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We’re at the Umbrella Arts Festival in Evanston today until 5 pm! Stop by and say hello and write/draw in our response b...
05/30/2026

We’re at the Umbrella Arts Festival in Evanston today until 5 pm! Stop by and say hello and write/draw in our response books! 📚📖📔

Last BookLab session of the semester!Thank you, and for hosting our sessions this past semester! And special thanks to...
05/05/2026

Last BookLab session of the semester!

Thank you, and for hosting our sessions this past semester! And special thanks to .rachel and for organizing. We’ll see you all again in the fall!

Happy summer, everyone!

Join us in person for the Earth Day Workshop with Fleet Feet & New Balance—fun, fitness, and sustainability!Get ready to...
04/20/2026

Join us in person for the Earth Day Workshop with Fleet Feet & New Balance—fun, fitness, and sustainability!

Get ready to celebrate Earth Day by joining us for a fun and eco-friendly workshop hosted by Fleet Feet and New Balance!

Join visual artist Regin Igloria, founder of North Branch Projects, for a hands-on Community Binding workshop that brings together creativity, sustainability, and movement. In this collaborative session, participants will learn accessible bookbinding techniques—such as hand-sewn pamphlets and zines—while transforming repurposed materials (including running shoe packaging) into unique, handmade books.

Designed for runners, creatives, and curious beginners alike, the workshop explores the connection between artistic practice and active lifestyles, with a special focus on sustainability within the running community. Guided prompts will help participants develop personal content, and everyone will leave with several handmade books while contributing to an ongoing community archive.

All materials are provided. No experience necessary.
Your $10 ticket will get you a $10 gift voucher to use at Fleet Feet Chicago.

Many thanks to and for the support in initiating this project with us, and to for the 📸📸📸

We’re back at for the new student club, every other Monday learning new binding techniques and making books!DM us for ...
03/24/2026

We’re back at for the new student club, every other Monday learning new binding techniques and making books!

DM us for more info on our next meeting!
Many thanks to for hosting us 😎📚✌🏽

A beautiful day for a workshop at 📚Today we worked on the buttonhole stitch and came away with a versatile handbound jo...
03/22/2026

A beautiful day for a workshop at 📚

Today we worked on the buttonhole stitch and came away with a versatile handbound journal/sketchbook. Many thanks to the staff and participants—what a great group of students (with such sharp color choices)! Afterwards, I enjoyed a cold brew from the cafe and couldn’t resist the market. I’ve started a tradition: books…then beets. So good!

👀📚Sketchbook Saturday ✌🏽Today we go back to 1999, a century coming to a close and a glimpse into another sketchbook fall...
03/15/2026

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Sketchbook Saturday ✌🏽
Today we go back to 1999, a century coming to a close and a glimpse into another sketchbook falling apart and needing some repair. I’ll do a short video on how I restitch these one day.

I devoted quite a few pages on my trip to Iceland to run the Reykjavik Marathon in August—my first trip to Europe and first international marathon. I was still capturing photos with a disposable camera and getting blurry prints of the course. It was a small-ish race that looped twice around the city, much of it without any crowds or fanfare. I got 25th place—that’s how small the field was!

I enjoyed reading the journal entries towards the end of the book: plotting and scheming for a cross country bicycle trip (which ultimately happened but on the West Coast), ambitions to do a residency at Ragdale (lol), ideas for a Polaroid sketch project of everyone I encounter starting in 2000, some serious naïveté about making art all the time, and correspondences (an actual letter!) from people I no longer know of their whereabouts.

Next week I will dig into some storage unit excavations (we’re talking high school sketchbooks). Fun 😎
#1999

Our first workshop at Mayfair Branch of 😎✌🏽📚Many thanks to Stefanie Brown for the invitation, and to the young bookbin...
09/27/2025

Our first workshop at Mayfair Branch of 😎✌🏽📚

Many thanks to Stefanie Brown for the invitation, and to the young bookbinders who participated this afternoon! It’s always good to be back in the neighborhood!

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