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Jean Buescher Bartlett Kicks Off Fall 2011 Workshop Lineup

August 11, 2011 at 4:23 pm Leave a comment

The Hollander’s School of Book and Paper Arts Fall 2011 workshop schedule begins August 20th with Jean Buescher Bartlett’s Flax Book on Woven Tapes. Jean has taught a large variety of workshops at Hollander’s since the start of its School of Book and Paper Arts and currently teaches at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She also recently taught a Letterpress class at the annual Paper and Book Intensive and will be its site host when it returns to Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan next May.

On the website for her printing and book press, Bloodroot Press, Jean’s biography and teaching philosophy are detailed.

Jean Buescher Bartlett has taught the art of bookmaking to kindergartners through adults, both full-time and as a part-time visiting artist, at a diverse array of venues across the country. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama and her work is in many permanent collections throughout the world.

Her teaching approach is to awaken and sharpen dormant creativity through problem-solving, free-association, visual acuity, manual dexterity, formal design, geometry, color theory, critical thinking, analogy, metaphor, sketching and typographic exercises, working slowly and thinking clearly. A class with Jean is meant to open, resonate and celebrate.

In her upcoming workshop, Flax Book with Woven Tapes, students will create a non-adhesive book structure in which the text block will be sewn onto double tapes and then woven into the book’s front and back covers. The cover, made from Cave flax paper, will feature windows cut into the spine that exhibit the exposed spine sewing.

To register for this and other workshops, visit hollanders.com or call the store at 734.741.7531.

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