Portrait illustration by Stefania Locke

Book Arts Course Information

Fall 2009

Winter 2010

Spring 2010

Class Schedule

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Registration

Regular UO and CEP students register as normal via DuckWeb. Students new to the University can register via the Community Education Program.

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Spring 2010 Books Arts Course Information

These courses are offered under the subject and number, ART 408, unless otherwise noted. Dates, Times, and CRNs TBA

Letterpress

Letterpress engages the learner to set type and print both text and images by hand, experimenting with the hands-on, sensual world of lead and wooden type. Students get a chance to create their own relief images—from drawings, photographs, or digital imagery—using photopolymer plates. This course will touch on text/image relationships, expressive typography, uncommon book structures, and DIY distribution methods. Letterpress has suggested prerequisites of ART 115-Basic Design: Fundamentals or ART 116-Basic Design: 3-D.

Instructor: Rebecca Childers
Credits: 3

Color in Composition

Through a series of projects, students will explore the role of light and dark in color composition. Students will also learn how color arrangement influences balance and imbalance.

Instructor: Miriam Kley
Credits: 1

Children’s Books: Book

This course will explore how to incorporate text and illustrations into a book. Students will learn how to design and combine text and illustrations in a book that they put together themselves.

Instructor: Miriam Kley
Credits: 1

Adventures in Drawing

Students will explore drawing using a variety of techniques in both two and three dimensions, including materials as diverse as pastel, earth, and hair. From traditional to far out, students will use 3D space in their work with multilevel drawings on clear plastic sheets as well as drawing in space with wire.

Instructor: Miriam Kley
Credits: 1

Calligraphy and Design with The Flat Brush

The flat brush offers unlimited possibilities for pattern, design, and large-scale writing (for signs, scrolls, headlines, etc.) Learn techniques for manipulating this tool to write various alphabets and to create pattern and brush-drawn images.

Instructor: Marilyn Reaves
Credits: 1