Workshop 4 – Bind Your Becoming: Hand-Built Art Journal (April 2026)

Focus: Foundations & Flow — creating the bones of your art journal so that inspiration always has a place to land.

Description:

In this workshop, we’ll take away the fear of the blank page by building the foundation of your own art journal. Together,

we’ll gather a variety of papers, plain, patterned, textured, and repurposed, and create a layered surface that already

carries stories within it. You’ll design a personalized cover and learn how to assemble your pages using a wire-o binding

machine. This process gives you a creative container that feels alive and ready for exploration.

This journal will become a safe space to play, reflect, and grow long after the workshop ends. Each page will remind you

that creativity doesn’t have to start from scratch, it can grow from what’s already here.

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What You’ll Experience:

• A calm and creative environment to build your own journal foundation

• Hands-on instruction in paper selection, layering, and cover design

• The satisfaction of creating a journal that already feels rich and inviting

Techniques: paper selection and layering, intuitive page composition, wire-o bookbinding, simple cover design.

Surface: custom journal created from assorted papers (recommended finished size 6 × 9 inches).

Materials: please bring an assortment of papers that inspire you — such as watercolor sheets, book pages, scrapbook

papers, or recycled materials. All binding materials and wire-o machines will be provided for class use. A list of

recommended materials with links will be sent ahead of class.