Two Sides to Every Story: Creating a Two-Way Artist Book, a Workshop with Victoria Rabinowe and Ro Gouletas
- Saturday, October 17, 2026; from 10 am to 3 pm
- At the DreamingArts Studio; we’ll send the address after you enroll
- $106; must be a current BAG member to participate (Not a member? Join here.)
- Maximum of 12 students
- All materials are included.
- Register here: https://santafebag.org/register-for-two-sides-to-every-story-workshop/
Relationships are often complex, layered, paradoxical, mysterious, and constantly evolving. Every relationship contains multiple perspectives—light and shadow, closeness and distance, certainty and ambiguity. This workshop invites participants to embrace the richness of contradiction and the beauty of complexity within a Dos-a-Dos book structure as a creative visual exploration.
Create a unique hand-crafted artist book that opens in two directions—a bifold structure for exploring the interconnected nature of relationship. As each side unfolds, images, words, and collage reveal complementary stories that meet in the center, creating a visual dialogue between apparent opposites.
Through guided reflection, collage, image, and words, you will investigate the many dimensions of relationship: known and unknown, self and other, inner and outer worlds, memory and imagination. As your book evolves, seemingly opposing perspectives begin to weave together into a more expansive experience of wholeness. You will discover that what appears divided may, in fact, be deeply interconnected.
Leave with a one-of-a-kind artist book, fresh creative insights, and a renewed appreciation for the intricate, multifaceted nature of human relationship.
Victoria Rabinowe is one of the founding mothers of BAG as program director, newsletter wrangler, and all-around Czarina. She is an international lecturer and workshop leader in the fields of dreams and memoir. Victoria is the author and illustrator of the recently published Conversations with Psyche: A Dreamer’s Guide to Soul-Stirring Creativity.
Ro Gouletas is a faculty member of Santa Fe Community College where she teaches Book Arts, Printmaking, and Creative Expression. She also leads workshops for SFCC Continuing Education. Ro is an active member and on the board of directors of Santa Fe BAG. She earned her MFA degree at State University of New York, New Paltz.