It's January, which means

1. You've finally stopped eating candy and cookies and started freaking out about your to-do list.
2. The temperature is expressed in single digits. and
3. You have Yet Another Opportunity in front of you to expand your knowledge of bookmaking in all its forms here at the Center for Book Arts.

Sterling examples of this can be found in courses like:

Bookbinding I
So obvious you missed it! The basics! Without learning to walk, you will never run! Without Bookbinding I, how do you expect to bind? Prevent this tragic circumstance and register for Bookbinding I, where you will learn the secrets to producing several structures, including a multi-section book, a simple portfolio, a photo album, and a historical structure. Several sections have been arranged for your convenience.

Multiple Containers
In which Denise Carbone will guide you towards the container that lives up to its content. Join us with your publication projects in progress and design an enclosure that can be an extension of the reading experience, and can set the tone for your project from the start. Students will work with the instructor to brainstorm ideas and work on their own model. The technical properties of different materials will be discussed and students will leave with a basic understanding of why some structures work better than others. Bring your books, objects, and book-like objects and be prepared to generate ideas.
Feb 14-15, Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 4pm

AGITPROP!
In which Jeremy James Thompson will convert The Center for Book Arts into the New York Department of Agitation & Propaganda. Ink on paper reproduces, turning a single idea into thousands of sheets. Ink on paper can be folded up inside your pocket, or folded into folios for a book. Ink on paper can be slipped inside a newspaper, or slipped inside 100 newspapers (all for the price of a quarter). The exhibition that coincides with this course, Artist Books as (Sub)Culture, will present us with an opportunity to survey and discuss some of the work being created by contemporary subversive collectives that maintain a practice of deploying agitprop by way of ink on paper. We will also expand the discussion to include some broader social and historical accounts defined by the effects of ink on paper. Beyond producing propaganda, we will collectively discuss who the message is for, what purpose these prints will serve, and how they will be dispersed. Needless to say, some convictions are required.
February 28- March 1, Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 4pm

In addition, we're pleased to report new sections of Linoleum Prints, Reductive Woodcut, Coptic Binding, and many, many, many others. Binding, printing, paper decoration, we've got it all. The complete course selection can be located here.

You can register over the phone by calling 212-481-0295, or if you prefer to avoid the telephone, you can register online. We hope you can join us.