Artist’s Book Masterclass with Raymond Meeks
TICKET COST - $4850
Join photographer and bookmaker Raymond Meeks in a workshop intended for photographers who respond to their surroundings by making or gathering pictures with a book or serial form as an intended piece.
“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.
Samples from 2024 Alumni Class
“Ray is a treasure. I came in to the class stuck in a creative rut, with a body of work I loved but just didn’t know how to finish. Ray’s insight and guidance was exactly what I needed, and I left not only with a book that ranks among my favorite works I’ve ever created but more inspired and excited to make new work than I had been in years.”
“Participating in this workshop with Ray was an absolute joy. His
expertise and wisdom guided me towards a new understanding of my work
and opened up my ideas about sequencing and editing. Over the week,
Ray’s input helped propel my practice forward into new territory. His
poetic soul and generosity as a teacher are unmatched.”
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. Mentored by David Campany, artistic director of the ICP, he carried 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.
*Each Alumni Ticket includes all of the regular privileges you’d expect: access to daily artist lectures, daily catered meals, panel discussions, evening programming, and more.
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