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Maker Break at the Publication Center, 1/31/22: Painting rocks.
Tacey Atsitty poetry reading for Native American Heritage Month, followed by lunch, bookmaking, and printmaking in the Publication Center.
Opening of the Free Little Art Gallery @ the Publication Center, 11/10/21: Rock painting, bookmaking, and popcorn. Take art, make art! Take a piece of happiness, leave a piece of happiness–or both! Imperfections and experiments gladly accepted. After all, art is for everybody!
Everyday Objects workshop series, Oct 21-Nov 4: We wrote haikus about everyday objects and carved them into lino plates. Then we gel printed and lino printed our creations. Finally, we created two-signature, pamphlet-stitched artist books of all our work. It was messy at times, but look what we made together! Oh, and can you spot our mascot, Hiccup?
Nov 3 Maker Break at the Publication Center featured leaf printing. We daubed white poster paint onto the backs of fallen leaves and printed them on black paper. Then we made pamphlet stitched cards out of them.
Oct 4 Maker Break at the Publication Center was a “found materials” event. We made tiny matchbook accordions and sculpted old paperbacks into pumpkins. It was one big, happy, creative mess.
Sept 1 Maker Break at the Publication Center was a blast. We made tiny coptic books with a very wabi sabi, “mark of the human” vibe. So great to sit and make books together!
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Maker Break at the Publication Center
Wednesday, Sept 1
1:00-4:00 pm
Sometimes you just need a few minutes to take a breath, center yourself, and…
MAKE SOMETHING.
Wednesday, Sept 1
Publication Center
137 AAB
Work on your own project or try out a few quick book forms: perhaps a tiny coptic-bound journal, a zine, or an accordion book. Or play with color by making some gel prints. We’ll teach you some new printmaking and bookmaking moves and be available for consultation on your maker projects and ideas.
Interested? Contact charlotte.howe@slcc.edu.
There’s something bad in the canyons and it’s been making its way through the Spring 2020 Publication Studies class! Find out what it is on April 30, 2020 and hear what our publications students are saying about one of our winning chapbooks:
“Something Bad in the Canyons is a thrilling post-apocalyptic story that takes you into a fascinating world of a corrupt corporations and desperate workers. What will one desperate scientist do for a better life? It’s a twist you won’t see coming.”
2019 Chapbook Contest flyer (2)
Makerpalooza 2019: You’re invited
Chapbook Launch 2019
Chapbook Contest winners and their publishers debuted four editions of original books at the 9th annual Chapbook Launch on April 25, 2019. Winning writer Jessica Downing read from her book, holding; imperfection, a collection of prose and poetry about growing up in Murray, Utah before the smokestacks came down. The Publication Studies students who worked with Downing to create an edition of 250 original chapbooks from her manuscript also spoke, describing their publication process of editing, design, layout, printing, binding, and trimming the books. And chapbook judge and poet Trish Hopkinson read from her work.
Three finalists from the Chapbook Contest were also honored at the event:
Ness Doughty, for Fighting for our Lives
Whitney Gay, for This Girl is Named Rebellion
H.E. Grahame, for Another Story About Stars
The student publishers presented the finalists with a published edition of their books—one of which, Fighting for our Lives, was a genre-bending folio of zines instead of the traditional chapbook form.
Spring 2019 Workshops
Pub Studies 2020 flyer (1)
Fall 2018 Workshops
2018 Chapbook Launch
Join us for the chapbook launch of Consolation Prize by Angela Fields. Contest judge Nicole Walker called this short collection of creative non-fiction “capacious” yet “tightly focused” with strong attention “to the individual word and image.”
Thursday, April 26, 2018
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Academic and Administration Building — AAB 135
Salt Lake Community College Redwood Campus (4600 South Redwood Road)
Also featured will be original chapbooks by the three contest finalists: The View from Here by Natalya Anderson, Sister’s Lament by Ashley McFarland, and Sometimes by Mariah Fralick.
At the launch event, Angela Fields will read from her manuscript and student publishers from Publication Studies will explain the process of editing, designing, and publishing over 400 chapbooks in the SLCC Publication Center.
Following the brief program, you can chat with the authors and publishers over light refreshments and get your own signed copies of the books.
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2017 Chapbook Launch Event featuring Ghosts and Monsters by Christine MacPherson
Thursday, April 27
6:30-7:30 pm
Room 135, Academic & Administration Building
Taylorsville-Redwood Campus
Salt Lake Community College
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Spring 2017
Workshops
Click to access PUB-CTR-WORKSHOPS-SP-2017-2.pdf
Book Launch Event: SLCC Anthology “Spectrum”
Thursday, Jan 26, 2017
Congratulations to the writers, artists, photographers who submitted their beautiful work–and to the team of student publishers who designed and published the anthology! Stop by the Publication Center in AAB 137 if you’d like a copy.
Spring 2017 Workshops coming soon!
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Fall 2016
Come to a workshop!
Click to access Pub-Center-Workshops-Fall-2016-5.pdf
For faculty, there’s the Professional Development in Publication Certificate:
Click to access professional-development-cert.pdf
For students, there’s Publication Studio:
Click to access 1900-Publication-Studio-flyer.pdf
Take a look at our past activities in the Events Archive.
Spring 2020 Workshops