Working Studios: Book-Binding with Melissa Potter
Schedule
Mon Nov 18 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60660 | Lincolnwood, IL
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Join Melissa Potter to bind handmade covers for the Myth of the Organic City exhibition catalog. In July with Nathan Lewis of Out of Step Press, workshop attendees helped create handmade paper from cut and pulped veteran uniforms. Building on this work, attendees will learn artists' book assembly and contribute to the collective effort of this limited edition publication featuring the artists in the exhibition. Each participant gets a copy of the catalogue!Melissa Hilliard Potter is a feminist interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. Potter is a Professor at Columbia College Chicago and collaborates with artists in the medium of hand papermaking. She travels throughout the country teaching, lecturing, and conducting interviews. Melissa lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Nathan Lewis is a papermaker, book artist and Iraq War veteran. He makes prints, journals, and chapbooks that focus on U.S militarism and reacts to his experiences in the U.S Army through his artwork. He has taught workshops in papermaking and bookbinding through Combat Paper, Frontline Arts, Veterans' Sanctuary, and the USO. He maintains Out Of Step Press, a book arts studio and micro press in Ithaca, NY.
Image: Exhibition Catalogue Cover by Nathan Lewis, Out of Step Press
Myth of the Organic City is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
Myth of the Organic City is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. 6018North projects are partially supported by an anonymous donor advised fund at The Chicago Community Foundation, a CityArts Innovation Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, a Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, IL Humanities, Illinois Arts Council Agency Youth Employment Grants, Joyce Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations.
6018north.org/myth-of-the-organic-city
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6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60660, 6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660-2954, United States,Chicago, Illinois, LincolnwoodEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
