Creative Writing students learn the art of book making

Students in Associate Professor Natalee Caple’s third-year English class were cutting, stitching and pasting on Friday, Jan. 30 with a professional book binder as they made their own books. Caple organized the workshop for the 40 students in her Creative Writers and the Community course (ENGL 3P72 ), where students learned basic skills including exposed sewing methods, pamphlet stitch and Japanese stab bound books. The workshop was taught by Toronto-based artist Maureen Da Silva, a founding member of the In Print Collective and an education officer at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and was funded by the Dean’s Discretionary Fund for the Faculty of Humanities.