Cobenick Studios offers multi-media workshops, where you can explore the history and methods of handmade book arts with artist Daniel Colvin. For more in-depth explanation of residential or mobile workshops offered please visit us on the web for the Greater Columbus Arts Council's Artists in Schools programming.

Course Outline:

• Discussion of artist's work, training and career
• Ways and quantity of paper used everyday
• History of papermaking
• Exploration of plants used to make paper
• Mixing pulp
• Forming a sheet of paper
• Development of paper into artwork, book, or other product

Objectives:

• Teach students what it is like to be an artist
• Make students aware of how paper is made, how much we use and how it impacts our environment
• Tie history to the development of paper and it's gradual spread throughout the world
• Allow students to try their hand at making paper
• Show students how to use handmade paper to create a finished work of art