Bound to Journal: A Bookbinding Workshop

Sorry, this class has been cancelled.

Do you enjoy journaling or have a journaling sweetheart you’d like to surprise? In this day long workshop, instructor Jen Sperry Steinorth will guide students through some basic bookbinding techniques. They will leave with their own hand-bound journal and technical knowledge that will set them off down the endlessly fascinating path of bookbinding.  The instructor will provide all essentials for project completion.

Students Bring: Students are encouraged to bring good shears, light upholstery cloth and/or decorative papers for their hardback journal covers. Cloth or paper for exterior should be 12” square. Paper for interior should be at least 6” square.

Instructor: Jennifer Sperry Steinorth is a poet, educator, interdisciplinary artist, and builder/designer living in Traverse City. Her poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Colorado Review, Four Way Review, The Journal, jubilat, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, Quarterly West and won numerous grants and awards. JenSperrySteinorth.com

Class Cost: $90 for GAAC members, $105 for nonmembers. In addition there is a $40 materials fee (this fee is added to class tuition below).