October 26, 2024 noon - 4pm
Registration Fee: $80
Arrowmont Gallery: 110 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902
In conjunction with Knox Small Press Fest, Heather Wetzel with Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts will be teaching a one-day workshop on binding your very own book. Participants will bind their own perfectly pocket-sized 4”x5” blank book, just right for writing or sketching on the go.
This non-adhesive structure is sewn over tapes laced and into beautiful, durable handmade flax case paper. We will cover the basics of bookbinding terminology, tool usage, paper prep, sewing on tapes, folding the case paper for the cover, and lacing in our text blocks. Beginners, ages 16 and up, are welcome.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Also a practicing artist working in historic photographic processes, hand papermaking, and book arts, Heather F. Wetzel is currently the Galleries & Collections Manager at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Here she manages a robust exhibition schedule for four rotating galleries, including the Arrowmont Gallery in Knoxville, as well as the permanent collection which consists of over 1,000 works in a variety of arts and crafts media. She has held positions as the Director of the Meadows Museum of Art and Instructor of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana; Assistant Professor, Head of BFA and MFA Photography Programs at Memphis College of Art in Memphis; Senior Lecturer in the Art Department, and Book Arts Specialist at Logan Elm Press at The Ohio State University where she was the 2011-2012 Post MFA Fergus Family Fellow in Photography. She earned her Master of Arts & Humanities from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York and she completed the University of Iowa Center for the Book Graduate Certificate in Book Arts Technologies in 2011.