Classes at American Academy of Bookbinding

The American Academy of Bookbinding still has a few spaces in our
spring Fine Binding classes.

Don Glaister offers a five-day workshop focusing on Leather Box
Making, May 30-June 3, 2011. In this class, participants will make
leather clamshell style boxes for two books. Students will be taught
how to measure and cut materials accurately, how to prepare and
apply leather to their boxes, and if time permits, explore simple
decorative techniques applied to the outside of their boxes. Some
experience with leather bookbinding is required for this course.

Visiting Artist Tim Ely will teach a five-day book design course, A
Field of Play or Thinking Outside the Slipcase, June 6-10. In this
class students will work with a master of the game of thinking
beyond borders. We will confront the language of design in such a
way as to free up the mind and explore areas that will be a dramatic
unknown, a terra incognito of the expressive self. Working within
the book format, we will explore various ideas and techniques that
are proven to get one "off the dime" and find an authentic voice for
expressing and materializing ideas.

Monique Lallier offers a two-week class, Fundamentals of
Bookbinding/Intermediate Fine Binding, at her studio in Summerfield,
North Carolina, June 20-July 1, 2011 . The focus of the class will
be on learning and revisiting sound bookbinding techniques with
special emphasis on working with leather. Beginning students will
complete a half-leather and a full-leather book and intermediate
students will complete two full-leather books in the two-week
course. No fine binding experience is needed for beginning students.
Students will become familiar with hand sewing using a sewing frame,
rounding and backing, edge decoration, weaving headbands, as well as
leather paring and applying leather to their books.

Don Glaister's Fundamentals/Intermediate Fine Binding class, May
16-27, is full.

For more information and to register, contact the Academy at
aab<-a t->ahhaa< . >org, or 970-728-8649, or visit us at

    <URL:http://www.ahhaa.org/academy-bookbinding>

We hope to see you in Telluride or Summerfield this year.

Judy Kohin, administrative director
American Academy of Bookbinding


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