Botanizing Hope: An Altered Book Botanical Journal
Instructor: Lou Cabeen
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Becky Frehse’ Studio
2926 S. Steele St., 2nd floor (no elevator)
Space is limited: Registration is Required
Registration for PSBA members opens February 25th, 2022
Registration for non-members opens April 15, 2022
Member Fee $75, non-member Fee $110
Please read Pandemic Protocols below before registering.
Space is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required and payment is due at the time of registration. PSBA accepts no walk-ins to workshops. Please note that the location of this workshop is not wheelchair accessible.
Botanizing Hope is a workshop in which an altered book can become a personal archive of life in a changing climate. In this workshop, participants will learn basic techniques for altering a book to use as a journal in which to record observations of the natural world. We will begin by editing the content of a used book via cutting, pasting, gesso, and collage. Methods of creating pockets in the existing book structure will be demonstrated and discussed. We will also learn how to dry and mount botanical specimens. We will decode the scientific labeling methods used for such specimens as well as take inspiration from early botanists who recorded their plants in more personal and idiosyncratic ways. In this way, our altered books can become an archive of not only our botanical fellow travelers, but also our personal experience of the changing climate. And our observations and creativity can become an antidote for despair.
All skill levels are welcome to this workshop.
About the Instructor: Lou Cabeen is a Seattle artist who works with a range of media including botanical specimens, textiles, stitching and collage, all of which inform her work in bookarts. She uses these materials to highlight the tactile nature of private experience. Making altered books to use as journals and sketchbooks has been a personal studio practice of hers for many years, and a standard assignment in her University of Washington fiber and book arts classes. Her approach emphasizes the value of daily life and the empowerment that comes from taking the discarded ephemera of our lives and by giving it form, using it to create meaning.
Learn more about Lou Cabeen at her webpage: loucabeenart.com
Questions? Contact Dorothy McCuistion dorothykmc@gmail.com
PANDEMIC PROTOCALS are in place for this workshop:
In an effort to keep everyone safe and healthy, PSBA is following CDC guidelines for small in-person gatherings. We require all participants of PSBA in-person workshops and events to be fully vaccinated.
Please stay home if you are sick or have been near someone who thinks they may have or have been exposed to COVID-19. Please contact the workshop/event organizer ASAP if you have to cancel because of illness.
FAQ
Do I need to show proof of vaccination? Yes, we will be checking everyone’s vaccination card before the workshop starts.
Are masks required? Be prepared to wear a mask during the workshop. The group may mutually agree to forgo masks. For out in-person workshops to date, in some everyone has worn masks and in others participants have mutually agreed to not wear masks.
Will the workshop or event accommodate social distancing? No. Since all attendees will be vaccinated, social distancing will not be implemented.
PSBA will update pandemic-related protocols as the situation changes. Protocols may be different in different venues.