WorkshopsBookbindingFlex Your Passion: A Valentine’s Day Flexagon Book Workshop

Flex Your Passion: A Valentine’s Day Flexagon Book Workshop

Event Info

This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on February 13, 2024 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.

Tuesday, February 13, 1:00 – 4:00pm

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on February 6th, at 11:59 pm.

About the Workshop:

This virtual workshop is taught by CBA instructor Maria G. Pisano.

Valentine’s day is celebrated by sharing and giving to the special person or persons in your life. It is also an opportunity to create something unique, such as a handmade book, and be personally enriched by it. A flexagon is a unique movable book that has great content potential, and like love, springs to life when opened.

Participants of this workshop will use stencils, stamps, and drawing to enrich their pages enabling them to create a wonderful book. This workshop will also explore how content and structure interact to design a book that supports a chosen them; making a book is a gestation process. If you are curious about the flexagon structure or are looking for a unique gift to make for that special someone, then this is the workshop for you.

Fun Fact: 145 million greeting cards are exchanged every year for Valentine’s Day. Make your contribution something special!

Required Materials:

Materials
- Text weight paper
- Cover weight paper
- Plain paper for stencils
Tools
- Small scissors
- Exacto or snap-blade knife
- Double sided tape or glue stick
- Bone folder
- Self-healing mat
- Stamp pads (3-5 colors) & 6-8 triangular make-up sponges
- Assorted fine point markers and colored pencils

More detailed materials lists will be provided in the email sent upon registration.

About Maria G Pisano

Maria G. Pisano (she/her) is a book artist, printmaker, curator, and educator. Her Memory Press works are represented in the Library of Congress, 9-11 Memorial Museum, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Lafayette College, University of Delaware, Wesleyan University, and many more. Ms. Pisano has exhibited widely—including a solo exhibition titled Reflections: Artist Books and Works on Paper. Over the years she has curated a number of exhibitions at Center for Book Arts in NYC, such as Book as Witness: The Artist’s Response. In 2021 she curated Crossroads at the Hunterdon Museum of Art in New Jersey. Ms. Pisano contributes to book arts publications and has presented lectures at the Library of Congress, College Book Arts Association, and the Art Libraries Society of North America. Her article Mark To Impress was published in the California Society of Printmakers 2018 Journal as well as in 2019 in The Blue Notebook in the UK. She continuously teaches workshops nationally and internationally at venues including the Bridwell Library in Dallas TX, Hand Bookbinders of California, and Center for Book Arts in NYC.

All images courtesy of the instructor.

In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. The amount you choose to pay goes directly toward our instructors and toward creating scholarship opportunities for the future. Virtual workshops at Center for Book Arts will be recorded and the recording will be viewable for up to 30 days after the class.