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“Tanzaku” Bookmaking Workshop with Veronika Schäpers at SCC
January 26 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
$150
Here is a unique opportunity to learn from Veronika Schäpers, visiting artist from Germany, whose work is included in Book Becoming Art, on display at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art from January 18-April 27. To register this workshop, please click the link through the Sonoma Community Center.
In this workshop we combine the structure of a Jacob’s ladder with the traditional paper size “tanzaku 短冊”, a long, thin strip of paper which, nowadays, people normally use to write wishes on and hang up for display. The Jacob’s Ladder Book is a simple but refined way to insert the slim format of tanzaku strips into a book-like structure, offering a surprising variety of combinations and almost magical insights. We will fold and cut the basic structure first, into simple rectangles or other free geometric forms. Based on this structure we will stencil a repeating motif on the paper strips, after creating a unique stencil composed of straight lines or dots up to floral forms.
After the workshop at the Sonoma Community Center, students are encouraged to tour the SVMA exhibition to see more of Veronika’s work.
About the instructor
Veronika Schäpers
Veronika Schäpers was born in Coesfeld, Germany in 1969. She was trained as a bookbinder/craft for three years before she studied at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle (D), where she graduated in 1996 with a diploma specializing in painting and books. www.veronikaschaepers.net
Please contact Sean Baskin, Program Associate, at [email protected] for any questions to register this workshop.