Does cracking open a new notebook or journal leave you with fear of the blank page? What if we fill pages first and then create a book? In this workshop, you’ll memorialize a favorite object while learning Japanese stab binding. You’ll respond to five different writing prompts that will invite you to engage with your object in creative ways, and draw your object using the low-pressure blind contour drawing method. Then you’ll create your book using the stab binding method. You’ll leave with a meaningful book and the skills to fill any blank page without fear.

Writing instruction from Beverly Army Williams and binding instruction from Lisa Hersey.

This class is on Thursday March 20th, 6pm-8:30pm.

Beverly Army Williams is a writer and mixed media artist living in the woods of Connecticut. Her writing has been published in The Rumpus, Strawberry Moon Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Whale Road Review, Uppercase Magazine, and The Dandelion Review. Her solo visual art show “Grimm, Abstracted” recently appeared at The Thimble Gallery. She has taught for Tatter Blue Library, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and Fiber College of Maine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico.