Rock Workshop

New Paltz Design Week features lectures, workshops, and events celebrating design across disciplines on campus and in the region, organized by the new Department of Design, including the Graphic Design Program and the Digital Design and Fabrication Program, and the School of Fine & Performing Arts with support from the Hudson Valley Additive Manufacturing Center, Campus Auxiliary Services, Inc., the Hudson Valley Venture Hub, T-Source, and our generous Friends of Design Week. Now in its 9th year, New Paltz Design Week is free and open to the public.

New Paltz Design Week

Explore rock formations through the lens of graphic design.

Old Library Seminar Room

Rocks are silent storytellers of Earth’s history, incorporating geological narratives and revealing the processes that created them. By creating a diverse rock collection, participants will stretch their making muscles, exploring tools, techniques, and materials. We’ll consider texture, shape, form, function, and the visual inspiration of organic and inorganic materials, aiming to create a body of work that can be incorporated into a collective poster and/or publication. Workshop Leaders: Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Sleboda currently split their time between Boston and Connecticut. Together, the pair have run Draw Down Books, publishing and curating printed matter, since 2012. They also create illustrations as Gluekit, design for clients in the cultural sector and the arts, and teach at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Previously, Christopher was Director of Graphic Design at the Yale University Art Gallery for 15 years, and Kathleen, an enrolled member of the Coldwater Band (nɬeʔképmx), worked as an archivist at the Beinecke Rare Books Library at Yale University. Draw Down has been active in the artist book space for over a decade, organizing and curating fairs (the Otis MFA GD Fair, Odds and Ends at the Yale University Art Gallery, and Multiple Formats at Boston University) and participating in over 50 book fairs around the world.

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