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September 18, 2022 - October 2, 2022

The Art of Paper

The Art of Paper

WORKSHOP COST:
€3850
Workshop Dates:
September 18, 2022 - October 2, 2022
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About the Workshop

Paper is an amazing, surprising material with the potential to be structurally strong or flexible and soft, opaque or translucent, an artwork in itself, a base for drawings and paintings, a sculptural form, or bound into books for writing and illustrations. In this session we will explore the potential of paper as a basic material and as a medium for artistic pursuits. Four internationally known instructors, Amanda Degener, co-founder of Cave Paper; Carol Barton of Popular Kinetics; Helen Hiebert of Helen Hiebert Studio; and Denise Carbone from the University of the Arts will lead workshops in various aspects of the paper arts.

Students will be signing up for the complete session, with sixteen hours of instruction in each area: hand papermaking, creating paper-based objects, sewn bookbindings and designing pop-ups. The session will also include field trips to the Fabriano Paper Mill and to the city of Florence, along with several other excursion stops. In addition, Amanda will be offering optional morning Tai Chi sessions to be held near the fountain in our lovely public garden overlooking the surrounding mountains.

This is an ideal session for teachers, graphic designers, creative artists, and anyone who likes to play with paper or is interested in the rudiments of how books are put together. No prior experience is necessary; all skill levels are welcome.

For more information, contact us.

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Included Amenities

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  • Airport transfer from and to the Leonardo da Vinci Rome/Fiumicino Airport (FCO) aboard our private bus (on scheduled dates only)
  • Airport welcome service and assistance with baggage
  • 24/7 bi-lingual support with manager on site at all times
  • All ground transport aboard private buses or our ICA van, unless otherwise specified. Licensed and insured professional driver and ICA guide accompany all excursions. Orientation at each destination is provided as is departure coordination (guide service is available upon request — unless specified — for an additional fee)
  • Complimentary bottle of local wine provided in rooms on arrival day and complimentary locally made soap
  • Village orientation and complimentary drinks provided on arrival day
  • Private access to our 5-storey tower at our Palazzo Persiane (on sign-up basis) for spectacular morning and evening views
  • Access to our art materials shop (during posted hours)
  • Thorough orientation lecture and maps provided the evening before departure
  • Return transport to the Rome/Fiumicino Airport (departs 7 AM) with rest stop
  • Departure service/airport assistance at airport
  • Unless otherwise specified, single occupancy accommodation is provided in rooms with a view of the Tiber Valley that includes sink and vanity. Rooms are with shared bath on each level (3 rooms per bath) in our 14th century convent building, The Asilo. Apartments, rooms with private bath and AC, double rooms, group or villa accommodations are available for couples, business associates/ friends, or groups for an additional fee
  • Linens and towels provided
  • Weekly housekeeping service with change of towels and linens
  • Free washing machine access
  • Good Wi-Fi connection and access to our library and film collection
  • 3 chef-catered, gourmet meals per day (buffet breakfast, 3-course lunch, 4-course dinner) — with wine at lunch and dinner (table wine provided at lunch and dinner. An excellent wine list is offered at additional cost), while in Monte Castello
  • Group dining service is as follows, with breakfast and lunch served in our dining room, etc, with dinner (weather permitting) served on our private terrace overlooking the Tiber Valley
  • Lunch and dinner are plated as follows: pasta course, main course, vegetable, fruit/salad, dessert
  • When requested at registration, vegetarian, vegan, and special dietary options are provided
  • After dinner drinks on our terrace overlooking the Tiber valley
  • Dining service is as follows: Breakfast: 8:00 AM; Lunch: 1:00PM; Dinner: 8:00 PM. No meals are served on Fridays (excursion day) unless otherwise specified
  • On Saturday and Sunday, a full buffet brunch with fresh pastry and Prosecco is served at 11:00 AM
  • On Saturday, homemade, wood-fired pizza is served at 7:00 PM (except on departure days, when a special farewell dinner is served)
  • Sunday dinner with antipasti is served at 7:00 PM
  • Farewell dinner on the evening prior to departure
  • 24/7 access to our primary building and library is provided, including access to workspaces, studios, and ceramics facility
  • Special access to certain cultural and art collections is available upon request
  • FOR VISUAL ARTISTS: private, or semi-private secure and monitored studio space is provided (24/7 access)
  • FOR WRITERS: private workspace is provided (24/7 access)
  • FOR GROUPS: Group workspace is provided (24/7 access)
  • FOR CERAMIC ARTISTS: 24/7 access to our ceramics facility
  • Free access to lectures and events at the Teatro Concordia
  • An end of the session exhibition with reception that includes hors d'oeuvres and Prosecco in our gallery. Posters are prepared to promote the event with copies provided to all participants

Designing Pop-Ups

Discover the creative magic of constructing your own pop-ups in this exciting workshop on “paper engineering.”  We will begin with basic cut-and-fold pop-up structures that can be used to enhance graphics for greeting cards, invitations, gallery announcements, children’s picture books, and much more. From there we will explore a range of more complex glued structures which form the basis of entire scenes in contemporary pop-up books: props, floating platforms, spirals, straddles, and V-folds. You will be encouraged to invent and explore these structures to create your own artistic paper environments.

Paper Vessels 

Create a variety of collapsible vessels, book forms and inflatable structures as you explore the properties of handmade and commercial papers through cutting, folding, embedding, stitching, weaving and manipulating wet and dry sheets. We will join paper panels with a variety of attachments and connections that work well with paper, such as glue, tape, eyelets, and stitching. We will also explore illuminating some of our paper vessels.

Your Paper, Your Art

Amanda Degener will introduce image-making with and on handmade paper and guide participants towards projects of their own design. Being playful and experimental is encouraged, then make your masterpieces when you return home. As a group we will cook, process and sheetform translucent Asian paper and use natural dyes on pre-made strong Western Belgium Flax. Some of our colors will include: Indigo, Persimmon, Red Walnut, and Ochre. These have often been compared to the palette of Italy: Siena, Naples Yellow, Venetian Red. You will learn gelatin-resist crackling, indigo layering, and combining natural dyes resulting in dark and durable papers. To see some of the natural dying we will be doing, check out the Cave Paper website. Your papers can be artworks in themselves and/or you can customize paper for your personal projects. There will be plenty of demos and handouts, and the group will make a sample book including descriptions so everyone has a record of the recipes.

Sewn Book Bindings

A bookbinding has two main functions. It protects its text block against wear and tear, and, by its structure, it makes a book out of a heap of otherwise separate leaves or quires. — Karen Limper-Herz

A functioning book begins with a solid sewing. This class will cover variations on sewing methods that are meant to be constructed at the bench and that can be made in a sparsely equipped home studio. Basic hand tools-of-the-trade will be introduced, and we’ll consider how the materials and composition of a binding affects the book’s structure and action. You will learn about materials, tools, and terminology as I guide you through different methods for folding, marking up, and punching signatures; sewing on and off a sewing frame; and gluing up and lining a spine.

Structures to be covered in the workshop include: tacketed pamphlet bindings, double-raised cords covered in chamois, sewn board / drum leaf hybrids, and paper case construction.

By the end of the workshop you will have your own stack of completed bindings. A series of handouts outlining the steps to create the models that you make in class will also be provided so you leave the workshop with the technical foundation and structural principles for continued investigation.

Supply List (for Students to Bring)

Pencil
Scissors
Glue Stick
Scotch Tape
X-Acto Knife and #11 Blades
Utility Knife and Blades
Self-Healing Cutting Mat (as large as you can comfortably carry)
Metal Ruler
Right Angle Triangle
Bone Folder bookmaking tool, 6 or 8-inch pointed
Bookbinder’s Bristol glue brush, 1/2”
Collage scraps, photographs, clip art images
Color pencils, rubber stamps, markers, and other art materials of your choice
Plastic container with lid, such as small yogurt containers, for glue (1 per student)
Ribbons (2–3, 1/8” wide)
1 or 2 of your favorite pop-up books to share with the class

  • Advanced reservations and ticket purchases for groups and individuals
  • Concierge services provided upon request at an hourly rate
  • Restaurant reservations (provided under Concierge services)
  • Car rental
  • Critique series with visiting visual artists
  • Artist materials workshops
  • Drawing and painting sessions from the figure
  • Cooking classes
  • Cheesemaking workshop
  • Pizza-making workshop
  • Kids cooking classes
  • Wine appreciation and Sommelier Courses
  • Wine and olive oil tastings
  • Vineyard tours
  • Truffle hunting
  • Ballroom dance classes
  • Weekend excursions to flea markets and natural sites
  • Shopping excursions to cashmere and leather outlets, to Deruta famous for fine painted traditional ceramics, and antique stores
  • Overnight excursions to the sea and day-trips to Rome beaches
  • Hot air balloon tours
  • Hot springs excursions
  • Lake Trasimeno tours
  • Umbria abandoned castle and fortress tour
  • Sustainable farming tour 
  • Babysitting services
  • Soccer, archery, and horseback riding camps for kids
  • Motorized mountain bike rentals
  • Electric car rental 
  • Golf-cart tours of Rome and Florence
  • Hiking/naturalist guides to national/regional parks - mountain hiking available
  • Fishing/Hunting Excursions

Payment Options

  • Non-refundable €500 deposit
  • Payment in full (€500 non-refundable deposit is included. No refunds after April 30 — see Fees and Payment)
  • Balance payment (after €500 deposit — due before April 30)

Required Forms

All ICA participants; whether coming independently, with a group or through a college / university, must provide the following completed forms and information to icarts.info@gmail.com at least 2 weeks prior to attending their program. 
Emergency Contact & Medical Information »Liability Waiver »
Proof of Insurance / Travel Insurance
Itinerary and Passport
For detailed information and to download the required forms, please visit our Guides and Forms page.

Itinerary

Day 01: Arrival

Our representative will meet and assemble the group at Terminal 3 immediately after everyone passes through customs. Assistance with baggage will be provided. Our private bus will transport the group to Monte Castello, for the 1-hour, 45 minute trip (with a refreshment stop along the way). On arrival, we will drop the bags in the rooms and enjoy a late lunch followed by a brief orientation. Afterward we will settle in and a rest period. At 5:30 PM, we will take a brief tour of the village and studio facilities, followed by a prosecco at the Café Centrale. We will reconvene at our main building for dinner at 8:00 PM.

Day 02:

Tai Chi: 7:00 AM

Breakfast: 8:00

Class: 9:00 as follows:

Group A: Carol

Group B: Helen

Lunch: 1:00- 2:00 PM

Class 3:00 – 7:00 as follows:

Group A: Denise

Group B: Amanda

8:00 PM: Dinner

9:00: Participant Work Presentation at Asilo- short: 5min. pp.

Day 03:

Tai Chi: 7:00 AM

Breakfast: 8:00

Group B: Carol

Group A: Helen

Lunch: 1:00- 2:00 PM

Class 3:00 – 7:00 as follows:

Group B: Denise

Group A: Amanda

8:00 PM: Dinner

9:00: Faculty Work Presentation (2, 30-minute presentations @) at Teatro Concordia

Day: 04

Tai Chi: 7:00 AM

Breakfast: 8:00

Class: 9:00

Group A: Carol

Group B: Helen

Lunch: 1:00- 2:00 PM

Class 3:00 – 7:00 as follows:

Group A: Denise

Group B: Amanda

8:00 PM: Dinner

9:00 PM: Faculty Work Presentation at Teatro Concordia (2, 30-minute lectures)

Day 05:

Tai Chi: 7:00 AM

Breakfast: 8:00

Class: 9:00

Group B: Carol

Group A: Helen

Lunch: 1:00- 2:00 PM

Class 3:00 – 7:00 as follows:

Group B: Denise

Group A: Amanda

8:00 PM: Dinner

9:00 PM: Trip Talk, distribute maps: Fabriano and environs

Day 06:

No breakfast served, suggest cappuccino and brioche at the Café Centrale (not included)

Fabriano Trip Depart: 8:00 AM

Stop#1: Church of Madonna del Bagni

Stop#2: Deruta bakery breakfast (cost not included), followed by a stop at the Maioliche Nulli Ceramics (http://www.maiolichenulli.com) (no admission fee), for a brief tour and shopping options

Arrive in Fabriano at about 10:30

Tour of the Fabriano Museo Della Carta E Della Filligrana (Paper and Watermark Museum) and facility (excellent website: https://www.museodellacarta.com)

1:00-2:00 Lunch – Suggest a group lunch at: Osteria San Biagio

 2:30  Assisi stop for a 1-hour tour of the church of San Francesco, a UNESCO World Heritage site (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/990/) and one of the most remarkable churches in Italy

 5:00 Stop for a wine tasting Arnaldo Caprai (https://www.arnaldocaprai.it)

Arrive in Monte Castello 6- 7 PM

8:00 PM Pizza Dinner (in giro) at Torraccia with local wine

Day 07:

Tai Chi: ?

Brunch 11:00 AM

12:00 – 2:00: Afternoon group workshop or demo: Helen and/or Amanda

2:00 Depart for Orvieto

3:00 – 6:00 Orvieto visit

7:00 Arrive back in MCdV

8:00 PM: Dinner

Day 08:

Tai Chi:

 Brunch: 11:00

 12:00- 2: Afternoon group workshop or demo: Carol and/or Denise

 2:00 Flea Market at Perugia spend remainder of the day in Perugia

 8:00 PM: Dinner: Grill night

 9:00 PM: Suggest presentation at Asilo

Day 09:

Tai Chi: 7:00 AM

Breakfast: 8:00 AM

Class: 9:00 AM

Group A: Carol

Group B: Helen

Lunch: 1:00 – 2:00 PM

Class 3:00 – 7:00 as follows:

Group A: Denise

Group B: Amanda

Dinner at 8:00

Day 10:

Tai Chi: 7:00 AM

Breakfast: 8:00 AM

Class: 9:00 AM

Group B: Carol

Group A: Helen

Lunch: 1:00- 2:00 PM

Class 3:00 – 7:00 as follows:

Group B: Denise

Group A: Amanda

Dinner at 8:00

Day 11:

Tai Chi: 7:00 AM

Breakfast: 8:00 AM

Class: 9:00 AM

Group A: Carol

Group B: Helen

Lunch: 1:00- 2:00 PM

Class 3:00 – 7:00 as follows:

Group A: Denise

Group B: Amanda

Dinner at 8:00

Day 12:

Tai Chi: 7:00 AM

Breakfast: 8:00 AM

Class: 9:00 – 11:00AM

Group B: Carol

Group A: Helen

Class 11:00 – 1:00

Group B: Denise

Group A: Amanda

Lunch: 1:00- 2:00 PM

Set-up exhibition 2–5

6:00 – 7:30 PM opening with hors d’oeuvres and prosecco in our, Bocca al Lupo Gallery

Dinner at 8:00

9:00: Trip Talk and maps: Florence trip

Day 13:

Florence Trip: Depart 7:00 AM 

No breakfast is served, but we will stop at Autogrill, en route at about 8:00 AM

Itinerary:? (Suggest Lunch at the Mercato Centrale Food Court)

Depart Florence 6:30 PM

Suggest stopping for dinner on Lake Trasimeno at 7:30 PM

Return to Monte Castello around 9:00 PM

Day 14:

Brunch 11:00

12:00 Todi visit

3:00 PM Marmore Falls

Back in MCdV by 6:00 PM

8:00 PM: Farewell Dinner

Day 15:

Depart for Rome/Fiumicino Airport (FCO) at 7:00 AM – no return flights before 11:00 AM

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