Spring 2023
Classroom Teacher: Josh Kleiman
Teaching-Artist: Aki Torii
The U Schools classes were inspired by Idalia Vasquez-Achury’s bookbinding method which allowed different pages and images to be combined to create different visual narrative. Students experimented with a variety of unique techniques such as needle-felting, monoprint on felt, and bookbinding. Through this project, they were given the opportunity to explore color-mixing, composition and visual storytelling through text, image and photography. Their residency theme, Selective Family Memory, was used as encourage open minded image making. They based their prints on important moments of their family life, using a broad definition of “family”. As a result, each student created one unique book in which every other page was bound on the left or right side that would allow the multiple view of the same image with different combinations of colors/text/image.