Mini-Workshop
Make a Handmade Notebook for Your Travels
Learn to make a travel notebook that has pockets to stash ephemera, photos, and notes you collect on your travels. In this 2-hour Mini-workshop, you’ll learn to make an accordion-style keepsake for memories, notes, and more. This accordion notebook is folded from one large sheet of paper, giving you 8 pages with pockets, and you’ll also learn a simple binding method for adding more note pages into your journal. We’ll polish it off by adding a softcover with a tab closure. This book is perfect for bringing along on your summer travel, or even making on the go, with minimal tools and materials required.
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.
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