These credit-bearing classes are offered in the Book Arts Lab:
ARTS 107 Book Arts Studio
Taught by Ruth Rogers, Special Collections Librarian, and Katherine McCanless Ruffin, Book Arts Program Director
In an interactive setting, students will gain hands-on experience in bookmaking, with an emphasis on the creative possibilities of ancient craft and contemporary art. Class sessions will frequently draw on examples from Wellesley’s Special Collections, providing a historical context. In the Library’s Book Arts Lab, students will learn to set type by hand and print on hand presses. Students will create limited edition broadsides and artists’ books that may involve use of the Knapp Media and Technology Center.
Prerequisite: None. Permission of instructors required. File application
in department before preregistration.
Distribution: None. Mandatory credit/non only.
Semester: Spring
Unit: 0.5
ARTS 222 Book Arts Studio II
Wellesley College Summer
School
Taught by Katherine McCanless Ruffin, Visiting Assistant Professor
This advanced studio course explores the relationship between text and image through relief printing techniques and innovative book structures. Studio projects will include the production of limited edition artist's books that focus on the interplay of two and three dimensions in the book form. Emphasis will be placed on creative problem solving within the limitations of technology, and on the importance of the act of revision. Class sessions in the Papermaking Studio and Special Collections will augment intensive studio work in Clapp Library's Book Arts Lab.
Prerequisite: ARTS 105, 107, 108, or 109, or successful completion of 3 Book Arts workshops. Credit: 1.0 unit (4 sem. hrs.)
- Katherine McCanless Ruffin
- Wellesley College Library
- Created: 30 May 2006
- Last updated: 02 August 2006