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Paper Arts Workshop Series 2010:
Register below or by contacting Ariel Wilson at 215-438-5711 or information@rittenhousetown.org. Member rates are available for current members of Historic RittenhouseTown. If you are not sure of your membership status, contact the office. To become a member of Historic RittenhouseTown and receive a discount on all workshops, please visit our membership page. REFUNDS WILL NOT BE ISSUED FOR CANCELLATIONS MADE LESS THAN THREE DAYS PRIOR TO WORKSHOP.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Paper with Personality
Instructor: Leah Frankel, www.leahhfrankel.com
Date and time: Saturday, August 28 12PM-3PM
Fee: HRT Members $35 Nonmembers: $50
Learn western style sheet forming while customizing your hand-made paper with stencils, pulp painting, watermarks, and inclusions. Decorate your paper as much as you want, or leave an elegant watermark to denote your design. This papermaking class will cover all the basic steps of making paper, from raw fiber, to the beaten pulp, through sheet forming, pressing, and drying. Various materials will be supplied.
PAST SPRING/SUMMER WORKSHOPS: 2010
Japanese Papermaking
Instructor: Christine Dellandre
Date and time: Saturday, June 12 11AM-4PM
Fee: HRT Members $55 Nonmembers: $70
This workshop will introduce students to the traditional method of Japanese Papermaking using Kozo, Gampi, and Abaca fibers.
Momigami and Paste Painting
Instructor: Richard Aldorasi
Date and Time: June 19 11AM-4PM
Explore Momogami and paste painting, two unique techniques used for paper decoration. Momigami is the ancient Japanese technique of coating kozo paper with konnyaka paste, then crumpling and kneading, thus creating millions of wrinkles and ridges. Students will also learn 18th century paste painting, which combines the use of wheat starch, water, and pigments in creating intricate patterns on paper.
Rescue Book Journal Making
Instructor: Diana Trout, www.dianatrout.com
Date and Time: June 26 11AM-4PM
Fee: HRT Members $55 Nonmembers: $70
Use very basic pamplet stitch to transform a beautiful vintage book into your next art journal. Choose white and black papers, colored papers, vellums oldpapers, or envelopes (well, let’s just say that there are many choices!). You will learn to reinorce a fragile book spine using a piercing template, pamphlet stitch and stencils. These lovely journals begin as old friends and just get better as you work in them.
Turkish Marbling
Instructor: Richard Aldorasi
Date and Time: June 27 11AM-4PM
Fee: HRT Members $55 Nonmembers: $70
Learn the preparation of a wide range of colors used in Turkish (ebru) marbling as well as the elegant method of figuring; thus producing the floral effects that have for centuries captured the minds and hearts this Ottoman/Islamic art. In addition to these traditional techniques, explore the wide range of contemporary marbling. Each student will print a 15 x 45 inch silk scarf and several matching paper prints used to create cards, wrapping paper, gift boxes, etc.
Japanese Collage
Date and Time: July 17 10AM-4PM
Fee: HRT Members $55 Nonmembers: $70
Here's a workshop where you can never make a mistake! Using wheat paste as the adhesive, students will learn traditional Japanese collage on washi papers. This workshop is chock full of fun! All levels welcome.
Papermaking from Invasive Plants
Instructor: Louise Barteau Chodoff
Date and Time: July 18 11AM-4PM
Fee: HRT Members $55 Nonmembers: $70
Learn how to make beautiful hand-made paper from non-native plants such as Garlic Mustard and Japanese Knotweed. This workshop begins with the communal activities of harvesting, preparing, cooking, and beating the fibers. We will use the fibers to create beautiful sheets of paper for participants to take home. This workshop teaches all the basics of papermaking by hand from plant fibers while supporting local biodiversity by using non-native invasive plants that compete with and drive out native plants that supply food and cover for local wildlife.
Bookbinding
Instructor: Christine Dellandre
Date and time: Saturday, July 24 11AM-4PM
Fee: HRT Members $55 Nonmembers: $70
This workshop will introduce participants to various bookbinding techniques, including accordion fold, pamphlet stitch, long stitch, Japanese stab bindings and other adhesive and non-adhesive binding methods. Although the focus of this workshop will be the construction of the blank book, students may bring their own materials, images, poetry, decorative papers, etc., to be bound into a book format.