Education Archive: Where & What Booklyn Has Taught

Bronx In Tech Youth Poetry Project

Booklyn has taught at every learning level and for a variety of organizations, including:

2008

VPA – The Junior Year
Oct. - June, The Boggie Down, New York

Booklyn spends Friday afternoons with high schoolers in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. We teach the basics of collage, drawing, silk screening, writing and bookbinding. We use these techniques to create the pages of a collaborative artists book. Last year we studied and made art about the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation. This year we are talking about the history of lynching and the Jena 6, www.freethejena6.org. We are currently gearing up for producing 500 yearbooks. We’ll be collaborating with the Digital Arts Class to produce the silk-screened cover artwork.

Brooklyn Community College Partnership
Mar. - May, Brooklyn, New York

In the Spring of 2008, Booklyn begins a new partnership with the Brooklyn Community College Partnership and it’s college-bound students to create 200 hand-bound project peace journals containing student writings about the Jena 6, the history of Civil Rights disparities and conflict resolution

Weeksville Heritage Center
February, Brooklyn, New York

Booklyn’s third collaboration with the Weeksville Heritage Center is on tap for late February 2008. Stay tuned.

2007

Brooklyn Public Library
Oct. - Dec., Brooklyn, New York

Booklyn travels around the borough to different branches teaching our "staple" pamphlet stitch workshop. We've met the best and brightest kiddoes and librarians from the Greenpoint, Walt Whitman, Bushwick, Cortelyou, Grand Army and Bay Ridge branches. See you in the stacks!

Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders
Oct. - Jan., Brooklyn, New York

Booklyn teaching artist Rebecca Alvarez and the 9th graders of the Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders flexed their stuff by discussing street art, creating hand-made books and zines about the Jena 6 and learning about a variety of drawing techniques.

Sullivan County, Professional Development
November, Sullivan Co., New York

On November 6th, BOCES Art Teachers of Sullivan County received an amazing Professional Development workshop in which they learned one sewn and one non-sewn book-binding technique to take back and share with their 100+ K-12 students.

MoMA’s 3rd Annual Booklyn Workshop
July, Booklyn Studios, New York

Each summer MoMA brings the In the Making print makers from its high school intensive to Booklyn for a workshop. We pull the hottest books from our collection that contain prints and talk about how the two craft forms complement one another. We then taught several techniques best suited for binding prints.

Weeksville Heritage Center
May, Booklyn Studios, New York

In May 2007, the Weeksville Heritage Center came to Booklyn to crank out covers for their annual publication called Hidden Brooklyn. They spent the afternoon learning letterpress lingo and hand cranking Booklyn’s Vandercook SP-15.

From Performance to Print on the Freedom Train
Apr. - May, Booklyn Studios, New York

In collaboration with Freedom Train Productions, Booklyn hosted eight writing and visual arts workshops in the spring of 2007. The writing workshops developed the writing of Freedom Train's 2007 playwright fellows. The visual arts workshops took the same fellows through no pressure drawing techniques resulting in collages of self-portraits and words. The resulting collages were burned to screens and a series of limited edition prints resulted.

VPA – The Sophomore Year
Oct. - June, The Boggie Down, New York

Using the elements of collage, silkscreen, creative writing and binding we created a 30-piece limited edition artists book. The themes of the images and writing include the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, the Bronx and Love. In the spring, we constructed 350 student-produced yearbooks. We improved upon the post and screw design from The Freshman Year by adding silk-screened covers and increasing the format size.

2006

In the Making
July, Brooklyn, New York

MoMA brought 13 young folks to make books at Booklyn. The young folks are part of a print making program called "In the Making". We bound 8 french folds and canvas cover with a modified tapes binding. The title is hot foil stamped.

VPA - The Freshman Year
Oct. - June, South Bronx, New York

Booklyn is spending its Friday afternoons with the freshmen students of Validus Preparatory Academy (VPA). This new charter school has invited community organizations to provide arts programming. We are teaching basic bookbinding technique in the fall in preparation for student-constructed yearbooks in the spring. We bound an edition of 30 yearbooks using a tapes binding and 120 yearbooks using a post and screw binding. Yearbooks are given to students free of charge and include 4X4 inch color photos of and every body in the school house.

Streetwork Project
June, New York, New York

Voices From the Street construction by the Young People of Safe Horizon's Streetwork Project. Streetworks borrowed Booklyn's electronic stapler to bang out 200 copies of Voices From the Street in 45 minutes flat. Below is the first poem in Voices From the Street:

Untitled
by Jillian

Walking down this city road,
Really havin nowhere to go.
People don't realize how hard it is
To be on these streets with no home,
And still only a kid.

Booklyn purchased an electronic stapler in the fall of 2005. We have logged more than 5000 staples as of June 2006. If you need use of the stapler, come through to the labor exchange called Open Studio.

Manhattan International High School
May, New York, New York

Fifty-five senior high school students come through Booklyn for an eight hour marathon binding of their yearbooks. Students worked in 12 person shifts on Booklyn’s gigantic table to do 14 inch by 20-inch glue-ups of the books’ covers. The edition of seventy-two books was a post and screw construction with inlaid front and back cover images. We turned up the foil stamper to add some metallic elements to the pages.

Weeksville Heritage Center
Spring, Weeksville - Brooklyn, New York

In the spring of 2006, Booklyn lugged its 5X3 inch Kelsey clamshell down to the classroom of elementary students in the Weeksville section of Brooklyn. The students locked up type and printed over 50 covers for their Hidden Brooklyn zine.

San Francisco Center for the Book
May, San Francisco, California
Lecture, The Politics of Language

The Door
April, New York, New York

Journal making and Gocco screening workshop at The Door, a youth drop in service center in lower Manhattan.

Winchester School of Art
April, Southampton, Great Britian
Lecture, An Interdisciplinary Approach to Artists Books.

Hereford School of Art
April, Great Britian
Lecture, An Interdisciplinary Approach to Artists Books.

From Performance to Print
March-June, Brooklyn, New York

From Performance to Print is a 10 workshop series combining spoken word, playwriting, and bookmaking. The series aims to develop writing and performance skills and then self-publish the writing in handmade books. The workshop culminates in a reading and exhibition of books called Paper Shed from Word. The workshops also aim to pass on the economic skills necessary to make a living as a spoken word artist, playwright, and / or bookmaker via conversations about submitting, publishing, producing, booking, and promoting artistic work. The series is free.

Australia National University
February, Canberra, Australia
Lecture, An Interdisciplinary Approach to Artists Books.

ArtSpace Mackay
February, Mackay, Australia
Lecture, Justice is Beautiful: Expanding the Paradigm of the Artists Book, 3rd Annual Artists Book Forum.

2005

Studio in a School Professional Development Workshop
Dec 2, New York, New York

Marshall Weber and Jamie Munkatchy were invited by Studio in a School and their visiting artists to talk about book and make books. Weber lectured about the history of books, current book arts, and the 1969 teachers' strike. Munkatchy taught books structures for the classroom. To find out more about bringing Booklyn to you email Jamie at munkaj@yahoo.com.

Free Workshop for Educators
May 31, Brooklyn, New York

Booklyn has brought together book artists and educators to write, illustrate, and design an education manual for use by other book artists and educators. This two year collaboration between artists and educators aims to get the peoples' hands making more books, inside and outside the classroom.

On May 31, Booklyn will teach the book making techniques illustrated in Booklyn's Education Manual and talk about ways to find free and cheap book making supplies. Each educator will receive a copy of the ED Manual.

The Booklyn ED Manual is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council.

Artist Books for Printmakers & Multi-Media Artists
bookbinding workshop & hands-on presentation/lecture by Emily Larned
PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Over thirty undergraduate and graduate students & faculty participated in two different three hour workshops/presentations.

Multi- & Interdisciplinary Art Practice
Multi-media lecture by Marshall Weber
St. Francis High School
Louisville, KY
Six different art classes participated in this free three-hour lecture.

Booklyn in the House
Two lectures/presentations by Marshall Weber
Hite Art Center
University of Louisville, Kentucky
At these two separate events, participants included students from four art classes as well as faculty from five departments.

Booklyn in the House
Presentation by Emily Larned
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO

2004

From Democratic Unique Books to a History of Zines
Lecture by Emily Larned & Marshall Weber
Smith College
Northampton, MA

Youth Poetry Chapbook Porject
Workshops by Jamie Munkatchy and Eliana Perez
Bronx In Tech High School
Bronx, NY

In November 2004, Booklyn educators–Eliana Perez and Jamie Munkatchy– collaborated with Bronx In Tech students to create a chapbook. Youth poets each contributed a piece to the book and Booklyn taught self publishing skills, including the stitching of the chapbook. Youth everywhere have a lot to say and the Bronx is no exception. With the knowledge of how to make books, youth have the power to make their voice heard. Here is an excerpt from the Bronx youth chapbook:

Why?

They tell you, you have a voice
But when is that voice heard
When they send you to Iraq
Saying your country you must serve

Hundreds of people have died
Given their blood and sweat
As Bush sits in his office
That much is a safe bet

So why are we fighting this war
We’ve raped their land in thirty days
Even stolen their oil
For that we are ignorant in many ways

So if you ever meet Mr. President
And you don’t believe his lies
Then stare into his face
And simply ask him

Why?

-- Cheyla Shabazz

Book Your Own Life
Lecture by Bridget Elmer & Emily Larned
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
Portland, OR

Bookmaking for Zinesters
Workshop by Bridget Elmer & Emily Larned
Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC)
Portland, OR

Intro to Non-Adhesive Bookbinding
Workshop by Bridget Elmer & Emily Larned
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
Portland, OR

Autobiography Red Charming
Lecture by Emily Larned
Seattle Book Arts Guild
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Why Artist Books?
Lecture/workshop by Emily Larned
In the Making: Summer at MoMA
Museum of Modern Art
Queens, NY

Oral Traditions Bookmaking Workshops
Workshops by Bridget Elmer
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
New York, NY

PS250 Family Bookmaking Workshops
Workshop series by Jamie Munkatchy
PS 250
Brooklyn, NY
Booklyn wants to not only distribute books, but to distribute the knowledge and tools of bookmaking. In 2004, Booklyn took the artists book out of the studio and put it into the hands of youth. Funded by a generous grant from Parents as Arts Partners and co-facilitated by Booklyn's Jamie Munkatchy and the fantastic art teacher Celia Knight, the following workshops took place at P.S. 250 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Graffito

graffiti, n pl. [It., pl. of graffito scratched]
Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers of ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.
- Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996.

On April 16, 2004 parents and students brought the art of the streets into the classroom. Building on visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Egypt collections, we asked the question, “Why is some art found in the streets and not in the museums?” Each student and parent made a pamphlet stitched blank book and created their own graffiti tag for the cover.

Family Memory

Memory is, above all, say our most first ones, a powerful antidote for death, and an indispensable food for life. That is why the one who cares for and guards memory is caring for and guarding life. And the one who does not have memory is dead.
- Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. March, 2001.

In 2004, P.S. 250 and Booklyn collaborated in creating the Family Memory Bookmaking Series. We talked about family memory, the necessity of telling our family stories, and the shared strength in passing story and memory on to our families and communities. As part of this, we intertwined the telling of a family story from the perspective of both the old and the young.

Families chose a memory, each family member created an accordion book of her/his memory, and then both accordions were woven together into a larger book.

P.S. 250 Evening of the Arts: A Celebration of the Creative Spirit
May 27th, 2004

Booklyn and seven students at P.S. 250 collaborated on a seven book series documenting the year’s worth of arts and creativity at P.S. 250. The artwork for the book series is the collective effort of Irving Lopez, Miranda Medina, Andre Vargas, Andrew Nieves, Alyssa Dyer, Allison Montañez and Ying Zhou. The text was provided by Celia Knight and Miss Hodgett. The books highlight the musical and visual art works of P.S. 250 students and draws attention to the collaboration between students, teachers and visiting artists.

Booklyn In the House
Lecture by Marshall Weber
Arizona State University
Tempe

Bookmaking in Bushwick
Workshop series by Bridget Elmer
Make the Road by Walking
Brooklyn, NY
Booklyn taught a series of bookmaking workshops to youth at Make the Road By Walking, a community-based, membership-led organization based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Offered on a weekly basis to participants, ages 8-12, in Make the Road's after school Youth Power program, these workshops were designed collaboratively with staff from Make the Road and integrated into the pre-existing after school curriculum. Bookmaking in Bushwick is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. In Kings County the Decentralization Program is administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).

Booklyn in the House
Lecture/presentation by Marshall Weber
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA

Sense of Place
Workshop by Jamie Munkatchy
NYC Outward Bound
Bronx Guild High School at Stevenson High School
Bronx, New York

2003

Booklyn In the House
Lecture/presentation by Bridget Elmer & Emily Larned
Oregon College of Arts & Crafts
Portland, OR

Bookbinding for Zinesters Workshop
Workshop by Bridget Elmer & Emily Larned
Portland Zine Symposium, at Portland State University
Portland, OR

Zines in Education: Beyond the Classroom
Panel participation by Bridget Elmer & Emily Larned
Portland Zine Symposium, at Portland State University
Portland, OR

Bookmaking as Youth Development Workshop
Workshop by Bridget Elmer & Stefanie Fox
Make the Road By Walking
Brooklyn, NY

Booklyn 2003 Summer Seminar & Intern Institue
Onsite summer programming run by Bridget Elmer, Emily Larned, Jamie Munkatchy, & Sara Parkel
Brooklyn, NY
In summer 2003, Booklyn was pleased to present affordable and accessible classes for NYC educators, artists, and writers at our facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

2003 Summer Seminar
All materials will be provided and beginners are welcome.

The workshops for educators will teach book structures and discuss how to integrate the workshops into particular program settings, including brainstorming about the acquisition of free and inexpensive materials, how to customize workshops to different ages, learning styles, and special occasions, etc.

All workshops are offered on a sliding scale and class sizes are small, so reserve your space early.

Book Arts Workshop for Educators of Grades K-6
This one-day workshop designed for educators will focus on four exciting but simple book structures appropriate for grades K-6. The versatility of each binding structure will be explored along with ideas and discussion about planning, sequence, and incorporating book arts projects into a K-6 curriculum. Emphasis will be placed on creativity, communication, and visual and verbal literacy.

Date: Tuesday, July 22
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Price: $15-$50 Sliding Scale*

Book Arts Workshop for Educators of Grades 7-12
This two-day workshop for educators of grades 7-12 will explore the creative and educational possibilities of five simple book structures. Workshop participants will discuss how to teach their students to incorporate various everyday found materials, memories, and experiences into a visual journal. Creativity through sequence, structure, juxtapositions, and planning will be emphasized.

Date: Mondays, July 14 & 21
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Price: $30-$100 Sliding Scale*

Book Arts Workshop for Continuing Education Instructors
In this two-day workshop, educators working with the adult community will learn five simple book structures, and how to incorporate them into their programming. The versatility of each binding structure will be explored along with ideas and discussion about planning, sequence, reflection, creativity, and communication. Then, workshop participants will discuss how to teach their students to incorporate various everyday found materials, memories, and experiences into a visual journal.

Date: Wednesdays, July 16 & 23
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Price: $30-$100 Sliding Scale*

Artist Workshop
The artist book is an exciting medium that is accessible to all. In this intensive two-day workshop, accomplished Booklyn artists will introduce the book form to ten New York artists. Participants will bring examples of their work to class for a group critique and discussion facilitated by Booklyn staff. Staff and participants will examine dozens of Booklyn artist books and discuss the different implementations of pacing, narrative, sequence, structure, time, space, and word/image generation. Participants will learn the Pamphlet Stitch & its structural variations, Japanese Stab Binding, Concertina/Accordion Binding, and the Coptic Stitch. Artists will begin projects that they will continue on their own time, with the availability of further assistance through one-to-one consultations with Booklyn staff.

Date: Thursdays, July 24 & 31
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Price: $30-$100 Sliding Scale*

Bookbinding for Writers & Zine Makers
A class designed especially for writers interested in self-publishing! Without the use of glue, special materials, or tools, workshop participants will learn four versatile book structures (including a lay-flat book that makes the perfect journal) that can all easily be made in large photocopied editions. Participants will also discuss techniques for generating text and image, design, lay-out for publication. Each session will begin with a hands-on viewing of Booklyn's fabulous zine & artist book archive for inspiration.

Date: Wednesdays, July 23 & 30
Time: 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Price: $50-$80 Sliding Scale*

*Sliding Scale: For our Summer Seminar, we are happy to provide workshops in the contemporary book arts on a sliding scale. We hope that participants will pay as they are able and that price will not prevent anyone from becoming involved with the program. Please feel free to contact Booklyn regarding workshop pricing and tuition alternatives.

2003 INTERN INSTITUTE
In this week-long Institute, Bookly trained five interns for their next two months of experience in the book arts. Booklyn staff led discussions and workshops about artist books, book arts, the history of the book, and educational practices. Interns learned to confidently create ten book structures that they assisted in teaching and/or editioning over the summer. Also, summer interns began work on a binding and resource manual that will be available to the general public.

During this week, staff and interns discussed the summer agenda, which included teaching Seminar workshops, completing projects in the Booklyn office, and creating finished works of their own book art, engaging the forms that they have learned at the Institute. Their work culminated in an end-of-summer exhibition at Booklyn, presented to the Greenpoint community and open to the public.

Interns and staff met bi-weekly to discuss their progress. Interns worked at least one full day in the Booklyn office each week, with the option of working an additional day either in the office or as an apprentice at the studio of a Booklyn artist.
Institute: Monday-Friday, June 16-20
Internship: Two Days Each Week June 23-August 15
The summer 2003 Booklyn Interns were Eric Adolfsen, Lauren DeMille, Yassira Diggs, Alison Forbes, Stefanie Fox, and Team Leader Jamie Munkatchy.

Civil Rights Children's Book Project
Workshop series by Bridget Elmer, Emily Larned, Jamie Munkatchy, & Sara Parkel
Eastside Community Middle School
New York, NY

Bookmaking Workshop
Workshop by Amy Ferrara & Sara Parkel
World Water Day, Bryant Park
New York, NY

Family Cookbook Project
Workshop by Bridget Elmer & Emily Larned
East Harlem Tutorial Program
New York, NY

...even the birds...
Lecture by Marshall Weber
University of New Hampshire
Durham

2002

Rare Books of the Future
Lecture by Marshall Weber
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
Minneapolis, MN

Bookmaking for Youth Resiliency
Professional Development Workshop by Emily Larned & Sara Parkel
Partnership for Afterschool Education Annual Conference,
Hostos Community College
Bronx, NY

Teaching Bookmaking
Workshop by Emily Larned and Ingrid Menendez
Professional development workshop
Studio in a School
New York, NY

Workshops With Mobilivre/Bookmobile
Workshops by Sara Parkel & Eleanor Whitney
The Point/El Puente Community Center
Bronx, NY

Pages On the Walls
Lecture by Marshall Weber
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA

Booklyn In The House
Lecture by Emily Larned & Marshall Weber
University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA

2001

Rare Books of the Future
Lecture by Marshall Weber
Smith College
Northampton, MA

Zine (r)Evolution
Lecture/workshop by Marshall Weber
Woodland Pattern Gallery
Milwaukee, WI

Expanded Book(lyn) Arts
Lecture by Marshall Weber
University of Wisconsin, Miwaukee

See Text/Read Image
Lecture by Marshall Weber
University of Wisconsin, Steven's Point

2000

Self-publishing is Killing the Publication Industry and its About Time
Lecture by Christopher Wilde
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn, NY

Booklyn in the House
Lecture/performance by Marshall Weber
Colophon Club
San Francisco, CA

Booklyn in the House
Lecture by Marshall Weber
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Milwaukee, WI

Booklyn in the House
Lecture by Marshall Weber
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA

Sacrifice the Book
Lecture by Marshall Weber
Center for the Book, University of California
Los Angeles, CA

Sacrifice the Book
Lecture by Marshall Weber
Center for the Book, University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Booklyn in the House
Lecture by Marshall Weber
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Booklyn in the House
Lecture by Marshall Weber
University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Text in Texture
Lecture/performance by Marshall Weber
University of Wisconsin
Stevens Point, WI

Public Diaries Workshop & Sacrifice the Book
Lecture by Marshall Weber
Center for the Book
San Francisco, CA

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