Open Studio: Bindery

Work side-by-side with other bookbinders on a project of your choosing. Bookbinding tools and some materials available.

OPEN STUDIOS

Our Open Studio sessions offer you dedicated time and space to work on your book arts projects. You get to choose what you’re going to work on during each two-hour block, and you can help yourself to a small assortment of snacks, coffee, tea, and sparkle water.

These sessions are non-instructional time, meaning you work independently but in community with others.

Sign up for a single session or a whole bunch!

Papermaking is an ancient art with seemingly endless variations and adaptations. At its heart, papermaking involves mixing plant fibers, recycled paper, or other materials with water to make pulp, using a mold and deckle to catch fibers on the screen, and drying/pressing those fibers to make a sheet of paper. You'll come away from this class with a new appreciation of paper and its variants, as well as several sheets of paper to use in your next bookbinding project.... or however you wish!

Note that this is a weather-dependent class. If we need to cancel, your registration fee will be either fully refunded, or credited toward a future class. 

Do you have a creative project you’d like to workshop? Join a small group of writers and artists exploring what happens when art meets its audience. We meet regularly — you can register for all sessions or just a few. In order to give deep and detailed feedback, we limit the number of presenter spots in each session, but anyone can join to be a responder. When it’s your turn to present, bring a piece of visual art, music, writing…. any creative project you are working on, and the group will reflect on and ask meaningful questions of the work you’ve presented. Trust us: good feedback doesn’t have to be hollow, brutal, or boring. You’ll leave with greater clarity on your work, and a renewed enthusiasm to continue working on it. Open to everyone.

Curious about collage but not sure how or where to start? We’ll complicate the blank page with things we find, cut out, tear, and layer. We’ll supply all the materials; you bring your curiosity and your sense of adventure.

Create a book by folding and gluing paper bags together to form pages and pockets. These books can be used as interactive notebooks, scrapbooks, or creative journals. You can write, draw, collage, or store small items in the built-in pockets. No bookbinding experience is necessary for this class.

This elegant binding shows off the interior of the book at the same time as it shows off the cover and stitching. A variant of the long stitch with some structural surprises, this binding is a wonderful structure to learn and practice.

Come discover the wonderful, analog world of letterpress! We'll get our hands on a clamshell press, a sign press, and a Vandercook Universal I, set some type, and get our hands inky. All levels of experience welcome and encouraged. 

All materials provided.

These are not the paper dolls of your childhood! Using collage fodder, and other materials, you will create several artistic paper dolls based on the human figure and beyond.