It’s time to break out of your material comfort zone and think with your hands! Workshop participants will be mailed a Mini-But-Mighty Mystery Box of Materials, which must not be opened until the workshop. After a brief discussion of what defines a book and “bookness”, participants will open their boxes and make an artist’s book following three simple rules.

It’s time to break out of your material comfort zone and think with your hands! Workshop participants will be mailed a Mini-But-Mighty Mystery Box of Materials, which must not be opened until the workshop. After a brief discussion of what defines a book and “bookness”, participants will open their boxes and make an artist’s book following three simple rules.

This live demonstration is an introduction to making vegetable papyrus—paper made solely from fruits and vegetables.

Let’s spend an evening together making paper stars to brighten the spaces around us!

Celebrate the first day of summer by designing stunning paper flowers!

Transform two-dimensional paper into elegant and organic three-dimensional flowers using a variety of techniques in this online workshop.

Tunnel books are sculptural artist’s books that create a miniature world or abstract composition in multiple layers; reminiscent of a stage, a series of separate pages are bound in layers to create a distinct foreground, midground and background. After looking at examples of other artist’s books, students will work along with book artist Yuka Petz to combine cut paper, drawing, collage, and book arts to create their own multi-dimensional worlds at home. This class welcomes all levels of students, no book making or paper cutting experience necessary!

This is a live virtual class taught over Zoom. Students need a strong internet connection and a device with video capabilities.

Register through the American Swedish Institute.

Personalize and design your own stab-bindings! After looking at examples to gain a deeper understanding of what makes a successful stab-binding design, we will sketch ideas in-class, develop unique templates, and dive into our personalized sewn structures.

It’s time to break out of your material comfort zone and think with your hands! Workshop participants will be mailed a Mini-But-Mighty Mystery Box of Materials, which must not be opened until the workshop. After a brief discussion of what defines a book and “bookness”, participants will open their boxes and make an artist’s book following three simple rules.

It’s time to break out of your material comfort zone and think with your hands! Workshop participants will be mailed a Mini-But-Mighty Mystery Box of Materials, which must not be opened until the workshop. After a brief discussion of what defines a book and “bookness”, participants will open their boxes and make an artist’s book following three simple rules.

Personalize and design your own stab-bindings! After looking at examples to gain a deeper understanding of what makes a successful stab-binding design, we will sketch ideas in-class, develop unique templates, and dive into our personalized sewn structures.

In this hands-on workshop, learn to do sekkazome, a distinctive Japanese technique to create decorative papers in bright, kaleidoscopic patterns.

Transform two-dimensional paper into elegant and organic three-dimensional flowers using a variety of techniques in this workshop.

Learn to bind elegant and simple Japanese-style books. We will make the four traditional variations of these sewn book structures.

Celebrate spring by designing your own stunning paper flowers.

Sekkazome is a traditional Japanese fold-and-dye technique to create decorative papers. Create decorative papers of your own design, which will then be used in the second week to bind four traditional Japanese stab bindings.

Also known as mix-and-match books, split- page books are simple, yet compelling structures that encourage lots of hands- on engagement. In this workshop, we will examine a variety of artist-made and commercially printed examples and then make our own folded and sewn variations of split-page books.

Flexagons are unique paper structures that bridge paper/book arts with recreational mathematics. Flipping through each flat flexagon reveals multiple hidden faces.