with Alexandra Janezic
Sun. March 30 & April 6, 10a-1p
at the IC Press Co-op (225 N. Gilbert)
pay-what-you-can: $30-160

In this workshop, participants will learn the fundamental history and concepts involved in bookbinding—grain direction, accurate folding, and cutting. We will make three stab bound books, utilizing the 4-hole, hemp leaf, and tortoise shell sewing patterns. Participants will go home with three books made with their own two hands.

Open to ages 18+.

Registration deadline: March 26

*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from Hills Bank and individual donors. $150 is the true cost of the workshop, and we encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford, or pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.

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TEACHING ARTIST:

Alexandra is a bookbinder, letterpress printer, and book artist living in Iowa City. She earned her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book (UICB). She is currently Associate Preparator at the Stanley Museum of Art and adjunct faculty at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She has taught bookbinding workshops at Penland School of Craft and Public Space One.