We are very excited to report that our Guild’s very own Kelsey Excelsior Letterpress is on its way to Alaska! The generous donors, Charlotte Bird and Frances Watson of San Diego, CA, are donating the letterpress to the Guild. Included in their donation are the...
On Saturday, June 27, 2015, from 10:00am to 4:00pm, Northwoods Book Arts Guild is pleased to host another great workshop, this one led by our own Laurel Herbeck. Laurel is currently an art teacher in the FNSBSD. She has been a practicing Fiber Artist for over thirty...
Join Mary Maisch and fellow Guilders for an afternoon of outdoor painting using Liquitex acrylic spray paints and botanical specimens to create beautiful art papers for use in all your book-making projects. You will also make a fine folder from one of your painted...
Please make plans to join in the fun at The Folk School Fairbanks on Sunday, May 17, 2015, from 2:00-5:00pm, as they welcome us, the Northwoods Book Arts Guild, onto their beautiful campus! We are thrilled to now have a home base for our “Paper Birches”...
Come to our next Guild meeting, AT OUR STUDIO at The Folk School Fairbanks, on Thursday, May 28, 2015 from 5:00 – 7:00pm. Make a Piercing Cradle, a handy portable tool that allows for more comfortable and more accurate piercing of folios and signatures in...
Participants in NBG’s “Gorgeous Gelli-Plate Papers” at The Folk School Fairbanks on Saturday, April 25, left with their arms full of beautiful papers ready to cover books, appear inside books, and embellish books and notecards!
Our March meeting featured a Book Exchange of books made using a single sheet of paper! “Moon Goddess” by Margo Klass Interior, “Gelli Book” by Kathy Dietrich Exterior, “Gelli Book” by Kathy Dietrich “Looking Forward to the...
Calling All Book Makers! Please come to our very first Open Book meeting at The Folk School Fairbanks on Sunday, April 19, 2015, from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Bring your mobile book-making toolkit, your latest project to show and tell, your project from the last meeting to...
Learn how to make a hand-sewn book using the Japanese pamphlet stitch in a concertina structure. We will make a beautiful cover and binding from prepared painted Strathmore papers, and cut or tear fine Hahnemuhle papers for the stitched folios inside the book. This is...
Sign up now for a new Guild class offering led by Mary Maisch at The Folk School Fairbanks on May 2, 2015, from 12:00-4:00pm! Play with gelli plates, stencils, string, leaves, and other pattern-making materials as you cover papers with layers of acrylic painted...
