A Celebration of Hand Made Books – 11.4.16
Throughout the evening guild members were on hand to demonstrate book binding techniques and talk about their books and activities of the Guild. All featured work was available for purchase.
Turquoise Book Exchange – 9.15.16
A small but mighty coalition of Northwoods Book Arts Guild members participated in the “Turquoise” book exchange at the September 2016 meeting. View the images!
Painted Papers Book Exchange – 07.21.16
Attendees of the July 2016 Northwoods Book Arts Guild Meeting were treated with a delightful collection of “Painted Papers” artist books. View the variety of structures and colors to awaken your creative muse! Artist: Sushelia Khera Artist: Robin Davis...
Quotations Book Exchange – 05.26.16
Members of the Northwoods Book Arts Guild exchanged a wonderful collection of quotations themed artists books in May 2016. View the images below for interesting and inspiring structures and materials! Susan Campbell’s “Quotations” Sushelia...NBG Meeting featuring Leaf Printing – 09.15.16
Our September program will be held at the Folk School, and features a very seasonal activity: Leaf Printing! Remember back in second grade how much fun it was to collect leaves, roll them in paint, and transfer their shapes to clean white paper? We will be doing just that, but using a much nicer and wider selection of paints, inks, and papers!
NBG Meeting featuring Fishy Flag Books – 07.21.16
This month’s Guild activity will feature a classic accordion Flag Book. This dynamic structure, inspired by Hedi Kyle, Susan King, and others, is a fun and versatile way to incorporate a series of images, texts, photos, or collected objects in your artist books.
NBG Workshop Scholarships Available!
Wanting to participate in an NBG workshop but short on funds? Scholarships are available for NBG members to cover bookmaking workshop instructional fees! Apply by completing the Workshop Scholarship Request Form available for downloading in docx or pdf format....
Japanese Screen Structures Workshop – 07.14.16
The Japanese Screen structure is a form of board book that can be used in inventive ways. It displays easily, making a table screen that is both functional and decorative. In this workshop we will make a basic double-fold triptych structure. We will wrap the boards with Japanese papers and form sturdy hinges to join the panels allowing the screen to be opened for display or folded for storage. Techniques for adding imagery will be discussed as we look at some examples of how this structure can be used to create artist books.
Gelli-Plate Printing Workshop – 06.29.16
Play with gelli plates, stencils, string, leaves, and other pattern-making materials as you cover papers with layers of acrylic painted monoprints. Your beautiful papers can be used later to make one of a kind artist books, folios, notecards, or gift boxes.
Studio Session – Spray-Painted Papers – 06.22.16
Time to restock your supply of painted papers! This Studio Session will provide three hours of non-stop production of beautiful spray-painted papers for many bookmaking projects to come.