Spring 2025 Workshop
Print n’ Fold with Anna Low & Angel Simoneau
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2025
Time: 9:00AM – 3:00PM
Location: Luther Bonney Hall, Room 424, Portland Campus
Workshop fee: $80 (Materials included in the price. Please bring a studio apron or wear
something that is okay to be messy. We will be printing!) Optional: Bring 1 or 2 small tubes of water-based block printing ink (Primary colors – red, blue, & yellow, and black inks will be available in the classroom.)
Maximum enrollment 15
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Come play with printmaking without a press, then create your own one-of-a-kind artist books with easy but elegant folded books. The morning will focus on making your own stamps/blocks, a printing process that is accessible, immediate, and playful. Stamps can be used to make patterns or simple, bold images. In the afternoon, we’ll fold our stamped paper into two book forms: an x-book, a nice single sheet book great for making zines, and a lotus fold book, a slinky, fun form with many variations and possibilities.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:
Anna Low’s formal education is in photography and art education, with a BA from Hampshire College, a year studying at Speós – The Paris Photographic Institute, and a MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After many years of teaching, first in the Chicago Public School System and then running an art department at a private school in Rhode Island, she made the leap to full time artist. She now focuses her energies on bookbinding and is the creator behind Purplebean Bindery, a business focused on creating unique, durable and inspiring blank journals. To satisfy her endless creative itch, she makes artist’s books using a variety of printmaking and photographic processes. She also teaches workshops in bookbinding. Her photographs and artist books have been exhibited throughout New England and published in several periodicals, including Maine Magazine. Her home studio is bright and sunny in Auburn Maine. When not in the studio, Anna is out in her vegetable garden, snowshoeing through the woods with her husband and sassy rescue mutt or traveling to far-flung islands.
Angel Simoneau has a BFA in Art Education with a Minor in Book Arts from University of Southern Maine. She grew up in Westbrook, Maine, but now resides in Gorham, where she lives with her husband and three cats. She currently teaches high school art in Maine and loves incorporating book making and illustration into her lessons. As an art teacher, Angel spends lots of time working in various mediums to help students explore the world of creativity. However, her favorite mediums include watercolors, pen and ink and markers for her personal work with a mixture of printmaking in various forms. She is most known for incorporating manga illustrations in her books and focuses heavily on color, patterns, and things she enjoys, like cats and traveling. Some of her favorite bookmaking forms include accordions, star books and flag books. She works primarily in her home studio that has a library of manga and illustration books that give her inspiration for whatever project she wants to start. She has taught workshops at USM, Fiddlehead Center for the Arts in Scarborough and in various libraries in the Southern Maine area.
For more information, please contact:
Annie Lee-Zimerle, Program Coordinator
(207) 228-8014 or aemin.leezimerle@maine.edu
usm.maine.edu/bookarts
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