BOOKS – SUMMER SESSION 4
June 30-July 12, 2024 (11 STUDIO DAYS)
Andy Rottner
Books and Enclosures

This workshop will provide a straightforward approach to making sewn-section, case bound books and the construction of four enclosure types. Students will first design and bind a 6 x 9 inch, 96-page book. Then they will design and build these four separate enclosures for that book: four-flap paper portfolio, slipcase, clamshell box, and lift-top box. We will use equipment such as the board shear, paper guillotine, and book press while learning techniques that include folding and piercing sections, sewing, forwarding, trimming, book cover construction, casing-in, gluing, measuring, cutting, and book and box design. All levels.

Studio artist, bookbinder, publisher, educator; teaching: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Center for the Book, Studio Art Center International (Florence, Italy); bookbinding clients: Internet Archive, Codex Foundation (CA), California College of Art; collections: Library of Congress Special Collections (DC), Harvard University (MA), Stanford University (CA), Columbia University (NYC), Smith College (MA); publications: Knuckles on the Ground: Fundamentals of Bookbinding (San Francisco Center for the Book).

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Oct 15 – Nov 15: Scholarship applications accepted
Jan 15 – Regular enrollment opens