Conferences/Retreats
Current Conferences & Retreats. Please click on each listing for more information and registration links.
John Neal Books is not hosting these events.
Laurie Doctor
Inscape and Landscape (In-Person Class) | Mar 19 - 25, 2023
Make Your Own Bible (In-Person Class) | May 29 - Jun 3, 2023
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Focus on Book Arts 2026
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Into the Heartland - July 19-24 2026
- Western Canadian Calligraphy Conference - 2025
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FOBA 2024 -Roberta Lavadour – Funky Foldy: Fun Structures for the Studio or Classroom
Class Overview - All Levels We’ll explore at least 10 deceptively simple book arts projects, many of which begin with one sheet of paper transformed into multi-faceted structures, that can become the basis for artist’s books or engaging...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 -Roberta Lavadour – Variations on the Sewn Board Binding
Class Overview - All Levels The Sewn Board Binding is one of the most versatile and user friendly structures in the book arts field, both for binders and the book’s end users. In this class students will learn the basics the binding, then explore...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Sarah Matthews – Block Printed Flag Books
Class Overview - All Levels Join us for an immersive three days, discovering the captivating fusion of block printing and bookbinding. This creative journey empowers you to craft sculptural books that uniquely tell your story. Experience the meditative...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Shawn Sheehy – A Satisfaction of Movables
Class Overview - All Levels Think back to the last time you picked up a movable card. You moved the mechanism back and forth, soothed and satisfied by the movement. You wished there was a collective noun for movable cards. Well, there is! Join paper...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Shawn Sheehy – Movable Magic: The Animating Binding
Class Overview - All Levels In the 1960’s, Bronx-based Child Guidance Books published a series that exploits a unique mechanical approach to animation: a self-pulling mechanism— integrated into the binding—that causes figures to dance...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Yoshi Nakagawa – Native Plant Transfer Printmaking
Class Overview - All Levels Get in touch with the land & printmaking! We’ll start by gathering Northwest native plant cuttings around campus. We’ll then roll on black oil-based ink on the cuttings with a brayer, and hand print on Japanese...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Yoshi Nakagawa – Nengajo Linocut Paper Quilt Exchange
Class Overview - All Levels Nengajo is a traditional custom in Japan, making and sending New Year’s postcards to friends and family, with best wishes and images of the Chinese zodiac animal of the coming year. Learn relief printmaking techniques...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 -Ann Kronenberg- Intelligent Design: Creating Your Own Book Structures
Class Overview - All Levels How do those super-creative individuals that come up with new book structures do it? This workshop will help you understand the thought process. We will examine—through demonstration, discussion, and...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Ann Kronenberg – Interlocked–Woven Paper in Book Arts–Structure and Ornament
Class Overview - All Levels We will explore the structural properties of woven and interlocked paper through the construction of 3 to 4 non-adhesive binding structures including a multisignature structure sewn on paper straps woven into a slotted paper...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - ONLINE - Tom Perkins - Simple Geometric Analysis of the Letters on Trajan’s Column & Drawing Contemporary Capitals as Illustrated
Simple Geometric Analysis of the Letters on Trajan’s Column & Drawing Contemporary Capitals as Illustrated by Tom Perkins – Level: (A) All Levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - ONLINE - Viktor Kams - An Italic Journey: Classic to Modern
An Italic Journey: Classic to Modern by Viktor Kams – Level: (I) Intermediate Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - ONLINE - Gaynor Goffe - Creative Versals Variations
Creative Versals Variations by Gaynor Goffe – Level: (A) All levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or recorded...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Elmo van Slingerland - Drawn to Letters: A Dutch Approach
Drawn to Letters: A Dutch Approach by Elmo van Slingerland – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Welcome to this letter drawing workshop created for calligraphy and lettering enthusiasts eager to expand their skills and delve into the captivating...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - John Stevens - Capital Immersion
Capital Immersion by John Stevens – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Roman Capitals are magnificent and represent stature and purity of form. However, they are also mutable, meaning that there are many variations. This class starts with studying...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Carl Rohrs - The Circle Keeps Expanding: Influences & Inspirateurs in Iowa
The Circle Keeps Expanding: Influences & Inspirateurs in Iowa by Carl Rohrs – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Influences come from all corners of the writing universe and work that crosses disciplines, styles, and mediums. Everything we see...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Massimo Polello - Order & Chaos: The Secret of Composition
Order & Chaos: The Secret of Composition by Massimo Polello – Level: (A) All levels "With order there is peacewith chaos creativitywith order there’s restwith chaos there’s pleasurewith order one can breathewith...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Brody Neuenschwander - Codes & Other Alphabetic Mysteries
Codes & Other Alphabetic Mysteries by Brody Neuenschwander – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced We do pretty well with our 26 letters. But there are more ways to write a story. In this course we will look at some fanciful ways of creating codes...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Suzanne Moore - Multifaceted Monoprints: Experiments in Movement, Form, Color & Texture
Multifaceted Monoprints: Experiments in Movement, Form, Color & Texture by Suzanne Moore – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced The play of fluidity and structure, tone, texture and color in the monoprint process offer options to create unique...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - David McGrail - 'I flamed amazement…
'I flamed amazement… by David McGrail – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced The pen grazes the paper and the ink flows...A journey begins that follows a straight line—the practice and skill of perfecting letterforms. And the ink spreads...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Yves Leterme - Father Catich’s Worst Nightmare
Father Catich’s Worst Nightmare by Yves Leterme – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced In this five-day workshop students will explore letterforms that hardly bear any resemblance to Catichs’s Trajans. In fact, almost as if to taunt the...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: