Single Day Workshop Bookmaking:Introduction to the Stitched Pamphlet | a Tuesday in October

Learn simple methods for creating a small, stitched sketchbook in this introductory book binding class. We’ll learn to use traditional tools and methods to make two soft cover books – a single section stitched pamphlet, and a two-section stitched pamphlet. You will learn methods for measuring, folding, stitching, and cutting different weights of paper and will leave not only with your two sketchbooks but the skills needed to make more on your own.

Amanda Wood (she/her)
Spoken languages: English

Amanda Wood is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist working among and in between materials and processes to build a visual language that gives shape and voice to the complex realities of divergent minds and bodies. She uses her ever expanding ephemeral and tactile practice to invite dialogue between traditional techniques and the everyday.

Perfect things, and mastery, are less interesting to Amanda than the artefacts of learning. By combining easily sourced and abundant materials, with processes that are deep and unmasterable she is prolific in her unlearning, and research practices. Grounded in craft traditions, scientific methods, and archival practices she focuses on the outcasts and artefacts created by learning and unlearning. The plurality and possibility found in merging the everyday, the unknowable and the temporal bridges the divergent and the typical. These layers of complexity create space to reclaim identity.

Amanda is a multiple Canada Council for the Arts grant awardee. She has participated in solo, and group shows in galleries in major Canadian cities such as Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver among others. She is a well-respected educator and mentor. Amanda has participated in residencies at the Ou Gallery, Emily Carr University and others. She has a BA in Communications from Simon Fraser University and a diploma in Textile Art from Capilano University. Amanda currently lives in Vancouver, BC.