Box: The Art of Enclosures with Golnar Adili
July 6 - July 10
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Box: The Art of Enclosures – Golnar Adili
Dates: July 6 – 10, 2026
Studio: Bindery
Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300
Lab fee: $150
Class limit: 4
In this class we will cover the basics of making different kinds of boxes as part of redefining the artist book architecturally reviewing fundamentals of tray, enclosure and hinging. We will cover our constructions with a variety of cloths and prints enjoying image distortion and inside to outside relationships. We will start with the “shoe box” and move on to more complex and hinged forms such as the clamshell box, and the postcard box. We will conclude the class by making our own unique box while researching artist books for inspiration paying close attention to form and function relationship, always remembering that there are as many box forms as there are people!
This workshop is currently in the week-long members-only registration period. Registration will open to the public on February 4th.
Artist
Golnar Adili
Golnar Adili is an Iranian American artist, designer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Adili holds a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and has participated in residencies with the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts (Italy), Center for Book Arts (NYC), Smack Mellon (NY), Fine Arts Work Center (MA), MacDowell (NYC), Ucross Foundation for the Arts (Clearmont, WY), Lower East Side Printshop (NYC), Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace (NYC), among others. Her work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions organized by institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), The Cue Art Foundation (NYC), The Walters Art Museum (MD), and the Craft Contemporary (CA). She is the recipient of major grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NYFA, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2021, Adili was a finalist for the Jameel Prize, sponsored by the Victoria &Albert Museum and Art Jameel. Her artist books are in over 50 collections, including the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Walker Art Center, Yale University, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library.
