The Book Arts Summer Classes you have been waiting for are now online! What better way to spend the season than creating your own Book Arts summer retreat? This is the perfect time to explore new techniques or brush up on essential skills. We've got an exciting schedule of classes for artists, writers, and students new to books to expand their knowledge and immerse themselves in the book arts. Lauren Rowland will help you get into the flow of Paper Marbling's fluid surface design, and the decorative possibilities of paper open up in The Hidden Art of Kozo Paper.  Illustrate your work with Linoleum Prints under the expert tutelage of Barbara Henry, or challenge yourself by translating your full-color images into Four Color Printing from Polymer Plates with Karen Randall. Now is the chance to deepen your printing skills in the new class, Letterpress II: Portfolio Exchange - The Secret Plan, with Bryan Baker. Or are you an artist or writer looking for new options for binding your ideas? Barbara Mauriello's week-long exploration of simple but elegant structures A Sewing Marathon: All About the Pamphlet should be right up your alley. Do you want to explore the possibilities of alternative materials in your books? Susan Mills can be your guide to the possibilities of vellum, felt, neoprene and even dental floss in her upcoming class, Bookbinding III. Check the classespage of The Center for Book Arts website to see a complete list ofofferings, and register online from the course description page or byphone at 212.481.0295. We look forward to seeing you soon! Sarah Nicholls Programs Manager PS - Please join us this Friday, June 12, 6-9pm as we turn The Center for Book Artsinto the Recessionary New York Department of Agitation &Propaganda.  The summer's first Book Arts Lounge is AGITPROP! and we will print a selection of handbills and small postersrelevant to the economic situation affecting all of us. The Lounge is a monthly open studio & workshop event, designed for beginners and old hands alike. The Center will provide materials, or feel free to bring your own papers. Suggested admission: $10 / $5 members and students. No registration required. Click here to see photos from the last Lounge.