Learn to create simple boxes to fit your favorite book or set of cards. We'll begin by cutting bookboard to size and constructing a simple box. Next, students will learn how to cover the box with paper or bookcloth. Finally, students will create a case to enclose the box which will safely store the book or cards with a ribbon tie closure. Brenda Gallagher will lead the class and display several variations to this simple box.

The Book Arts League is a Colorado-based community of individuals who share an interest in letterpress printing, calligraphy, and bookbinding.

Visit https://www.bookartsleague.org/ to learn more! 

Will be available to register on Friday, February 7 at 8:00 am. 

The Book Arts League is excited to announce that we will now offer open studio hours! Our shop will be available monthly for you to print your work. Below are the open studio dates for the first quarter. BAL board members will be your hosts and will assist you with your printing projects. Please bring your own paper and get ready to print!

TUESDAY January 14th — 4:30-6:30PM

WEDNESDAY February 12th — 4:30-6:30PM

TUESDAY March 11th — 4:30-6:30PM

WEDNESDAY April 9th — 4:30-6:30PM

Bind your very own miniature sketchbook with leather covers. This little gem holds your mini colored pencils and fits in your pocket! To begin, students will punch and sew suede leather covers to make slots for the mini pencils. Next we’ll fold signatures of sketchbook paper and sew into the suede spine. Perfect as a gift for the budding artist in your life!

We'll break for lunch.

16+

Will be available to register on Wednesday, February 5 at 8:00 am.

Do you have a vintage book with a cool cover that needs a second chance at life? Joing Greg Robl and Brenda Gallagher and learn how to turn an old book into a new journal or sketchbook. Join Greg Robl and Brenda Gallagher as we take covers from a book headed to the recycling bin, and bind new signatures of fresh pages inside! Soon your vintage book will have a new purpose in protecting your very own journal. It acts as a clever disguise for secret writings as well! Students will learn how to dis-bind an old book and reinforce the old case. Most books will need to have newly created spines formed from book cloth. Then new pages will be prepared to fit the old case, a new bookblock will be sewn and cased into the vintage covers. To make sure everyone has a chance to refuel, we've scheduled a lunch break. Packing a lunch is recommended.

Ages: 16+ 

All supplies and materials will be provided. 

Will be available to register on Friday, April 4 at 8:00 am. 

The Book Arts League is excited to announce that we will now offer open studio hours! Our shop will be available monthly for you to print your work. Below are the open studio dates for the first quarter. BAL board members will be your hosts and will assist you with your printing projects. Please bring your own paper and get ready to print!

WEDNESDAY April 9th — 4:30-6:30PM

WEDNESDAY May 14th — 4:30-6:30PM

WEDNESDAY June 11th — 4:30-6:30PM 

Join Julia Seko and Greg Robl in Pressure Printing is a fun method of printing on the letterpresses in our shop. It's an alternative image-making technique in which we put a type-high inked surface in the bed of the press. Participants create a low-relief collage on an acetate sheet, then layer it behind a clean sheet of paper and run both through the press over the inked block. The irregularities of the collage force some parts of the paper deeper into the ink, essentially transferring the collage images to the paper from behind. The resulting prints have a unique texture and soft quality that can be embellished with rubber stamps or used as a background for other letterpress printing techniques. Join us for a day of creative exploration!

To make sure everyone has a chance to refuel, we've scheduled a lunch break. Packing a lunch is recommended.

Ages: 16+ 

All supplies and materials will be provided. 

Will be available to register on Wednesday, April 2 at 8:00 am. 

The Book Arts League is excited to announce that we will now offer open studio hours! Our shop will be available monthly for you to print your work. Below are the open studio dates for the first quarter. BAL board members will be your hosts and will assist you with your printing projects. Please bring your own paper and get ready to print!

WEDNESDAY April 9th — 4:30-6:30PM

WEDNESDAY May 14th — 4:30-6:30PM

WEDNESDAY June 11th — 4:30-6:30PM 

Join Julia Seko and Greg Robl in Letterpress Card Printing! No experience is required for a fun workshop in which you set type and print your own greeting cards to celebrate spring, Mother's Day, or whatever you please. Participants at all levels of letterpress experience are welcome. Enjoy this playful but exciting departure from traditional card printing in which we will print 5 x 7” cards on Crane Lettra, a cardstock that works well for letterpress. The first print run will be a simple background collage of images from our collection of vintage engravings, large letters, or other symbols. Or participants can print on cards that were previously debossed (blind stamped) with a geometric pattern on the card front. Students may hand set type and print the interior message. The second print run will be of handset type. Participants can select a typeface with which to create a short message to print on top of the background.

Each person will take home 10 cards and envelopes. 

To make sure everyone has a chance to refuel, we've scheduled a lunch break. Packing a lunch is recommended.

Ages: 16+ 

All supplies and materials will be provided. 

Will be available to register on Wednesday, April 2 at 8:00 am.