The Bienes Center for the Literary Arts (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) is please to offer the following workshops:

 

Sept. 9, 2006

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

$60.00

 

“Preserving and Restoring Family Photos and Documents”

 

The workshop will provide an overview of techniques and practices for protecting family photographs, documents, and other treasured objects. The morning session will focus on the many benefits of digitizing photographs and documents. An Adobe Photoshop tutorial will detail basic photo restoration techniques using photographs or other documents provided by workshop participants. During the afternoon session, each participant will create an archival portfolio for storage of original photographs and documents.

 

Lea Nickless, Instructor

 

(Lea Nickless is a painter, bookmaker, and photographer. She has worked in museum and arts administration at Vizcaya, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and Miami-Dade Art in Public Places. She has curated various exhibitions at Miami-Dade College including, “The Game of War” and “Turning Pages: Celebrating South Florida Artists-Made Books”)

 

Oct. 14, 2006

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

$60.00

 

“Pop-ups for Book Artists and Graphic Designers”

 

The workshop will be a one-day exploration of the methods and production of pop-ups for book artists and graphic designers. Topics to be covered include: the making of a matrix, use of suitable materials, using the copier or computer (with printer) to place designs on backgrounds or for the design of the pop-ups themselves. In addition, five pop-up folds will be demonstrated. The workshop participants will come away from the experience with a working knowledge of the methods for creating a pop-up artists’ book and will have created a matrix for a new book and will have created five simple pop-ups that are the key to the dimensional bookmaking design process.

 

Andrew Binder, Instructor

 

(Andrew Binder is a professor, a technologist, and an artist.  He works in FAU’s College of Education and holds a joint teaching/ technical support position where he is responsible for teaching multimedia classes for the Master's Degree program. He is also responsible for building and maintaining the College's Web sites, including all of the front end graphics and graphic designs. He also designed/ created and maintains the database and connectivity solutions of the back end for interactive web applications. He has an MFA from the University of Miami and has taught extensively in the arts on the university level in the local area)

 

For a complete description of the workshops and to download the enrollment form, please visit:

 

http://www.broward.org/library/bienes_workshops.htm

 

Jim Findlay

Bienes Center Librarian