Course Code: 26SPE007V
This one-day, virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Thursday, February 26th, from 1PM to 3:30PM ET.
- Thursday, February 26th, from 1PM to 3:30PM.
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on February 15th, at 11:59pm Eastern Time.
About the Workshop:
The accordion book structure is a flexible form that can be adapted to many book themes, and one is the Altered Page Book. A blank page holds a lot of potential, one can alter it via folding, cutting, collaging, adding and subtracting parts, and more. Learn about sequencing, layering and folding to arrive at your pages. These in turn will be assembled to become part of an accordion book you will create with your unique designs. Do you acquire and save ephemera in your travels and daily life, do you have lots of beautiful papers and scraps that you saved for a special project, any old prints that you want to repurpose? Some favorite poems? We will use all your stored riches to collage the pages and create a new book work to store them in.
Required Materials:
- Cover weight/cardstock (65lb) paper for covers, spine and pages
- Multicolor light colors for pages and darker for covers and spine - you can mix colors
- Covers and Spine – Three pages – each 8.5 x 11
- Pages - Four - each measuring 8.5 x 11 (have extra on hand)
About the Instructor
Maria G Pisano is book artist, printmaker, curator and educator. Her works reflect concerns about immigration, human rights, women’s rights and the environment. Memory Press works are represented in The Library of Congress, 9-11 Memorial Museum, National Library of Medicine, Columbia University, UCLA Berkley, Stanford University and many more.
Memory Press works are exhibited in many venues. Her book Via Dolorosa: From Sea to Shining Sea, has been selected for the exhibit: Who Is America at 250? : Artists Books in the Age of Democracy -Opening in Jan 2026 at the San Francisco Center for the Book with additional venues through Dec. 2026. Previously, her book Caudex Folium was part of the exhibit Towers Rising, at the 9-11 Memorial Museum in NYC from 2024 to 2025and in 2022 her work was in “And Yet We Rise: A Retrospect of the Days and Times Surrounding 9/11 at the American Consulate in London.
She has curated a number exhibits including Book as Witness: The Artist’s Response at CBA in NYC and Crossroads: Book Artists’ Impassioned Responses to Immigration, Human Rights and Our Environment, at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, NJ. Ms. Pisano contributes to book arts publications and has presented lectures at the Library of Congress, College Book Arts Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America. Her article “Mark To Impress” was published in California Society of Printmakers and The Blue Notebook in the UK. She continuously gives workshops nationally and internationally, at her studio, libraries and institutions such as Bridwell Library, TX and Center for Book Arts in NYC and CBBAG.
All images courtesy of the instructor.