This short but busy workshop that will show how to add content and interest to a simple book structure. With a few cuts and folds you will turn a single sheet of paper into an intriguing book with secret spaces, hidden notes and messages. With that in mind, think about some text, quotes, words or short poems you may want to include in your book. Paper to complete this book will be provided by the instructor.

Please Bring With You:

Self-healing cutting mat or other surface to protect tables

Cutting tool of choice, rotary blade, x-acto knife (preferred)

Ruler

Scissors

Pen & pencil

Piercing tool, can be a needle, awl (small diameter) or hatpin

Favourite paper decorating/mark making tools such as coloured pens, pencils, rubber stamps, stencils, etc

Note-nothing too wet, something dry or that will dry fairly quickly

About the Artist

Trisha Klus is a lettering and book artist specializing in calligraphy and hand bound artist’s books with explorations in collage, marbling, mail art and letterpress printing. She has currently been creating with a focus on interactive books. Since beginning her creative studies in 1995, Trisha’s books and artwork have been published in Somerset Studio, Handcraft Illustrated, Bound & Lettered, the Alcuin Society’s “Amphora” and The Canadian Philatelist. She has participated in group shows with the Fairbank Calligraphy Society, Printmakers Only Group, Canadian Book Binders and Book Artists Guild, The

Warmland Calligraphers, The Escape Artists and The Sooke Fine Arts Show. In 2011 she had her first solo show. Her work is included in the Special Collections Library at University of Victoria, Special Collections Library at University of British Columbia, the National Library for Legal Deposit, the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art as well as in private collections across Canada, USA and beyond.

Formerly an Officer and one of the first women aircrew in the Canadian Military, Trisha is now happily

settled on Vancouver Island, B.C.