Book Arts for the Online

One of the very few silver linings to a worldwide pandemic is that many arts organizations moved their workshops and presentations online. This means you could watch a studio tour in San Francisco, bind a book in Santa Fe and learn pop-ups in Kalamazoo, all without leaving your house. There are many free and pay-what-you-can events in addition to one-day and multi-day paid workshops. The hardest part may be finding out about them, so this posting is a first attempt to collect a bunch together for you. And if you have heard of some other book arts center with online offerings, send the details to us here at admin@bookartsguild.org and we'll add it to the list. (List is alphabetic after the first three local groups.)

Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network - mix of free & paid classes throughout their ten studios

https://bainbridgebarn.wildapricot.org/page-1836012

Partners in Print - free, paid & pay-what-you can classes about putting content into your books

https://partnersinprint.org/classes-events/

Puget Sound Book Artists - instructional workshops and free studio tours

https://pugetsoundbookartists.wildapricot.org/Calendar

Austin Book Arts Center - wide variety of bookmaking workshops including some for children

https://atxbookarts.org/workshops/

Book Arts LA - in Los Angeles - workshops in both bookmaking and printing

https://bookartsla.org/

Canadian Bookbinders and Book Arts Guild - workshops with a foreign flair

https://www.cbbag.ca/cbbag-workshops

Center for Book Arts - in New York - over four dozen free, pay-what-you-can and paid lectures, discussions and classes in bookbinding, paper arts, and printing

https://centerforbookarts.org/

Jaffe Center for Book Arts - in Florida - free live and archived Book Arts discussions and pay-what-you-can workshops

http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/jaffe.htm

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center - one and multi-day bookmaking workshops and online exhibitions

https://kalbookarts.org/workshops/

Minnesota Center for Book Arts - workshops for adults and free classes for all ages

https://www.mnbookarts.org/category/adults-families-virtual/

https://www.mnbookarts.org/category/free-all-ages-virtual/

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center - workshops in book arts, papermaking, printmaking & specialty

https://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/workshops

San Diego Book Arts - virtual (free) studio tours and demos and some pop-up workshops

https://www.sandiegobookarts.com/

San Francisco Center for the Book - regularly updated list of workshops with nationally known instructors, free studio tours, and extensive archive of past exhibits and studio tours

https://sfcb.org/

Western New York Book Arts Center - various book arts classes complete with material kits

https://wnybookarts.org/events/

I may never leave my house again!