March 21-22, 2026

10am-5pm MST each day

Anderson Academic Commons, 2150 E Evans Ave, Denver, CO 80210 (University of Denver campus)

In this two-day workshop, participants will explore a range of simple yet dynamic bookbinding structures that pair beautifully with traditional printmaking processes such as relief, intaglio, screenprint, and lithography. Whether you are incorporating existing prints into book form or designing a new project around print-based imagery, these bindings offer flexible and engaging formats.

The workshop is equally welcoming to artists who are not printmakers but who wish to learn a variety of binding methods using diverse papers. Together we will construct structures including the tunnel book, pamphlet stitch, accordion with non-adhesive envelope covers, leporello with covered boards, flag book, and palm leaf book.

Instructor Susan Lowdermilk is a book artist and printmaker. She creates hand bound artist’s books involving movable parts and pop-ups with traditional print processes like woodcut. She is recently retired from her position as Visual Arts and Graphic Design professor at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. She also teaches independent workshops in artist’s books, paper engineering and printmaking. Her artist’s books have been collected by many libraries and other public institutions and her work is represented by galleries throughout the United States. She earned her Master of Fine Art from the University of Oregon in Eugene, and her Bachelor of Fine Art from Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

$280 for GBW OR ASLD members + $20 material fee
$340 for non-members + $20 material fee