Virtual Bookbinding I

Event Info

This five-week, virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Wednesdays, January 22 – February 19, 2024 from 6:00pm–9:00pm Eastern Time.

• Wednesday, January 22, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
• Wednesday, January 29, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
• Wednesday, February 5, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
• Wednesday, February 12, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
• Wednesday,February 19, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on January 8th, at 11:59 pm.

About the Workshop:

This virtual class at Center for Book Arts is taught by instructor María Verónica San Martín. In this introductory class you will learn the basic use of bookbinding tools and materials, along with bookbinding structures.

Students will learn about non-adhesive structures, bindings for single sheets, and other bindings that can be made with little specialized equipment.  Accordions, pamphlets, drum leaf books, and a variety of softcover bindings will be taught during the course.

This class is ideal for those who wish to learn simple forms for presenting work, or for building fundamental knowledge on bookbinding.

Required Materials:

• Pencil and paper for note-taking
• Bookbinding awl
• Bone folder
• Olfa Snap-off Blade Utility Knife
• Bookbinding needles
• Linen thread
• PVA Adhesive
• Text weight paper
• Colored cover-weight paper or yardstick

About the Instructor

María Verónica San Martín (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and printmaker working with archives, artist books, and performance art. She is a Whitney Museum ISP fellow artist, a board member of Booklyn Art and teaches at Parsons, The New School (NY), Mixteca (NY), Penland School of Craft (NC), and Miami University (OH).  She has received two New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grants, three Chilean government grants, and a Sustainable Arts grant. Maria has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, with four solo exhibitions in 2023, a commission for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a recent performance at Lincoln Center, a public artwork at Rockefeller Center, and a participation at New York Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work is part of more than 80 collections highlighting the MET, the Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Center and the Museum Meermanno

San Martín is currently exhibiting at the Polygraphic Triennial of Puerto Rico, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Governors Island in the US, the National Center for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Memory in Chile, while preparing her next solo show in New York and Spain, continue printing series “Moving Memorials” composed of 203 artist books and working for her next workshops at the MET with New Latin Wave.

All images courtesy of the instructor.