A Study of Home
A Hybrid Workshop
Instructor: Shu-Ju Wang
Workshop Sessions:
Zoom: Sat. Sept. 17, 1-4pm
Zoom: Sat. Oct. 1, 1-4pm
Becky Frehse's Studio: Oct. 22, 9-4
Zoom: Sat. Nov. 5, 1-4pm
Registration for PSBA members opens July 7
Registration for non members opens Aug. 1
Registration for this workshop is required.
Workshop Fee: $260
Registration Limit: 12
Castor and Sapient by Shu-Ju Wang
This workshop is designed to help you learn how to develop an idea, conduct research and create a workable model for an artist book in time for the 2023 PSBA Exhibition.
“A Study of Home” comes from the literal definition of the word “ecology” – from Greek oikos "dwelling place, habitation" + -logia "study of.” In this hybrid zoom/in-person workshop, you will select, research, and create artist books on topics near and dear to your heart and home, however you define it. We will emphasize collaboration, problem solving, verification, and embrace complexity. There will be 3 zoom sessions and 1 in-person session spread over several weeks to allow the participants time to work on their projects. Participants will develop avenues of research (archives, online (jstor, wiki), social media, and neighbors --- by location, by material, by time period, by industry, by species, by folklore). At the end of the workshop, we hope each participant will have a draft of their text, an image library, a list of resources, and an artist book structure mockup.
Shu-Ju Wang has been painting, making artist books, gardening, walking, reading, listening, playing, and kibitzing with her neighbors in Portland for 30 years. Before that, she was an engineer and that was where she learned that if you ask, people are only too happy to tell you everything they know about something (subject to verification). Her interdisciplinary background in technology, science and art feed her exploration of themes such as water, migration, memory, local natural history, land development, and the impacts of human consumption on the environment. Shu-Ju weaves together detailed historical research with her personal experience to create work that contains multiple voices and viewpoints. She is currently an artist in residence at the Portland Chinatown History Museum Her collaboration with Puget Sound biologist Peter Wimberger about human relationships with beavers, is a highlight of the recent Science Stories exhibit.
Learn more about Shu-Ju Wang on her personal website.
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the Collins Library website