Crankfest 2011

All concerts are ALL AGES and $5.00.
All day-time workshops are ALL AGES and FREE!

Don't miss it!

February 18-20, 2011.

Schedule and more details here:
http://www.crankyyellow.com/2011/02/04/crankfest-2011/

Creative Reuse Workshop | Picture Frame to Dry Erase Board at Peridot

ime	Saturday, January 22 · 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Location	Peridot 3155 Cherokee Saint Louis, MO
More Info	Just $35 and all the materials are provided Only 7 spots available! Call or stop by Peridot to sign up today: 314.771.3571 Spend some time with Jenny on Saturday afternoon as she takes you through the process of transforming a salvaged picture frame into a beautiful and unique dry-erase board. Transform your picture frame into a perennial calendar, a place for notes, or a spot to keep track of all your to-do lists and stay organized in 2011! You will explore the exciting process of design and creative repurposing while learning the basics of eco-friendly wood refinishing and upcycling. Don't forget: all the proceeds benefit Perennial and help us reach our goal of opening a community workshop in St. Louis where YOU can continue to discover ways to transform discarded goods into objects of worth.

Embroidery lessons at Made Studios SUNDAY

Made Studios is getting stuff ready for some awesome impromptu embroidery lessons tomorrow! Open to anyone! Members pay $2.00 supply fee, all others pay $10.00 for studio & supply fee! We'll provide the embroidery hoop, floss, fabric, needle, instruction and inspiration. Only 12 spaces available -- first come first serve ... starting at 2pm!! 3159 Cherokee, corner of Cherokee and Compton.

Bookbinding Workshop at All Along Press

*INTRODUCTION TO BOOKBINDING*

*APRIL 24&25 12-5pm ~$90~limited to 8 students*

Bind books by hand using different methods including perfect binding, variations on pamphlet sewing, coptic stitch, and full-case bindings. Learn the secrets behind working with different papers, and wrapping hard-covers. At the end of the weekend, students will go home with five blank journals and sketchbooks as well as the skills and tools necessary to continue binding books at home. A $45 materials fee applies to this workshop, and includes the cost of a personal tool kit that students will get to keep for themselves.

*–>Sign Up! : www.allalongpress.com/workshops
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All Along Press
2712 Cherokee Street
Saint Louis, MO 63118

Letterpress Printing: A Poetic Tradition Workshop -- All Along Press

*LETTERPRESS PRINTING: A POETIC TRADITION*

*APRIL 17&18 12-5pm ~$150~limited to 10 students*
This workshop serves as an introduction to the history and practice of letterpress printing. Learn how to set text by hand using metal foundry type and prepare the type for printing on the Vandercook #4 letterpress. Explore the possibilities of combining wood & metal letters to create a typographic broadside in multiple colors and layers. Learn to ink the press, print, and make the necessary adjustments to produce an edition of 10 fine-printed original poetry broadsides. This workshop includes a month’s access to the shop so students have plenty of time to complete their project on their own schedule. Materials and paper are provided, but students should bring a short poem or piece of prose (4-12 lines) that they would like to work with.

*–>Sign Up!*

All Along Press
2712 Cherokee Street
Saint Louis, MO 63118

Workshops at All Along Press

All Along Press has just posted our new class schedule. We currently have classes running from April through July, with more to come. Classes range in length from 2 days to several weeks and focus on leaving with a well formed finished product, participating in a collaborative project, or making a
giant mess.

Take a look at whats coming up at http://www.allalongpress.com/ workshops



Also, we will have open houses every Thursday from 6pm to 8pm. There will  be lots of printing and hanging out, as well as scary presses that make noise and move on their own.

Thanks!
All Along Press
2712 Cherokee Street
Saint Louis, MO 63118

Letterpress Workshop March 13 and 14 at All Along Press

 

*Letterpress Basics and Woodcut | Saturday March 13 and Sunday March 14


Workshop participants will learn to print on the letterpress using hand-set type, and combine that text printing with a two color woodcut image.  Make sure you bring in some sketches or ideas for images.  No other supplies required — we provide ink, type, wood blocks, carving tools, etc.

There are 8 spots available for this workshop.  Experience is not required.

*The workshop comes with a month of access to the shop any day of the week from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.  Shop monitors will be available these times exclusively to assist workshop participants.*

12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday — $120
*Sign up here.


All Along Press
2712 Cherokee Street
Saint Louis, MO 63118

March letterpress workshop at All Along Press

Now that we have lots of room to move around (and a serious print shop set up), we are finally getting our class schedule together!  We are devoting a huge amount of time to workshops and classes this year… With every class, we are offering a month of access to the shop with exclusive help from instructors provided throughout the month.

*Letterpress Basics and Woodcut | Saturday March 13 and Sunday March 14*

Workshop participants will learn to print on the letterpress using hand-set type, and combine that text printing with a two color woodcut image.  Make sure you bring in some sketches or ideas for images!  No other supplies required — we provide ink, type, wood blocks, carving tools, etc.

There are 8 spots available for this workshop.  Experience is not required!

*The workshop comes with a month of access to the shop any day of the week from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.  Shop monitors will be available these times exclusively to assist workshop participants.*

*12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday — $120*

Sign up here


All Along Press
2712 Cherokee Street
Saint Louis, MO 63118

Bookmaking Workshop SUNDAY on Cherokee Street

**The Finders Hive**

(in collaboration with UpCycle Exchange and The Community Arts and Media Project)

Is Hosting A Series of 2 Sunday Workshop/Playshops:

>>>TURNING TRASH INTO BOOKS<<<

the discarded and the forgotten
the bits and pieces
tucked in attics and basements
picked from alleyways and dumpsters
will be re-discovered, re-purposed and re-created
into journals and sketchbooks, notebooks and storybooks
uniquely handbound
to hold our stories and dreams, visons and schemes

On::: Sunday Feb. 21 (all ages, everyone welcome)
AND!
Sunday March 7 (just for the kids, ages ~ 5-15)

From::: 2:00pm -- 4:00pm

At:::: ->>The Finders Hive
c/o The Community Arts and Media Project
3022 CHEROKEE STREET
at the corner of Cherokee and Minnesota
on the south side of St. Louis City...

You Will Find::: A book making Extravaganza including:
Demonstrations of simple book binding techniques.
Piles of lovingly reclaimed trash treasures to work and play with to create a book of your own.
An attentive teacher to guide you through the process

What to bring::: Just your creative self!
and if you want...
Any unwanted junk you have laying around that could be recycled into book making materials
and/or
Drawings, stories, poems, comics, etc.- any paper creation wanting a binding

We're requesting a sliding scale donation of $2-$10 to benefit CAMP and the Finders Hive. No one turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP helpful but not required.

To RSVP or for more info contact:
Laura Anderson
314-773-1391

superfun art/play workshop this Sunday

From your friends at the Chatillon-DeMenil House and the wonder-artist Lyndsey Scott:

Our October "Arts Then and Now" events are on the road, exploring how our neighbors on Cherokee Street are inspired to mingle art and architecture. First, we'll meet inside CAMP to draw and brainstorm together. Taking cues from old photographs and advertisements together with current photos, fliers, and news clippings -- we'll let our imaginations explore what the street has been and can be. Then we'll make copies of our sketches and stroll around the neighborhood affixing these images and messages with magnets where people can interact with them. No worries if you're not an 'artist' -- if you've got attentive eyes, willing hands, and a sense of humor you're well equipped to play this game!

Sunday, October 18
1pm
Community Arts and Media Project
3022 Cherokee Street

questions? 229-0793

This free workshop is made possible with support from the Regional Arts Commission.