Workshops & Events
Make Your Own Binding Tools
Many bindery tools are specialized, making them difficult to find or expensive to purchase. In this virtual workshop, we'll make a few tools and discuss how to make more.
More Alternative Printmaking at Home
This virtual workshop expands on printmaking techniques covered in Alternative Printmaking at Home using accessible materials to make prints at home.
Box Building Magic: Virtual
In this virtual workshop, learn how to build this unique and playful structure with an artist who has fine-tuned the box design.
Creative Box Design
In book arts, boxes are created as containers to house books, paper, and other objects; they can also function as the artwork itself as the structure provides ample opportunities for creativity and experimentation to flourish.
Introduction to Hand Bookbinding: Virtual
In this virtual workshop, learn foundational skills in bookbinding while making three book structures: pamphlet binding (single- and double-section), slotted tape binding, and a hardcover, flat-back book with three-piece case.
Collaborative Publishing as an Artistic Practice
Designed to demystify the often hidden administrative and social labor costs of making artists’ books, this virtual workshop will cover the how, why, and what of working with other artists and writers on collaborative publications.
Making Books and Pop-Ups with Kids
This virtual workshop is for any adult who would like to build a repertoire of cards and books to teach the children in their lives, regardless of the setting—school, home, community center, or after-school program.
Intuition Lab: Ekphrastic Collage
In this generative virtual workshop, reach beyond text and image as illustration and description and learn how to respond to poetry or other written art with intuitive collage making.
Budgeting and Pricing Your Artist’s Books
In this virtual workshop, we’ll take a detailed look at the various financial parts of making and publishing artists’ books, including budgeting, tracking costs, pricing, and funding.
Hardcover Exposed Sewn Binding
In this virtual workshop, learn how to create a beautiful hardcover binding using leather or cloth for the spine, and paper for the cover boards.
Selling and Distributing Your Artist's Books
Designed to demystify the often hidden administrative and social labor costs of making artists’ books, this virtual workshop will take an in-depth look at the different aspects of selling and distributing artists’ books and zines: audience, promotion, book and zine fairs, working with stores, selling to libraries, etc.
Image Transfers for Collage
Image transfers are a playful and versatile process to add to your collage toolbox. Part collage and part print, image transfers offer an opportunity for unexpected results.