Coptic Stitch Journal Workshop

Join multidisciplinary artist Julia Kunze for a hands-on, two-day bookmaking workshop focused on crafting your own personalized journal using the traditional Coptic stitch binding technique. Julia will guide participants through each step of the process – from designing custom covers to stitching the final binding, creating a unique piece of art.

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This workshop is ideal for artists, writers, and anyone interested in journaling, sketchbook making, or paper-based storytelling. No prior bookbinding experience is necessary.

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Participants learn how to design and collage personalized journal covers, how to prepare signatures and use essential bookbinding tools, and the step-by-step stitching technique to assemble a durable, lay-flat journal. All tools and materials will be provided. Participants, however, are encouraged to bring personal collage materials to personalize their collaged covers.

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Julia is a multidisciplinary artist based in Catskill, NY. She has a BA from Bard College and was the recipient of the Elizabeth Murray Sol Lewitt art award. She has been artist-in-residence at The Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, TX through “Welcome to my Homepage” and at Arquetopia in Oaxaca, Mexico and Urubamba, Peru. She is a papier mache sculpture, a ceramicist, and a bookmaker. Julia learned the coptic stitch journal process from a mentor and friend. Coptic Stitch has changed her relationship with journal writing, sketchbook keeping, and storytelling.

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