This workshop series invites you into the deeply satisfying world of artisan bookmaking, blending traditional binding techniques with gentle, creative exploration. Each session offers a space to slow down, connect with natural materials, and experience the simple pleasure of quieting the mind through hands.

 

Infused with a touch of Intentional Creativity® and Art Medicine™, this experience emphasizes creating something personal and memorable where the process is as meaningful as the books themselves. This workshop connects creativity, nature, and craft, and making books as containers for story, memory, and meaning.

 

You will create three or more handmade books using fine art paper, handmade papers, natural materials, leather, waxed linen thread, and other textural elements. We begin with simple petit board books or folded books, move into nature-inspired bindings, and culminate in a beautifully bound Artist Journal or Artist Storybook — a personal vessel for memory, writing, illustration, or creative intention.

 

The experience offers clear skill-building while leaving room for imagination, personal symbolism, and self-expression, one fold, stitch, and leaf at a time.