Welcome!
Northwoods Book Arts Guild
is a community of artists actively learning about and creating artist books in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Guild promotes all aspects of book arts through education, participation in exhibitions, and community outreach.
NBG is affiliated with the North Star Community Foundation. The Foundation serves as our fiscal agent. All monetary transactions on our site, including membership and donations, are re-directed to the NSCF site in a new window.
Our Studio is located in the Caribou Building, Suite 205 at 3550 Airport Way, Fairbanks, Alaska 99709. “Paper Birches”, our cooperative supply inventory, is also located there, as are most of our classes and workshops.
Everyday Journals – 05.21.16
Create an everyday journal using specialty folders and a variety of unique and interesting papers. We will design our covers, make the folios using a variety of papers, sew it all together and finish with beads.
Spring Carnival Fundraiser – 05.15.16
Join the The Folk School Fairbanks and Northwoods Book Arts Guild for a Joyful Spring Open House! We are celebrating spring with food, demonstrations, activities indoors and out, and a grand Silent Auction Fundraiser featuring beautifully hand-crafted and artful objects perfect for you, your friends, and your home!
Recycled Repurposed Book Exchange – 03.24.16
NBG members created another round of delightful books for the March 2016 guild meeting book exchange. View the wonderful creations below and hover over each image to view the book's structure and materials.
Word Birds Workshop – 05.12.16
Create your own Word Bird, a paper machè character with something to say! Using newspaper, masking tape, wire, colored tissue paper, bits of map or old book pages, and a few feathers, you will create a bird ready to stand or hang, just in time for spring migration!
Filling the Book Studio Session – 04.16.16
Looking for a few new ways to fill your beautifully handmade books? We will focus on creating lettering styles, pleasing texts and images with color, inspirational messages, poems etc.
Become a Member
NBG is a member project of the North Star Community Foundation.
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Guild Workshops
Join us for a scheduled workshop or class!
Contact any NBG Board member if you have an idea for a class you would like to lead or take.
Financial assistance is available for NBG workshop or membership fees. Apply by completing the online Marilyn Askelin Memorial Grant Application.
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Paper Birches
“Paper Birches,” our Guild book arts supply program, is open at the NBG Studio located in Suite 205 at the Caribou Building, 3550 Airport Way, Fairbanks, AK 99709. Supplies may be purchased at Open Book events, meetings, and workshops held at The Folk School. You may also contact any Guild Board member to make an appointment to meet at the studio.
NOW IN STOCK: BFK Rives, Arches text wove, Shizen and Khadi papers; book board and piercing cradle kits; metal measuring edges, linen tape, and folder stock; MacTac and Jade 403 PVA adhesives; waxed linen thread by the spool or by the yard.
Let us know of materials or supplies that you’d like to have available to you– by buying together we can take advantage of bulk discounts and save on shipping. This makes it possible to spend more on beautiful papers!
NBG Interest Survey
Have a workshop idea to share? Interested in instructing? Want to suggest a new book exchange theme? Complete the online survey and let us know!