Focus on Book Arts 2024
Our 15th Focus on Book Arts conference offers five full days of workshops that appeal to beginning as well as advanced book artists. You can come for just one workshop or for the entire conference; a range of class lengths let you tailor an experience just for you.
We are excited to be holding the 2024 conference at our new location, the campus of Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon.
There is no mail-in registration. Registration will close at the end of the day May 31, 2024.
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FOBA 2024 - Eline Lipkin – Writing in the Blanks
Class Overview - All Levels This class is for anyone who has wondered what to put inside their beautiful, yet blank, book and who wants to jumpstart their writing. Through generative writing exercises, students will be exposed to poetic forms such as the...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Elsi Vassdal Ellis- Moving Steps Binding
Class Overview - All Levels This adhesive structure introduces a simple movement to the text block that is activated when the book is opened with the pages forming stepped fore edges that can be used for indexing or to build an image. Individual folios...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Elsi Vassdal Ellis- Reimagining the Humble Rubbing
Class Overview - All Levels This workshop will explore a variety of options for rubbings to create art for artist’s books, collage art, and cyanotypes. On the first day we will embark on a journey of exploration, experimentation, and discovery, as...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Elsi Vassdal Ellis- Stick Binding
Class Overview - All Levels Have you wondered what to do with that orphaned chopstick or a paintbrush that has seen better days? Are you looking for a technique to offer additional aesthetic variations to a pamphlet binding or even a medieval long stitch...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Elsi Vassdal Ellis- Panel Book with Box
Class Overview - All Levels The workshop will explore the panel book structure composed of double boards glued to book cloth hinges to form stacked double-sided panels that sit on a small, lidded box to house small objects. Workshop participants will...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Erin Fletcher – Exploring Embroidery on Paper
Class Overview - All Levels Embroidering the surface of paper creates an alluringly tactile effect that can enhance any design. During the first half of the workshop, students will experiment with a range of surface design techniques including embroidery...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Ginger Burrell – Creativity, Collage and Coptic Stitch
Class Overview - All Levels Never lose an idea again! Make two single-needle Coptic stitch books in this class to keep your ideas at hand for your next creative session. The first, an idea journal, will have a torn collage cover and large pages for you...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Ginger Burrell – Four Seasons in a Spiral Tunnel Book
Class Overview - All Levels Why have one tunnel in your artist’s book when you can have four? Learn to make a complex spiral structure that holds four tunnel books. It looks difficult but I’ll teach you step-by-step how to create this...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Helen Shafer Garcia – Watermedia Approaches for Book Structures
Class Overview - All Levels This workshop will focus on 2 extraordinary multiple signature book structures. Work with the principles of watermedia surface design in the form of watermedia monotypes, dropped-in watercolor techniques, acrylic ink line...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Helen Shafer Garcia – Woven Stitch Collagraph Book
Class Overview - All Levels We will focus on a unique combination of Collagraph (a form of collage) printmaking, relief block prints, and book structures. Produce printing plates with collage shapes and hot glue to create free flowing designs. Experiment...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Hope Amico – Collage Techniques for Altered Books
Class Overview - All Levels Altering books allows us to begin with a canvas of ideas which we may combine, remove, or change to create a new work. Using collage techniques, including strategic removal to create windows, the addition of colors and...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Kristen Doty – Drawing & Lettering Sketchbook
Class Overview - All Levels Learn to draw! Build confidence or brush up on your skills through drawing and lettering exercises. Learn how to create drawings and add unique drawn letters. These techniques can be used later to enhance your own blank books...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Mary-Ellen Campbell – Sun and Earth
Class Overview - All Levels Create cyanotypes; those lovely indigo images made from nature or from film negatives on rusted and tea stained papers resulting in unique pages. Day 1, participants will be learning techniques as well as compiling notes on...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Pietro Accardi – Intensive Marbling on Paper and Fabric
Class Overview - All Levels All that you need to know about marbling on paper and fabric (silk and cotton). Also we’ll talk about working with metallic paint (on paper) and how to create your own book cloth. We’ll discuss color theory and...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
FOBA 2024 - Pietro Accardi – Secretary Box
Class Overview - All Levels The secretary box features one large bottom drawer, two recessed diagonal drawers, and three niches within a hatch top opening. The box is entirely covered with marbled fabric, dimensions: 10 inches wide, 7 inches deep, and 6...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
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: