Bookbinding IV: Inboard Binding

Event Info

This two day, in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Saturday and Sunday, August 3 and 4, from 11am-5pm ET.

• Saturday, August 3, 11:00am-5:00pm ET
• Sunday, August 4, 11:00am-5:00pm ET

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on July 20, at 11:59 pm.

About the Workshop:

This in-person class at Center for Book Arts is taught by instructor Ana Cordeiro.

In this 12-hour advanced class, you will make an inboard cloth-covered book with round spine and hand-sewn end bands, to be bound on split boards. This binding has the text block sewn on ramieband supports, which will be laced in the hard cover boards. Students will learn how to prepare a set of split boards, in addition to rounding the spine and sewing silk thread end bands by hand. This class prepares the student for leather binding and other advanced and historical structures.

Please note: Since this is a more advanced course, we highly recommend that students have taken our other bookbinding courses before enrolling in this one, or have other previous bookbinding experience. Included in this workshop are 6 studio hours available for you to use during the week following the workshop. More information about this will be provided upon registration.

Required Materials:

• Pencil and paper for note-taking
• Bookbinding awl
• Bone folder
• Olfa silver knife and blades, or X-acto knife

All other materials will be provided by Center for Book Arts at no additional cost.

About Ana Cordeiro

Ana Paula Cordeiro is a Brazilian national, New York City -based visual artist working primarily in the book form. The co-author of a book about the making of books called Bookforms, published in 2018 by Quarto, she has also co-organized the multi-media installation Introspective Collective at The Clemente. In 2020 she was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and an Honorable Mention at the International Human Rights Arts Festival Creators of Justice Award for her essay “Citizen”. In the spring of 2022 she was part of the public art program Shared Space Shared Dialogue, organized by the Korean Art Forum.

Artist books can be a solitary practice, but as the Introspective Collective manifesto states, no artist is an island. Ana Paula thrives in the shared space, having been a part of the Center for Book Arts communal shop for her entire career. She was a 2023 resident at the LMCC Arts Center and a research fellow at Hispanic Society Museum and Library, which became her sponsor for a 2023 regrant by NYSCA. Ana Paula has an extensive exhibition history, and her artist books are collected privately and institutionally.

All images courtesy of the instructor.