2019 Spring Teacher Workshops

Cleveland Institute of Art Teacher Workshops

The Art of Paper Saturday, April 20 9am–4pm

Our daylong workshops offer a relaxed atmosphere for networking with your peers while enhancing cross-curricular skills in fine art, design, craft and digital media.

Sat Apr 20 9am–4pm Register by Monday, April 8 Registration form can be downloaded, register online at cia.edu/teacherworkshops or by calling 216.421.7460.

Papier-Mâché Sculpture 101

Sequential Underground: Mini-Comix and Zines

Papier-mâché is a French term translated literally as “pulped paper.” For centuries, craftspeople have used this economic technique to make lightweight sculptures, masks, puppets, and many other kinds of art. In this class, instructor Claire Marks will teach the basics of sculpting with papier-mâché . Students will become familiar with different types of paste to use and will learn several easy techniques for building armatures (the structure) for these sculptures.

Teachers will learn about, explore, and discuss the history of comics and zines, including the Underground Comix of the 1960s, the Riot Grrrl zines of the 80s, and the art comics and zines that flourish across the world.

Design and create an eight-page mini-comic and engage in a “book swap” upon completion.

You’ll learn a variety of printing options, page size ratios, sequential approaches, and crafting techniques involved in the creation of a mini-comic or zine.

Claire Marks is a multidisciplinary artist based in Akron. She was the recipient of Zygote Press’ 2015 Emerging Artist Fellowship. Claire makes handmade sketchbooks and marbled paper items for her business, Peaceable Kingdom Books. clairemarksart.blogspot.com

Nathan Ward has had comics published in The Plain Dealer, Maximum Rocknroll, Happiness Comix, and others. In 2016, Nathan received a Creative Workforce Fellowship and self-published the first issue of his anthology series, Warpwish Comix. nwardcomics.net

An Origami Adventure

Portfolio Photography: Documenting 2D + 3D Work

Screen Printing and Book Binding

Origami is an expansive art form that can take on numerous incarnations. From animal to abstract, singular to modular, fancy to functional, origami caters to a myriad of different interests and skill sets. Origami expert James Peake will guide you through a variety of folding methods and topics. You’ll leave with resources for pursuing future folding at home and at school.

Help your students’ work shine by taking the best portfolio images! In this workshop you will learn how to photograph and edit images using affordable equipment and Adobe Photoshop. We will go over photography equipment, set-up, lighting techniques and modifiers, and post-production editing. Please bring a camera if you have one, all additional equipment will be provided.

Create personalized notebooks with screen-printed covers.

Learn to create a stencil, work with photo emulsion, expose a screen, register multiple colors and printing. Then practice bookbinding by sewing several 5-hole pamphlet stitch books, a process that binds together the pages with the cover along the spine. It is perfect for making small to medium notebooks, sketchbooks or zines.

Amber N. Ford received her BFA in Photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art, where she currently works as the Technical Specialist for the Photography + Video Department. While attending CIA she also explored video and printmaking. Her work generally focuses on race. ambernford.com

Anna Tararova was born in Russia and lives in Cleveland.

Anna is a printmaker and papermaker. She completed artist residencies at Women’s Studio Workshop, The Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, The Morgan Conservatory.

She is the Gallery and Artist Opportunities coordinator at the Morgan Conservatory. annatararova.com

James Peake, an active member of the international origami community, has organized and hosted over a dozen origami exhibitions that feature master paper folders from around the globe. In 2017, James opened the Foldspace Origami Studio in Oberlin, which doubles as an art studio and lesson space for classes and workshops. origamishop.us

Graduate credit Educators can receive one graduate workshop credit through our partnership with Ursuline College. There is an additional research/writing assignment and $140 fee for this option. More information will be sent once we receive your registration form.

Mark your calendars!

The next Teacher Workshops will be held on Saturday, October 19, 2019.

11610 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106

216.421.7460 cia.edu/ceco