Finding Your Story: Bookmaking and Alternative Photography 1F26
Age Group:
Adults
Join us for a one-day immersive multi-media art workshop exploring personal storytelling through bookmaking, collage, journaling, and photography!
Participants will create their own handmade accordion book journal while experimenting with a variety of creative processes, including instant photography and cyanotype printing. Through guided prompts, image-making, and mixed-media techniques, students will gather memories, observations, and personal reflections to build a unique visual narrative. Combining photography, found imagery, the written word, and collage, each participant will craft a one-of-a-kind artist book that captures meaningful moments, ideas, and experiences.
This workshop is designed for artists of all experience levels and encourages creativity, self-expression, and mindful exploration. By the end of the day, students will leave with a completed accordion book journal, new artistic skills, and a deeper appreciation for the stories that shape their lives.
Please note that this workshop does not have a make-up date.
Alejandra Spruill
Alejandra Spruill is a multimedia artist, educator and advocate originally from the Roxbury Neighborhood of Boston. Alejandra holds a BA in Visual Media Arts Production from Emerson College where she is now affiliated faculty. Alejandra is an Alumni of the Kolaj Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana and Kinhouse Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She is currently the Jill Slosburgh-Ackerman Honorary Advisor on the Board of Advisors at Artists for Humanity, a teen focused arts incubator and job training program based out of Boston and New York City. She further serves on the In-Sight Photography Project Board of Directors in Brattleboro, Vermont. She resides in Northfield Massachusetts with her Fiance and two cats.
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Specialty:
Photography, book arts, multi media
Materials to bring to class:
All materials provided. Optionally, students can bring 2D media from home to use in their books, e.g., found images or words.