Re-purposing and the Artist Book

Artist book workshop with Raymond Meeks

Overview

This workshop is suited towards photographers and visual artists who respond to their surroundings by making or gathering pictures with a book or serial form as an intended piece.

*BONUS: This workshop takes place in tandem with Brad Zellar’s Image & Text Workshop. Attendees of both workshops will have time to mingle and get to know each other during some evening hangouts!

  • Portland Maine is a historic seacoast town with a funky vibe, working waterfront, and large art scene. Maine’s largest city (but still quaint by most standards) boasts plenty art, food, and outdoor activities.

  • Schedule: Meets in-person on Bowen Island at FotoFilmic on Monday October 2, Tuesday October 3, Wednesday October 4, Thursday October 5 & Friday October 6, 2023 from 9am to 5pm (subject to change)

  • Early Bird $1595
    Previous Attendees: $1495

    REGISTRATION DEPOSITS

    Applicants selected to register must confirm their participation by sending either a $950 USD tuition deposit, or a full Regular or Past Attendee tuition payment.

    If choosing to send a registration deposit, the remaining tuition balance will then come due in full by Wednesday, August 9, 2023.

    PAYMENT PLANS

    If interested in a payment plan, requests must be made by Monday May 22, 2023 to

Limited to 12 participants.

We will observe themes, forms, idiosyncrasies and patterns in participants work while exploring the ways in which context, sequence, image placement and design can create suspension, both holding and releasing a viewer. In this workshop, form will be explored as intensively as content, while investigating a variety of formal structures to effectively house and deliver images and inspire feeling.

Raymond Meeks will lead a workshop that will invite the participants through the explorative process of bookmaking while designing and producing an artist’s book. Participants will arrive with an archive of prints and corresponding digital files, as we’ll be moving back and forth between physical images and design/layout tools. We will consider numerous printing possibilities and material choices that come into play as a final expression .Participants are asked to bring a number of existing books that might share a common thread with a theme or general tone of the pictures they wish to explore. These books or book materials might be uses as re-purposing elements to their final artist book, or merely provide an existing structure or narrative guide.

This Workshop will be hosted at The Bakery Collective, a self-service, photographic with our state of the art analog and digital facilities located near Woodford’s Corner. Each participant will be able to use the darkroom, computer, scanner and printer.

ABOUT RAYMOND MEEKS

Raymond Meeks (Ohio, 1963) has been recognized for his books and pictures centered on memory and place, the way in which a landscape can shape an individual and, in the abstract, how a place possesses you in its absence.  His books have been described as a field or vertical plane for examining interior co-existences, as life moves in circles and moments and events—often years apart—unravel and overlap, informing new meanings.

Raymond Meeks lives and works in the Hudson Valley (New York).  His work is represented in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Bibliotheque Nationale, France, and the George Eastman House, with recent solo exhibitions at Casemore Kirkeby in San Francisco and Wouter van Leeuwen in Amsterdam.  Raymond Meeks is the sixth laureate of Immersion, a French-American photography commission sponsored by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. He will be mentored by David Campany, artistic director of the ICP, and will carry out his residency in France in 2022.

Raymond Meeks is a 2020 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022.

Details

  • Flights, local transportation, accommodations and meals are not included in the registration fees. A detailed information packet will be sent to confirmed participants to help coordinate their stay in Portland, inclusive of accommodations options (single or shared), local transportation directions, a list of restaurants and other amenities available, and general tips.

  • Meets at The Bakery Collectdive on Monday October 2, Tuesday October 3, Wednesday October 4, Thursday October 5 & Friday October 6 from 9am to 5pm (hours subject to change).

    Location

    The Bakery Collective
    630 Forest Ave.
    Portland, ME 04101

    The Bakery Collective is located near Woodford’s Corner and are neighbors with Speedwell Projects, just look for the Hopeful sign. Free parking is available in the back of the building.

  • Applications to register are free (no fee to apply). Enrolment is limited to 12 participants. Photographers from all educational backgrounds and at all career stages are welcome to apply. A portfolio of 10-20 images focused on past and/or ongoing projects must be submitted as a prerequisite for consideration (please include images from no more than 2 different series/projects).

  • DEPOSIT & PAYMENT

    Selected applicants invited to register are required to confirm their participation by sending either a 50% tuition deposit, or a full Early-bird/Regular tuition payment.

    If choosing to send a registration deposit, the remaining tuition balance will then come due in full no later than 30 days before the start of the event.

  • EARLY BIRD: $1695 USD
    [Deadline: Sunday March 25, 2024]

    PAST ATTENDEE: $1595 USD
    [Deadline: Sunday March 25, 2024]

    REGULAR: $1695 USD

    [Deadline: from March 25, 2024 and until filled.]

    Please note: Applications are reviewed on a weekly basis, with regular email communication from reception to final decision. The entire review and acceptance process usually takes 8-12 days from the day your application is received. Applying early is recommended for greater chances of selection.

  • All deposits, tuition payments and fees are non-refundable. We are happy to credit paid tuition towards a future workshop of the attendees choice if the request is made 90 days before the start of the event.

    In the event the program was not meeting minimum enrollment, or needed to be canceled for any reason, paid tuition will be credited to a future workshop of the participants choice. Charcoal cannot be held responsible for any traveling expense refunds if the program gets canceled.

  • For any questions or inquiries, please contact us directly at info@charcoalworkshops.com

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