Teaching
MATERIALS FIRST.
This is what catches my eye. This is what fascinates me today. This is the next thing I will do. The process is that simple. Move from one step to the next step as your mind and your hands tell you what to do. It happens according to an impulse in a moment of time.
CONTAINER NEXT.
Scribbles, blobs, twists, tries, shapes, lines, messes. Now what? There are places we can hold the marks we've made, which means creating a vessel for the work. What could the container be? What does it need to hold? Is it sturdy, round, tall, flat? Is it a canvas, a collage, a book, a sculpture, a mobile?
La Napoule Art Foundation
Foraged Books: The Art of Place
June 2026
Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France
Delve into consciousness and memory for your magical places and stories and create an artist’s book to contain your concepts. Your book(s) may become a travel journal of this, a past or future trip, a free-wheeling, non-linear record of an experience or thought, and a certain path to dynamic creative exploration!
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Château de la Napoule is rich in thought-provoking imagery. Treasure hunts will yield images, ideas, or objects that spark fascination. Learn several folded and bound book structures, experiment with various tools and mark making techniques, lettering, and ways of thinking about what writing is.
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We’ll take a field trip to the world-renowned Fondation Maeght in Nice to see their one of a kind collection of artists’ books.
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" A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem."
- Alejo Carpentier