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Exploratory BookmakingCourse Code: 26MPD002I This three week, in person workshop takes place at CBA on Thursdays, July 16th 30th, from 6PM to 9PM ET. Thursday, July 16th, from 6PM to 9PM ET Thursday, July 23rd, from 6PM to 9PM ET Thursday, July 30th, from 6PM to 9PM ET Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on July 2nd, 2026 at 11: 59 pm. About the Workshop: This in person class at Center for Book Arts is taught by instructor Deborah Phillips Chodoff. This
Course Code: 26MPD002I
This three-week, in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Thursdays, July 16th - 30th, from 6PM to 9PM ET.
- Thursday, July 16th, from 6PM to 9PM ET
- Thursday, July 23rd, from 6PM to 9PM ET
- Thursday, July 30th, from 6PM to 9PM ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on July 2nd, 2026 at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This in-person class at Center for Book Arts is taught by instructor Deborah Phillips Chodoff.
This workshop explores the process of conceiving and executing a unique book work. We will move through play, experimentation, and collecting as we identify a central theme or concept. The shape, size, and mechanism best suited to the concept will naturally follow. Next comes refining and problem-solving as the work moves from concept through construction. Non-traditional binding solutions are encouraged; the book may include found objects, text, photographs, fabrics, papers, and/or natural objects. By the end of this workshop, participants will have gone through the process of creating a unique artist book, a playful, absorbing, and rich experience that will continue to nourish future endeavors.
Examples of the instructor’s work, as well as books from the CBA collection, will furnish a wide variety of examples. Participants should dress for mess; in the first class we will be creating our own decorative papers, and subsequently collaging and possibly using paint and ink for text and finishing.
Required Materials:
- Sketchbook, spiral bound preferred, any size
- Favorite art-making supplies such as colored pencils, markers, watercolor sets, graphite, etc. as desired; avoid charcoal and pastels (too smudgy for books)
Optional Materials:
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needle-nosed pliers (if you have them)
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Various types of string and thin rope
- Assortment of hardware
A more detailed materials list will be sent to you upon registration. All other materials will be provided by the Center for Book Arts at no additional cost.
About the Instructor
Deborah Phillips Chodoff studied printmaking at Atelier 17 in Paris, France, with Stanley William Hayter and Krishna Reddy. After returning to New York City, she worked as a printmaker and painter; she started making unique artists’ books in the early 1980’s. Through early shows at Franklin Furnace and the Ted Cronin Gallery she met many of her book arts friends and colleagues. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is in numerous collections, including the Fine Art Collection at The Center for Book Arts in NYC, the MoMA library, libraries at Harvard, Yale, the University of Alberta, and Florida Atlantic University, and Hillary Clinton’s archive collection.
Chodoff’s experience as a printmaker, painter, a digital/analog collage artist, photographer, and teacher allows her to use a rich variety of materials and methods to realize her books. Found objects, manipulated papers, and minimal texts inform the concepts and dictate the structures of her often sculptural works. She uses traditional and ad hoc binding techniques, producing either one-of-a kind artist books, or a series of unique variants. Her body of work also includes painting, digital collage, and video.
All images courtesy of the instructor.
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