The Center is now offering a limited-time discount on all June classes! Take advantage of these discounted rates This is your chance to jump in, learn new techniques, and start new projects! Follow the links below to register online, or call 212-481-0295. Save even more by becoming a member today and receive a double discount! Bookbinding I June 8-12 , Monday through Friday, 10am-4pm This introductory course will familiarize students with the basic materials (paper, cloth, board, and adhesives), techniques (folding, sewing, gluing), and history of bookbinding. Students will make several structures, including a pamphlet, a flat and a rounded case bound multi-section book, and a photo album. Instructor: Nancy Loeber. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $500 Special for Members: $475 (Regular Price: $525) D-I-Y Bookbinding (Do-It-Yourself) June 13, Saturday, 10am-4pm Do you have a book you would like to bind? Bring your pages to class and bind them into a traditional, sewn cloth-covered book. You could bind your novel, thesis, drawings, digital photos, field notes, children's art, recipes, family history or even blank pages to make a sketchbook or travel journal. Bind almost anything - in almost any size. Instructor: Susan Mills. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $135 Special for Members: $120 (Regular Price: $150) The French Tablet Display Structure June 15-19, Monday through Friday, 10am-4pm Georgette Freeman's French Tablet display structure is a delightful hybrid: part book, part accordion, part box, and part chemise. Untie the doors, and the structure opens to reveal panel after panel for displaying artwork, text, and/or other objects. Instructor: Georgette Freeman. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $560 Special for Members: $535 (Regular Price: $585) Cloth Reback June 20-21, Saturday and Sunday, 10am-4pm This course is aimed at students with some experience of bookbinding who want to further develop their skills in conservation and restoration. Students will learn how to restore a cloth bound book and conserve the original binding materials. Instructor: Sophia Kramer. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $245 Special for Members: $230 (Regular Price: $260) Contemporary Stereo Card Making June 20-21, Saturday and Sunday, 10am-4pm Retro and nostalgic, yet so-o-o up to date, stereo cards are an intriguing and versatile book structure. A pair of pictures taken in the same plane, then mounted on a card and viewed through a special viewer, stereo cards create the illusion of a three-dimensional scene. Starting with a history of the structure, Georgette will lead you through how your binocular vision works, how to de-construct it with your own camera and, then, how to reconstruct your resulting stereo image on a card for viewing by others. Instructor: Georgette Freeman. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $275 Special for Members: $260 (Regular Price: $280) Printshop Renter Training and Guillotine Workshop June 21, Sunday, 6-9pm Get trained to use both the guillotine and the printshop in one three hour workshop. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $65 Special for Members: $50 (Regular Price: $80) Double Talk: Duality in the Artist's Book June 22-26 , Monday through Friday, 10am-4pm In this workshop we will explore notions of duality: two languages, two voices, reading in two directions, two narratives. We will divide our time between the printshop, where we will work on the Vandercook proof presses to create printed covers for our books, and the binding studio, constructing a book format appropriate for this notion of duality. Instructor: Lynne Avadenka. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $500 Special for Members: $475 (Regular Price: $525) The Brown Bag Bindery: Essential Tools 101 June 27, Saturday, 10am-4pm Many book arts facilities are limited in storage space and budgets to purchase additional equipment. Now students can begin to acquire equipment as they advance in their knowledge and skills. Continue creating books at home after taking a workshop or community class. Complete and personalize: a piercing cradle, sewing frame and finishing press. All tools are knock-down, hand finished with multiple layers of eco-friendly paints. A carrying tote is included. Instructor: Sylvia Alotta. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $285 Special for Members: $270 (Regular Price: $300) Bookbinding for Artists June 29-July 3, Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm This intensive, beginning workshop is designed to enable artists to use the book format in their work as a means of expanding, preserving, and restructuring ideas. Students will make four to five books, including an accordion book, a long-stitch book, and variations on the pamphlet binding, as well as a simple box (or two). The properties of bookbinding materials will be discussed in detail.  Instructor: Barbara Mauriello. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $500 Special for Members: $475 (Regular Price: $525)   Linoleum Prints June 29-July 3, Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm Summer is linoleum season. We will explore the medium and its myriad uses, from simple patterns to complex color compositions. Linoleum is a perfect accompaniment to type, and a great way to add color to the page. It can be used to tell a story, to illustrate or to decorate, and can be printed on the Center's Vandercook Proof Presses or at home on a kitchen table. We will look at historical examples and learn techniques for transferring images, for registration, color mixing and layering and combining linoleum with other media such as watercolor, gouache and acrylics. Instructor: Barbara Henry. Click here for more information and to register. Spring Special: $500 Special for Members: $475 (Regular Price: $525) SAVE MORE WITH MEMBERSHIP! Membership is only $50 annually. Sign up for a class today, and your membership can pay for itself! As a member you will receive year-round discounts on classes, admission to programs, bookstore purchase, and more.