TRAVELING IN A TINY HOME THAT IS REALLY AN ARTISTS' BOOK ON WHEELS

Peter and Donna Thomas have been making fine press and artist's books for over 40 years. When they started, as craftspeople at Renaissance Faires, they fell in love with the graceful beauty of "gypsy wagon" caravans that other vendors had made to sleep in or use as booths for selling their wares. In 2009 Peter and Donna built their own tiny home on wheels, designed after a typical late 19th century Redding Wagon. This blog documents their trips around the country, taken to sell their artists' books, teach book arts workshops, and talk about making books as art; as well as to seek out and experience the beauty of the many different landscapes found across the USA.

Peter and Donna started their business in 1977 and made their first book in 1978, so from 2017-18 are traveling to celebrate 40 years of making books with shows in a dozen libraries across the country. See the schedule on the side bar to find if they are coming to a town near you....

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Monday, May 2, 2022

Pulp to Print: Conceive, Collaborate, Construct - a class at Focus on Book Arts 2022

I will be co-teaching a 3-day book arts workshop with Susan Lowdermilk at the Focus on the Book Arts Conference in Forest Grove, Oregon, Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, 2022. We still have room in the class and hope you will join us! https://focusonbookarts.org/

Susan and I just completed a 9 month collaborative book arts project titled HOPE? In this class we are going to share what we learned about collaboration and let you practice the skills needed, in a fun and exciting way, to make a book.

The class is titled Pulp to Print:  Conceive, Collaborate, Construct. Susan and I will guide the class through the collaborative process of designing and creating an editioned artists’ book. Class participants will design a small book, make handmade paper, use hand set type, carve linoleum blocks, or otherwise employ paints and drawing inks, to create the images and text for our book. Students will then bind the pages created into a “flag book” structure.  At the end of the three days each student will leave with their own copy of the editioned collaborative artists’ book we make in the class.