Taught by Philo Cohen and Martha Naranjo Sandoval
Online via zoom
This workshop explores the artist book as a space where images and narratives are constructed, layered, and inhabited. Participants will design and create their own books, focusing on the architectural qualities of the book form and its ability to hold and shape visual storytelling. Through hands-on experimentation with images, text, and materials, the course emphasizes rethinking the book as both a physical structure and a dynamic space for narrative and expression.
Seminars Tuesdays : 1.20, 1.27, 2.3, 2.10, 2.17, 2.24 and 3.3
Critiques every other Saturday 12–2PM
Group A: 1.17, 1.24, 2.7, 2.21
Group B: 1.17, 1.31, 2.14, 2.28
Office hours: 15 minutes per person every other week
Final critique Saturday 11-3PM: 3.7
(Times are local NYC time)
Online via zoom
Payment plans available
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Philo Cohen is an editor, publisher and researcher based in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in Art History and Comparative Literature. She is the founder and director of Speciwomen, an independent arts non-profit dedicated to shifting representation in the arts by providing space, time, and resources to womxn artists. Through publications, exhibitions, loan initiatives, and artist projects, she fosters the development of impactful action. Cohen has participated in public programming and conversations globally, including events at the Whitney Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, and TEDx conferences.
Martha Naranjo Sandoval is a Brooklyn-based artist, publisher, cataloguer, and bookseller from Mexico City. She holds a degree in Film from Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City, and an MFA from the International Center of Photography and Bard College. She is the founder of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones, which publishes work by artists who are immigrants or part of a recent diaspora. With this project she has edited and published books by groana melendez, Cristina Velásquez, Genesis Báez, Marion Ellena, Lauren Oliver, Carlos Jaramillo and others. In 2021 she published a book of her work, Sangre de mi Sangre (Blood of my Blood), edited by Justine Kurland; one year later Dashwood Books published her book Como Agua para Ajolote (Like Water for Axolotl), in 2025 she published with MACK the Aperture First Book Shortlisted book Small Death. She has presented solo shows at Miriam Gallery, 2023, and Baxter Street, 2024. One of her pieces was included in the landmark exhibition The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. She had tought undergraduate and certificate photo book courses and workshops since 2022. Martha also works at Dashwood Books, and manages de Internatinal Center for Photography’s Library.