Last week Wednesday, November 18, 2009, I hosted a bookbinding workshop for a few members of AYEA, (Alaska Youth for Enviromental Action) at my studio in midtown. This is my favorite Eco Art project because uses 100% recycled material and creates a beautiful and very functional notebook.
This was to be the art project for the up coming Anchorage area high school recycling clubs forum the following Saturday at West High in which 20 to 50 people might show up! So we needed other student teachers to carry this off.
I showed them how to create the books from scratch, which involved setting up and cutting the recycled printer paper with and Xacto blade, metal ruler and clips. Cut covers, aligned and drilled the sewing holes and used the traditional Japanese bookbinding sewing technique to put them together.
Here is a slideshow of photos from the workshop and forum project.
