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Introducing Book Art: Where Structure and Content Converge

Explore a range of simple folded and bound structures in this introductory book art workshop. We will consider the relationship between subject and form and experiment with visual and written content.

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Letterpress Core Skills: 2023 Summer Session

This summer our multi-session, signature typesetting, and press usage class will feature the printing of broadsides, cards, and ephemera. Explore the art and craft of typesetting and letterpress printing in the Center’s Pressroom which features Vandercook cylinder letterpresses and the largest publicly accessible collection of movable type in the mid-Atlantic region.

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Bookbinding Core Skills: 2023 Intensive Summer Session

This four-part Bookbinding Core Series prepares participants to undertake a wide range of projects and additional classes in intermediate and advanced bookbinding techniques and book structures.

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Festival of the Book Event: Book Arts Open House

Stop by the Center to watch Book Arts’ members demonstrate the art and craft of bookmaking.

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Most Wednesday evenings folks interested in various aspects of printing and the book arts gather at the Center for an informal session of sharing their craft.Please see our Classes and …

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Stiff Leaf Binding with Jane Freeman

Stiff leaf binding is a rigid no-sew bookbinding method in which folded sheets of paper are glued back-to-back to form a satisfyingly solid little book. Think children’s board books!This binding …

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Three Ways to Make Bookcloth

We will take different cloth materials and thru three different processes make them suitable to use as book cloth for bookbinding and box making.Demonstrations will be presented and then participants …

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Two-day Book Arts Workshops: Paste Paper and Stiff-leaf Binding

Day One: Paste and Decorative Art Papers with Ginna CullenPaste papers are fun and decorative art papers used for a variety of paper crafts including bookbinding, gift wrapping, card making, …

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Bookbinding Core Skills: 2022 Summer Session

This four-part Bookbinding Core Series prepares participants to undertake a wide range of projects and additional classes in intermediate and advanced bookbinding techniques and book structures.

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Two-Needle Coptic Bookbinding

Coptic binding is the oldest form of a book (a “codex”)  in Western culture.  In its modern form, it has a hardcover and an open spine that reveals decorative binding stitching.

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Book Arts Demo Day: Multicolor Printmaking

In anticipation of our Saints Alive members’ project, we will be demonstrating a number of approaches for making multicolored prints. As these methods of adding color to your prints are …

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Japanese Bookbindings w/Lana Lambert

Japanese BookbindingsSaturday and Sunday, March 12th and 13th, 2022 (10:00 AM to 5:00 PM) Workshop Description:Experience the beauty and function of Japanese Bookbindings. In this two-day intensive students will create …

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