Thursdays

October 9, 23, 30 & November 6

6 PM - 9 PM

Class Size Max: 4

Prerequisite: Introduction to Risography for Photo Printing

This 4-week course builds on Introduction to Risography for Photo Printing, expanding on photographic printing approaches for multi-color printing while establishing a workflow for prepress approaches in book layout. Print methods will include one-color, duotone, and tritone processes to be applied to a book sequence, producing a photobook. The course will begin with an introduction to Risograph book examples, followed by a demonstration in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. Students will arrange their layouts for book dummies, exploring text-image relationships and considering how material and binding choices shape the book as an object. Students will receive guidance on the Risograph duplicator, book assembly, and personalized feedback on their photobooks throughout the course. Photobooks should include 4-6 digital photographs sequenced across a 12-page booklet for an edition of 5-10 copies.

Students may rent the Risograph outside of class at an additional cost.

Tuition includes a $100 materials fee.

If your desired tuition option is unavailable, please email info@penumbrafoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the entire class is sold out, we can add you to the waitlist.

Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Pivoting between text and image, she is primarily concerned with the intersections of language, intersubjectivity, and site to puncture a sense of concrete time and space—both cognitive and embodied.

Buchman holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University Long Beach. Exhibitions of her work include the Penumbra Foundation; San Francisco Center for the Book; TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image; LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA; New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1; Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; SPRINT Milano, Spazio Maiocchi. She has participated in artist talks and panels at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and the International Center of Photography. Her work is included in collections at the New York Public Library, SFMOMA, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is a recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and the Flaherty Fellowship, and her work has been featured in Hyperallergic and The Hopper Prize Journal. Buchman has been an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Lower East Side Printshop, and the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. She is currently a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Skidmore College. As an extension of her practice, she runs an independent artists' books and publications project, Seaton Street Press, to collaborate with artists through publishing and distribution.

Images 1-3 © previous Penumbra students

Image 4-5 © Marcy Cohen & Noy Finer, previous Penumbra students

Image 6 © Marcy Cohen, previous Penumbra student

Image 7 © Diana Guerra, Fleeting Under Light, published by Seaton Street Press

Image 8 © Magali Duzant, La vie is like that, published by Seaton Street Press