Tuesday, December 1, 2020 | 3:30–5pm
ADMISSION: Free with RSVP to schools@thecjm.org
Bring the art of bookmaking to your (virtual) classroom! In this online workshop, educators will explore simple techniques that you can integrate into your teaching practice. Co-founders of Book Arts Roadshow Cheryl Ball and C.K. Itamura, will lead hands-on instruction for creating books using materials that students can easily find at home, and share digital options for creating books with students and opportunities for connecting with other teachers.
Reserve your space in the workshop by emailing schools@thecjm.org. Once you RSVP, you will receive a link to attend the workshop on Zoom.
Cheryl Ball is a San Francisco native who has always loved books and paper. Ball has taken master classes in bookbinding and brought her love of bookmaking to her former position as the art coordinator for a San Francisco Public Elementary–Middle School. Ball is currently the administration coordinator at the San Francisco Center for the Book and an ILSP Apprentice with the Alameda County Office of Education.
C.K. Itamura is an autodidactic interdisciplinary artist, designer, and producer. Her work blurs the lines between mediums as she combines tangible materials, sensory prompts, book arts, photography, language, time, and space to create visual work, participatory projects, and conceptual installations. Itamura is an Artist-in-Residence of In Cahoots Residency, an Artist-In-Residence Alumna of Chalk Hill Artist Residency, an artist member of The Center for Book Arts, a former director of San Francisco Center for the Book, and a board member of Healdsburg Center for the Arts.
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School and Teacher Programs are made possible by major support from The Hearst Foundations and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Generous support is provided by Alaska Airlines, The Bavar Family Foundation, California Arts Council, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, Toole Family Charitable Foundation, Ullendorff Memorial Foundation, and Ezra Jack Keats Foundation.