Buffalo Bound Together: a printmaking & collaborative bookmaking workshop

Service Description

Three Evenings: Wednesdays October 14th, 21st, and 28th 6:00-8:30pm Participants must attend all sessions. Registration in advance is required. Buffalo is a place we all carry differently. This workshop starts from that idea: that a city, like a conversation, only becomes whole when many people's views of it come together. Over 3 days, participants will each contribute one photograph of Buffalo, the city as they see it, and turn it into a photopolymer printing plate. Working side by side at Mirabo, we'll expose, develop, and print those plates by hand, then bind the resulting prints into collaborative books, built in the spirit of a correspondence pad: an object made for exchange, where each page holds something personal that becomes part of something shared. This is both a technical workshop and an exercise in collaboration. You'll leave knowing how to expose and print a photopolymer plate, register and pull a print, and construct a hand-bound book. You'll also leave having made something none of you could have made alone: a shared record of Buffalo, seen through multiple perspectives and bound into volumes each participant can take home. Led by Andrea Mancuso, whose studio practice works in alternative photographic processes and place-based fieldwork, including an ongoing body of work called A Correspondent's Pads, hand-made letterpress notebooks filled with prints and artifacts documenting specific landscapes. This workshop grows directly out of that project. Andrea is also a founding member of virocode, a collaborative practice now in its third decade, with an exhibition history of over 100 shows and screenings internationally, including MoMA, the AKG, Hallwalls,and The Burchfield Penney Art Center. Collaboration isn't a workshop theme for her; it's how she's made work for years. The Details Seats: limited to 8 participants Cost is sliding scale: $250-$300, please pay what you’re able Workshop Schedule: Day 1: Developing plates, proofing, and registration Day 2: Printing, refining, and printing more, cutting backing board for notebooks Day 3: Assembling books; collation, trimming, gluing, and binding No prior printmaking experience required. Bring your photograph, and leave with a printed plate, individual prints, and a shared, bound book that belongs to everyone who made it.