Make a Softcover Book with Dawn Woolsey

The Alberta Craft Council is the Provincial Arts Service Organization that develops, promotes, and advocates for fine craft in Alberta.

Alberta Craft Council

Create your own softcover notebook inspired by A Visible Mass, Sanaz Mazinani’s colourful public artwork in O-day’min Park.

O-day'min Park

Craft for YEG in the Park

Join Alberta Craft for the first event in our Craft Community series of free outdoor gatherings in the beautiful new O’day-min Park on our block in downtown Edmonton.

Event Description:Participants will fold, stitch, and decorate a softcover notebook inspired by A Visible Mass, a new public artwork by Sanaz Mazinani installed in O-day'min Park. Drawing from the artwork's colourful cloud forms, participants will use cloud-shaped paper cutouts in a variety of colours to create their own unique journal.With just a few basic materials and tools, you can create one of these handy single-signature notebooks. These attractive little books fit in a purse, bag, or pocket and are ideal for mini-journals, notes, or sketching.All materials provided.About your instructor:Dawn Woolsey is an Edmonton-based visual artist and educator whose practice spans book arts, printmaking, papermaking, and graphic design. She worked professionally in commercial graphic design, television animation, music packaging, and web design for over 40 years, later focusing on hands-on artmaking and teaching in community arts spaces. Her artistic focus currently involves more complex book arts and print processes, exploring sculptural forms, relief and intaglio processes incorporated into storytelling.She currently serves as an Alberta north Chapter communicator for the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild and has been involved in many group exhibitions,Dawn is known for teaching a range of printmaking and book arts workshops, currently in both formal courses and community settings:<ul><li>At SNAP – Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, she instructs courses and mentors students in Introductory and Advanced Bookbinding for Artist’s Books, Box making, Silkscreen, Letterpress, and Lino printmaking where participants gain hands-on skill in traditional techniques</li><li>At Wellspring – Dawn teaches several art workshops; community wellness programs offered to cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. These include introductory book structures such as notebook bindings, side-sewn folded and accordion books, as well as papermaking from natural fibres and inclusions.</li></ul>

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