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Decal-O-Mania! with Garth Johnson Sunday, June 1, 1-3pm $30 / $25 members Connections: Exploring the Relationship between Poetry and Music with Daniel Godston Saturday, July 19, 1-4pm $35 / $30 members Uncover Your Voice: A Three-Week Workshop Offered to Aspiring Writers with Carmen Alicia Murguia Wednesdays, August 6, 13, 20, 10-11:30am $45 / $40 members The Language of Pop-Ups with Shawn Sheehy Saturday and Sunday, August 16-17, 12-5pm $75 / $70 members |
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with Garth Johnson Sunday, June 1, 1-3pm $30 / $25 members 
All you need to create beautiful works of decal art is an inkjet printer, (or a Kinko's), and your own creativity. In this workshop we will create decals and explore their uses on all types of material.Decals work great on a ceramic surfaces, (like a found plate from a thrift store), tile, wood, and plastic. We'll be working with a great brand of decal paper called "Lazertran" that you can put on just about any surface. During class time we will also talk about other cheap ways to make your own decals with "water slide" decal paper and spray paint. As a bonus, Garth Johnson will show you how to make your own cut vinyl stickers. Please bring a .jpg image saved on a jump drive or send it to us prior to the workshop. |
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Exploring the Relationship between Poetry and Music with Daniel Godston Saturday, July 19, 1-4pm $35 / $30 members 
There are many deep connections between poetry and music. Imagery, metaphor, meter, and tone are several poetic elements by which those connections can be explored. Jazz, blues, rock and roll, and other musical genres have provided inspiration for poets, over the years. Sometimes poetry has provided inspiration for music, sometimes music has inspired poetry, and other times the inspirational flow moves back and forth between poetry and music. We will write poems that explore these connections and read several poems that connect with music, including those by Harryette Mullen, Jayne Cortez, Sterling Plumpp, Sun Ra, Ed Roberson, and Steve Dalachinsky. In addition we will discuss our personal experiences collaborating with poetry and music.Daniel Godston teaches, writes, and creates music in Chicago. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Chase Park, Versal, Drunken Boat, 580 Split, Kyoto Journal, Eratica, California Quarterly, after hours, Moria, Sentinel Poetry, and other print publications and online journals, and his nonfiction has appeared in print and websites such as Teaching Artist Journal, Afropop Worldwide, and The Jazz Institute of Chicago’s JazzGram. His poem “Mask to Skin to Blood to Heart to Bone and Back” was nominated by the editors of 580 Split for the Pushcart Prize. In February 2007 he curated the Forth Sound Back event, in the Red Rover Series. He works with the Borderbend Arts Collective to organize the Chicago Calling Arts Festival. |
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A Three-Week Workshop Offered to Aspiring Writers with Carmen Alicia Murguia Wednesdays, August 6, 13, 20, 10-11:30am $45 / $40 members Poet, writer and journalist Carmen Alicia Murguia offers an opportunity to explore who you are through prose and poetry. By sharing stories about personal life experience, develop a manuscript, and ultimately perform/read our work at a public reading in the Woodland Pattern Gallery on Friday, August 22, 7pm. Carmen Alicia Murguia is a 1991 graduate of Minnesota's Loft Literary Center 'Writers of Color Program.' Under the mentorship of Puerto Rican Novelist Sandra Benitez and black, lesbian author Jewelle Gomez, Carmen has published work in: Lambda Book Report, Atlanta's Southern Voice, and The Journal of the Southern Poverty Law Center; and locally in InStep News and El Conquistador. In 1994, Carmen self-published, The Voices Inside: Mi Alma, Mi Cuerpo y Mi Espiritu, and her poems, 'Border Crossing' and 'When I Grow Up I Want to Be A Mariachi' appear in the unprecedented anthology, Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press 2003). She is the recipient of: Milwaukee County Arts Board 'Art Futures Award,' was named 'One of 30 Most Influential People You Should Know' by Milwaukee Magazine, was also named 1 of 16 Most Influential Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Latinas/os in the Country by Tentaciones Magazine, and the Charles 'D' Production's Certificate of Appreciation for her Activism, Achievements, Visibility and Leadership. |
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with Shawn Sheehy Saturday and Sunday, August 16-17, 12-5pm $75 / $70 members 
Who hasn't been surprised and delighted by the magic of a pop-up book?In this 2-day workshop students will acquire sufficient knowledge of pop-up structure to shed light on the engineer's secrets. Beginning with basic tools and techniques of pop-up construction, participants will quickly move on to building a variety of simple, versatile forms. One might think of these forms as the 'nouns' of pop-ups. Various ways of lifting these forms will be explored, especially those that give a pop-up a sense of animation. These lifts would serve as the 'verbs' of pop-ups. The workshop will end with participants inventing their own combinations of forms and lifts—in other words, building the language of pop-ups. Ultimately, each student will take home a bound collection of working models. Throughout the workshop, participants will view and discuss the work of commercial pop-up engineers. No experience necessary.Please bring these tools with you: Bonefolder, Steel ruler, Compass, Xacto knife with lots of extra blades, Scissors, Pencil, Self-healing mat, Microspatula, Tweezers  Shawn Sheehy earned an MFA in book & Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. He serves as adjunct instructor in the book arts at Columbia College and teaches pop-up engineering workshops nation-wide. His artists books, published under the name Paperboy Press, can be found at the Newberry Library in Chicago, the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Special Collections at UCLA, the Houghton Library at Harvard and many other collections. Shawn anticipates the publication of his first trade pop-up book. He is a co-founder of East Pilsen's Vespine Gallery. |