This workshop is for artists, designers and cultural agents with or without previous experience in artists’ books. Juana Meneses and Leila A. Leder Kremer of Portable Editions will guide you to envision the book format as a public space and to explore aspects of you artistic practice in new ways.

Publications are indispensable tools for the communication of artistic discourse, ideation and implementations of ideas. As such self-publishing is a practical way of encapsulating these concepts and making them available to a wider audience. This workshop is dedicated to the production of artists’ books and publications by artists, designers, and cultural agents with different levels of experience in artists’ books.

Through a variety of projects we will explore the use of narrative, image editing and layout design. Participants will make their own zine and one spread will be printed with the Riso machine to give you a taste of what the Riso can do.

Portable Editions reserves the right to use images created for promotional purposes.

What to bring

• A book that you love! Think about the image and text relationship, format, paper, etc. Be ready to share with the group why you think the book is successful. Bring something that you find inspiring. There might be an element that you want to emulate.
• Elements that you want to work with such as: copies or original drawings, photos, collage elements, text, anything that you would be comfortable cutting and adding to your book.
• Lunch! Girls’ Club will have snacks, water, tea and coffee on available.

$50 registration fee