Online Workshops
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Blizzard Book was a 2-hour online bookbinding workshop taught through The Morgan Conservatory.
The Blizzard Book is a movable book structure created by Hedi Kyle. The book is reminiscent of origami, made only with folds and can easily become a hard-cover or soft-cover book. It is a quick and fun structure with removable pages and plenty of possibilities! In this two-hour virtual workshop, participants will learn to fold the Blizzard book’s spine, create pages, and make soft-covers for their book. |
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Bookbinding 1: Intro to Softcover Binding was a five-week workshop consisting of a three-hour session each week.
The workshop was taught as a virtual workshop with The Center for Book Arts. In this introductory class students learned about non-adhesive structures, bindings for single sheets, and other bindings that can be made with little specialized equipment. Accordions, pamphlets, drum leaf books, and a variety of softcover bindings will be taught during the course. This class is ideal for those who wish to learn simple forms for presenting work, or for building fundamental knowledge on bookbinding. |
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Bookbinding for Artists was a 3-day online bookbinding workshop hosted by the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, participants got a crash course in bookbinding for artists. The workshop began with simple pamphlet-stitch books that make excellent notebooks, zines, or small artist books. Participants then learned to fold accordion books as well as a few variations on the accordion structure that work well for a variety of paper types and art making methods. The final day covered making a Drum Leaf lay-flat binding which is a versatile structure for all artists, but especially great for printmakers and photographers. Discussion focused on problem solving, working with the materials and processes participants are already comfortable with in their own practices, and modifying the book structures to fit the needs of the artist. No previous experience required!
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Coptic Notebook was a 2-hour virtual workshop offered through The Center for Book Arts.
Coptic stitch – one of the oldest and useful book structures – is a simple sewn book that is extremely flexible. Because of its ability to fold back onto itself, it is the perfect structure for sketchbooks, journals, and datebooks. By the end of this two-hour virtual workshop, participants will each have their own soft-cover coptic book! |
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Expanded Pamphlets was an online workshop offered as two, 2-hour sessions through The Center for Book Arts. The workshop covers the basics of the pamphlet stitch with discussions focusing on ways to modify and adapt the structure to various meeds. We also cover proper tools and materials and tricks for efficiency. Students then learn a variety of modifications to turn the simple pamphlet structure into exciting explorations of form.
We began with a 3-hole pamphlet then a double pamphlet, a pamphlet that acts like a Stab Binding, and finally pamphlets sewn to a concertina. |
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Making Meaning: was a 4-day virtual workshop offered through The Center for Book Arts. This discussion-based course series offered a deep dive into the theoretical underpinnings of printmaking and book art as mediums, encouraging participants to critically analyze and contextualize their own creative practices. Each session focuses on different areas of the larger theme of the course: an introduction to making meaning, the role of the artist, materiality and meaning, making multiples and an argument for print.
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Monotypes and Accordions was a two-hour online workshop through the Kate Cheney Chappell Center for Book Arts at the University of Southern Maine. Students learned to create beautiful trace monotypes and fold them into a variety of accordion book structures. The immediate and ethereal nature of trace monotype printing is the perfect addition to any book and in this workshop, we discussed tricks for registering multiple color prints, planned how their images would interact with the accordion book structures, and explored methods to enhance the book forms.
We covered: proper inking and printing techniques, multiple color registration, using a guide to print multiples, folding a simple accordion, folding a Land + Sky accordion, and folding a one- page accordion. |
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Paste Paper was a 2-hour virtual workshop offered through The Center for Book Arts. Paste paper is one of the oldest forms of decorative paper techniques in book history. Often utilizing paste that is left over from binding books, makers can add pigments and paints to paste, then coat paper with the mixture, drawing back into the paste while it is still wet to create patterns and visual textures. In this virtual workshop, participants learned to make paste, pigment the paste, make custom tools for their paste paper designs, and create beautifully patterned paste papers. Discussion focused on paper selection, paste types, paste consistency, using premade tools, modifying and creating your own tools, and key patterning techniques.
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Print Your Vegetables was a 2-hour virtual workshop offered through The Center for Book Arts. We explored the possibilities of printing vegetables using relief and monotype printmaking techniques. Students learned to carve a variety of veggies (mostly root vegetables) into text or images for printing. In addition to all of the fun that comes with cutting and printing your veggies, we also focused our discussion on positive and negative stamps, creating patterns, and the longevity of vegetable printing.
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Protest Zines: Free Lecture & Workshop with Mia Ciallella & Beth Sheehan was a free, 2 hour lecture and workshop offered virtually through The Center for Book Arts in support of Black Lives Matter.
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Relief Printing Anywhere is a two-session workshop. The first class focuses on materials to create the relief blocks from, image transferring techniques, tools for carving, proper carving techniques, and sharpening your carving tools. The second class focuses on proper printing techniques, registering multiple blocks, and reduction woodcuts.
Students learn the basics of relief printing at home. We discuss ways to create relief blocks from materials around your house (potatoes, erasers, styrofoam) as well as more professional materials like wood and linoleum. We also cover a few tricks for printing including registering multiple colors and spoon-printing. |
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Trace Monotypes: Printing Without a Press! was a two-hour online workshop I taught twice through The Center for Book Arts. In this short workshop, students learn about appropriate tools, methods, and tricks for printing at home! Trace monotypes can add a beautiful and ethereal look to your prints and have unlimited possibilities! Students learn about the variety of mark making, layering, and textures possible as well as learning about some common problems and their solutions.
Discussion focuses on ink types and modifications, the proper amount of ink and tricks for layout and registration, proper papers and tools to obtain desired affect, printing techniques, possibilities for variation and experimentation, and cleaning up in a home studio. |
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Zines at Home! was a two-hour online workshop I taught through The Center for Book Arts.
In this two-hour workshop, students learn a variety of one-page book structures, we will discuss variations on the accordion book, and see examples of simple image-making techniques including pochoir that can be done anywhere! |
