ALTERED BOOKS: Workshop with Rae Evemond, LMHC, ATR

ALTERED BOOKS: f l u i d p r a c t i c e // s o l i d c o n t a i n e r

Altered bookmaking is a flexible, nontraditional art practice that uses an existing book or text as a surface and container for creative exploration. It invites a wide range of participants—artists and non-artists alike, including writers, dreamers, poets, and those who enjoy working through images, words, patterns, or structure. Because there are no strict rules or required techniques, altered bookmaking is approachable and open-ended, while still allowing for gentle guidance and supportive structure, especially in therapeutic settings. This form of artmaking can be used in both short-term and ongoing art therapy work, and often becomes a meaningful, ritual-like process within individual or group spaces, including self-reflective practice for students and emerging art therapists.

Presenter Bio

Rae Evemond, ATR, LMHC (she/her/hers) is a multidisciplinary writer, artist and art therapist living in Iowa City, IA, where she runs a small private practice and is a student at the University of Iowa's Center for the Book. Within both Rae's studio praxis and therapeutic work, themes of joy, grief, mothering, and playful curation of an intentional life are centered and celebrated.

What to Bring: You own book to alter, but we will have some available also. Bring your own little stash of treasures, pieces of collected nature, etc.

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Sharp Building, 37 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, United States

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