Bookbinding & Literary Art Journals

Participants will make a simple pamphlet binding and learn a short history of bookbinding. Encouraging creative design and expression in the modern classroom is a powerful way to engage students with storytelling and literature. It is also a wonderfully meditative practice for any reader who wants to spend a little more time with a story! In this workshop, I will present ways that secondary instructors can incorporate art journals as a mode of literary analysis and creativity. I will give a brief talk with visuals about my use of art journals, and then share with participants a variety of page templates/inspiration with accompanying texts. The remainder of the workshop will allow participants to share the texts and then create their OWN literary art journal page. My goal is to share the myriad possibilities that art offers to the student of literature. **bookbinding materials available to purchase, or you may bring your…