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Garage Annex School, Inc.
Racially Nondiscriminatory Policy

The Garage Annex School admits students of any race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin and makes available to them all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. The Garage Annex School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, and will not do so in the event of any scholarship or loan programs it might develop, nor in other school-administered programs.

   Oct 4 - Oct 5

All About Magnets

Daniel E. Kelm

   Oct 25 - Oct 26 - Full

Preservation Enclosures

Hedi Kyle

   Nov 8 - Nov 9

Gold Tooling on Leather Spines & Spine Labels

Daniel E. Kelm


Please visit our workshop archive by clicking here.

We invite you to review the workshop descriptions, organized by instructor, and let us know what you are interested in studying.

   
Welcome to the Garage Annex School for Book Arts

We offer workshops in traditional and non-traditional book arts, printmaking, and the conservation of books—all taught by expert instructors.

We also offer a student-apprentice program. Please visit our Opportunities page for more information on this exciting development.

We hope you will enjoy looking through our program, and that you’ll join us here in Massachusetts. We have a spacious classroom and our equipment is well-maintained.

Click on any workshop title in the list on the left and you’ll go to the workshop description and any images that accompany it.

Thanks to you, our enrollment is typically very high. Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Register early in order to avoid disappointment! If you are interested in a workshop that is full, we encourage you to to put your name on the waiting list. Spaces often open up and are then filled by persons on the list.

Occasionally a workshop is cancelled due to low enrollment. Do not buy an airplane ticket before checking in with us. We usually know at least one month in advance whether or not a workshop will run.

Welcome to our program for 2008.

As always, you will see that a number of your favorite instructors are returning to teach a variety of subjects. We have brand new workshops for you as well as repeats of some for which we have had long waiting lists in the past.

Pam Spitzmueller will open the spring season when she teaches Large Paper into Small Spaces—Creating Books with Foldouts. Her workshop will be followed by Art Larson’s new weekend-long Letterpress Basics (a great introduction or refresher); and Daniel Kelm’s Mold Making for Leather, Paper, & Resin Casting.

New workshops include Julie Chen’s Artists’ Books: Ideas, Actions, & Transformations; Julia Miller’s Early Single Quire Bindings: The Fourth-century Nag Hammadi Codices; Daniel Kelm’s Chemistry for Book Arts; Jim Reid-Cunningham’s Surface Gilding; Shanna Leino’s Bone Toolmaking; and Linda Lembke’s Book as Companion.

In conjunction with Smith College, Martin Antonetti will teach The History of the Book for Book Artists. This was a big hit last year, and we are grateful to Smith College and Martin for offering it again. Martin’s class is scheduled on a Thursday–Friday followed by Julia Miller’s Nag Hammadi Codices on Saturday–Sunday. We hope this is a convenient pairing for many of you who are interested in historical structures.

We have also scheduled Peter Geraty’s Edge Gilding and Jim Reid-Cunningham’s Surface Gilding—both one-day workshops—back-to-back on a single weekend.

During the summer months we run our longer workshops: Art Larson’s five-day Letterpress Printing & Composition; Daniel Kelm’s four-day Two Useful Wire Edge Binding Styles & When to Use Them; and The Leather Intensive. The six-day, exceedingly efficient, Leather Intensive offers the equivalent instruction of a semester-long class.

This year Daniel Kelm will also offer All About Magnets; and Gold Tooling on Leather Spines & Spine Labels.

We are always very pleased to welcome back Hedi Kyle. This autumn she will teach Preservation Enclosures.

Please visit our workshop archive, accessible at the bottom of the workshop list.

Our program changes from year to year. Once a workshop has happened, you will discover that its description is still accessible through the list of instructors and the archive section. If you would like to see a workshop offered again we encourage you to and let us know. We are always interested in what you would like to study, and with whom.

You may register through our online Registration Form.

Or you may click here to download a PDF file of the form, which you may mail to us with a check.

(You will need Acrobat Reader in order to view and print PDF files. It is probably already installed on your computer. If not, you can download it by clicking the Acrobat link below.)

We look forward to seeing you here at the Garage.
—Greta D. Sibley, Co-director