Book Arts Courses
The world of Book Arts explores the book-ish and the book-like and the artist's book.
It covers a huge range of informal structures that can be folded, sewn, glued or not, typically in an afternoon.
The philosophy is to make learning approachable and to offer courses that allow students to make something beautiful.
Elements of these kinds of book structures draw on the creative traditions of bookbinding, weaving, sewing, origami, and cartonnage.
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Our courses are aimed at the novice, the enthusiast, the paper geek and the maker.
I teach regularly at The Georgian Bay School for the Arts.
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Looking for an upcoming workshop? Check out my blog for all the current classes!
READ & WRITE BOOKMARKS
In this course, students make an accordion-folded bookmark with decorative papers on the covers. Great for taking notes without writing in your books!
STAB BINDINGS
The wonderful world of Asian style sewn books is a real pleasure to explore! The sewing patterns are highly decorative and work very well to bind single sheets of paper!
BATIK BOOK
In this team-taught workshop, we explored the ancient practice of wax resist to decorate both cloth and paper! Students made three accordion books from watercolour paper using their own batiked book cloth.