Bookmaking with Anne Elser (CLASS 2/23-3/30)

Bookmaking with Anne Elser
Tuesdays, 6 sessions, Feb. 23-March 30
6-8:30pm :: Fee: $140.

We will be making books and boxes in this class with a variety of materials and techniques. The objective here is to give you a fundamental understanding of how books are made - a backbone of knowledge so you can create your own books and journals. There will be an emphasis on neatness and craft and most of all FUN. Making books is a very rewarding experience. They make wonderful gifts, sketchbooks for yourself and journals, photo albums, etc. The only skills required are a love of paper, attention to detail, patience and again - a need to have FUN!

Instructor Bio: Anne Dusenberry Elser grew up here in Atlanta and earned her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1991 with a major in painting and a minor in ceramics. She then studied Graphic Design at The Portfolio Center in Buckhead, where she has been teaching design classes for over 10 years. Anne freelances as a graphic designer and illustrator and as a calligrapher. She is also an instructor in these fields. Her award-winning work has been featured in design annuals, books and magazines (Print, CMYK, Graphis and Communication Arts, Minimal Graphics, Then Is Now) and can be seen in several book jackets (Memory Of A Large Christmas, Storyville USA, Trickster Lives, Let Them Eat Data.) Anne’s experience as a fine artist, a designer in advertising, and as an educator for both children and adults, gives her classes a fun, friendly environment in which to grow and get to know others through self fulfillment and group therapy. Her bookmaking classes appeal to everyone from the casual crafter looking to make their next journal for a friend or family member, to the fine artist interested in binding their own sketches into a book or creating thier own sketchbooks that open flat (ideal for sketching), to the designer looking to build their next portfolio. She has two cats named Gunther and Olaf, a six pound Papillon named Bjorn, a toddler named Anton (who is amazing) and a husband named Doug (who is also amazing.) Anne loves baking anything that isn’t good for you, playing the piano, knitting, blogging, gardening and chocolate. She also can’t wait to meet you.

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