ONLINE COURSE
Handmade Accordion Bindings for Photobooks
Advance or begin your exploration of handmade photobooks with this 4-session class where you’ll learn all about accordion structures. We’ll begin with folding concepts and hinging together multiple pages to make a longer accordion book, then move on to creating a book that can be adapted so the pages can frame your photos. We’ll make an elegant leporello accordion with a hard cover, and finish up with a fun flag book. Methods of getting photographs and other content onto pages will be discussed, along with suggestions for different types of paper, including inkjet papers. We’ll also look at examples of photobooks that use the accordion format. Students can choose to create their own project that will be presented during the last class session.
Elizabeth Castaldo is an artist, printmaker, and bookbinder based in Peekskill, NY and New York City. She has completed residencies at the Center for Book Arts (New York City) and Printmaker’s Open Forum (Oxford, PA). Castaldo received her MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Atlanta where she was a Dean’s Fellow in Printmaking, and her BFA from the School of Visual Arts. In November 2020, her solo exhibition, Proximate Magic, was presented at Saint Joseph’s College in Patchogue, NY. Her work was included in the traveling exhibition, Freed Formats: The Book Reconsidered and she organized the exchange portfolio Earth/Mother for the SGCI 2020 conference “Puertografico.” She teaches printmaking and book arts at Parsons School of Design, Nassau Community College, and the Center for Book Arts. Her work is held in many private and institutional collections including SCAD, Yale University, The University of Alberta, and Carnegie Melon University.
Elizabeth teaches hand-made books for StrudelmediaLive.
elizabethcastaldo.com
