Bookbinding Demo with IS Projects

Bookbinding Demo with IS Projects
Part of the O, Paper Mill Fellowship
Project by Ingrid Schindall

$15-$50 | Register here

• The 2024 O, Paper Mill Fellows are Omolara Williams McAllister, Ashley Suarez-Burgos, Luna Goldberg, and Isabella Garcia.

Join the O, Paper Mill Fellows and IS Projects for a day of bookbinding, papermaking, and stamping activities. You can bind your own book using handmade cotton paper made from recycled O, Miami misprinted totes! You can also try your hand at making paper with our O, Paper Mill setup. See IS Project's historic collection of printing equipment including antique printing presses and type. You can even use a vintage write-a-sign press to print a poem!

About O, Paper Mill

O, Paper Mill brings papermaking, bookbinding, and poetic journaling practices to Miami through an intensive fellowship program and a series of public workshops and demos.

The core of this project is a fellowship program that will give 4 fellows experience planning and executing public workshops, introducing them to the process of organizing a project for O, Miami while they learn high-level papermaking and bookbinding skills.

The public face of this project is a series of pop up activations at O, Miami events and a round table workshop. The first two are papermaking demos building upon last year’s project with visitors making sheets of paper. The second is a workshop in which participants can learn how to bind their own book of handmade paper and take it with them. The final will be a round table of local poets and artists sharing prompts and activities to help participants confront the blank page and cultivate a writing / journaling / drawing practice in their handmade notebook.

Where’s the poem? Poetry will be featured in a set of professional custom stamps that can be pressed into the wet sheet of paper without ink to create a debossed transfer during the paper demos, then they can be stamped into the books with ink during the bookbinding workshop and the round table workshop.