Hinged-lid Box with a Drawer Online 2027WKSP-02-10

ONLINE: Hinged-lid Box with a Drawer with Maria Carolina Ceballos

Make a box for your favourite notebook, scrapbook or sketchbook. The box has a clever drawer with partitions for pencils, markers, thread or whatever treasures you want to save! 

Great idea for your travel keepsakes – house your travel journal and some of the ephemera from the trip in the drawers. 

Students will learn basic box making concepts like tray building, partitions, hinged lids and covering everything with paper and cloth!

María Carolina Ceballos is a Colombian book artist with emphasis in bookbinding and artists’ books. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, and a Minor in Photography from the same university. On 2021, she graduated from the MFA in Book Arts at The University of Iowa, where she also worked as a book conservation technician and digital book design instructor. She has also worked as a paper conservator at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, and as an independent book artist under the name of Canto Press, with which she creates artists’ books, teaches bookbinding and sells hand bound goods. She has been the recipient of recognitions like the Caxton Club Grant Award 2020-2021, an MFA degree with distinction from the University of Iowa Center for the Book, and the Holle Award 2022. She has exhibited her work in various cities in Colombia, the United States and Japan, and some of her books can be found in collections at the University of Iowa, the University of Miami, University of Michigan, the University of Alabama, the University of California and others. To see her work, visit Canto Press  


WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Location: ONLINE using Zoom 
Dates: Weds, February 10, 17, & 24, 2027
Hours: 1-4 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Course fee: $190 members / $250 non-members
Prerequisite: none
Maximum Enrollment: 25

Registration closes Weds, Feb 3, 2027, 11:59 PM EST

This is a live workshop, but it will be recorded, and links will be made available for the registrants to view until available until May 5, 2027.  

TOOLS

Required:

• Box cutter with new blades to cut the board.
• X-acto knife.
• Awl and pencil.
• Cutting mat
• Ruler
• 90° triangle ruler. Preferable one big and one very small if you can.
• PVA
• Big and medium sized glue brush.

Optional:

• Methylcellulose prepared: 1 tablespoon for 1 liter of water (if you can find it).

MATERIALS

• A notebook, scrapbook or sketchbook you want to use as measurement, The longer side must be at least 16cm. 
• Bookbinding board 2-3mm thickness. One full sheet should be enough for the whole box.
• One or two colors of book cloth. At least a 50 x 50 cm. Size and quantity depend on your book. If you are not sure, during the first class we will talk about this.
• One or two colors of medium weight paper. At least a piece of 50 x 50 cm. Size and quantity depend on your book. If you are not sure, during the first class we will talk about this.
• A button not too small. Can be of any kind, just make sure is not one of the small ones like the ones for shirts. 
• About 10cm of cord or thick thread of any kind. Can be anything but, if you are not sure, during the first class we will talk about this.
• Waste paper to glue on. Can be any newsprint paper of printing paper you have around.

Online Workshop Process:
Materials should be prepared in advance of the workshop to the specifications which will allow participants to take the best advantage of the live format. Please review the technical requirements below prior to registration to be sure you can participate. Questions should be directed to workshop@cbbag.ca

Technical requirements for participation:
·       Access to the internet and to the Zoom application
·       Screen large enough to follow instructor’s video feed (cell phone is not ideal)
·       Microphone or Headset / Webcam
·       How to join a zoom meeting information https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193

Participant-requested cancellations will be accepted up to 3 days prior to the published cut-off date for registration and will be subject to a 10% cancellation fee (a minimum of $5). After that, the full fee will be forfeited. In the event of the workshop being cancelled by CBBAG, the workshop fee will be fully refunded.