Soft Book Expression
Saturday June 28 10am - 4pm
Presented by Sophie Stratyner
Conceptualize and create a meaningful personal narrative through the making of a soft fabric artist’s book. Participants will brainstorm structure by considering different bookbinding techniques, fabric choices, layout, and text. We will use pochoir (stencil) printmaking to create simple imagery for our books, layer and collage with fabric to create depth, and employ various hand stitching and embroidery techniques to put our pieces together. Utilizing design elements such as texture, value, and form, participants will tell their own story through an artist’s book.
Having basic hand sewing skills is a plus for this course. Ideas are welcome to be planned in advance, and can range anywhere from abstract textures and palettes evoking feelings, to words from one’s journal they wish to memorialize.
A selection of upcycled and some hand dyed fabrics will be provided, as well as sewing and stencil making supplies. Participants are welcome to bring their own fabric and threads, as well as any personal creative inclusions for their books. Bring your own fabric scissors if you have them. Additional supplies will be available to purchase at Luck Dragon.
$110, materials included.
Reserve your place before the date.
Sophie Stratyner is a textile and fiber artist. With a passion for travel, her work is shaped by the places and environments that she finds herself immersed in. Incorporating foraged plant and mineral based dyes and colors, thrifted textiles, rusty iron findings, and more with photography and text, Stratyner explores and documents textures, stories, moods, and ways to make the often harsh world into tactile softness through her soft artist book, quilt, and clothing making practices.
Stratyner’s background is in costume design for theater. She first developed a passion for dyeing and textile surface design while working as a costume crafts artisan for a variety of off-Broadway theaters in New York City. She also has a passion for the natural world, having lived and worked on organic farms in Washington, New York, North Carolina, and Kentucky. She has been a resident at Alchemy Art Center on San Juan Island, Washington and Pillow Fort Arts Center in Andes, New York, where her work has been deeply informed by the surrounding environments. Stratyner teaches quilting, sewing, and natural dyeing to students of all ages and experience levels.
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