The Flag Book ONLINE 2025WKSP-02-05

ONLINE: The Flag Book with Andrew Huot

Join us for a fun evening making The Flag Book. The flag book is an accordion based book that has tabs or flags attached to each page. It was invented by Hedi Kyle and has been used for fun interactive books by many book artists.

In this workshop, we’ll work with multiple copies of one image to make a flag book that flaps open to extend the image as you open the book.

Andrew Huot is a book artist, bookbinder, printer, and conservator in Scarborough ON where he operates Big River Bindery, a studio for bookmaking, letterpress printing, and book conservation. He holds a Masters in Book Arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a BS in Printmaking from Portland State University.

His artists’ books use photographs, linoleum cuts, and text to share the humorous side of everyday life around us. His artists’ books are in collections across the country, from the Art Institute of Chicago to Yale University. Andrew teaches online and in his own studio, taught at the University of Illinois School of Information Science and workshops across the US and in Canada at CBBAG, the John C Campbell Folk School, Book Arts LA, the International Preservation Studies Center, and the Guild of Book Workers, among others. His website is https://bigriverbindery.com/

WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Location: ONLINE using Zoom

Dates: Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Hours: 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. (EASTERN TIME)

Course fee: $65 members / $125 non-members

Prerequisite: none

Maximum Enrollment: 16

Registration closes Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 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 March 6, 2025. 

Materials Required:

• 2 boards 5” x 7” (12.7 cm x 17.78 cm) – may be scrap matt board or binder’s board
• 2 sheets card stock or cover weight paper – 5” x 9” grain short (12.7 cm x 22.86 cm)
• 2 sheets card stock or cover weight paper – 7” x 8’ grain short (17.78 cm x 20.32 cm)
• 1 sheet text weight paper 7” x 16” (can also be coloured Canson Mi-Teintes paper) (17.78 cm x 40.64 cm)
• 7 printed sheets of card stock, copies of 1 image landscape format (image size 7” (17.78 cm) x the length of the paper (about 10.5” (26.67 cm), depending on your image).

Tools Required:

• Glue stick
• Cutting mat
• Xacto or craft knife
• Bone folder
• Ruler (both imperial & metric)

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.