Two-Part Series

Dates: Saturdays, March 22 and 29, 2025

Time: 10am-1pm

Description: In this workshop students will be making a 100 page hardcover sketchbook from scratch. Over two days, we’ll learn how to sew multiple signatures to create a page block, and make a cloth-covered hardcover binding. This bookbinding technique can be used to make a range of different books in different sizes and shapes, and using many different cover styles.

Tuition: $85 + $30 materials fee

Materials: All materials will be provided.

Location: Contemporary Craft-Timmons Studios (5688 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201)

Cancellations and Refunds: Workshop cancellations are decided three business days before the start date. If workshops must be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, the entire class fee will be refunded through Eventbrite, or you may leave your workshop fee in your Contemporary Craft account for future workshops.

Refund Policy: Student refund requests must be made at least three business days before a class begins. There will be a $25 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given without three-business days notice. Processing of refunds takes approximately three weeks.

If you require accessibility accommodations, please let us know by calling 412.261.7003 and we are happy to assist you.

About the Artist

Brent Nakamoto is a Queer, Japanese-American, and Buddhist artist with a background in painting and drawing, printmaking, photography, and book arts. He received his BA in Art from UC Santa Barbara in 2012 and MFA in Visual Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. He currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the Program and Marketing Coordinator for Brew House Arts, a non-proft arts organization where he manages the Distillery Emerging Artist Residency.