Mar 24-26, 2017 9:30am – 5:30pm

Description

Many of us have a book in us, some a sketchy but persistent idea and some, a more fully formed vision. This will be a weekend of bringing those ideas into book form in a supportive community. Bring your ideas for narratives, themes in your work, current concerns, family photographs, mementos, journeys, memories, dreams…and we will work together to make them into handmade books.

Bring photo files that interest and have energy for you for this project and your laptop with the version of Photoshop you use. We’ll have papers and cover materials, but you may be moved to bring in additional ones that speak to you for possible inclusions, collage, covers, end-paper, ribbons, etc.

We will begin at 9 am Friday morning and finish by 3pm Sunday afternoon.

Biography

Diane Farris is an artist/photographer working in Gainesville, Florida. Her work has been widely collected and published, with several public commissions. She has worked with images the Florida prairie and its Sandhill Cranes, as well as photographs concerning home, nature, water and sustainability. Her current body of work, Volumes, explores a long-standing interest in books as subject – and as object. Her work is in several traditionally published books (In Dolphin Time, Type Tales, the series of New Vegetarian Classics) and artist books on subjects ranging from Rome and Gingko Leaves to Elephants and the color Blue.

See more on her website:  www.dianefarris.com