Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival
Skeleton Wooden Boards Binding
This book structure emphasizes both tradition and invention. Wooden boards are finished with layers of historical milk paint, resulting in richly textured and distressed surfaces. The leather sewing supports echo historical bindings while offering an artistic variation that makes each book truly one-of-a-kind. Through this blend of surface, structure, and color, students will discover how to merge historical techniques with contemporary expression. The structure has many applications which can give students ideas and inspiration about how to take this book to the next level in their artist book practice.
Students can bring: A mechanical pencil, notebook for taking notes, scissors, X-acto or snap blade knife, awl, bone folder, 12” metal ruler.
Two-Day Workshop
Thursday, April 23rd & Friday, April 24th
9am to 4:30pm (lunch break 12-1pm)
Port of Newport Offices [MAP]
For adults and youth ages 16+ (accompanied by an adult)
To help ensure an enjoyable experience for all, we kindly encourage guests to consider attending fragrance-free in support of those with allergies and sensitivities.
Rhiannon Alpers is a papermaker, letterpress printer, and book artist based in Portland, Oregon. She holds both a BA and an MFA in Book and Paper Arts, with 25 years of experience as an educator and commercial printer/bookbinder. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her editioned book work is held in the collections of the Library of Congress, Yale, Stanford, Cornell University, Cynthia Sears Artist’s Books Collection (BIMA), and Rijksmuseum Research Library, among others. Her limited edition and one-of-a-kind artist books are published under the Gazelle and Goat Press imprint. More information about her work is available at rhiannonalpers.com.
Registration for this class will go live, here, at 12pm on February 25, 2025