After admiring artist books for a long time, in 2012 I took a class at Boston University with Lynne Allen who is primarily a printmaker but is also a fine teacher of making books. We made fourteen books in six weeks! The 'Moby Dick' book was my final project for the class, and that summer was juried into a show in Pittsfield, MA in connection with their 'Call Me Melville 2012' celebration. In 2014 I went to the Penland School in NC for a two-week workshop concentrating primarily on books as three-dimensional spaces. Kathy Steinsberger, a book artist, and Sarah Glee Queen, an architect, taught that workshop.
photo © Susan Swirsley
