Book Binding: Pocket Accordion with Stamped Cover
Description
In this workshop, you will create a pocket accordion book featuring a hand-carved and hand-printed stamped cover.
The structure combines the versatility of an accordion fold with the functionality of pockets, creating spaces for photographs, prints, notes, ephemera, or other small paper objects.
Come join the pleasure in creating your own unique book from start to finish as a scrapbook of thoughts for the future.
In this workshop we will cover: grain direction binding terminology folding and cutting methods book design supply needs appropriate material used proper applications for accordion use
Artist Bio
Kerry McAleer-Keeler (she/her)
Kerry McAleer-Keeler is Associate Professor of Art and Design in printmaking and book arts at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University, Washington, DC. She has taught at the Corcoran since 1998. Ms. McAleer-Keeler’s work has been selected for individual, group, and juried exhibitions throughout the U.S. and internationally and is represented in such publications as The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women In the Arts and 500 Handmade Books, Vol. 2 by Lark Books. Her book and print work is in such collections as the National Museum of Women In the Arts, Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Library, George Mason University, Fenwick Library, University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Library, George Washington University, Gelman Library Special Collections and the Brady Gallery, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Wimberly Library and the Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library.
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