BOOKS – FALL CONCENTRATION
September 29 – NOVEMBER 8, 2024 (6 weeks)
Brien Beidler
Timeless Tomes for Tomeless Times: Historic Leather Bindings
Students in this workshop will use historic binding methods and materials to create leather books fit for use and expression in a modern context. We will demystify obscure and often elusive techniques such as sewing on raised cords, edge trimming, endbanding, leatherworking, and gold tooling with genuine gold leaf and egg glair. We will also have a chance to make and use our own custom decorative leather stamps. Although we will primarily make blank books, students may choose to rebind a book as long as the pages are in signatures. This workshop is ideal for anyone looking for an accessible path to learning traditional hand bookbinding. It will also be useful to experienced binders and conservators who would like to deepen their knowledge and expand their technical repertoire. All levels.
Studio artist; teaching: Escuela de Artes y Oficios Santo Domingo (Bogotá, Colombia), North Bennet Street School (Boston), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paper and Book Intensive (MI), University of Alabama, University of Utah, Penland; 2023 McKnight Book Arts Fellow, 2021 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (VA); collections: San Francisco Public Library, Oak Spring Garden Foundation (VA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Library of Congress (DC).
Scholarship application deadline extended to April 19
Regular enrollment opens May 1
