Altered Books Workshop with Tamara Moan

Transform old books into something new using painting, cutting, drawing, collage and narrative techniques.  In addition to altering individual pages, you’ll learn to make storage pockets, insets, and drawers from the raw material of the pages.  Be inspired by the original book’s content or create something entirely new from your imagination.  Your altered book can be used as a journal, ledger, sketch book or shared and admired as a complete work of art.  Bring these supplies: Hardbound book to alter (look for sewn binding/signatures), scissors, glue stick, collage materials (magazines, papers, etc), X-acto knife, small cutting board or cutting surface (old cardboard), ruler, paints (acrylics work best), colored pencils, pens.  Optional: hole punch, stickers, crayons, markers, etc.  Tamara Moan is a visiting teaching artist from Hawaii.  She has taught at the Honolulu Museum of Art School since 2001 and conducts classes occasionally on the mainland U.S.  She works as a painter and printmaker, showing her work regularly in juried exhibitions.