RISOGRAPH Workshop

Workshop Description

Create colorful layered prints or zines using the Risograph stencil duplicator. These unique printing machines work via color separated layers just like screen printing, but can spit out up to 50 prints a minute in vibrant soy-based inks in rich colors, creating unique textural qualities perfect for small-circulation DIY publications and prints. In this workshop, we’ll layer together your imagery from sketchbooks, journals and collages to explore creative expression. Participants can work individually or in pairs.

PROCESS:

1. Build collage imagery for a two-color print or zine, sized at 11” x 17”

2. Print both color runs on the risograph

3. Fold, share, and exchange zines and prints!

WHAT TO BRING:

• Visual artists: Sketchbooks, old books, collage pieces at 11" x 17" or smaller, and/or magazines with interesting imagery

• Writers: Works-in-progress, found texts, or come ready to write in response to images

• Paper & ink will be provided!

LOCATION/TIME:

Book Art + Printmaking Studio, CORNELL FINE ARTS CENTER, Rollins College 1000 Holt Ave. Winter Park, FL 32804. NOTE: This workshop takes place from 5-7 pm.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED :

Limited space available, open to the entire Rollins College community and members of the Book Arts Guild of Central Florida.

UPDATED 10/11/26: THE WORKSHOP IS FULL, SO REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.

The Book Arts Guild of Central Florida invites you to join The Society for Speculation at the Winter Park Library on August 20th from 6-8 pm for a creative workshop! 

The Society for Speculation was founded in 2023 by writer Chrissy Kolaya and artist Rachel Simmons to explore serious and absurd ideas about fortune-telling, magic, forecasting, and other forms of prediction and divination. Their artist's books, presentations, and workshops engage the public in a dialogue about future prediction and its role in contemporary society. 

Their current project, The Prediction Press & Divination Tool Kit, brings these ideas to life through this interactive community workshop. 

Combining relief printmaking with reflective writing, participants create their own tools of prediction and divination for self-reflection, while exploring together the universal urge to know what's coming next in our lives.

Participants will be led in a guided writing and art experience, leaving the workshop with a hand printed prediction map. 

All materials will be provided! 

Free and open to the public, but space is limited!

Register TODAY at WPL https://www.winterparklibrary.org/event/book-arts-guild-116216

Disrupting the Coptic Stitch: A New Approach to Coptic Binding with Marie Patrick

Have you ever experimented with a traditional bookbinding technique to see if you can envisioned something entirely new? This workshop will be demonstrating the outcome of this discovery. By the end of this class, you will have learned to bind several signatures using an alternative take on the traditional coptic binding method. A new approach to coptic binding. A binding method that you never see anywhere else.

Supplies Needed: None
Class Capacity: Maximum 15

This workshop will take place on May 21st from 6-8pm at the Winter Park Library’s Murrah Community Room.

Click here to register.

Long Stitch Bookbinding Workshop with Christopher Saclolo

In this workshop, participants will create a blank book model learning a variation of the long stitch binding. This binding method requires no glue, just sewing.

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Please bring the following tools to participate in the workshop:

• Ruler

• Pencil

• Scissors

• X Acto knife

• Mat board for cutting

• Curved Needle

• Awl

• Bonefolder

Optional material to bring:

• Color thread of your choice (i.e. embroidery thread)

• Beeswax

Collage Workshop with rachel jerusha kinbar

Join us on Thursday, March 19th, at the Winter Park Library! In this hands-on workshop we will be exploring collage as a medium of self-expression. We'll talk a bit about materials and techniques, with most of our time spent collaging. Plain paper, magazines and books, other mixed media/collaging materials, some glue sticks, and some cutting tools will be available for everyone's use.

Additional supplies needed:

• Cutting tools (scissors, cutting mats, etc.)

• Glue sticks

• Any papers/materials you would like to use or share

Click here to register.

RISOGRAPH Workshop

Create colorful layered prints or zines using the Risograph. Risograph are stencil duplicators (working with color separation like screen printing) that use vibrant soy-based inks in rich colors, creating unique textural qualities perfect for small-circulation DIY publications and prints. In this workshop, we’ll layer imagery from sketchbooks, books, and magazines to explore creative expression. Participants can work individually or in pairs.

PROCESS:

1. Build collage imagery for a two-color print or zine, sized at 11” x 17”

2. Print both color runs on the risograph

3. Fold, share, and exchange zines and prints!

WHAT TO BRING:

• Visual artists: Sketchbooks, old books, or magazines with interesting imagery

• Writers: Works-in-progress, found texts, or come ready to write in response to images

• Paper & ink will be provided!

LOCATION:

Rollins College Book Art + Printmaking Studio 1000 Holt Ave. Winter Park, FL 32804

REGISTRATION REQUIRED - Limited space available, open to guild members and Rollins students. Registration will open one week before!

CREATIVE PAPER PULP PAINTING WORKSHOP

Discover the Magic of Painting with Paper Pulp!

Immerse yourself in this unique artistic adventure where paper becomes your paint! Open to both Rollins students and guild members, this exciting workshop invites you to explore the vibrant possibilities of painted handmade paper.

What will you create? Together, we'll collaborate on artistic paper sheets using squeeze bottles and molds to bring your imagination to life! Every participant will contribute to this collective creative experience—who knows what beautiful connections and inspirations might emerge through our shared artistic exploration?

Bring your creative energy and:

• Scrap paper you'd like to transform into pulp

• Cookie cutters for creating interesting shapes

• Your design ideas and artistic vision to share

Come with an open mind and leave with both artwork and new creative connections!

Location: Rollins College Book Art + Printmaking Studio 1000 Holt Ave. Winter Park, FL 32804

Instructor: Rachel Simmons

REGISTRATION REQUIRED — Space is limited, please email bookartsguildcf@gmail.com to claim a spot.

A Room with Many Doors: Creative Text & Poetry Workshop with Nikki Fragala-Barnes

Thursday, June 12, 6-8 pm

A Room with Many Doors: Creative text and poetry as portals for memory and meaning

Experimental poet and conceptual book artist Nikki Fragala Barnes will facilitate this book arts workshop using found and original texts. Barnes will include sources for poems and lyrics to use as material in artist books as well as prompts and exercises for generating creative original lines to feature in your projects. We will draw on our personal and collective experiences and memories to soothe and disrupt.

You are invited to bring a work in progress or other scraps / papers and favorite pens/markers/paint pens.

Materials will be provided for use during the workshop.

Link to register https://www.winterparklibrary.org/event/book-arts-guild-central-florida-73898

COMMUNITY ROOM, WINTER PARK LIBRARY, 1052 W MORSE BLVD WINTER PARK, FL 32789

MAY JOURNALING Workshop WITH MEGHAN MEDINA

Location

COMMUNITY ROOM, WINTER PARK LIBRARY, 1052 W MORSE BLVD WINTER PARK, FL 32789

Register here https://www.winterparklibrary.org/event/book-arts-guild-central-florida-73897

Workshop Description:

In this workshop, participants will learn how to play with materials and create collaged art journal pages. Text is optional, but writing prompts will be provided. The goal is to play, have fun, and create something different from your regular practice or explore something completely new.

Materials List:

Collage items (photos, text, ephemera, old journal pages, stickers, washi tape, etc.)

Bone folder

Scissors or straightedge blade

Cutting mat

Glue stick or glue tape

Notebook, journal, altered book, or loose pages to work on

Any other items for embellishments (beads, paper clips, small frames, sequins, paint pens, glitter glue)

ZINE FEST coming up at Blackbird! Details to follow