Hybrid course sections will be delivered both online and in-person. Required online synchronous meeting times are listed as the meeting pattern for this course section. Additional course components will be delivered asynchronously or in-person as outlined in the syllabus.There will be a range of learning opportunities that include on campus studio time with access to tools and equipment for making. In person studio instruction will be enhanced with online resources and synchronous virtual group discussions and critiques with the instructor. The book is a hand-held technology that has completely transformed human culture. Bookworks brings together the many craft, art, and design practices that are integral to making books. This studio class integrates a range of media and materials, content, sequences, and structures into one movable, tactile object. Projects incorporate each artist's interests and work inventively with a variety of traditional and experimental book forms. We will refine our making skills alongside investigations of the book as an expressive place for form and content through storytelling, personal narrative, curatorial impulses, and commentary on broader cultural and political conditions of contemporary life. This class draws equally from Bay Area book art history within the California Arts and Crafts Movement, and the exuberant resurgence of DIY and self-publishing in contemporary art. Bookworks 2 is centered around the creation of an artist’s book, editioned work, or series of self-published books. Students complete in-depth self-directed projects and receive one-on-one mentorship and advanced group instruction. They may challenge the concept of what a book is, or may use the traditional book format as a vehicle. This class is an opportunity to incorporate themes that resonate within one’s art practice and/or final thesis projects, in preparation for Junior Review or Senior/Graduating Exhibition. Bookworks 2 students participate in the day-to-day studio environment through presentations and class critiques. Open to artists from any discipline who have taken Bookworks 1 and who want dedicated time and support to focus on their practice at an advanced level. 

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