Celebrate 100 Years of Folk School Magic Through Letterpress & Bookmaking

Join this introduction to the basics of letterpress and folded books. Begin the week with a collaborative printshop process where you will explore typesetting, composition, press setup, and operation. For the second half of the week, enjoy a print swap and individually manipulate a print–or two–to create a folded accordion or concertina book. Return home with a limited edition of community produced broadsides, at least two artists’ books, and good memories of a productive week!

$65

Chris Dockery is the program coordinator for the art education program in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of North Georgia. She is also the studio coordinator for the Paper Arts/BookArts/Letterpress Studio.

Her artwork explores notions of domestic ritual, symbolic alchemy, cultural narrative and personal mythology. She works in many media including oil painting, egg tempera, encaustic, fresco, book arts, and letterpress printing. She has been featured in local, regional and national exhibitions including a solo exhibition at Missouri Western State University. Her work is included in corporate collections, including King and Spaulding, LLP, and the Appalachian Regional Commission Federal Offices in Washington DC.

From 2012 to 2017, Chris was the Appalachian Teaching Fellow for the Georgia Appalachian Studies Center, organizing arts-based research with students and the community which was focused on creating a more sustainable Appalachia. Chris sees her academic research, her artistic work, as well as her service to the community and the profession as a means to the same end. She is a product of her Southern Highland heritage, a native of Murphy, North Carolina. Her Appalachian identity is a throughline in all the products of her creative and scholarly research.