We are pleased to offer a series of workshops during the Print Expo & Fair 2025. We are truly fortunate to have a group of very capable instructors who will be holding the workshops. All classes will be one-hour long and tailored to participants 12 years and older. Participation will be limited to 10 per workshop.
Each workshop will cost $25 per person, and include all materials required to complete the project being taught – no additional material fees are to be charged.
Duration : 60 minutes
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Class size: max. 10 participants
Instructor: Joe Borges
Come print with AI - Actual Intellegence. This is a non-digital, non-virtual, all hands-on workshop where you will get inky and print a few copies of your own limited edition poster to take home.
Duration : 90 minutes
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Class size: max. 10 participants
Instructor: Andrew Huot
In this workshop, students will make pochoir prints, a stencil technique to make imagery and to build up layers of color. Pochoir was popular in the 1920s and 30s as a colour illustration technique for books and magazines. Students will make their own stencils then apply the color with simple brushes and sponges.
Duration : 90 minutes
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Class size: max. 10 participants
Instructor: Barbara Helander
The 3-D sculpture that will be made during this workshop perfectly reflects the many facets of an artist’s book. The keepsake features a miniature book-like object fixed to a flexible, interactive mechanism. The techniques taught during the workshop include aspects of basic hand-bookbinding, such as making a case and sewing pages to the case, as well as interactivity feature.
Duration : 90 minutes
Class Time : 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Class Size : max. 10 participants
Instructor: Beverly Allen
One piece of paper can be folded into multiple book forms. You’ll learn the basic fold patterns for a maze and the different methods of cutting and folding a single piece of paper. Books can be 8 or 16 pages. Take home two small finished books.
Duration : 60 minutes
Class Time : 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Class Size : max. 10 participants
Instructor: Phoebe Todd-Parish
In this workshop, printmaker Phoebe Todd-Parrish will introduce you to the project by showing some historical examples of bookplates and walk you through the process of designing a unique bookplate for you, transferring the design to soft linoleum, carving, and printing your bookplates on paper that can then be adhered to any book in your library!
Duration : 90 minutes
Class Time : 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Class Size : max. 10 participants
Instructor: Beth Rose
Japanese Stab bindings have an exposed spine with sewn binding patterns ranging from simple to intricate. The combination of a flush text block and patterned sewing makes for a strong, long-lasting binding. In this workshop, we will make two books with two different sewing patterns.
Duration : 90 minutes
Class Time : 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Class Size : max. 10 participants
Instructor: Calvin Hill
Suminagashi is the process of marbling plain paper with water and ink which originated in Japan as early as the 12th century.