Workshop: Paper Marbling with Tapas Date & Time: Friday, April 25, 2025 from 6:30 – 9:30pm Tuition: $100 includes all materials, technique handouts and dinner This technique can produce lovely figurative designs of fish, flowers, birds, and abstract shapes – or go with the traditional combed patterns. Your floating designs may be free-form, combed, or […]
Read the rest of this post...To Have and to Hold – Kalamazoo 2025
To Have and to Hold, an artist’s book in my Grief Books series, is in The Illustrated Accordion exhibition at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center! The Illustrated Accordion February 7 – March 21, 2025 Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Gallery In-person Reception: March 7, 2025 from 5-8 pm To Have and to Hold, 2024 4-panel […]
Read the rest of this post...Paste Papers Projects – Fuller Craft – April 27
Paste Paper Projects Workshop Sunday, April 27, 2025 10:30am – 3:30pm Fuller Craft Museum, Oak St., Brockton, MA Register HERE Paste Paper is one of the earliest forms of surface decoration. In the contemporary context, mixed media artists are finding new uses beyond the traditional book arts. This is a fun, fast-paced decorative art […]
Read the rest of this post...Marbling Madness – Snow Farm – August 14-17
Workshop: Marbling Madness Date & Time: August 14 – 17, 2025 all day Tuition: $535 + meals & housing Snow Farm – The New England Craft Program 5 Clary Rd, Williamsburg, MA Register/Info HERE Explore the joy of Turkish marbling on paper, wood, and textiles. Cristina will teach traditional combed patterns and techniques that can produce […]
Read the rest of this post...Japanese Puncture Books – Eliot School – Aug 10
Japanese Puncture/Stab Books Workshop Sunday, August 10, 2025 10:30am – 4:30pm Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Jamaica Plain, MA Register HERE This all-day workshop will explore a beloved book structure: the Japanese puncture (or “stab”) binding. This technique is especially useful as it joins individual sheets into a text block. The sheets can be edited and sequenced […]
Read the rest of this post...Layered Accordion Books – Eliot School – July 13
Sunday, July 13, 2025 10:30am – 4:30pm Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts Jamaica Plain, MA Register HERE Of all the non-traditional book structures, the Accordion, or “Concertina” is a favorite for its dramatic presentation. Experienced by the viewer as both a display easel and a book, the accordion book provides multiple interactions and […]
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