April Demo: Colophons, by Denise Stephenson and Monica Moran

Join book artists Monica Moran and Denise Stephenson to learn all about colophons—their uses and many possibilities! Denise and Monica have received images of colophons from many of you to include in the demo. If you have more colophons you'd like to share from your book arts, please send them to thecreativebeast@gmail.com and denise.stephenson@gmail.com by Wednesday, April 5. The text in the photos should be readable, but the photos themselves need not be perfect. Let them know in what book and where in the book the colophon occurs if it isn’t self-evident from the photo.

April Tips & Tricks:  Corners, by Maria Rebelo.   

We love the group participation that happens at our Monthly Meetings! Please bring your book arts questions or ideas to share.
Zoom link will be shared upon RSVP. The materials list for each demo is sent out one week before and again the day before each Monthly Meeting.

For previous Demos click here

For previous Tips and Tricks click here

December Demo:Ephemera Storage Book, by Amy Spencer. Based on an idea and instruction from Erin Zamrzla’s At Home with Handmade Books, this is a Japanese stab bound book with zip close bags as pages to store stickers, stamps, or bits and bobs.  

December Tips & Tricks:  Rulers, by Maria Rebelo.   

We love the group participation that happens at our Monthly Meetings! Please bring your book arts questions or ideas to share.

Zoom link will be shared upon RSVP. The materials list for each demo is sent out one week before and again the day before each Monthly Meeting.

For previous tips and tricks click here

For previous demos click here

Please Note: The Monthly Meetings are returning to the second Wednesday of each month.

November Demo - Gratitude Globes by patsy monk

Join patsy monk to learn how to make Gratitude Globes, also known as Triskele globes, or click balls. You can use decorated paper or patsy has suggestions for decorating this delightful structure with your own art!

November Tips & Tricks: Bookbinding Books, by Maria Rebelo

October Instructor Introduction: Paula Beardell Krieg and Susan Joy Share. 

We love the sharing that happens at our Monthly Meetings! Please bring your book arts questions or ideas to share.
Zoom link will be shared upon RSVP. The materials list for each demo is sent out one week before and again the day before each Monthly Meeting.

For previous demos click here
For previous tips and tricks click here

Please Note: The Monthly Meetings are returning to the second Wednesday of each month.

October Demo -  Letterlocking: Clever Folds That Kept Letters Secret, by Karen Beery. 

“Before envelopes, folds kept our correspondence secure.”

October Tips & Tricks: Rulers! by Maria Rebelo

October Instructor Introduction: Pietro Accardi

We love the sharing that happens at our Monthly Meetings! Please bring your book arts questions or ideas to share.
Zoom link will be shared upon RSVP. The materials list for each demo is sent out one week before and again the day before each Monthly Meeting.

For previous demos click here
For previous tips and tricks click here

Free Demo: Stuck on You: An Exploration of Adhesives, led by Karen Beery 

March Book Arts Tips & Tricks:  Bone Folders and More! 

Wednesday March 9, 2022, 10:00 am PT - 12: 00 pm 

Via Zoom 

Free and Open to Members and Non-members   

RSVP Required

We love the sharing that happens at our Monthly Meetings! Please bring a favorite bone folder, adhesive questions or any other book arts questions or ideas to share. 

Zoom link will be shared upon RSVP. The materials list for each demo is sent out one week before and again the day before each Monthly Meeting. All meeting Demos are recorded and available on SDBA website.

Please come to see, share, and stay in touch!

February 27, 2022 1- 3 PM PT, via Zoom

2022 San Diego Book Arts Annual Meeting
Guest Speaker: Judith Christensen
2021 Genie Shenk Excellence in Book Arts Award Recipient

RSVP to Receive Zoom Link

You are also invited to share your creative culinary talents. Make an Edible Book - create a book with food, illustrate a title or create a story in food! Snap a picture and send to SDBA by February 25, 2022.

Wednesday February 9, 2022 

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM 

SDBA Monthly Meeting 

10 AM PT via Zoom  

Free and Open to Members and Non-members 

RSVP Required 

Zoom link will be sent upon RSVP. Please RSVP by the Monday evening before the meeting to receive the materials list. Demo will be recorded and available on SDBA website.

SDBA Monthly Meeting
Wednesday January 12, 2022
10 AM PT via Zoom
Free and Open to Members and Non-members
RSVP Required

Zoom link and materials list will be provided upon RSVP. Demo will be recorded and available on SDBA website.

Most origami boxes begin with a square, but this box can begin with any rectangle. Therefore, it can be built to house any size or shape of book. Denise Stephenson has been a book artist for 20 years. Designing journals and boxes are always go-to favorites.

Free and Open to Members and Non-members - via Zoom
RSVP Required

Nancy Akerly is a Paper Artist and a lifelong origami enthusiast. She has used origami and bookbinding in her teaching of kindergarten through college level courses. Please see Coming Soon below, for more information on Nancy and upcoming Workshops.

Via Zoom - SDBA is offering a demonstration that supports our new Surface Design focus. Learn all about GOLDEN Acrylic paints and mediums in this fun demo...and get free samples! Join GOLDEN Working Artist Nancy Seiler on Zoom for this Virtual Acrylic Lecture/Demo. This lecture packs in a ton of valuable information about acrylics, guiding listeners through the basics while opening up new possibilities. Gain information about mineral and modern pigments and how this relates to clean color mixing, glazing and the creation of fabulous new colors. Learn the unique properties of Fluids, Heavy Body, OPEN, High Flow, and the NEW SoFLat Acrylics. Discover Interference and Iridescent paints for unusual effects. Get a comprehensive overview on the many Gels & Mediums and how they can change texture, saturation and intensity of color.

SIGN UP BY EMAIL
Please sign up by sending an email to Amy Spencer: amyspencer@outlook.com. The subject line should read Golden Demo. Please include your name and email in the body of your RSVP. This event will occur on October 19, 2021, at 1 PM and will last 90 minutes. Registrants will receive a Zoom Invitation several days prior to the demonstration. This will not be recorded and can only be watched by those who register. Reservations can be made until October 15th, 2021, but RSVPs are on a first come first served basis. Once the demo is completed, Nancy Seiler will share a link to a short survey. This survey must be filled out in order to receive a box of sample products directly from Golden. These samples will arrive to each person 4-6 weeks later. Again, the free products are directly linked to the survey!

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

1:00 PM Pacific Time (Note New Time)

Via Zoom

Free and Open to Members and Non-members

RSVP Required

Diagonal Fold Booklet

 This little book is perfect for collecting ephemera, writing a story, or sending as a gift. The pockets are the ideal place to stash all kinds of goodies, including, but not limited to: notes, tags, cards, money, and other surprises! As we approach the holiday season, why not start making these cool little books to give as gifts!

All class times are Pacific Standard Time.

How To Make a Cutout Trifold Card

Karin will be demonstrating how to make a cutout trifold card. She will show you how to take an idea and work it out before you start to cut. You will learn how to stack your design so that when folded you can see something from every panel. This simple technique can produce some intricate and fun results.

Zoom link and materials list will be provided upon RSVP.

Free and Open to Members and Non-members
Via Zoom

RSVP HERE

Let’s Share What We’ve Been Doing!

Its been a while since we’ve had a meeting devoted to sharing our own projects so let’s do it! This month we’re inviting everyone to show us what they’ve been doing. You can create a PowerPoint, do a simple screen share of photos, or hold your book up to the camera. What ever works for you!

Laurel just made her first PowerPoint to prepare for this meeting and she discovered it was very easy! You can just drop in photos and then narrate them, or you can add text. One caution: video over Zoom is not very effective so try to avoid that.

We’ll give everyone a few minutes, or longer if time allows, to show us what they’ve been up to!

Led by Maria Rebelo

RSVP to Laurel

July 14, 2021

10:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Via Zoom

From the Artist:

“I learned this simple book structure from Stephanie Krause. All we need to do is fold each individual sheet of paper as a zine, make a small cut and tie them as if we were putting together signatures for a book.

The pages can be decorated and I will demonstrate how to make "windows" that will show the inside of the pages.”

San Diego Book Arts Monthly Meeting via Zoom

Me, Myself and I: Memoir and the Narrative Self

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” —Joan Didion

We are our most trusted source of material when it comes to writing and art-making. What do you notice? What memories and life events do you turn over in your mind? What story have you wanted to tell from your life, your noticing? How could you convey this narrative with language and images in book form? 
In this workshop we will write in response to prompts and images to dive into our inner narratives. We will use memory as a kind of malleable substance to shape and develop for our books. We will write and share with others before editing our material into a single sheet mock-up book.

Artist Bio: Jane Sprague is a writer, publisher and educator whose books include The Port of Los Angeles (Chax P), Imaginary Syllabi (Palm P) and various chapbooks. Her poetry was most recently published in The Chicago Review. She edited and published Palm Press for ten years while working as a Lecturer in English at CSULB and an Associate Faculty member at Bard College in NY. She was a Teaching Artist for Lincoln Center’s Institute for the Arts in Education in upstate New York (Pre-K-12) for a decade and has taught writing and book arts workshops at a maximum-security prison for women, nursing homes and elsewhere for people whose voices are often left out, silenced or unheard. She lives in Long Beach, California wedged between the former tribal lands of the Tongva nation and the ports of Long Beach and L.A.

RSVP HERE

Learn the steps for the simple but elegant Tico Star as designed by Maria Sinayskaya. Once the original version is perfected it is easy to try out the variations included in an instruction sheet that will be provided.

Artist Statement from patsy monk: As a nurse and health coach, health is important. As we practice any craft, we are reducing stress. Stress is a physiological problem that affects the body and mind and origami tackles both of these by engaging them equally. As the mind starts to get absorbed, you give in to the moment and let yourself be distracted.

The practice of Origami is a perfect ‘take along’ craft that is easy and fun to do.

Note: Times are PST.

Gina will be teaching us her own unique take on The Piano Hinge binding which was originally created by Hedi Kyle. Directions can be found in a variety of books including: Non-Adhesive Binding: Books Without Paste or Glue by Keith Smith, Cover to Cover, by Shereen LaPlantz and Creating Handmade Books, by Alisa Golden. It is a relatively simple binding wherein the spines of the pages are notched and woven together using sticks, string or even paper. The book can be displayed open in the round or closed with the spine to the side or on top. This versatility and simplicity make it a good structure to have in your repertoire.

RSVP HERE

Make Writing Happen: A Workshop for Book Artists
Led by Jane Sprague

A word after a word after a word is power. —Margaret Atwood

Make Writing Happen is a one-hour writing workshop for book artists who want to develop and expand their relationship to text in their books. This workshop will guide participants through a series of writing and thinking exercises to explore ways we can generate content for our book projects. We will write together to push past writing styles and strategies we are already comfortable with in order to try out new tactics for making writing happen. We’ll develop a cache of writing topics/subjects/entry points and content to return to for when we make books.

If you are currently working on a book project you may wish to focus on experimenting with language for that work. This workshop is also a chance to jump into writing in order to see what you might create and pick up some new tools for working with language in ways that excite you.  

Materials needed to follow the demo or do it on your own after the meeting will be provided with RSVP.

Demo led by SDBA member Julie Hocking. This easy binding style is great for single sheets of thicker paper: heavy cardstock or watercolor paper. When completed, the resulting book lies flat.

We’ll learn the slip knot binding stitch, sewing 2 covers and three pages into a sample book. We’ll use extra large holes and thicker thread to practice our technique, and explore three ways to tie off the ends.

RSVP REQUIRED