Rescheduled: Closing Reception for the Great Indoors this Sunday!
Last Chance to see the Great Indoors at Peep Space - Closing Jan 16th! Plus the Jersey Art Book Fair coming up on Feb 22-23!
MID FEBRUARY UPDATE
I rarely send out more than one email in a month, but I wanted to let you know about these events! The Great Indoors was supposed to close last weekend with a reception, but it was postponed because of the snow and the show was extended. The closing reception will now be held this Sunday, so if you thought you missed the show, you have one more chance to see it!
And next next weekend, I’ll be at the Jersey Art Book Fair on Sunday Feb 23rd! Come visit and see some exciting books!
In other news, I have joined Blue Sky @ecastaldo-art.bsky.social, I’ll still be on Instagram as well.
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Closing Reception for The Great Indoors
Sunday, February 16, 2025, from 12-3 PM ET
PeepSpace 92 Central Ave, Tarrytown NY
Join us for the final celebration of this dynamic exhibition, featuring works by Elizabeth Castaldo, Erin Treacy, Krista Dragomer, Natalie C. Wood, and Matthew W. Robinson, co-curated by Yeon Ji Yoo and Rachel Sydlowski. This is the last chance to experience the show, connect with the artists, and engage in conversation about the themes explored in The Great Indoors.
We look forward to seeing you at Peep Space for this special closing event!
Forest Magic Press at the Jersey Art Book Fair
February 22-23, 11-6
Mana Contemporary 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ
I will be exhibiting on Sunday February 23 ONLY at the Jersey Art Book Fair under my book imprint Forest Magic Press. The fair will feature 200 exhibitors, including publishing houses, artists, designers, collectives, galleries and university programs. In addition to perusing and purchasing books, zines, posters and other print ephemera, there will be a packed schedule of demos, workshops, festivities and performances on both days. If you are coming from NYC, Mana Contemporary is just a ten-minute walk from the Journal Square PATH Station. If you are driving there is plenty of parking.
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Summer Art Institute at Women’s Studio Workshop
Women’s Studio Workshop 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston NY
These 5 day intensive workshops meet every day from 9 -4. There are sliding scale tuition options starting at $450. There is an option to add home made lunches. On Monday evening there will be an artist talk by all of the instructors for that week. You get open studio access to keep working on your projects starting before class at 7am and after class until 11pm, except on Friday when we wrap up at 3. There are many options for places to stay for the week and WSW can give you a list if you need.
Printing to Infinity: Endless Silkscreen Repeats for Installation
July 21 – 25
In this workshop we will explore the endless possibilities of working with patterns, and learn how to turn small components into large scale wall installations, wallpaper, or even covering three dimensional objects. We’ll cover multiple methods to create repeatable patterns from participants’ own drawings or photos, that have the potential to be tiled together to create an endless repeat. Participants will also learn the Silkscreen printing process, which gives us the ability to make many multiples of our modular patterns. We will discuss multiple color printing, methods for loose and tight registration, color mixing, and layering pattern and color on the same print. Once participants have made an edition of prints we’ll get them up on the wall and strategize creative ways to display them and options for attaching prints to the wall.
Ink, Paper, and Thread: Artist’s Book Editions
July 28 - August 1
Make your artist’s book dreams a reality in this silkscreen-focused workshop. We will go over how to make several book structures by hand including one page books, accordion books, pamphlet bindings, flexagons and drum leaf bindings. We’ll make one collaborative zine together as a workshop and then participants will spend the rest of the workshop developing, printing and binding a small edition of artists’ books. The silkscreen printing process will allow us to create multiples of our book pages. Participants will learn how to create hand drawn and digital transparencies, expose their images to the screen and print several copies of their book pages!
Handmade Photo‑Zine Workshop
Strudel Media Live
March 16 | Sunday 12-3
ONLINE CLASS Zines are small books that are made quickly and cheaply (usually), and are often given away or sold for an affordable price. This 3-hour Mini-workshop is perfect for artists interested in exploring how making zines by hand can fit into their photography practice. We’ll go over how to make two different zine structures, as well as methods for creating layouts for them using either InDesign or Photoshop or analog options. Students can come ready with a sequence of 8 to 10 images or other content they would like to try out, and have a mockup in progress by the end of the class!
Photopolymer Crash Course
Center for Book Arts
March 29-30 | Weekend 11-5
The letterpress has so many more capabilities than its classic wood and metal type uses. Photopolymer plates are a new school material that brings versatility, convenience, and a wealth of design options to the old school world of letterpress. In this workshop, students will learn how to prepare plates from hand-drawn illustrations and/or digital images. Then students will learn how to make plates using CBA’s exposure unit. Finally, the class will set up the press and print!
This workshop is designed for individuals with some letterpress experience.
Full Coverage: Repeat Printing for Wall Installations
Center for Book Arts
March 13 - April 10 | Thursdays 6-9
In this five-session in-person class, participants will learn to create large wall installations out of small modular prints.
Students will learn how to turn their drawings and other artwork into a repeatable module that can be transferred to a linoleum block for carving or turned into a polymer plate. Students will then learn how to print these patterns on the Vandercook presses, allowing you to make many multiples of the prints, which can then be trimmed and tiled to create large repeat patterns. The multiples are suitable to use for creating large scale wall installations, wallpaper, or even for covering three dimensional objects.
Students will have several options of substrate, such as linoleum, photopolymer and fun foam to work with and the imagery can be combined with wood type from CBA’s type collection as well. The class will contextualize this concept by looking at examples by artists working with repeat pattern and tessellation such as Lanette Scheeline, MC Escher and Julia Rothman.
Virtual Bookbinding II
Center for Book Arts
March 12- April 9 | Wednesdays 6-9
ONLINE CLASS In this beginning hardcover bookbinding class, you will learn to make several different hardcover bindings. Students will gain a foundational understanding of hardcover bookbinding including how the structure beneath the cover can affect the final result. Students will develop the skills needed to create a variety of hardcover books that will prepare them for building more complex hardcover designs such as the inboard cloth-bound book. In the process, students will learn about the historical and contemporary uses of the structures learned in the book arts and artists books.
Vandercooking: Image Making for Letterpress
Center for Book Arts
April 12- 13 | Weekend 11-5
The Vandercook presses are useful tools for a variety of projects and can be fun to use for many image based processes that can stand alone or be used in combination with hand set type. This workshop will cover a variety of hand made image making techniques such as pressure printing, collagraphs, and linocut.
Through these techniques, you will explore color, transparency, shape, and layering of imagery to create a series of prints. This class will focus on a playful and spontaneous approach to letterpress, but the resulting prints can be used as the beginnings of an artist’s book, a printed edition, or a series of unique prints, and next steps for these types of projects will be touched on as well. Anyone with an experimental spirit will love this class. Letterpress experience will be helpful but is not required.
Fun Fact: Image making on the letterpress is so special because while it is a tactile craft that’s made slowly, it can be reproduced infinitely and shared widely, while still maintaining that human-made feeling.
