
printing, leather binding and calligraphy. Rachel Wiecking, Wells? fifth 
Victor Hammer Fellow in the Book Arts, will teach a printing course using 
Wells? collection of wood type, focusing on alternative printing techniques. 
The course taught by Monqiue Lallier, Director of the American Academy of 
Bookbinding, will be on leather binding in the French tradition. And Brody 
Neuenschwander, renowned Bruges-based calligrapher, will teach a course that 
explores text-based art using calligraphy and mixed media.

Whether you come to explore a new area or to gain experience in an area you 
already work in, we are certain that you?ll learn a lot, enjoy the camaraderie 
of other book artists, and revel in a week (or more!) of class with 
distinguished teachers in the book arts. Our website is being redesigned to 
make it easier to navigate; we?ll announce its grand opening soon. In the 
meantime, you can contact the Book Arts Center at 315-364-3420 or via email at 
dstefanko@xxxxxxxxxx We hope to see you in July!


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