Seeing Topographies with Golnar Adili
July 13 - July 17
| $450 – $1300Event Navigation
Seeing Topographies – Golnar Adili
Dates: July 13 – 17, 2026
Studio: Bindery
Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300
Lab fee: $150
Class limit: 4
In this class we will give depth to the printed image by learning how to divide the surface into stepped topographies. We will review both organic terrains and geometric ones, through tearing, cutting or perforations, and ultimately stacking. This kind of image distortion will straddle between 2 and 3 dimensions and make the flat image 3D. In doing so, we will use the accordion form in its different manifestations to give movement to our investigations, a great reminder of this versatile form. We will conclude these studies by making a home for our now 3D image and call it a book!
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.
