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!

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.

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.

In this three-week class we'll explore the cultural history of ghosts, closely examine a selection of short stories, and talk about craft strategies for suspenseful stories, even trying our hand at a few ourselves. All levels of experience welcome and encouraged. 

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.

Pushing us forward and pulling us back, ever in tension with syntax and sentence, the line is the foundational unit for all poems. This is true for sonnets, free-verse poems, and even prose poems. But what types of lines are there, exactly, and how can we break them to build the poems we wish to write? In this course, we’ll encounter a trove of gorgeous lines and line endings by poets such as Joanna Klink, Carl Phillips, Richie Hofmann, Russell Edson, and Lucie Brock-Broido. All the while, James Longenbach’s The Art of the Poetic Line will illuminate our classroom discussions, and assist us in our efforts to apply all newfound knowledge to our own poems. Expect to write, collaborate, and fall in love with the casting and breaking of lines.

All levels of poetry writing experience welcomed and encouraged.

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.