Demystifying the Pop-up Book
Session 4 | July 27–August 8
Noodle Mountain by Colette Fu, 2024. Oversized canvas pop-up book with crank-operated altar table, 10’ x 10’ x 7’.
Pop-up book structures can create captivating art for all ages—from greeting cards to room-sized interactive kinetic sculptures. In this workshop, participants will learn the basic elements of pop-up paper engineering and how to combine them to create more complex mechanisms, including platforms, rotating disks, and pull-tabs. Most of all, participants will learn how to effectively incorporate their own art into their structures to create unique pop-up books, cards, and works of art. All levels welcome.
Colette Fu (she/her) is a Philadelphia, PA-based artist known for her intricate pop-up books, which are featured in prestigious institutions such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Library of Congress, the Getty Research Institute, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has received numerous awards and grants, including a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures grant, a Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Fellowship, the Meggendorfer Prize, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship to China. Fu teaches pop-up courses and community workshops internationally.