Handmade Photobooks with Erik Mace

Written By Susan Patrice
 

Handmade Photobooks with Erik Mace

September 20th - 23rd, 2023 @ The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, North Carolina

Cost: $450 + supplies (need-based scholarships are available).

Class size: 10 students

This onsite workshop will be an immersive primer into the world of handmade photobooks, using the Bartram Trail as our muse. With curiosity and wonder as our guide, we’ll explore a one-mile section of the trail while cultivating a joyful conversation with the land. Each participant will have the same goal: photographing with the form of a book in mind, sequencing those images, then printing and binding them into a handmade, single-edition book. As a group, we'll explore how bookmaking uniquely informs our photographic decisions. We will use this engaging three-day experience to focus on a finished object that intimately describes our own conversation with the land.

Erik Mace is a Kinship Photography Collective co-founder, photographer, and graphic designer who enjoys a broad range of work with a connective thread of examining the human experience. His books and projects often germinate from specific personal memories and grow into deeper discussions of place and identity. His most recent book, Slate, is a recording of discovery, engaging the act of seeing to deepen respect for the more-than-human world. He is especially interested in how mixed modes of visual expression can form a singular vocabulary to seek greater understanding of personal and cultural themes. He received his BFA in Visual Communications from Washington University in St. Louis and is an alumnus of the Contemporary Photography program at ICP.


Erik Mace

Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

https://kinship.photography/
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