Workshop Description: This workshop will explore a variety of options for rubbings to create art for artist’s books, collage art, and cyanotypes. On the first day we will embark on a journey of exploration, experimentation, and discovery, as we apply…
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Shawn Sheehy – Movable Magic: The Animating Binding
Workshop Description: In the 1960’s, Bronx-based Child Guidance Books published a series that exploits a unique mechanical approach to animation: a self-pulling mechanism— integrated into the binding—that causes figures to dance on the page without apparent means. Wouldn’t you like…
Continue ReadingShawn Sheehy – A Satisfaction of Movables
Workshop Description: Think back to the last time you picked up a movable card. You moved the mechanism back and forth, soothed and satisfied by the movement. You wished there was a collective noun for movable cards. Well, there is!…
Continue ReadingEline Lipkin – Writing in the Blanks
Workshop Description: This class is for anyone who has wondered what to put inside their beautiful, yet blank, book and who wants to jumpstart their writing. Through generative writing exercises, students will be exposed to poetic forms such as the…
Continue ReadingRoberta Lavadour – Funky Foldy: Fun Structures for the Studio or Classroom
Workshop Description: We’ll explore at least 10 deceptively simple book arts projects, many of which begin with one sheet of paper transformed into multi-faceted structures, that can become the basis for artist’s books or engaging classroom content. We’ll approach each…
Continue ReadingAnn Kronenberg- Intelligent Design: Creating Your Own Book Structures
Workshop Description: How do those super-creative individuals that come up with new book structures do it? This workshop will help you understand the thought process. We will examine—through demonstration, discussion, and construction—the evolution of “families” of book structures. Evolution of…
Continue ReadingLaurel Herbeck – Coptic Cross Stitch Journal
Workshop Description: This journal combines Coptic stitch and Cross-stitch in an elegant and stunning binding. The Coptic stitch is a two-needle across the spine sewing, while the Cross stitch is sewn along the binding simultaneously as the Coptic stitches progress…
Continue ReadingHelen Shafer Garcia – Woven Stitch Collagraph Book
Workshop Description: We will focus on a unique combination of Collagraph (a form of collage) printmaking, relief block prints, and book structures. Produce printing plates with collage shapes and hot glue to create free flowing designs. Experiment with textures with…
Continue ReadingBrenda Gallagher – Design With Scraps to Make a Hard Cover Long Stitch Journal
Workshop Description: The class will be a combination design and bookbinding class. The first day students focus on design. We will study a collection of design examples and sketch thumbnails bringing final designs up to full size. Final designs will…
Continue ReadingBrenda Gallagher – Beaded Miniature Books
Workshop Description: Students will make several miniature books with beaded spines. We will cut small pages and fold into signatures. Then a miniature case will be created by covering small boards with decorative paper and book cloth spines. Students will…
Continue ReadingMary-Ellen Campbell – Artbound-Binding Techniques for Single Sheets
Workshop Description: If you’ve ever wanted to bind prints, digital photos, or paintings that are on single sheets, we will learn both non-adhesive, folded bindings and sewn bindings. We’ll create a simple album following Hedi Kyle’s crown and Claire Van…
Continue ReadingGinger Burrell – Creativity, Collage and Coptic Stitch – CANCELLED
We are sorry to announce that this class is now cancelled. Please contact Fran McReynolds at workshopchair@focusonbookarts.org if you have any questions. Workshop Description: Never lose an idea again! Make two single-needle Coptic stitch books in this class to keep…
Continue ReadingPietro Accardi – Secretary Box
Workshop Description: The secretary box features one large bottom drawer, two recessed diagonal drawers, and three niches within a hatch top opening. The box is entirely covered with marbled fabric, dimensions: 10 inches wide, 7 inches deep, and 6 inches…
Continue ReadingSarah Matthews – Block Printed Flag Books – CANCELLED
We are sorry to announce that this class is now cancelled. Please contact Fran McReynolds at workshopchair@focusonbookarts.org if you have any questions. Workshop Description: Join us for an immersive three days, discovering the captivating fusion of block printing and bookbinding.…
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