Bookbinding I and II Intensive (Summer 2024)
Course Code: 24MBB150I
This five-day, in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Monday through Friday, August 12–16, 2024, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
- Monday, August 12, 10:00 am-4:00 pm
- Tuesday, August 13, 10:00 am-4:00 pm
- Wednesday, August 14, 10:00 am-4:00 pm
- Thursday, August 15, 10:00 am-4:00 pm
- Friday, August 16, 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on August 9th, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
In this introductory yet comprehensive in-person intensive workshop taught by CBA instructor Maria Verónica San Martín, students will have the opportunity to deep-dive into both softcover binding and hardcover binding. 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. Students will also gain a foundational understanding of hardcover bookbinding including how the structure beneath the cover can affect the final result. Students will develop the skills needed to create a variety of hardcover books that will prepare them for building more complex hardcover designs such as the inboard cloth-bound book.
Don’t miss this chance to dive into the world of bookbinding with this specialized intensive!
Required Materials:
- Pencil and paper for note-taking
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Bookbinding awl
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Bone folder
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Snap-off knife, or exact-o knife
All other materials will be provided by Center for Book Arts at no additional cost.
About Maria Verónica San Martín
Maria 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.
