You are invited to explore the crossroads of spontaneity and traditional book art methods by participating in the second annual Summer Institute at the Wells Book Arts Center. Our classes in lettering arts, bookbinding, and letterpress printing are taught by the best artists, teachers, and craftspeople. Come for a week of intensive creating and learning in our beautiful lakeshore setting in the heart of New York's Finger Lakes.

In Session I, July 9-15, Peter Bain's course in typeface design will take participants from concept, to paper & pen, to pixel. The students of Shanna Leino will build a leather-bound book using late Coptic design and techniques, and Katherine McCanless Ruffin's students will learn to use hand-set type for letterpress printing. In Session II, July 16-22, Cheryl Jacobsen's class will focus on calligraphy as it relates to and enhances personal artistic expression. Students in the class of Wells' own Margot Ecke will make leatherbound girdle books, the kind that in times medieval hung from the owner's belt or girdle. Robin Price's class will create printed sheets through chance operations inspired by the processes that the Surrealists made famous.

Students choose one class of the three offered, and may take a class in each session. Classes are limited to 8-12 participants. In addition to daily classes, there will be slide presentations of instructors' work, 24-hour access to the studios, and an optional field trip to the Press & Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler in Skaneateles.

For more details and registration forms, please visit our website, www.wells.edu/bookarts, and click on the Summer Institute link.

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Nancy Gil
Director of Wells Book Arts Summer Institute

Terrence P. Chouinard
Director of the Wells Book Arts Center

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