Workshop Description: Have you wondered what to do with that orphaned chopstick or a paintbrush that has seen better days? Are you looking for a technique to offer additional aesthetic variations to a pamphlet binding or even a medieval long…
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Elsi Vassdal Ellis – Reimagining the Humble Rubbing
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…
Continue ReadingElsi Vassdal Ellis- Panel Book with Box
Workshop Description: The workshop will explore the panel book structure composed of double boards glued to book cloth hinges to form stacked double-sided panels that sit on a small, lidded box to house small objects. Workshop participants will learn how…
Continue ReadingElsi Vassdal Ellis – Moving Steps Binding
Workshop Description: This adhesive structure introduces a simple movement to the text block that is activated when the book is opened with the pages forming stepped fore edges that can be used for indexing or to build an image. Individual…
Continue ReadingShawn 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 ReadingCasey Newman – Indigo Dyeing Fabric and Paper
Workshop Description: In this workshop we will create and use an indigo dye vat, and learn to create beautiful patterns by folding and binding fabric. There are infinite ways to manipulate fabric to create unique designs and everything necessary to…
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 – Variations on the Sewn Board Binding
Workshop Description: The Sewn Board Binding is one of the most versatile and user friendly structures in the book arts field, both for binders and the book’s end users. In this class students will learn the basics the binding, then…
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 – Interlocked–Woven Paper in Book Arts–Structure and Ornament
Workshop Description: We will explore the structural properties of woven and interlocked paper through the construction of 3 to 4 non-adhesive binding structures including a multisignature structure sewn on paper straps woven into a slotted paper cover, Carmencho Arregui’s and…
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 ReadingMargo Klass – Woodland Journal
Workshop Description: The woodland journal is rugged enough to take on walks in the woods, and suitably elegant for coffee table display. Its cover features a framed composition of stones and twigs sewn onto a panel using Japanese-inspired techniques. Inside…
Continue ReadingMargo Klass – The Unfolding Box Book
Workshop Description: This 3-dimensional book structure requires the artist to imagine how the book will be experienced in the hands of its viewer – from unlatching the cover, to opening the box by unfolding the hinged panels outward in all…
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 ReadingHelen Shafer Garcia – Watermedia Approaches for Book Structures
Workshop Description: This workshop will focus on 2 extraordinary multiple signature book structures. Work with the principles of watermedia surface design in the form of watermedia monotypes, dropped-in watercolor techniques, acrylic ink line symbolism, and collage imagery for development of…
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 ReadingErin Fletcher – Exploring Embroidery on Paper
Workshop Description: Embroidering the surface of paper creates an alluringly tactile effect that can enhance any design. During the first half of the workshop, students will experiment with a range of surface design techniques including embroidery by making a series…
Continue ReadingHayley Ferber – Introduction to Artist Books
Workshop Description: Introduction to Artist Books explores a variety of methods and materials that will be used to create a series of artist books. Over the course of 3 days, students will learn and practice different bookbinding structures, the art…
Continue ReadingKristen Doty – Drawing & Lettering Sketchbook
Workshop Description: Learn to draw! Build confidence or brush up on your skills through drawing and lettering exercises. Learn how to create drawings and add unique drawn letters. These techniques can be used later to enhance your own blank books.…
Continue ReadingMary-Ellen Campbell – Sun and Earth
Workshop Description: Create cyanotypes; those lovely indigo images made from nature or from film negatives on rusted and tea stained papers resulting in unique pages. Day 1, participants will be learning techniques as well as compiling notes on our experiments.…
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 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 ReadingPietro Accardi – Intensive Marbling on Paper and Fabric
Workshop Description: All that you need to know about marbling on paper and fabric (silk and cotton). Also we’ll talk about working with metallic paint (on paper) and how to create your own book cloth. We’ll discuss color theory and…
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