Wandering Book Artists Lecture: Making Books by Hand in the Digital Age

Wandering Book Artists Lecture: Making Books by Hand in the Digital Age

Please join the Kate Cheney Chappell '83 Center for Book Arts (KCCCBA) community in welcoming Peter and Donna Thomas for a public lecture titled Wandering Book Artists: making books by hand in the Digital Age. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Baxter Society and is free and open to the public.

The lecture takes place on Wednesday October 8th, 2025 from 5pm - 6pm at the University Event Room (7th Floor) in the Glickman Family Library (314 Bedford St.). Refreshments will be served.

About the Artists:
Peter and Donna Thomas are book artists from Santa Cruz, California. They work collaboratively, making both edition and one-of-a-kind books. They make the paper, print, illustrate, and bind their books, combining the precision of the fine press aesthetic with the structural creativity found in contemporary artists' books. Between 2009 and 2019, they made four cross-country road trips, traveling in their artistic tiny home on wheels as the Wandering Book Artists, teaching classes and giving talks about the book arts as they visited universities and community-based book arts centers around the country. They are authors of More Making Books by Hand, and editors of 1000 Artists’ Books, and in 2021, The Legacy Press published a descriptive bibliography of their work: Peter and Donna Thomas: Bibliography, 1974–2020.Learn More: http://wanderingbookartists.blogspot.com/

Peter Thomas exhibiting an accordion book for onlookers.

Assorted handmade books presented by Peter and Donna Thomas.

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