Post-Apocalyptic Arts & Crafts Survival Skills Workshop No. 3: “Wasteless Notations: Bookmaking With Used and Salvaged Office Supplies.”

A green art workshop with artist Rachel Schragis
Date: Sunday, June 12
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Admission: $15
Presented by the Hollow Earth Society
Part three of a four-part series

Post-apocalyptic arts & crafts survival skills workshops, you say!?  That’s right:  Creative-making for the improvisational, post-industrial future (and present).  When the apocalypse comes, these definitely won’t be the first things you’ll need to know… but they’ll be on the list! In this workshop series, learn how to make beautiful objects you’ll actually use out of materials that would otherwise go to waste.

You can make your own notebooks, scrapbooks, leaflets, and fliers out of recycled materials—everything from professional-looking bindings down to quick DIY styles.  Learn three techniques for binding, and discuss strategies for making the most out of your discarded office supplies.  You’ll go home with applicable new skills, an instruction booklet, and a kit of tools to replicate what you’ve learned.

Rachel Schragis is a sculptor, illustrator, and craftsperson based in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn.  She is dedicated to pragmatically sustainable making.  Rachel works as a Teaching Artist with Wingspan Arts and is a graphic identity designer for Build It Green NYC.  Rachel has taught textile- and reuse-based craft workshops at Spacecraft Brooklyn, Trade School, and a variety of youth programs.

Instructions:  To beautify our book covers, bring along any attractive salvaged papers you have around—magazine clippings, wrapping paper, envelopes with pretty patterns inside, etc. Other materials provided (rubber bands, office paper, cardboard, bookbinding thread and needles, Elmer’s glue, and brushes).

RSVP to karen@hollowearthsociety.com.

This workshop is one part one of the Hollow Earth Society’s Spring 2011 Para-Academic Colloquium on Education for Sustainable Public Esthetics Through Enviro-nomadic Rigor (SPACE SPECTER). SPACE SPECTER is made possible by a generous grant from the Hollow Earth Society’s Department of Perpendicular Ecology—and the ongoing support of people like you!  Please note that the following SPACE SPECTER workshops are at full enrollment and no longer accepting RSVPs at this time:

• Beetle-Cloak Weaving & Improvised Food-Blankets
  
• Swords > Plowshares? Letter Openers > Spearheads: The Nomadic Post-Future of Weaponry
  
• Microwave As Forge: PLASTICS
• Treehouse Triage: Saving a Limb (Human/Arboreal)