Event Time: Thursday, June 8 from 6-8 pm
Event Address: Cornell Fine Arts Center (next to The Rollins Museum of Art) @ Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave. Winter Park, FL 32789, Printmaking & Book Arts Studio 107
Parking: Ollie Ave. Rollins parking garage (free) https://goo.gl/maps/3zazvhRDGwBXtUAc6
Walk from the garage along Lake Virginia until you reach the Cornell Fine Arts Center next to the Rollins Museum of Art.
Contact Rachel Simmons at 407-970-1026, bookartsguildcf@gmail.com
About Us
The Book Arts Guild of Central Florida is a community group open to book artists and book arts enthusiasts. We support one another’s creative practices through our shared interest in artists books. Membership includes access to educational programs, opportunities for member exhibitions and community building. We are committed to the values of diversity and inclusion. All are welcome. New members will be able to register at the event. Please visit out webpage at www.rachelsimmons.net/bookartsguildcf for more information on becoming a member.
Description: In this workshop, we'll experiment with setting wood type to print letterpress t-shirts. Need a quick protest slogan? A gift for a grad? A vehicle for portable poetry? We got you!
Participants must bring:
-A few pre-written messages-- no more than 4 lines of text, and using only two-three words per line.
-Around 3 blank or lightly patterned t-shirts. Cotton works best. Try picking some up at the thrift store!
About workshop instructor Rachel Simmons:
Rachel Simmons is an artist-educator teaching printmaking and book arts at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She began teaching there after completing her MFA in Painting & Drawing at Louisiana State University. She currently leads the Book Arts Guild of Central Florida and founded the Rollins College Book Arts Collection. Her diverse practice explores tensions between individuals and societies as we navigate the impacts of globalization, technology, species decline and climate change. Endlessly curious about the natural world and our relationship with it, Rachel often collaborates with scholars from other academic disciplines and members of her community to create her work. In Rachel’s socially engaged art projects, she asks community participants to examine our relationship with nature through creative collaboration.
Rachel with BAGCFL letterpress posters she printed on a Vandercook Universal I.