Course Detail: AEXP-108 - COPTIC BOOKBINDING WORKSHOP

Discover the beauty of handcrafted books in this Coptic bookbinding workshop! In this hands-on session, you'll learn to make your own book from fabric and learn how how to create a beautiful lay-flat book using exposed spine stitching that blends traditional Japanese aesthetics with Coptic binding techniques. Participants will walk away with a beautiful, functional journal or sketchbook-made entirely by you!

$65 plus $25 material fee

Session Information: 25FA-AEXP-108-A1A

Schedule:

Every day, starting on 11/22/25 and ending on 11/22/25

Times:

01:30pm-04:30pm EST

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Price:

Price : $90.00

Instructors

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Andrew Wilson

Biography: Wilson received his BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University in 2013 with a concentration in Jewelry/Metals and his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. Wilson's work has been in many galleries and institutions including: The Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SOMArts, and the Museum of the African Diaspora. He has received such awards and honors as: the Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award, an Emergency Grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the Carr Center Independent ScholarsFellowship, the McColl Center and more. He has also worked with Carrie Mae Weems on The Spirit that Resides in Havana, Cuba alongside the Havana Biennial and The Future is Now Parade for the opening of The REACH in Washington D.C. His work has been collected by Michigan State University and the University of New Mexico.

Facility Detail

Taubman Center for Design Education

T*1012

460 West Baltimore

Detroit, MI 48202