CONFERENCE CATALOG Focus On Book Arts 2022 - Friday to Tuesday, JULY 15 - 19, 2022
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Focus On Book Arts 2022
CONFERENCE
CATALOG
Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon
Friday to Tuesday, JULY 15 – 19, 2022
2022 Theme: Momentum
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Welcome
Registration is
2022 Conference
July 15-19, 2022
ONLINE ONLY
Pacific University and opens April 4, 2022
Forest Grove, OR
Dear Book Arts Enthusiast, FOBA Board
Our 15th Focus on Book Arts conference offers five and Conference Team
full days of workshops that appeal to beginning as
We would like to invite you to join our all-volunteer
well as advanced book artists. You can come for
team. No experience is required. For more
just one workshop or for the entire conference; a
information, ask at the Registration desk on site or
range of class lengths let you tailor an experience
email: volunteer@focusonbookarts.org.
just for you.
Jean Wyatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Conference Coordinator
Registration for the conference will begin on
and Board President
Monday, April 4, 2022. All registration will be on-line.
Alicia Bailey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Board Treasurer
The check-in desk at the conference opens at
Christine Trexel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Workshop Chair
1PM on Thursday, July 14, 2022, with a welcome
and Board Secretary
reception beginning at 7PM. The rest of the week
is filled with exciting workshops with both new Board Members:
and returning favorite instructors, and evening
activities to keep you busy. Many of our events Cheryl Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volunteer Coordinator
and activities will be created around the theme Fran McReynolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Events Chair
“Momentum.” As we gather momentum, we can
Genevieve Kaplan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor
transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Let’s
get our hands and minds moving at FOBA 2022. Insiya Dhatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Website
Jeri Oswalt . . . . . . . . . . Facilities and Fellowship Chair
You will find detailed workshop information inside
this catalog, as well as information on housing Kristi Galbraith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphics
and other conference activities. Many events are Lisa Harkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Registration
held in conjunction with the conference, and you
Naomi Velasquez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Media
will want to check out the Artists’ Fair, the vendor In accordance
Trade Show, the Faculty/Staff Exhibit and more. Selene Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Activities Chair with Pacific
University
This year the conference catalog is available only Other Volunteers:
policy and to
on-line. You can peruse it on-line or print parts Brea Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Media help keep our
that are of interest to you. All the information, class
descriptions and materials lists can also be found community safe,
on our website: all conference
attendees must
www.focusonbookarts.org
present proof of
In accordance with Pacific University policy and vaccination in
to help keep our community safe, all conference order to attend
attendees must present proof of vaccination in FOBA this year.
order to attend FOBA this year.
Enjoy selecting your workshops, and we look
forward to seeing you in July!
Your Conference Committee
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Instructor Index
Rhiannon Alpers Casey Newman
• Boxmaking Fundamentals: Clamshell Box • Botanical Printing and
• Fieldwork Sketchbook Creating a Nature-Inspired Book
• Miniature Specimen Enclosure • Indigo Dyeing Fabric and Paper
Mary Ellen Campbell Bonnie Thompson Norman
• Artbound Binding Techniques • Book in the Round
for Single Sheets
Shawn Sheehy
• Cyanotype and Rusting for Books
• Cabinet of Paper Mechanical Curiosities
Gabby Cooksey Karen Hanmer • Movables Fundamentals
• How to do Photo Transfers • Springback Leather Binding • Pop-Up Fundamentals
• 2 Playful Structures: Jacob’s Ladder &
Kristen Doty Hinged Triangle Book (above)
Jessica Spring
• Drawing and Lettering Sketchbook • Mail Call
• 2 Basic Endbands
• Making the Rounds
Elsi Vassdal Ellis Andrew Huot
• Archival Boxes and Enclosures
Peter Thomas
• Reimagining the
• Minature Scroll
Humble Rubbing • Pierced Paper Binding
Structures (right)
• Moving Step
Genevieve Kaplan • Pulp to Print (with
Binding
• Creative Writing for Book Artists Susan Lowdermilk)
• Stick Bindings
(left) Margo Klass Naomi
• Coptic Bound Flitch Book Velasquez
Helen Shafer Garcia • Re-purposed Coptic Book
Roberta Lavadour
• Watermedia for Book Structures • Secret Belgian Binding
• Book in a Day
• Woven Stitch Collagraph Book
• Book Structures for Class Activities Marilyn Zornado
• Inside Out: The Reversible Accordion • Round Boxes
Susan Lowdermilk
• A Journey in Time Tunnel Book
• Pulp to Print (with Peter Thomas)
Conference Schedule Open to the Public
On-site check-in Thursday 1:00PM-7:00PM Faculty-Staff Exhibit
Friday-Tuesday 8:00AM-9:00AM
July 1 – Aug 27, 2022
The Faculty-Staff Exhibit is a great chance to
Workshops Friday-Tuesday 9:00AM-Noon & see some works of art by your FOBA Conference
1:30PM-4:30PM workshop instructors and conference staff. This
exhibit will also display the artwork of the 4 winning
entries of the FOBA 2021 Virtual Conference themed
Meals Served Breakfast 7:30AM-8:30AM “Where We Live.” The exhibit opens at the Valley Art
Lunch Noon-1:00PM Association gallery in Forest Grove on July 1st, and will
Dinner 5:00PM-6:30PM remain on display through August 27th.
Valley Art’s official exhibit opening and artists
Evening Activities Thursday - Monday See the Website for
reception will be held on Saturday July 9, 2022 from
details and times
2-4PM, and anyone interested is invited to attend.
The gallery will also be open to conference attendees
during the hospitality night event, which will be on
Monday, July 18, 2022 from 6:30-8:30PM.
Valley Art is located at 2022 Main St, Forest Grove,
Oregon. Regular hours are 11AM-5:30PM, Wednesday
through Saturday. They are also hoping to be open
on Sunday July 17th, from 10AM-2PM. Once we have
confirmation, we will update this information.
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FOBA Workshop Schedule 2022
Below you will find a chart of all the classes. One-day classes are in tan, 2-day classes in blue, and 3-day classes are in cream.
You can sign up for and take one workshop per day.
If the blocks with a class you want overlap another class block you want YOU CANNOT TAKE BOTH.
Instructor Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday
Rhiannon Alpers Boxmaking Fundamentals: Clamshell Box Miniature Fieldwork Sketchbook
Specimen
Enclosure
Mary Ellen Artbound Binding Techniques Cyanotype and Rusting for Books
Campbell for Single Sheets
Gabby Cooksey How to do Photo
Transfers
Kristen Doty Drawing & Lettering Sketchbook
Elsi Vassdal Ellis Reimagining the Stick Binding Moving Step
Humble Rubbing Binding
Helen Shafer Watermedia Approaches for Book Structures Woven Stitch
Garcia Collagraph Book
Karen Hanmer The Springback Leather Binding Two Basic Two Playful
Endbands Structures: The
Jacob’s Ladder
and Hinged
Triangle Book
Andrew Huot Pierced Paper Binding Archival Boxes and Enclosures
Genvieve Kaplan Creative Writing for
Book Artists
Margo Klass Coptic Bound Flitch Books
Roberta Lavadour Book in a Day Book Structures for Inside Out: The Reversible Accordion
Class Activities
Susan Lowdermilk Pulp to Print (with Peter Thomas) A Journey in Time Tunnel Book
Casey Newman Botanical Printing and Indigo Dyeing
Creating a Nature Inspired Book Fabric and Paper
Bonnie Thompson Books in the Round
Norman
Shawn Sheehy Cabinet of Paper Mechanical Curiosities Movables Pop-Up
Fundamentals Fundamentals
Jessica Spring Making the Rounds Mail Call
Peter Thomas Pulp to Print (with Susan Lowdermilk) Miniature Scroll
Structures
Naomi Velasquez Secret Belgian Re-purposed Coptic Binding
Binding
Marilyn Zornado Round Boxes
3 Day Workshops
2 Day Workshops
1 Day Workshops
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Naomi Velasquez
Secret Belgian Binding
Date Friday, July 15, 2022 Instructor Naomi Velasquez
Cost $160 per day x 1 day + $23 Material Fee Skill Level Beginner
Price $ 183 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 1 day
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
The Secret Belgian Binding, created by Anne Goy, is ($23 Material fee included in the price above)
a glueless binding that looks like a Japanese stab FRIDAY
binding but lies flat when open making it a great • PVA
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sketchbook, journal or artist’s book. Participants will • Davey board
be making a 5×7” book.
• Glue books
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: • Curved needles
• Bone folder • Waxed paper
• Awl • Cradles
• Metal ruler • Rubber bands
• Glue brush • Template materials
• Small glass or plastic container (with lid) for glue • Wax for thread
• X-acto or knife of choice • Blank paper for book interiors
• Self-healing cutting mat • Handouts
• Decorative paper for end sheets
Instructor Biography:
• Decorative paper for covers (either the same or
coordinating papers for the 3 cover pieces) Naomi S. Velasquez is an award winning
contemporary textile and book artist. Her artwork is
• Pencil consistently shown internationally and nationally and
• Coordinating binding thread (waxed or unwaxed) in diverse venues ranging from galleries to public
works installations. Naomi holds an MFA from the
Optional materials: University of North Texas in Studio Art. Naomi is an
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of
• Decorative paper or found papers to liven up
Art at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. She is
the interior sheets
the coordinator for the Fiber Media and Paper making
areas. Her work is held in numerous private and
public collections including the University of Denver
Library, Emory University Library, Kimmel Harding
Nelson Center for the arts and the University of North
Texas Special Collection.
Web page: killerbeedesigns.com
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Rhiannon Alpers
Boxmaking Fundamentals: Clamshell Box
Dates Friday-Saturday, July 15-16, 2022 Instructor Rhiannon Alpers
Cost $160 per day x 2 days + $21 Material Fee Skill Level Beginner
Price $341 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 2 days
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
Handmade boxes are both beautiful and unique, but ($21 Material fee included in the price above)
the process of making them can be very intimidating. FRIDAY
• Pre-cut book board • Wax paper
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This class seeks to make book artists feel more
comfortable and creative in the ways in which they • Book cloth • PVA and other
build structures to house their books or sculptures. In adhesives
• Decorative paper
this two-day intensive course, students will focus on • Waste paper for gluing
the fundamental skills for building one of the most • Templates for boxes
essential forms: the clamshell box. As a fundamental • Glue pots for each
• Binding handouts
class, all the component pieces and materials will person SATURDAY
• Brush and foam rollers
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be prepared. This allows students to focus on the
assembly and craft of the box. Students will build
Prerequisite Skills
and cover the clamshell box with a combination
of bookcloth and decorative papers. The essential • Basic bookbinding experience is highly
formulas of how to create boxes at home, how encouraged for this class.
to modify patterns of existing boxes, and what
• Cutting and gluing with a good knowledge
bookcloths, papers and adhesives work best will also
of measuring.
be discussed. There will be a small amount of time in
the class for additional models, and for us to discuss • A basic bookbinding skill set will allow students
untraditional structures and creative modifications, to focus on the creative aspects of box making
so bring your sketches and questions. elements.
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: Instructor Biography:
• Small cutting mat • Ruler Rhiannon Alpers is a papermaker, letterpress printer,
and book artist. She has an MFA and a BA in Book
• Scissors • Bone folder Arts and papermaking. She has taught workshops
• Snap blade or • Awl and college courses nationally and exhibited
X-acto knife internationally in the realm of book art. Rhiannon now
• Mechanical pencil
produces artwork under the name Gazelle and Goat
Paperie located in Denver, Colorado, and works as
the Director for the Inter-Ocean Studios.
Web page: rhiannonalpers.com
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Mary-Ellen Campbell
Artbound Binding Techniques for Single Sheets
Dates Friday-Saturday, July 15-16, 2022 Instructor Mary-Ellen Campbell
Cost $160 per day x 2 days + $25 Material Fee Skill Level All Levels
Price $345 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 2 days
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
We will learn both non-adhesive, folded bindings and ($25 Material fee included in the price above)
sewn bindings that can be used to bind prints, digital
• Text paper • Book board
FRIDAY
photos, or paintings.
On day 1 participants will make a stab binding album,
Hedi Kyle’s Crown Binding book, and Claire Van Vliet’s
• Thread
• Needles
• PVA
• Screws
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Slash binding based on concertina folds allowing • Extra bone folders • Glue brushes
pages to be added and removed.
• Foam • Assorted decorative
On the 2nd day participants will make two sewn • Tyvek
papers SATURDAY
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bindings: single page coptic and figure 8 stitch which • Handouts
can be used to create sculptural books or hanging • Acrylics
books. Incorporating heavy weight pages from • Sponges
various materials such as board, wood, metals, and
foam will also be taught. Participants can choose Prerequisite Skills:
to bring pre-made artwork for binding or bind blank • How to thread a needle and wax the thread.
pages to be filled in or replaced later. Five sample
books will be completed. • How to fold paper using a bone folder and
assemble signatures.
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: • How to glue up paper or cloth to cover
• Graphite Pencil • Pages with personal binder’s board.
artwork to bind, if • How to prepare book for drying.
• Bone folder
desired
• Scissors Instructor Biography:
• Favorite decorative
• Utility knife or other paper for covers 16×20” Mary-Ellen Campbell, holding advanced art degrees
cutting tool minimum. from Michigan State University and Pratt Institute,
• 8.5×11” 170gsm or more • Awl or piercer NY, has been a professor of art for 34 years. She
card weight paper taught book arts workshops abroad and across the
• Cutting mat United States at San Francisco Center for the Book,
or manila folder for
patterns Mendocino Art Center, CA, Sitka, OR and other art
centers. She has had more than 16 solo and 85 group
shows including her mixed media art books. Her 12 art
residencies, where she made numerous books about
place, include New Zealand, Australia, Finland, Costa
Rica, Turkey, Kenya and various states.
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Marilyn Zornado
Round Boxes
Dates Friday-Saturday, July 15-16, 2022 Instructor Marilyn Zornado
Cost $160 per day x 2 days + $35 Material Fee Skill Level All Levels
Price $355 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 2 days
Workshop Description: Prerequisite Skills:
Learn the pleasure and perils of making round • How to fold paper using a bone folder. FRIDAY
boxes. Participants will learn tips and tricks as they
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• How to determine paper grain and match grain
assemble a small and large round box, each with a
of different components.
different style of lid.
• How to glue up paper or cloth to cover binder’s
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: board, good hand skills.
• Decorative paper to cover inside and outside of • Has made, independent of a class, a hard sided
box, dimensions will be provided after student box and lid. SATURDAY
registers for class.
• Bone folder (Teflon folder optional)
• X-acto knife with #11 blades
Instructor Biography:
Marilyn Zornado is a book artist, calligrapher and 16
animator. She combines her love of animation
• Glue brush with book arts, both on her own projects and on
commissions. She teaches Motion Graphics at PNCA
• Self-healing mat (12×18” minimum)
in the BFA program and Book Arts & Calligraphy
• 18” metal ruler in the PNCA Community Education Program. After
• Triangle, any size the closure of the beloved Oregon College of Arts
& Crafts in Spring 2019, where she had studied with
Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor: Barbara Tetenbaum and taught for many years,
she revamped the building that houses her studio
($35 Material fee included in the price above)
to create ZORNADO Studio, a book arts classroom.
• Precut tubes Marilyn has an MFA in Computer Animation and a BA
in Graphic Design.
• Precut lids and bottoms
• PVA Web page: ZornadoDesign.com
• Positionable mounting adhesive
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Kristen Doty
Drawing and Lettering Sketchbook
Dates Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2022 Instructor Kristen Doty
Cost $160 per day x 3 days + $30 Material Fee Skill Level Beginner, Intermediate
Price $510 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 3 days
Workshop Description: Optional materials: (bring only if already have)
Learn to draw! Make illustrations or drawings in books, • Bone folder • Pigma micron markers,
add unique drawn letters to the pages, or transform • Other graphite drawing eraser shield
blank books into sketchbook journals. Build confidence pencils on hand or • Cutting mat (11×17” or
through drawing exercises. Participants will practice line want to try 17×23”)
quality, textures, and how to see and draw objects and
• Mechanical pencil with • Desk lamp and extension
various letterforms. Light effects and shading techniques
graphite lead cord (only if driving or
will be studied to give the illusion of form. Most of the
• Paper stumps and/or easily packed–portable FRIDAY
work will be done in graphite, but color may be used
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tortillons swing arm or goose neck
to enhance the drawings. Class exercises will be sewn
– prefer incandescent
together using a simple Japanese binding, adding • Artist’s quality colored
or halogen light bulb, if
unique pocket covers. The finished sketchbook will have pencils and/or water
available)
room to add more drawings and sketches. soluble colored pencils
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor: SATURDAY
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• One pad of white/off- • Pentel Clic Eraser or ($30 Material fee included in the price above)
white drawing paper equivalent (soft white,
• Paper and board • Fresh flower and
size 14×17” (20+ sheets, retractable, pen-sized)
for covers fruit models
please do not and/or a Staedtler Mars
substitute size) Plastic white • Some colored and • Special pencils
rectangular eraser special papers • Handouts
• Graphite drawing
pencils: HB, 2B, 4B • Ruler - minimum 12” or • Linen thread and SUNDAY
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(any quality brand – a 35cm (a ruler with cm/ needles
favorite is Staedtler Mars mm markings will be
Lumograph). Bring other very helpful, but not Prerequisite Skills:
pencils if already owned absolutely necessary) • How to thread a needle and wax the thread.
e.g., 2H, 3B, 6B, etc. • X-acto knife or • How to fold paper using a bone folder
• Woodless graphite snap-away knife and assemble signatures.
pencils: HB, 2B • Round watercolor brush,
• How to determine paper grain and match the
• Pencil sharpener medium size (e.g., #6-
grain of different book components.
(handheld or battery #8) or ½” flat
operated) • Small water container Instructor Biography:
Kristen Doty has a passion for drawing, painting, and
calligraphy, and delights in using a variety of media. She
is inspired by beauty and detail seen everywhere around
us. Her works have been included in juried exhibitions
and published in art magazines and books, as well as
prints, posters, greeting cards, logos, and book titles. She
enjoys sharing her passion by teaching workshops and
Web page: kristendoty.com at conferences across the USA and abroad.
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Helen Shafer Garcia
Watermedia Approaches for Book Structures
Dates Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2022 Instructor Helen Shafer Garcia
Cost $160 per day x 3 days + $15 Material Fee Skill Level All levels
Price $495 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 3 days
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
This workshop will focus on two extraordinary multiple ($15 Material fee included in the price above)
signature book structures. Work with the principles of
watermedia surface design in the form of watercolor • Paper
monotypes, dropped-in watercolor techniques, • Waxed linen thread
acrylic ink line symbolism, and collage imagery for
development of content in book structures. Focus • Acrylic inks FRIDAY
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will be on watercolor monotypes along with surface • Wood
textures and pattern integration on Masa papers. The
• Cover board
monotypes will reflect the concept with additional
collage elements and text symbolism. The first book • Collage papers
will consist of a wood cover structure, and multiple
monotype image signatures with an exposed stitch Instructor Biography:
binding. The second multiple signature open spine Helen Shafer Garcia is a painter and mixed media,
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end band book will focus on Masa paper techniques book arts, ceramics artist, as well as an award
with a pattern emphasis. winning illustrator. Helen’s watercolor illustrations
have graced the cover brochures, garden articles
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: and advertisements in numerous international resorts
• Water container • #2B or #4B pencil and magazines for more than 30 years. Awards
include four San Diego Press Club First Place Awards
• 1 or more round • 2 or 3 bookbinding
of Excellence in Illustration for San Diego Home/
SUNDAY
watercolor brushes, #12, needles
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#10, or #8 Garden Lifestyles Magazine. Her works and articles
• Awl
have been published in numerous magazines. Helen
• 1/2” or 1” flat acrylic brush • Scissors holds a BA degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis in
• Transparent watercolors: • Snap-off blades or illustration and ceramics. She is a signature member
pan or personal palette X-acto knife of the San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego Book
(tube watercolors Arts Society and teaches watercolor and mixed
• Cutting mat
set in a palette); buy media workshops internationally and across the US.
• Metal ruler with cork
professional brands of
backing
watercolors i.e., Windsor- Web page: HelenShaferGarcia.com
Newton, Grumbacher’s • Bone folder
finest, DaVinci, Holbein, • Colored pencils:
Daniel Smith. At Prismacolor Premier
minimum include the 3 or Faber-Castell
primaries of cadmium Polychromes
yellow light or Hansa • Acrylic matte medium or
yellow, quinacridone soft gel matte medium
red or rose and
ultramarine blue.
10Karen Hanmer
The Springback Leather Binding
Dates Friday-Sunday July 15-17, 2022 Instructor Karen Hanmer
Cost $160 per day x 3 days + $90 Material Fee Skill Level Advanced
Price $570 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 3 days
Workshop Description: • Backing hammer or if this is unavailable, a
household hammer with the largest head you
This nineteenth century Springback Binding
have, head should be slightly rounded
was originally used for account books. With its
enthusiastic opening, it is ideal for journals, guest • Straightedge that can be cut against – a ruler is
books, sketch books, or any application where it is fine if it is stable and non-skid without being
desirable that the book open flat, with complete cork-backed FRIDAY
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access to the gutter. The book both opens and closes
• Square with base, Talas #TTB041001, or some
with a satisfying jolt. The Springback Binding is also
device to keep text block and boards square
a perfect way to delve more deeply into traditional
binding. The book features two-part “split boards”, • Freshly sharpened English paring knife (or Swiss or
reinforced “made” endsheets, and a “spring” made French if you prefer and know how to use it).
of layers of card and paper. With its robust aesthetic, Note: the inexpensive English paring knife from
the Springback Binding is a great way to begin Talas and Hollanders is sold unsharpened and SATURDAY
must be sharpened before class.
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working with leather. The paring requires minimal
finesse, and the modest leather headcaps are • Strop to hone edge on paring knife. This can be
easy to form. a 2×8” strip of leather glued to book board suede
side out. It should be treated with chromoglanz or
Materials/equipment to be provided by students:
green honing compound.
• Bone or Teflon folder
• Small and large glue brushes SUNDAY
• X-acto/scalpel or Olfa knife and extra blades
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• Large paste brush if you use a separate brush
• Small cutting mat for paste
• Scissors • Sponge
• Awl • Dish for water
• Beeswax for sewing • Small 45/45/90 triangle
• Sewing frame – a collapsible sewing frame can • Roll of blue masking tape
be made with 2 bar clamps and a dowel or metal
• Small container PVA
rod that fits through. See example
• Small container for student’s portion of paste
• Ball point pen
• Letter sized waste paper
• For paring: litho stone, thick plate glass, or smooth
natural stone or ceramic tiles with smooth edges
– need not be larger than 6×12”. Tile samples work
well and can be ordered online.
The information for The Springback Leather Binding
continues on the next page…
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The Springback Leather Binding
…continued from the previous page:
Optional materials: Other prerequisites:
• Punching cradle, instructions to make one here • Experience paring leather with a knife is very helpful
• Microspatula Talas #TTB002001 or similar but not essential.
• Dividers • Has made, independent of a class any of the
following:
• Talas #TTB03304 or similar, finishing press, collapsible
travel model is available at chestercreekpress.com • Simple sewn text block for codex book.
• Sanding block and 120 grit sandpaper • Coptic stitch book.
• Book sewn on tapes or cords.
Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
Instructor Biography:
($90 Material fee included in the price above) FRIDAY
Karen Hanmer’s artist-made books are physical
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• Binding and endsheet models manifestations of personal essays intertwining history,
• Paper for text block, linings, spring, endsheets culture, politics, science and technology. She uses both
• Sewing supplies traditional and contemporary book structures, and her
work is often playful in content or format. Hanmer’s work
• Blotter
is included in collections ranging from The British Library
• Masking tape and the Library of Congress to Stanford University and SATURDAY
• Book Board Graceland. She has served on the editorial board of
• Leather
• Paste
The Bonefolder, as Exhibitions Chair for the Guild of Book
Workers, and as frequent exhibition curator and juror. She
offers workshops and private instruction focusing on a
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• 1 pair press boards
solid foundation in traditional binding skills.
Prerequisite Experience/Skills Needed For Your Class
Web page: karenhanmer.com
SUNDAY
• How to fold paper using a bone folder and
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assemble signatures.
• How to thread a needle and wax the thread.
• How to tie a weaver’s knot.
• How to sew a kettle stitch.
• How to determine grain & match the grain of
different components.
• How to glue to paper or cloth to cover binder’s board.
• How to prepare book for drying.
12Andrew Huot
Pierced Paper Binding
Dates Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2022 Instructor Andrew Huot
Cost $160 per day x 3 days + $55 Material Fee Skill Level Intermediate
Price $535 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 3 days
Workshop Description: Prerequisite Experience/Skills Needed For Your Class
This decorated binding is a modern twist on a • How to fold paper using a bone folder and
16th century pierced vellum binding method. In assemble signatures. FRIDAY
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this workshop we will sew the text block on vellum
• How to determine paper grain and match the
supports and hand-sewn end bands. Participants
grain of different book components.
will cut and punch patterns on a cover of handmade
paper before painted boards are adhered to the • How to glue up paper or cloth to cover
inside. The text block is laced into the cover to binder’s board.
complete this binding. • Has made, independent of a class, a simple
sewn text block for codex book. SATURDAY
Materials/equipment to be provided by students:
• 18” Metal ruler
• Cutting mat
• Needles
• Large round glue brush
Instructor Biography:
Andrew Huot is a book artist and bookbinder in
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Atlanta, Georgia. He operates Big River Bindery, a
• X-acto or Olfa knife • 1” paste brush
studio for bookmaking and letterpress printing, book
• Scissors • Favorite colors of repair, and design. He has a Masters in Book Arts
SUNDAY
acrylic paint from the University of the Arts and teaches workshops
• Pencil
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• Microspatula in his bindery and across the country. He exhibits
• Bone folder his work widely and it is held in over 50 university
• Pencil library collections. His artwork takes his everyday life
• 8” triangle
and uses the patterns, lines and shapes to create
• Thin awl
work that is playful and strikes a familiar cord with
the viewers.
Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
($55 Material fee included in the price above) Web page: bigriverbindery.com
• Handmade cover • Lining paper
paper
• Backing boards
• Text paper
• Paste
• Sewing thread
• PVA
• Vellum strips
• Hole punches
• Paste
• Acrylic paint
• Cover boards
• Printed handouts
13Margo Klass
Coptic Bound Flitch Books
Dates Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2022 Instructor Margo Klass
Cost $160 per day x 3 days + $45 Material Fee Skill Level Intermediate, Advanced
Price $525 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 3 days
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
In this workshop participants will create a small Coptic ($45 Material fee included in the price above)
bound book with Alaskan birch covers. Starting with a
• Birch flitches, planed, • Chisels
roughly planed flitch of boreal birch, participants will
ready for cutting, • Fine-tooth saws
use handsaws and multiple grits of sandpaper blocks
sanding, and drilling • Dremel drill and drilling
to cut and form front and back covers. Other elements
• Sanding blocks board
of the book – text block, spine attachments, and clasp
• Twigs for spine and other • Jaw clamps
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– will be individually designed in response to the shape,
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embellishment • Small hammer
grain, and color of the prepared covers. A selection of
• Papers for text blocks • Piercing blocks
fine papers will be available for text sections and guards.
and guards • Papers for jigs,
Various materials, including stone, leather, twigs and
• Clasp elements: stones, templates, and
bone, will be offered to create decorative and functional
twigs, bone, leather casements
closure devices chiseled, drilled and sewn onto front
• Waxed linen • Rulers
and back covers. After final sewing using a 2-needle
• Needles • Models/Examples SATURDAY
Coptic pattern, a basic paper casement will be made
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• Epoxy • Handouts
to accommodate the specific size and shape of the
finished book. Prerequisite Skills:
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: • How to thread a needle and wax the thread.
• Self healing mat • Small spatula • How to fold paper using a bone folder and
(minimum 18 x 24”) • Weights (small, soft) assemble signatures.
• X-acto knife (with extra • Graduated metal edges • How to tie a weaver’s knot. SUNDAY
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blades) (strips of metal 1/8, ¼, ½, ¾, • How to sew a kettle stitch.
• Bone folder (Teflon 1” wide) • How to determine paper grain and match the grain
preferred) • Tweezers of different book components.
• Scoring tool • Scissors • Has made, independent of a class, Coptic stitch book.
• Awl • Pencil • Knows how to use a Dremel.
• Craft saw (fine-tooth, • Eraser
Instructor Biography:
pull saw preferred) • ½” diameter glue brush
• Rulers (quilter’s clear • Smaller glue brush for Margo Klass is a mixed media artist whose work
plastic type; various detailed gluing includes sculptural box constructions and artist
widths and lengths) • Small amount PVA books. She exhibits her work widely in solo and group
• Small needle-nose pliers • Water jar shows in Alaska and beyond and is represented in the
• Small hammer • Dusting cloth collections of Alaskan museums, national parks, and in
private collections. She is a recipient of grants from the
Optional materials (recommended):
Rasmuson Foundation and Alaska State Council on the
• Long (~25”) metal edge • Personal papers for text Arts and received the 2015 Governor’s Individual Artist
• Wood chisels block and/or guards Award. She maintains studios and offers bookmaking
• Parallel jaw clamps • Personal objects or workshops in Alaska and Maine.
(2, medium size) materials for clasp
• Piercing cradle • Apron Web page: margoklass.com
• Personal work light.
14Susan Lowdermilk & Peter Thomas
Pulp to Print: Conceive, Collaborate, Construct
Dates Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2022 Instructor Susan Lowdermilk & Peter Thomas
Cost $160 per day x 3 days+ $60 Material Fee Skill Level All Levels
Price $540 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 3 days
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
In this three day class Susan and Peter will guide ($60 Material fee included in the price above)
the class through the collaborative process of
• Hollander beater and paper making equipment
designing and creating an editioned artists’ book.
and supplies FRIDAY
Expect sumptuous textures, colorful combinations
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of images and letters, and a beautiful book. Led by • Printing press and metal type and supplies
the instructors, the class will collaboratively develop • Linoleum blocks and carving/printing supplies
the literary, visual, and structural content of the book: • Supplies for binding the books
the title, text, color palette etc. Through the book • Misc. wet and dry media
making process students will work together; gaining
inspiration from ideas that others bring to the table. Instructors Biographies: SATURDAY
Students will learn to make ideas become physical,
Susan Lowdermilk is a book artist and printmaker.
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morph plans in response to the results of previous She creates hand bound artist’s books involving
decisions or limitations imposed by the availability movable parts and pop-ups. She works in traditional
of materials or equipment and make creative print processes and occasional digital media. She is
decisions to keep a project moving along. During a professor at Lane Community College in Eugene,
the class participants will design a small book, make Oregon. Her work has been collected by over 60 public
handmade paper, use hand set type, carve linoleum institutions worldwide and she is represented in galleries
throughout the United States. She earned her MFA from
SUNDAY
blocks, or otherwise employ paints and drawing inks,
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to create the images and text for our book. Students the University of Oregon in Eugene, and her BFA from
Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
will then bind the pages created into a “flag book”
structure. At the end of the three days each student Web page: susanlowdermilk.com
will leave having learned skills to create their own
Peter Thomas is a book artist, fine press printer,
editioned, and/or collaborative artists’ book.
bookbinding and papermaker who works collaboratively
with his wife, Donna Thomas, making both edition and
Materials/equipment to be provided by students:
one-of-a-kind books. Their books combine the precision
• Mechanical pencil • Self-healing of the fine press aesthetic with the structural creativity
and eraser cutting mat found in contemporary artist’ books. Between 2009-
2019 they made four cross-country road trips, traveling
• Notebook/Sketch pad • Small glue brush in their artistic tiny home on wheels as the “Wandering
• Metal ruler with • Bone folder Book Artists,” teaching classes and giving talks about
cork backing the book arts as they visited university and community
• Inks, paints, pens, based book arts centers around the country. They are
• Bookbinding needle, rubber-stamps, etc. the authors of More Making Books by Hand, and editors
thread of 1000 Artists’ Books, and in 2021 The Legacy Press
• Worn out bandanna
published a descriptive bibliography of their work: Peter
• X-acto knife with or other thin cloth to
and Donna Thomas: Bibliography, 1974-2020.
extra blades make paper
Web page: www2.cruzio.com/~peteranddonna/
15Bonnie Thompson Norman
Books in the Round
Dates Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2022 Instructor Bonnie Thompson Norman
Cost $160 per day x 3 days + $30 Material Fee Skill Level All levels
Price $510 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 3 days
FRIDAY
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
The world is not flat and books do not have to be
either! Participants will create several book structures
($30 Material fee included in the price above)
• Paper • Rubber stamps
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that stand alone structurally and can be read and
viewed in the round. Fundamentals of bookmaking, and ink pads
• Book cloth
covering boards and making simple boxes will • Magnets
be taught along with the use of sewn structures, • Binders board SATURDAY
• Bone folders
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construction with rods, origami folding, etc. At the end • PVA
of the workshop, participants will have completed • Awls
• Gluing trays and rollers
several different book structures, including a copy of
• Needles and thread
a collaborative project. • Brushes
• Rods
• Colored Pencils
Materials/equipment to be provided by students:
• Scissors • Small tray and 3” paint
• Collage materials SUNDAY
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roller for PVA
• Rulers Instructor Biography:
• Cutting mat
• Collage materials For Bonnie Thompson Norman books are a passion
• Cutting knives and a profession. She has been proprietor of The
• Glue sticks
Windowpane Press for about forty years. Bonnie
• Pen or pencil worked as a hand bookbinder in a commercial
bindery for nearly twenty years. She teaches classes
in printing and book making in her home studio.
Bonnie produces works varied in content, technique,
craftsmanship and structure that offer challenging
questions, provocative puns and inspiration about
timeless and/or contemporary issues in the form
of broadsides and artist’s books. Her work is in
public and private collections, both nationally and
internationally, and has been included in numerous
exhibitions and publications.
16Shawn Sheehy
The Cabinet of Paper Mechanical Curiosities
Dates Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2022 Instructor Shawn Sheehy
Cost $160 per day x 3 days + $50 Material Fee Skill Level All levels
Price $530 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 3 days
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
This workshop removes the restraint of FLAT from ($50 Material fee included in the price above)
the Codex page. Participants will create a cabinet- FRIDAY
Per person:
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like case from five small shallow boxes. The first box
explores movable paper engineering fundamentals, • 7 sheets of vari-colored 140 lb cover stock, 8×9”
the second amplifies a model from the first box with • 2 sheets of vari-colored 80 lb cover stock, 12x 12”
a sculptural component, the third is a tiny automata,
the fourth contains a classic crankie, and the fifth box • 3 sheets white 110 index stock, 8.5×11”
employs a shutter structure to mysteriously bring an • 1 sheet of tyvek, 9×11”
object into view. SATURDAY
• 1 sheet light book board, 9.125×5.5”
Both paper engineering beginners and advanced
practitioners will be accommodated and challenged
• 2 sheets origami paper, 2×2”
• ½ roll 3M 415 tape, 0.25” wide
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by this material.
• 15 pp pattern set
Materials/equipment to be provided by students:
• Bone folder • Pencil
Instructor Biography: SUNDAY
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Shawn Sheehy has been teaching book arts courses
• Steel ruler • Awl
and workshops on the national level for nearly 20
• X-acto knife and • Microspatula years, including stops at the Center for Book Arts,
extra blades Penland, Arrowmont, FOBA, Pyramid Atlantic, San
• Tweezers
• Self-healing Francisco Center for the Book, Minneapolis Center
• Glue cup for the Book, PBI, and many others. His broadsides
cutting mat
• PVA and artist book editions have been collected by
• Scissors such prestigious institutions as Stanford, Carnegie
Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress,
UCLA, and Harvard. He has created two trade pop-
up books: Welcome to the Neighborhood (2015) and
Beyond the Sixth Extinction (2018). Both were originally
produced as artist books, both were published by
Candlewick Press, and both won numerous awards.
His pop-ups have been featured twice in both Hand
Papermaking magazine and Vintage magazine. He
has served as director of the Movable Book Society
since 2018. He holds an MFA in the Book Arts from
Web page: shawnsheehy.com Columbia College Chicago.
17Jessica Spring
Making the Rounds
Dates Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2022 Instructor Jessica Spring
Cost $160 per day x 3 days + $15 Material Fee Skill Level All levels
Price $495 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 3 days
FRIDAY
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
Join us for three days of daredevil composition
and letterpress printing. With the aid of circular and
($15 Material fee included in the price above)
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angle quads, tools from art supply and hardware • Coasters
stores, and laser-cut furniture designed to compose • Paper
type in circles, curves and angles participants will
create coasters and volvelles, and finish the class • Tools SATURDAY
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with a print exchange and confidence in
Instructor Biography:
typographic composition.
Jessica Spring began her interest in typesetting and
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: printing as a phototypesetter in the 1980s. She has
• Apron been a letterpress printer ever since, most recently
inventing Daredevil Furniture to help other printers
• Gloves set type in circles, curves and angles. Her work at SUNDAY
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• X-acto knife Springtide Press – artist books, broadsides and
ephemera where typography plays a central role
• Pencil
– is included in collections around the country and
• Ruler abroad. She has collaborated on the Dead Feminists
broadside series since 2008 and co-authored Dead
Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color. Spring
has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and
teachers letterpress printing and book arts.
Web page: springtidepress.com
18Roberta Lavadour
Book in a Day: Exploring the Basics
Through the Sewn Board Binding
Date Saturday, July 16, 2022 Instructor Roberta Lavadour
Cost $160 per day x 1 day+ $25 Material Fee Skill Level Beginner
Price $185 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 1 day
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
The Sewn Board Binding is an essential structure for ($25 Material fee included in the price above)
SATURDAY
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any book artist to have in their arsenal. This class
combines the fundamentals that inform sound • All paper, board and book cloth
construction with the satisfaction of finishing a (small selection of options)
fun, ready-to-enjoy book in one day. Beginners will • PVA adhesive
gain skills and better understand the nuances of
good form, and experienced binders will discover • Materials from student list for loan
unexpected opportunities for creative flair that can
Prerequisite Skills:
be exploited in future work.
No previous experience necessary, but we will move
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: along at a steady pace, so being comfortable with
• Bone folder (Teflon and bone) that is a plus.
• Awl Instructor Biography:
• Small utility knife Roberta Lavadour has been exhibiting artist’s books
• 2” and smaller glue brushes and design bindings for more than 20 years, inspired
by everything from found objects to her tangled
• Metal ruler family history. While she lives and works in rural
• Small cutting mat Eastern Oregon, her books travel around the world
in a variety of juried and invitational exhibitions. Her
• Bookbinding needle, thread, wax
work is marked by rampant curiosity and a desire to
• Decorative book cloth and cover paper explore the possibilities of the book as an art form.
of your choice
Web page: robertalavadour.com
19Rhiannon Alpers
Miniature Specimen Enclosure
Date Sunday, July 17, 2022 Instructor Rhiannon Alpers
Cost $160 per day x 1 days + $14 Material Fee Skill Level Beginner
Price $174 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 1 day
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
This 1-day beginner’s course focuses on showcasing ($14 Material fee included in the price above)
an individual’s visual collection of natural curiosities.
The miniature specimen structure will include • Book board • Natural specimens
a hardcover book with a decorative frame and • Book cloth • Miniature glass bottles
inset panel measuring 3 x 4.5 x ½” in size. Using an in 3 shapes
assemblage of historic illustrations, found objects, • Wooden frame parts
altered book components, and natural artifacts, for covering • Binding handouts
participants will explore possibilities for adding • Decorative paper • Small brush
found or handmade materials and written content.
• Specimen cards • Wax paper
Bookmaking, collage techniques, methods for
including text and miniature books will be covered. • Templates for • PVA and other
As a component of this course, we play with using envelopes adhesives
narrative themes in our work, as well as methods • Copyright-free imagery • Waste paper for gluing
for including text and miniature books within the for collage
framework. • Glue pots for
• Collage papers and each person
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Materials/equipment to be provided by students: materials
• Small cutting mat
• Scissors
• Bone folder
• Awl
Instructor Biography: 17
Rhiannon Alpers is a papermaker, letterpress printer,
• Snap blade or • Mechanical pencil and book artist. She has an MFA and a BA in Book
X-acto knife Arts and papermaking. She has taught workshops
• Tweezers with a point
• Ruler and college courses nationally and exhibited
internationally in the realm of book art. Rhiannon now
Optional Materials: produces artwork under the name Gazelle and Goat
• Book cloth and paper Paperie located in Denver, Colorado, and works as
the Director for the Inter-Ocean Studios.
• Collage materials
• Specimens Web page: rhiannonalpers.com
• Ephemera less than ½” depth and 2.5” height or
which can be altered
• Each student will receive a detailed list of plants,
objects, and papers which are recommended
before the class.
20Roberta Lavadour
Book Structures for Class Activities
Date Sunday, July 17, 2022 Instructor Roberta Lavadour
Cost $160 per day x 1 day+ $5 Material Fee Skill Level Beginner
Price $165 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 1 day
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
Visits to classrooms, senior centers, and art clubs ($5 Material fee included in the price above)
can generate additional income for artists patching
together a variety of revenue streams. It can also • All paper, board and book cloth
invigorate your art practice in unexpected ways. (small selection of options)
If you are ever asked to teach “something” about • PVA adhesive
books, you may not have much teaching experience
and feel a little uncertain about facing a large group. Instructor Biography:
Or you may be an experienced teacher, but not SUNDAY
Roberta Lavadour has been exhibiting artist’s books
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quite sure about how to fit book creation into your
and design bindings for more than 20 years, inspired
curriculum. This is a class for you. Participants will
by everything from found objects to her tangled
look at folded and simply sewn structures that lend
family history. While she lives and works in rural
themselves to different subjects and concepts, learn
Eastern Oregon, her books travel around the world
tips for leading large groups and learn to adapt tools
in a variety of juried and invitational exhibitions. Her
and materials to different age groups. Students will
work is marked by rampant curiosity and a desire to
leave class with a set of teaching models. Artists
explore the possibilities of the book as an art form.
interested in “funky foldy” structures are welcome too.
Web page: robertalavadour.com
Materials/equipment to be provided by students:
• Scissors
• Large UHU glue stick
21Elsi Vassdal Ellis
Reimagining the Humble Rubbing
Date Sunday, July 17, 2022 Instructor Elsi Vassdal Ellis
Cost $160 per day x 1 day + $25 Material Fee Skill Level All levels
Price $185 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 1 day
Workshop Description: Optional materials:
Rubbings may be considered one of the oldest forms • Personal collection of various light-weight papers
of “print making”, the reproduction of raised surfaces such as origami and tracing papers
on paper by rubbing a soft pencil or crayon over a
surface. The focus of this workshop is to explore a Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
variety of creative options for rubbings to create art ($25 Material fee included in the price above)
for artist’s books and collage art. Participants will
embark on a journey of exploration, experimentation, • A variety of text and light-weight papers for
and discovery, as we apply different rubbing media: rubbings, including tea bag papers
pencils (black and color) and crayons, onto a variety
• Cover weight paper for portfolio/book
of papers. Discover the personalities of the media
and their rubbing results. Color strategies will also be • Objects for rubbings
explored while reproducing and combining textures • Chopsticks/dowels
and patterns. The surfaces will include campus
discoveries, created surfaces (paper constructions), • Thread
as well as a variety of tools and materials suited • Cuttlebug die cutting machine with various dies
for the technique. Various binding approaches as
• Instructions and supply resources
well as digital applications of the rubbings will be
demonstrated. (We will not be experimenting with • Participants may experiment with the instructor’s
any rubbing media that require fixatives for health various rubbing media SUNDAY
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and safety reasons.) Participants will construct a
portfolio to house their rubbings and select rubbings Instructor Biography:
to bind into a structure. A Cuttlebug die-cutting Elsi Vassdal Ellis retired in June 2017 after 40 years
machine will be available with dies. Included in the teaching design production and book arts at Western
workshop fees are the materials and instructions for Washington University. As EVE Press she has produced
either binding approach. over 148 editions via offset, letterpress and digital
printing, and 127 unique books since 1983 in a well-
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: equipped studio. Her work is permanently housed in
• Colored pencils • Awl over 135 collections including the National Museum of
(any brand will work • Snap-off blade knife or Women in the Arts, Sackner Archive of Concrete and
for this workshop; a X-acto knife Visual Poetry, San Francisco Public Library Grabhorn
basic set of 12 is more Collection, Yale University Library Arts of the Book
• Scissors
than adequate) Collection and The Wiener Library for the Study of
• Bone/Teflon folder Holocaust and Genocide, London, England.
• Pencil sharpener
• Scoring bone folder
• Crayons (Crayola is Instagram: @vassdalellis
just fine) • Sewing needles
• Metal ruler • Glue stick
• Cutting mat
22Casey Newman
Botanical Printing and
Creating a Nature-Inspired Book
Dates Sunday-Monday, July 17-18, 2022 Instructor Casey Newman
Cost $160 per day x 2 days+ $45 Material Fee Skill Level Beginner
Price $365 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 2 days
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
Botanical printing uses the natural pigments in leaves ($45 Material fee included in the price above)
to permanently print images onto paper and fabric.
Participants will experiment with different types of • A variety of paper, silk, and wool fabric
paper and mordants, natural dyes, and layering prepared for printing
techniques to create nature-inspired designs. • Leaves
The focus of the workshop is on paper, however,
participants will also experience printing onto silk or • Natural dyes
wool to create a cover for their book. The book will • Mordants and modifiers
use simple hand stitching and a variety of paper
• Steamers and other equipment needed to
prints that have been additionally enhanced with
press and head papers
colored pencil, watercolor and ink. Participants will
also leave with a variety of sizes of printed papers to • Spray bottles
use in other projects. • Sewing thread and needles
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: Instructor Biography:
• Pencil Casey Newman is an ecologist and natural textile SUNDAY
dyer who incorporates stories of season and place
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• Pigma micron pens, or similar, in a few sizes
into her artistic work. She has a master’s degree in
• Bone folder
forest ecology and has spent much of her career
• X-acto knife working in environmental education as well as
• Ruler teaching nature-based art at her studio and
throughout the west coast. This bridge between
• Small cutting mat nature and art is something Casey brings to her MONDAY
workshops as well as her personal work. Casey draws
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• Bookbinding needle
inspiration from the forest surrounding Cedar Dell
Optional materials: Forest Farm, her educational property at the edge
of Gresham, Oregon. There she teaches natural
• Watercolors
dye workshops, curates educational programs for
• Colored pencils children, and raises fiber animals.
• Assorted embroidery floss
Web page: cedardelldesigns.com
(natural color will be provided)
• 6-8 pieces of paper for the interior of your book,
if you wish to incorporate blank pages along with
printed papers.
23Helen Shafer Garcia
Woven Stitch Collagraph Book
Dats Monday, July 18, 2022 Instructor Helen Shafer Garcia
Cost $160 per day x 1 day + $15 Material Fee Skill Level All levels
Price $175 * Prices do not include housing & meals Length of Workshop 1 day
Workshop Description: Materials/equipment to be provided by instructor:
This workshop will focus on a unique combination ($15 Material fee included in the price above)
of collagraph printmaking and book structures.
The collagraph process, as the name suggests, is a • Printmaking papers
form of collage. Printing plates will be produced with • Waxed linen thread
collage and hot glue to create free flowing designs.
There are tremendous opportunities to experiment • Hot glue
with textures with this unpredictable, intuitive method. • Printing plate
The plate design is very versatile and durable for
• Embroidery threads
continued print runs, providing enough prints for two
or more books. Further development of the images Instructor Biography:
can be produced with mixed media. The multi-
signature book structures will be constructed with Helen Shafer Garcia is a painter and mixed media,
open spine woven stitches, creating a color variation book arts, ceramics artist, as well as an award
effect on the spine. The content will include multiple winning illustrator. Helen’s watercolor illustrations
image repeats from the collagraph process. These have graced the cover brochures, garden articles
will be manipulated with watermedia and colored and advertisements in numerous international resorts
pencils to individualize the pages. and magazines for more than 30 years. Awards
include four San Diego Press Club First Place Awards
Materials/equipment to be provided by students: of Excellence in Illustration for San Diego Home/
Garden Lifestyles Magazine. Her works and articles
• Water container • Watercolors: pan or
have been published in numerous magazines. Helen
personal palette (tube
• 1 or more round holds a BA degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis in
watercolors set in a
watercolor brushes,
palette)
illustration and ceramics. She is a signature member MONDAY
#12, #10, or #14 of the San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego Book
• ½” or larger flat
acrylic brush
• 12” or larger metal ruler
with cork backing
Arts Society and teaches watercolor and mixed
media workshops internationally and across the US. 18
• 1 book binding needle
• 3 or more Golden Open Web page: HelenShaferGarcia.com
Acrylic colors + white, • Colored Pencils
make sure the acrylics
• Water container
say “Open” on the
container • Hair dryer or heat gun
• Acrylic matte medium • Bone folder
• Awl
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