Bookbinding Workshops
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In 2D Design, I taught bookbinding to Margaret Morton's students at Cooper Union in New York, NY from 2015-2017. Students learn to make drum leaf and perfect bound books.
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Accordion Books was a one-day workshop for Jo Yarrington's students at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT in 2017. Students learned to make a variety of accordion books including standard accordions, tunnel books, and flag books.
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In Art of the Book I taught bookbinding to Margaret Morton's students at Cooper Union in New York, NY from 2015-2017. Students learn to make a flat-back case binding with hand-sewn headbands and a hardcover Coptic stitch book.
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Autobiographical Zines was a one-day workshop taught at Inky Editions in Hudson, NY in October of 2017. Students learned some basic book structures including instant books (aka the zine fold), accordions, and pamphlets. Students also learned simple stamp carving and trace monotypes as printing options. Discussion focused on creating personal narrative within zines, the history of zines, and problem solving.
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Bookbinding 1 is an introduction to bookbinding at the Center for Book Arts in New York, NY. Taught as a weeklong intensive where students learn several basic book structures, develop hand skills and become familiar with binding tools and techniques. Discussion focuses on proper materials and on best practices for folding, cutting, adhesives, paper types, tool selection, and sewing methods. No experience required.
Students learn to instant books, accordions, pamphlets, Japanese stab stitch, drumleaf, Coptic stitch, hardcover pamphlets, a flat-back case binding, and either a rounded spine case binding or a drumleaf German case binding. Course also taught as two separate, three-day workshops: 1A Softcover Books and 1B Hardcover Books . |
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Blizzard Book is a one-day workshop taught at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Blizzard Book is a book structure created by Hedi Kyle. The book is reminiscent of origami, created only with folds. It is a quick and fun structure with removable pages and plenty of possibilities! Students learned to fold the Blizzard book’s spine, create pages, and make hard-covers for the book.
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Clamshell Boxes was taught as a one day intensive in 2014 at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD for Gail Deery's students. Students learned the basics of making clamshell boxes. Discussion focused on proper materials, adhesives, measuring, and benefits of boxes.
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Coptic Stitch Books was a one-day workshop for Simone Kearney's students at Parsons the New School in New York, NY in 2017. Students learned the basics of bookbinding by making a coptic stitch book.
Also taught as a one-day workshop at the Center for Book Arts in New York on multiple occasions. |
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Drop Spine Binding was a two-day workshop I taught at IS Projects in Fort Lauderdale, FL in January 2018.
This Drop Spine Drumleaf book is a simple glued structure that lays incredibly flat and eliminates the need to print on the front and back of a sheet of paper. In this two-day workshop, students learned the properties of book materials, how to bind pages together, and how to create the wonderful hard-covers that drop out of the way to allow a flat open surface. Discussion focused on variations of the binding, advantages to this binding, and problem solving. It's an ideal structure for photographers, printmakers, zinesters, or anyone that just wants to make a beautiful book. |
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Drumleaf for Artists, Photographers, and Makers was a one-day intensive at the Center for Book Arts in New York, NY in 2017. Students learned the basics of bookbinding by making a drumleaf book with a German case.
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The Intersection of Zines and Artist Books took place July 4 - 9, 2022 at Frogman's Print Workshop, Omaha, NE
Zines are the ultimate democratic multiple: they are cheap and easy to make and affordable to buy. Artist’s books on the other hand, often fit more comfortably in the fine art world, with a more refined feel than the punk, DIY vibe of the zine world. In this workshop, we focused on the intersection of art zines and artist’s books. Participants learned a number of simple book structures including one-page books, pamphlet stitch books, and modified accordions as well as exploring variations to expand the possibilities of those structures. We also covered some simple printing techniques that require little-to-no equipment including trace monotypes, transfers, and pochoir. Finally, we focused our discussions on distribution and exhibition, exploring the potential lives our works can have after they leave our hands. |
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Movable Books & Pop-Ups: Mechanisms of Meaning was co-taught with art therapist, Kara Rothschild in 2014 and 2016 at the Expressive Therapies Summit in New York, NY. Participants learned to make simple accordion books, tunnel books, flag books and pop-ups with discussion focusing on clinical applications for bookmaking in various populations.
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Sculptural Books was a one-day workshop taught at Frontline Arts Studio in Branchburg, NJ on March 2, 2019. Students learned fun, movable book structures including flag books, tunnel books, and modified accordions! No prior experience is required for these easy-to-learn books, but with unlimited variations possible, even experts would enjoy making them. Students came away with a variety of unique and interactive book structures that they can make over and over again at home.
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Simple Boxes was taught as a one day intensive in 2016 at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD for Gail Deery's students. Students learned the basics of making single-tray boxes. Discussion focused on proper materials, adhesives, measuring, and benefits of boxes.
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Zines Zines Zines! is a one-day workshop taught at the Center for Book Arts in New York, NY. Students learned a few basic book structures including instant books (aka the zine fold), accordions, and pamphlets. Students also learn some quick printing techniques such as trace monotypes. Discussion focuses around the democratic multiple, the history of zines, problem solving for structure and printing, and how zines fit into the larger world of artist books. During the class, students are encouraged to create an edition of one of their zines to exchange at the end of the day.
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