This workshop – on how to make a variety of small handmade books – is designed for everyone from the novice to the experienced book arts maker. Bonnie will share samples along with a brief history to spark inspiration. Participants will learn how to create a handful of simple book forms. Following a step-by-step process, ordinary materials will be folded, cut, glued, and sewed with simple stitching. At the end of the workshop, the completed book structures will provide each maker with beautiful surfaces on which to write, journal, draw, sew, paint, or collage. Perhaps this begins an endless flow of new ideas to come!
Meet the Artist
Bonnie A Berkowitz, MA, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPAT is an artist, teacher, and licensed Art Therapist Her life of writing and art making is inspired by reading historical novels, playing music, walking, cooking and feeding family and friends. It is a grateful vibrant and creative life. Bonnie holds a Master of Arts degree in Fiber Studio from Montclair State University, the 2001 Clinicians’ Award from the American Art Therapy Association, and the 2002 Distinguished Service Award and Honorary Life Membership from the New Jersey Art Therapy Association. While exhibiting her work both nationally and internationally, she has been the recipient of the 2003 Crafts Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA), and most recently, was awarded the 2023 and 2025 NJSCA Grant Finalist for her work with Fiber. Bonnie is a member of the Steamroller Group: a collective of dedicated artists in Hunterdon County New Jersey.