Join us for this book-making workshop with Nicole Cecilia Delgado of the renown publishing project La Impresora to explore the general features of the editorial process for creating low-cost publications. Using analogous design techniques, participants will learn to make four different single-page publication formats inspired by the non-traditional formats of the Poema Suelto series from La Impresora.
Register here:
https://reddoormagazine.com/product/workshop-poema-suelto-publication-in-non-traditional-formats-bookmaking-aug-02-25/
Agenda
1-Presentation and show and tell of single-page publications by La Impresora
2-Hands-on workshop: How to make four different publication formats
Materials
-Paper of different sizes and colors, cardboard
-Pencils, markers and sharpies
-Magazines and newspapers for collage making
-Rulers
-Scissors
-Glue
-Participants are encouraged to bring texts (their's or other's) to create an original design
Price: 400dkk
-Refreshments will be provided by the gallery
Simultaneously, get inspired through a BOOK SHOW at Red Door:
La Impresora Reading Room
Pop-up library and reading room with a selection of books published by La Impresora, a small-scale poetry press and Risograph studio from Puerto Rico.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR:
Nicole Cecilia Delgado (www.nicolececiliadelgado.net) is a poet, translator, and book artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her writing, often reviewed within the framework of ecofeminism and land art, explores the subtleties and contrasts of everyday Puerto Rican and Caribbean life.
Her collection of poems Periodo especial (Ediciones Aguadulce & La Impresora, 2019), deals with the fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico through the socioeconomic mirrors of the Greater Antilles. She recently published A mano/By Hand, an autobiographical essay about independent publishing (Ugly Duckling Presse Pamphlet Series 2020, La Impresora/EEE, 2023), and the bilingual poetry anthology Adjacent Islands/islas adyacentes (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022, translated to English by Urayoán Noel). She is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a poetry press and Risograph print shop dedicated to small-scale editorial work in Puerto Rico.
She is one of the 2025 Artists in Residence at Artica Svalvard, nominated by the Queen Sonja Print Award.
Some press:
https://www.articasvalbard.no/news/introducing-the-2025-artica-svalbard-nominees-selected-by-the-queen-sonja-print-award
https://www.chicagoreview.org/impression-techniques-spending-time-with-the-two-women-behind-la-impresora-in-puerto-rico/
https://www.vabook.org/2022/02/24/nicole-delgado-artist-in-residence/
https://www.hercampus.com/school/uprm/puerto-rican-women-killing-it-independent-art-scene-nicole-cecilia-delgado-poueymirou/
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