BOOKS AND PAPER FALL CONCENTRATION
October 2 – November 11, 2022
Cathy Adelman and Alice Vaughan
Books and Boxes: Divine and Sublime
This workshop will cover a broad range of traditional and modern techniques for making well-crafted, thoughtfully designed fine bindings and boxes. Through daily demonstrations and hands-on instruction, students will learn to make case bindings (both flexible and hard), slipcases, and portfolios using the primary materials of leather, paper, and book cloth. We’ll embellish our work using finishing techniques such as leather tooling, inlay, and gilding. Two instructors with complementary and wide-ranging experience will present students with plenty of information and alternate approaches. All levels.
Cathy: studio artist; teaching: Guild of Bookworkers, Penland, private lessons; exhibitions: Gutenberg Museum (Switzerland), Grolier Club (NYC), American Bookbinders Museum (San Francisco), Bibliothèque Lausanne (Switzerland), Médiathèque Intercommunale (France), Bibliotheca Wittockiana (Belgium); work in private and public collections domestic and international.
Alice: owner and principal binder at Hudson River Bindery (NY); teaching: State University of New York-New Paltz, Penland, private lessons; 40-years of experience binding books beginning with trade, commercial, and library bindings, and now working with clients from many parts of the book world with an increasing interest in repair and restoration.
