Workshops & Events
Box Building Magic
In this in-person workshop, learn how to build this unique and playful structure with an artist who has fine-tuned the box design.
Beaded Books
Interested in expanding your bookmaking abilities by adding surface texture with beads?!
Movable Metamorphs
Join Shawn in MCBA’s studios to build this 5-structure movable book using a pre-cut kit and a simple set of hand tools--all you'll do is fold and glue!
Slipcase Wildflowers
Celebrate Earth Day by creating a pocket-sized collection of pop-up spring wildflowers in MCBA’s studios.
Storage-Folio Book
A storage-folio book is a sculptural book structure made up of a series of envelope-style enclosures that feature two-dimensional ephemera.
Sewing Card Magic: One-, Two- & Three-Section Books
When making one-, two-, and three-section books, the sewing card is an awesome tool for mastering simple to advanced sewn bindings.
Book Repair: Spine Mount and Recase
This intermediate, in-person workshop will explore two related techniques for repairing hardcover, cloth books.
Unfolding Narratives: Writing for Artists' Books
Learn techniques for generating text for artist's books through conceptual approaches: text as image, as narrative, and as lyrical expression.
Laser-Cut Letterpress: Type and Imagery
Discover the powerful possibilities of combining laser-cutting and letterpress printing on the Vandercook press!
Ultimate Portfolio
Have you ever wanted or needed a portfolio with a specific function? In this in-person workshop, learn how to make the ultimate portfolio.
Exploring Arabic Typography with Wood Type, Plates, and Letterpress
Explore Arabic typography's rich history and contemporary possibilities in this hands-on, in-person workshop using wood type, plates, and letterpress printing.
Stiff-Leaf Binding and Variations
The stiff-leaf binding is a non-sewn binding technique ideal for assembling printed sheets into a rigid, durable book.
Experimental Modern Marbling
Combine traditional marbling and painterly suminagashi techniques in this in-person marbling intensive.
Box Building: Drawers & Dividers
Learn to create drawers that slide and divisions within the box in MCBA’s studios.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem
Join us for a collaborative concrete poetry and low-fi printmaking workshop in MCBA’s studios, drawing on the history of concrete poetry, the work of screenprinter and text-combiner Corita Kent, and Walt Whitman's insistence that a just society is poetry's embodiment.