Thursday, April 17; 6–9pm CT
Join Shawn in MCBA’s studios to build this 5-structure movable book using a pre-cut kit and a simple set of hand tools--all you'll do is fold and glue!
Are you looking for active, visual ways to capture and hold your reader’s attention? Misdirection and surprise are excellent attention-holding narrative tools; pull tabs and wheels are excellent and effective mechanical tools. Combine the two and your reader won't be able to tear themselves away! With just a pull or a turn, your story can be advanced without having to turn a page. With more sophisticated (though still easily executed) applications of these tools, you can entice your reader through short, multi-step animations.
Please bring a cereal or cracker box from the recycling bin. Each person needs two pieces that are 5 1/4 x 7 5/16 and 1/32" thick without creases or folds.
Shawn Sheehy (he/him, Chicago IL) has been teaching book arts courses and workshops on the national level for 20 years, including stops at MCBA, Center for Book Arts (New York), Penland, Arrowmont, FOBA, Pyramid Atlantic, San Francisco Center for the Book, and PBI. His broadsides and artist’s book editions have been collected by Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. He has created two trade pop-up books: Welcome to the Neighborhood (2015) and Beyond the Sixth Extinction (2018). Both were published by Candlewick Press and won numerous awards. He holds a Book Arts MFA from Columbia College Chicago.
Level: Beginner. All skill levels are welcome.
Certificate: 3 hours, Category A, C, or D
Pricing
$108/participant (10% discount for MCBA members) + $35 materials fee
$54 for BIPOC/Financial scholarship participants (10% discount for MCBA members) + $35 materials fee
MCBA offers two scholarship types for workshops—Financial Hardship Scholarships and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Scholarships—to honor equity and increase access and artistic opportunities for those who have historically been underrepresented in the book arts. For individuals to whom these scholarships do not apply, register at the Adult rate and, if you are able, consider making a donation when registering to support MCBA’s efforts to make scholarships available.
