Book & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - Aug 16, 2017
Hello everyone,
I wanted to get some updates out before leaving on our total solar eclipse trip. For the folks expressing an interest in attending a Bhavna workshop in paper cutting techniques please see Sep 30 in the calendar. Noticed this week that for some kids the school year has started - don’t let the traffic or the getting ready to go back to school drive you too crazy - keep calm and take a workshop!
Want to see something really strange? How about groups of people pulling a Boeing 757 plane to benefit the Special Olympics? You can get up close and personal at the Long Beach, CA airport between 9:00am and 3:00pm on Aug 19. So what did you do today? Oh, I pulled a 62 ton plane 12 feet. Fastest pull so far - 5.12 seconds!
Helen Hiebert has a 6-week online class beginning Sep 20 - Oct 25, 2017. I love that these classes explore the idea of light and shadow. Paper kit can be purchased separately. For details: https://www.helenhiebertstudio.com/classes/. If you prefer an in-person workshop with Helen, please see Oct 5 - 8 in the calendar.
Instructors wanted at BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network). Their website: http://bainbridgebarn.org/. Press article: http://komonews.com/news/local/bainbridge-island-gets-a-new-creative-space-for-artists - BARN is looking for book arts and letterpress instructors. If you have an idea for a class that you could teach, or have classes that you have taught before, we’d like to talk with you about offering something at the BARN. Please send an email to mjlinford@att.net indicating your contact details, your experience and workshop ideas. They’d love to have you aboard!
Here are some upcoming classes in the LA area, San Francisco (SF) and along the west coast (it could be a day-long adventure, make a weekend or whole vacation out of it!)
Link to calendar: https://teamup.com/ksd9e12a80c3878ba5
- Aug 19: Coffee Macaron Class (Costa Mesa, CA)
- Aug 19: TwainFest! (San Diego, CA)
- Aug 19 - 20: Nisei Week (Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA)
- Aug 19 - 20: Pulp Ecology - Papermaking with Plants, Pigments, and Dyes (San Diego, CA)
- Aug 21: Solar Eclipse (LA will be 62% obscured, SF 75.5%, Seattle 92%, San Diego 57.5%, Portland 99%) - to see totality check out this interactive map: https://tinyurl.com/32b2vn
- Aug 23 - 26: Back-to-Back Wooden Books (Washington Island, WI)
- Aug 25 - 26: Paper Palooza (Portland, OR)
- Aug 26: [Waitlist] * One-Page Wonders (San Diego, CA) - (there will be another class November 12 but unfortunately that is also waitlisted)
- Aug 26: Historical Sewing Sampler (Los Angeles, CA)
- Aug 26 - 27: Nisei Week (Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA)
- Aug 27: Origami Palooza 2017 (J-Town, San Francisco, CA)
- Sep 2 -3: Bow Making (Olympia, WA)
- Sep 5: Downtown Digging (Los Angeles, CA)
- Sep 6: Full Corn Moon Night Tours at Point Arena Lighthouse (Point Arena, CA)
- Sep 8 - 10: Arrow and Quiver Making (Olympia, WA)
- Sep 9: French Eclair Class (Costa Mesa, CA)
- Sep 9: Drumleaf Binding (Los Angeles, CA)
- Sep 9 - 10: Santa Barbara Sea Glass Festival
- Sep 10: Limp Leather binding (Los Angeles, CA)
- Sep 10: Innovative Folded Forms I (Bainbridge Island, WA)
- Sep 14 - 17: Text and Texture: Making Expressive Textures with Calligraphic Marks (Coupeville, WA)
- Sep 16: Paper Arts: List Pad Book (Glendale, CA) - rescheduled from May
- Sep 16 - 17: Three Variations of Hard Cover Books (Los Angeles, CA)
- Sep 16 - 17: The Book as Interactive Sculpture (Seattle, WA) - Register by Aug 31
- Sep 18 - 21: Nuno Collage Cowl Neck Ever Changing Poncho (Coupeville, WA)
- Sep 21 - 22: Earth Notes (San Diego, CA)
- Sep 22 - 24: Miramar Airshow (San Diego, CA)
- Sep 23: Millefeuille Class (Costa Mesa, CA)
- Sep 23 - 24: * Stamped Nature Bound (San Diego, CA) - 1 space left as of Aug 15
- [NEW] Sep 30: Exploding Paper Cube I (San Diego, CA) - Oooooooo! Bhavna workshop!
- Sep 30 - Oct 1: Coiled Northwest Sweet Grass Basket (Bainbridge Island, WA)
- Oct 3: Fiber & Paper Arts (Pasadena, CA) - every Tuesday until Dec 12
- Oct 5: Full Hunter’s Moon Night Tours at Point Arena Lighthouse (Point Arena, CA)
- Oct 5 - 8: Light Sculpture or Paper Illuminated (Coupeville, WA)
- Oct 7: Paper Arts: Desk Top Calendar (Glendale, CA)
- [NEW] Oct 7 - 8: BOX with a TWIST (Long Beach, CA) - Registration deadline is Sep 23, 2017
- [NEW] Oct 14: Paste Paper (San Diego, CA)
- Oct 14 - 15: Cartonnage Tea Caddy (Los Angeles, CA)
- Oct 20 - 22: The Art of Coiling Baskets and Sculptural Forms (Coupeville, WA)
- Oct 21 - 22: Dust Bin Alchemy - Assemblage (Mendocino, CA)
- Oct 22: Decorative Box Making: Box with Drawers (San Francisco, CA) - Registration deadline is Oct 19, 2017
- Oct 27 - 29: Contemporary Crafts Market (Pasadena, CA) - lots of beautiful things to see, buy and be inspired by - see calendar for free admission
Newly found workshops are below. I encourage everyone to use the links in the calendar entries as a jumping off point to look for other workshops offered by that organization. If you know of anyone else who would like to get this calendar let me know. Conversely if you no longer wish to be on this list let me know as well. If you happen to know of other organizations or locations that have book & paper arts related classes/workshops, let me know and I will add their classes to the calendar.
BOX with a TWIST (Long Beach, CA) When: Daily until October 8, 2017, from Sat Oct 7, 2017 10:00 - 16:00 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca)) Paste Paper (San Diego, CA) When: Sat Oct 14, 2017 10:00 - 16:00 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca))
Exploding Paper Cube I (San Diego) When: Sat Sep 30, 2017 10:01 - 14:00 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca))
[Waitlist] The architecture of paper: A transformation of material (Blokker, Netherlands) hen: Daily until March 7, 2018, from Tue Mar 6, 2018 10:00 - 16:00 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca))
ARCHITECTURE OF PAPER: Transformation of Material (Milan, Italy) When: Daily until November 19, 2017, from Sat Nov 18, 2017 9:30 - 18:30 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca))
Pochoir and the Pocket-Link Book (Asheville, NC) When: Daily until November 12, 2017, from Sat Nov 11, 2017 10:01 - 16:00 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca))
Collapsible Cradle and Slip Case (Asheville, NC) When: Sat Dec 9, 2017 10:00 - 17:00 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca))
Caught in a Blizzard: Hedi Kyle’s Multi-Purpose Folded Book Structure (Asheville, NC) When: Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:00 - 17:00 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca))
Book arts: bindings in acrylic, acetate and plastic (London, UK) When: Weekly on Friday until December 8, 2017, from Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:30 - 16:30 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca))
Boxmaking: Japanese Portfolio (Los Angeles, CA) When: Daily until December 3, 2017, from Sat Dec 2, 2017 9:01 - 16:00 (Time zone: Pacific Time (US & Ca))