Friday Artist Residency
Every Friday 4:00-6:00pm
Scrabble Plaza (NW Corner)
Spend a Friday evening learning a variety of artistic practices from a rotating group of incredibly talented local creators! Residencies change month to month.
MAY: Bookmaking with Esther K Smith
Fold! Cut! Stitch! Draw! Write! Make Books! with Esther K Smith, author of the best selling HOW TO MAKE BOOKS! Each week, we will make a different kind of book and then you can write and draw your story. For artists age 6 to infinity and beyond. You only need to bring an open mind.
Esther K Smith is artistic director of Purgatory Pie Press where she makes collaborative artist books and limited editions with printer Dikko Faust (Saturday’s resident artist!) and other artists and writers. Their works are at MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYPL and many other institutions from London’s Victoria & Albert and Tate museums to the Baku Museum of Miniature Books in Azerbaijan.
Smith taught artist books at Cooper Union and as a visiting artist at Cooper Hewitt, Museum of Arts and Design, Princeton, Harvard, and other institutions throughout the US, UK, Europe, and Canada.
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