Learn to make a beautiful and functional artist’s book, using an envelope structure you can use to store samples of thread, fiber, dye, swatches, or anything you can dream up!

This six-hour workshop will teach a useful concertina spine fold technique and then how to attach archival bags to the spine, and end the afternoon with covers. Examples will be provided to ensure that multiple sizes and uses for the Baggie Book can be adapted to your particular needs and will provide for reusable pages. Materials will be provided for one size book. All participants will leave with one Baggie Book ready to use.

Sue Ann Robinson is a maker of artist books and teaches Artist Books and Paper Making at California State University Long Beach. She is a member of the Guild of Book Workers and has exhibited her artist books nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships and residencies including the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a CoLA Fellowship, the Visual Studies Workshop and the Women's Studio Workshop among others. Her artist books are included in the collections of the Getty Research Institute, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Yale University, and many other public and private collections. 

Please BYOLunch. We’ll also have a short break with an opportunity to run across the street to the Co-op Market.

WORKSHOP will be held at the Helms Design Center in Culver City. Members $135; non-members $150

Material fee $15 payable to the instructor; class size limited to 15 students.

Sue Ann’s work was featured at the Getty in a book and exhibit of the same name.