FOBA 2026 - Robin Feinman - The Art 101 Teaching Album

Focus on Book Arts 2026

Robin Feinman
The Art 101 Teaching Album - Friday-Sunday, June 26-28, 2026

Read more about FOBA 2026 on their website!
https://focusonbookarts.org/2026-foba-conference/

Workshop Description:

This workshop will focus on constructing a concertina-bound book with pairs of pages meant to illustrate or demonstrate a basic art technique or concept. The workshop is designed for participants who want to teach a book arts project to their basic art class, who would like a teaching product to show basic art concepts, or to anybody new to or familiar with the concertina binding and the basics of visual arts.

The content of the book will consist of pairs of pages (a stand-alone artwork, and a transparent overlay with description) that are meant to teach Visual Art basics such as Color Theory, Composition, Watercolor and Drawing Techniques, and the Elements and Principles of Art.

One day will consist of creation of the content pages and accompanying transparent overlay pages. Participants will come away with a set of teaching pages for their own practice or classrooms. Participants will also come away with a lesson
plan to implement in a secondary classroom, with modifications for elementary grades.

The next two days will consist of construction of the book, with windows cut in each page, then content inserted and affixed, and attached to the concertina binding. A hard cover will wrap all the way around. Participants will have time to embellish the cover and possibly create some alternate content. Participants will come away with a lesson plan to implement in a secondary classroom, with modifications for elementary grades.

Materials/equipment to be provided by students:

• Cutting mat
• Knife with extra blades
• Bone folder
• Paintbrush
• PVA
• Weights (brick, etc.), if possible
• Any content desired (must fit within the structure size)