Cyanotypes, Meditation, Bookmaking, Box Making, and Hiking....Oh My! with Angela Johnson

In this 5-day, 12-hour workshop, you will create a foldable decorative box and make four styles of Japanese stab binding books to fit in the box.  You will also learn the Cyanotype process. Cyanotypes are a historic camera-less photography process that uses the sun to expose the prints and create beautiful imagery. Your cyanotype prints may become the covers for your stab binding books or be small treasures that fit in your box.

Handmade decorative artist boxes and books provide endless possibilities for journals, presenting photographs and mementos, and can be works of art in and of themselves.

Guided instruction provides you with hands-on practice. All skill levels are welcome.

Artist Bio:

Angela Johnson teaches this class.  Angela learned the cyanotype process, bookmaking methods, and box-making skills while earning her MFA in 2016 and a Masters in Art Education in 2008, both from UW-Madison. She is currently a lecturer at UW-Madison and runs her own business, Angela Johnson Artist; she also earned her 200 hour Yoga and Meditation certification from Breathe for Change in 2018. She will bring most of the supplies you need to create cyanotypes, the box, four books, and more.

Learn more about the artist:

https://angelajohnsonartist.com/

IG:@angelajohnsonartist

Materials included in workshop fee:

• Davy kit pieces for box making (9 pieces per kit)
• Cyanotype paper, fabric pre-coated
• Book paper
• Waxed thread
• Variety of decorative paper for book covers and or box

*You will bring a large sheet of decorative paper, approx 20"x30" thin paper that will fold easily

(not thicker paper that feels like wallpaper).