Slipcases

SlipcasesCourse Code: 25SBM202I This one day, in person workshop takes place at CBA on Saturday, April 12, from 11: 00am5: 00pm. Saturday, April 12, 11: 00 am 5: 00 pm. Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on April 9, at 11: 59 pm. About the Workshop: This in person class at Center for Book Arts is taught by instructor Mara Vernica San Martn. Do you have a favorite book, or set of books, that deserve a beautiful protective slipcase? In this

Course Code:25SBM202I

This one-day, in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Saturday, April 12, from 11:00am–5:00pm.

• Saturday, April 12, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm. 

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on April 9, at 11:59 pm. 

About the Workshop:

This in-person class at Center for Book Arts is taught by instructor María Verónica San Martín.

Do you have a favorite book, or set of books, that deserve a beautiful protective slipcase? In this course, students will create a custom cloth-covered slipcase for a book. Students will learn to measure to fit their book, line boards, assemble and cover a four-sided lined slipcase to house a book. We will talk about decorative options and ways to personalize the project. No binding experience necessary.

Required Materials:

• Olfa Snap-off Blade Utility Knife
• Bone folder
• sharp pencil and eraser
• Recommended: a teflon folder
• Small metal triangle
• glue brushes
• Participants should also bring one hardback book of their own to classroom create a slip case for it – no larger than 11” x 15 in any dimension"

María Verónica San Martín

María Verónica San Martín (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and printmaker working with archives, artist books, and performance art. She is a Whitney Museum ISP fellow artist, a board member of Booklyn Art and teaches at Parsons, The New School (NY), Mixteca (NY), Penland School of Craft (NC), and Miami University (OH).  She has received two New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grants, three Chilean government grants, and a Sustainable Arts grant. Maria has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, with four solo exhibitions in 2023, a commission for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a recent performance at Lincoln Center, a public artwork at Rockefeller Center, and a participation at New York Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work is part of more than 80 collections highlighting the MET, the Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Center and the Museum Meermanno 

San Martín is currently exhibiting at the Polygraphic Triennial of Puerto Rico, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Governors Island in the US, the National Center for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Memory in Chile, while preparing her next solo show in New York and Spain, continue printing series “Moving Memorials” composed of 203 artist books and working for her next workshops at the MET with New Latin Wave.

All images courtesy of the instructor.