Saturday, April 19; 10am–5pm CT
Celebrate Earth Day by creating a pocket-sized collection of pop-up spring wildflowers in MCBA’s studios.
These seven beauties are native to the midwest and embody the palette and spirit of spring. Participants will explore the fundamentals of applied paper engineering as they cut, fold and glue their way to an accordion-mounted bouquet. As an added bonus, we will build a no-glue slipcase engineered specifically for this workshop.
Shawn Sheehy (he/him, Chicago IL) has been teaching book arts courses and workshops on the national level for 20 years, including stops at MCBA, Center for Book Arts, Penland, Arrowmont, FOBA, Pyramid Atlantic, San Francisco Center for the Book, and PBI. His broadsides and artist’s book editions have been collected by Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. He has created two trade pop-up books: Welcome to the Neighborhood (2015) and Beyond the Sixth Extinction (2018). Both were published by Candlewick Press and won numerous awards. He holds a Book Arts MFA from Columbia College Chicago.
Level: Beginner. All skill levels are welcome.
Certificate: 3 hours, Category A, C, or D
Pricing
$252/participant (10% discount for MCBA members) + $12 materials fee
$126 for BIPOC/Financial scholarship participants (10% discount for MCBA members) + $12 materials fee
MCBA offers two scholarship types for workshops—Financial Hardship Scholarships and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Scholarships—to honor equity and increase access and artistic opportunities for those who have historically been underrepresented in the book arts. For individuals to whom these scholarships do not apply, register at the Adult rate and, if you are able, consider making a donation when registering to support MCBA’s efforts to make scholarships available.
