WORKSHOP: Making Miniature Books Workshop with Peter and Donna Thomas

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 09:00 am to 03:00 pm UTC-04:00

111 Bedford St, Portland, ME 04102-2896, United States | Portland

Kate Cheney Chappell '83 Center for Book Arts at USM
Publisher/HostKate Cheney Chappell '83 Center for Book Arts at USM
WORKSHOP: Making Miniature Books Workshop with Peter and Donna Thomas
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The Kate Cheney Chappell '83 Center for Book Arts (KCCCBA) is proud to present a public workshop titled "Making Miniature Books Workshop with Peter and Donna Thomas".
Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025
Time: 9 AM - 3 PM (with an hour lunch break; please bring your own lunch)
Location: Kate Cheney Chappell '83 Center for Book Arts, Studio 160, Crewe Center for the Arts, 111 Bedford St. Portland, ME 04103.
Student Capacity: 15
Price: $100
Workshop Description:
This class will introduce participants to new and innovative book structures from simple and complex accordion books that have been developed or explored in depth by the instructors, while at the same time teaching the basic bookbinding skills required to create them. Participants will make two of the artist book structures described in Thomas' book "More Making Books by Hand" published in 2004 by Quarry/Rockport Publishers.
Additionally, Peter Thomas will be performing book arts folk songs throughout the course of the workshop. Incorporating his interests in world and regional music styles, Peter will continue the lore of the traveling artist by sharing songs he's picked up from the road and beyond.
About the Artists:
Peter and Donna Thomas are book artists from Santa Cruz, California. They work collaboratively, making both edition and one-of-a-kind books. They make the paper, print, illustrate, and bind their books, combining the precision of the fine press aesthetic with the structural creativity found in contemporary artists' books. Between 2009 and 2019, they made four cross-country road trips, traveling in their artistic tiny home on wheels as the "Wandering Book Artists,” teaching classes and giving talks about the book arts as they visited universities and community-based book arts centers around the country. They are authors of More Making Books by Hand, and editors of 1000 Artists’ Books, and in 2021, The Legacy Press published a descriptive bibliography of their work: Peter and Donna Thomas: Bibliography, 1974–2020.
Learn More: http://wanderingbookartists.blogspot.com/
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