Canceled due to COVID-19.

The pamphlet can be sewn and folded into an elegant binding that stands alone as an artist book or be produced as an edition. You will begin the workshop exploring the gel printing process as a way of creating printed covers for sewn pamphlet structures. While the prints dry, you will begin your exploration of pamphlets. First, you will create a quick one page book, then proceed to more complex sewn books with single and three section text blocks. Once dry, you will use the gel prints as both covers and end pages. Participants will leave with 6-7 folded and sewn pamphlet structures.

About the instructor:
Mary Beth Boone is a book artist and letterpress printer living in Greensboro, NC. Her love for making books began over thirty years ago. Recent exhibits include Pop-Up Now II at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, OR in 2016, Re(f)use at Artspace in Raleigh, NC and It’s Alive!: Frankenstein, 200 Years at Asheville BookWorks in Asheville, NC; both in 2018. Her work was included in 1000 Artists’ Books and 500 Handmade Books, vol. 2. A Winter Residency at the Penland School of Craft in 2012 inspired her to locate and purchase a letterpress. She prints under the imprint Purple Pumpkin Press. Her work is in private and public collections.