Book Paper Thread

Take Two Arts is offering an online course with artist Karen Olson called "Focus + Flow". Explore photography, paper sculpture, papermaking and printing. Registration closes on April 7th.

Focus and Flow: Restorative Art with Karen Olson In Focus and Flow with Karen Olson, discover gentle creative practices that reconnect you with nature and restore a sense of calm through mindful making.

Daniel Papuli is a sculptographer, based in Milan, working in paper to create objects, furniture and installations.

Suzanne Moore will be teaching "Beyond Pigment and Paste" at the American Academy of Bookbinding in Telluride from September 14-18, 2023

https://bookbindingacademy.org/courses/telluride-summer/

Discover unlimited possibilities, from making unique patterns to expressive paintings – using the principles of traditional paste paper, and venturing far beyond. The techniques presented will expand your repertoire of surface design to explore dimensional surfaces, “writing,” and image-making. Create individual or edition work for use as book pages or covering materials.

Explore a new way of using “paste paper” techniques, and go beyond what you might imagine: beginning with color fields, and patterns, and leading to experiments with resists, dry media (pastels and graphite), and create the look of dimension on paper. Suzanne has developed an array of effects, over decades as a maker of unique and edition work. Whether your vision is illustrative or abstract, there are techniques to realize your images.

Unlock the door to creating papers to serve your particular purpose: collage, distinct book pages, end papers, and cover papers.

Book Paper Thread Online workshops for learning the art and craft of the book and paper arts.

The first workshop of 2023 will be Suzanne Moore's "Beyond Pigment and Paste" — a five week online intensive offering an in depth exploration of the myriad effects you can create on paper.

From the basics of color fields to resists, dimensional effects, layering wet and dry media and techniques for edition work. Learn to develop painted sheets for one-of-a-kind books, printmaking, painting and bookbinding.

More information and registration at

Beyond Pigment and Paste Multi-session online (Zoom) workshop with Suzanne Moore. Four Tuesdays, 10-noon (PT), January 31 to February 31st, 2023, with four “check-in” / sharing sessions, to be determined by the…

Our upcoming Book Paper Thread workshops will be announced in the next few weeks. In the meantime, Linda Marshall will be hosting, and presenting with, Velma Bolyard for her "North Country Shifu" workshop which will be held in-person in Blaine Washington October 28 — 30. For details and registration visit washiarts.com/workshops

American Academy of Bookbinding Workshop
MAKING YOUR MARK with Suzanne Moore
September 19–23

Join us for this adventure into the possibilities of expression through the distinct movements of your hand. Explorations of mark-making and handwritten forms, var- ious tools, and layering media will take us on an unfolding journey to create pages for a series of 2D works on paper or a simple book. You can easily translate this work into imagery for print, book content, and fine bindings.

Using universal symbols and a text of your choice as inspiration, each participant will employ black and white and color media to explore interpretations of verbal content. A series of exercises using Sumi ink, gouache, and acrylic media will offer a rich array of possibilities for each artist to create work unique to their vision. This workshop is part of an ongoing series Suzanne has developed: Word as Image.

Open to all students interested in creating word-based images, for artists’ books, painting, drawing, printmaking and binding design.

Space is available, register now.
https://form.jotform.com/220476141821146 https://bookbindingacademy.org/
Student housing is currently available for this class.

There are still a few spots available in Suzanne Moore's upcoming workshop "Handwriting as Image" (formerly “Painted Speech”)

May 31 – July 5, live Zoom presentations, and office hours (recorded stored for re-visiting).

Evolve your handwriting to create word-based imagery, on a journey to colorful and spirited expression for use in printmaking, bookbinding, artists’ books, 2D and 3D work, as well as fine art.

For details and to register go to
http://bookpaperthread.com/painted-speech-handwriting-as-painted-image-2

Our next course covers the construction of Hard Cover Books. Students will learn to make the Sewn Board Binding, Case Bound Book, and hard cover variations for single signatures. Make your own sketchbook or journal just the way you want it. See the full description and registration at our website.

Our online workshop on the Clamshell Box starts February 23. Learn all the steps in making a custom sized box for books or paper art. See the full listing in our website. Sign up soon to get an optional materials kit before the class starts.

We’re happy to see Beth Shoemaker, a favorite speaker at our own conference last February, talk about Artists’ Books at Emory University.
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Posted • Check out some thoughts about artists’ books with Rare Book Librarian Beth Shoemaker. https://youtu.be/diRWExyZA9M.

The instructors at are busy when not in class. Andrew Huot operates in Atlanta, where he conserves and repairs books and documents, rebinds books, and makes custom boxes. See what he’s up to on his Instagram account or at his website bigriverbindery.com