Delving into All Things Book
The Dartmouth College Book Arts Workshop offers a rare opportunity to delve into the arts of the book — printing, design, bookbinding, illustration, paper, paper making and concept — with instructors who are professional designers, printers, binders and artists.
The workshop has a bookbinding studio, letterpress studio, and digital capabilities. It is open to all levels of experience and there is no orientation required to come in and talk, look around and bounce around ideas. As well as classes, we offer day and evening open studio times when an instructor is available for individual instruction and assistance.
We also offer project support and demonstrations to Dartmouth faculty, students and courses in the curriculum.
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The mission of the Book Arts Workshop is to…
—introduce students and other members of the Dartmouth College community to the craft of letterpress printing and hand bookbinding.
—promote an understanding of the art and history of the printed and written word.
—expose members of the Dartmouth College community to the rich library resources available to them for scholarly research into the history of the book.
To support this mission and in collaboration with Special Collections, Studio Art Department, and others, the Book Arts Program sponsors…
—the Book Arts Workshop, a free workshop open to all members of the Dartmouth College community that provides instruction and workshop space for letterpress printing and hand bookbinding.
—seminars and workshops with nationally known book artists, binders, printers and typographers.
—the Book Arts Prize for excellence in printing and bookbinding.
exhibits displaying the items created in the workshop and examples from the library collection of excellence in printing and binding.
