Can a book be more than pages full of words?
With imagination and some triangle know how, you can create an “A-Mazing Triangle” book. After all, isn’t any good picture or book worth a thousand words?
Attendees of the “A-Mazing Triangle Workshop” will spend the morning creating triangular books. They’ll also learn different ways to turn a single piece of paper into triangular pages. Students will get to explore various maze patterns that result in remarkable sculpture books. Bookbinding experience is not necessary.
Join instructor Charlene Asato from 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 21, at Volcano Art Center. Cost is $35 for non-VAC members or $32 for members, plus a $10 supply fee.
Tools to bring are a cutting mat or dense cardboard, X-acto knife with new No. 11 blade or similar tool, metal edged ruler, bone folder or non-serrated butter knife, pencil, eraser, glue stick, scissors and a discarded catalog or magazine for a gluing surface. Also, any art supplies such as colored pencils, crayons, markers, watercolor, photographs for collaging, scraps of decorative paper, etc.
Optional tools to bring would be a portable paper trimmer, scoring board, quilter’s ruler, rotary cutter, paper punches and rubber stamps.
Asato avidly pursues book arts, paper arts, photography, calligraphy and doll arts. Her work has been included in many juried shows locally and nationally. In 2012, she had a solo exhibition of her books at the East Hawaii Cultural Center.
