Tunnel Books with Big River Bindery | Gwartzman's Presents

Join Andrew Huot from Big River Bindery at Gwartzman's Art Supplies! Create a fun and interactive book with the tunnel book structure. The book consists of layers of paper that lets you create a three dimensional spaces for text and images. Students will make a book using their own text and images. Bring some images to cut up and a sense of play!

Andrew Huot is a book artist and bookbinder in Toronto, where he operates Big River Bindery, a studio for hand bookbinding and book conservation. He taught bookbinding, conservation, and preservation at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois for 12 years.

In addition to conservation and bookbinding, he teaches bookbinding and book arts in his Scarborough studio, for the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, and at arts centers around Toronto. He holds a Masters in Book Arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and his artists’ books use photographs, linoleum cuts, and text to share the humorous side of everyday life.

His artists’ books are in collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, Emory University, and Ontario College of Art & Design. See more of his work at bigriverbindery.com and andrewhuot.com

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