Bookbinding Workshops
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Beginning Bookbinding was a 1.5 hour virtual workshop.
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** CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 **
In celebration of the one-year anniversary of publishing the how-to guide Bookforms: A Complete Guide to Designing and Crafting Hand-Bound Books, The Center for Book Arts was scheduled to host a workshop series with the four bookbinders! The class was set to take place 5 consecutive Tuesday evenings. from April 21-May 19, 2020, 6pm-9pm! The Center for Book Arts released Bookforms in 2019, a comprehensive publication of bookmaking methods authored by Ana Paula Cordiero, Celine Lombardi, Beth Sheehan, and Sarah Smith. This Spring, the Center will host a five-week class with lessons from all four authors, learning a new structure from the book each night. April 21: Celine Lombardi will teach a session on pamphlets/accordion books. April 28: Ana Cordeiro will build on what they have learned on their first week to produce a herring bone sewing, prepare the endsheets, and complete the binding with a soft-leather cover. At the end of this busy evening we will have books ready for an optional last step of the project: sewing the endbands, which will be demonstrated on the final day of the series. May 5: Sarah Smith will teach a non-adhesive binding structure. May 12: Beth Sheehan will teach students how to cut, fold, and collage pages to create their own tunnel book. Discussion will focus on techniques for creating depth, the interaction between layers, creating a sturdy structure, and having fun! May 19: All four artists will get together, talk about these structures and help students finish up their projects. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Taught bookbinding to Margaret Morton's students at Cooper Union in New York, NY from 2015-2017.
In Art of the Book students learn to make a flat-back case binding with hand-sewn headbands and a hardcover Coptic stitch book. In 2D Design, students learn to make drumleaf and perfect bound books. |
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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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Two boxmaking workshops at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD for Gail Deery's students:
Simple Boxes was taught as a one day intensive in 2016. Students learned the basics of making single-tray boxes. Discussion focused on proper materials, adhesives, measuring, and benefits of boxes. Clamshell Boxes was taught as a one day intensive in 2014. Students learned the basics of making clamshell boxes. Discussion focused on proper materials, adhesives, measuring, and benefits of boxes. |
