Two Colors / Two Shapes / Two Books (Fall 2021)

Two Colors / Two Shapes / Two Books (Fall 2021)This in person workshop takes place at CBA across two sessions from Saturday & Sunday, October 16 & 17 from 10am4pm Sat, Oct, 16 10am4pm Sun, Oct 17, 10am4pm About the Workshop: In this in person book making workshop for students with some book arts experience, artist and CBA Instructor Barbara Mauriello teaches pochoir stenciling technique inspired by the exquisite geometry of Islamic tiles, the minimalism of Bauhaus designers like Sophie Taeuber

This in-person workshop takes place at CBA across two sessions from Saturday & Sunday, October 16 & 17 from 10am–4pm

• Sat, Oct, 16 10am–4pm
• Sun, Oct 17, 10am–4pm

About the Workshop:

In this in-person book-making workshop for students with some book arts experience, artist and CBA Instructor Barbara Mauriello teaches pochoir stenciling technique inspired by the exquisite geometry of Islamic tiles, the minimalism of Bauhaus designers like Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and the small repeated pattern in Japanese Komom textiles.

At the beginning of the workshop, Mauriello will assist each student in cutting two stencil shapes. Then students will use their two stencils and two colors of their own choosing to create a series of designs across two books. By creating constraints of form and color, Mauriello challenges her students to do as much as possible with as little as possible.

Ultimately, students will bind their editions of two books into double-sided accordion-fold books with handmade paper wrappers, which can also be decorated with stenciled designs. No cloth, no boards, and no adhesives will be used in the process.

Class size is limited to ensure an optimal student-to-teacher ratio. Register now before the remaining spots fill up!

Required Materials:

All staff, artists, students, and guests are required to show proof of vaccination upon entering CBA and must wear a mask covering the nose and mouth at all times. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.

• At least two different colors of gouache opaque watercolor paint as well as one tube of white. Mauriello's favorite brand is Holbein Artists Gouache. The Lascaux acrylic-based brand of gouache paints is a less expensive option than the water-color variety.
• Stiff flat-bottomed stencil brushes (sometimes called decorator brushes). Mauriello recommends the Robert Simmons as a reasonably-priced brand – in particular, the #1 and #11 brushes. She also uses the Da Vinci #6 brush for small areas. In general, more brushes mean less clean-up during painting sessions. This is important since the techniques used in this class require painting with dry brushes.
• Small container for water
• Bookbinding tools: bone folder, awl, knife, cutting mat, ruler, triangle, scissors, pencil and eraser, and a spring divider (if you have one)
• Eye-dropper or pipette
• Please wear closed-toed shoes and clothes that can get stained or dirty

Optional Materials

• Plastic paint-mixing pallets (they look like small muffin tins). The Instructor will bring a few but asks that if you have any, you bring them as well.

All other materials and tools will be provided by CBA at no additional cost to the students.

Note: Please be aware that shipping is often delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. You can find the art supplies required for this class at Blick Art Materials and Talas as well as select items in CBA’s own shop!

About the Instructor

As an artist and proprietor of a bookbinding studio, Barbara Mauriello has spent over four decades making artists’ books, teaching bookbinding, and collaborating with visual artists and writers in producing limited editions of their work in the book format.

Her faculty positions include several New York institutions: the Center For Book Arts; the School of Visual Arts; the International Center of Photography; Bank Street College, Graduate School of Education; and SUNY, Purchase. In addition, between 1990 and 2020, Mauriello taught in the MFA program at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

She has presented workshops at many museums, universities, and arts centers throughout the U.S. including Penland, Haystack, Book & Paper Intensive, the Book Arts Roundtable, and the Creative Arts Workshop.

Mauriello’s books are in many private collections and special collections in museums and libraries in the U.S. and in France and she has participated in over 60 exhibitions, nationally and internationally.

In 2000, Mauriello published the book Making Memory Boxes (Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA.)

All images courtesy of the instructor.