Bring the art of bookmaking to your (virtual) classroom! In this video workshop, explore simple techniques that you can integrate into your teaching practice. Join co-founders of Book Arts Roadshow Cheryl Ball and C.K. Itamura for a hands-on instructional on creating books using materials that students can easily find at home, including digital options for creating books with students and opportunities for connecting with other teachers.
This workshop was originally presented via Zoom on December 1, 2020.
Cheryl Ball is a San Francisco native who has always loved books and paper. Ball has taken master classes in bookbinding and brought her love of bookmaking to her former position as the art coordinator for a San Francisco Public Elementary–Middle School. Ball is currently the administration coordinator at the San Francisco Center for the Book and an ILSP Apprentice with the Alameda County Office of Education.
C.K. Itamura is an autodidactic interdisciplinary artist, designer, and producer. Her work blurs the lines between mediums as she combines tangible materials, sensory prompts, book arts, photography, language, time, and space to create visual work, participatory projects, and conceptual installations. Itamura is an Artist-in-Residence of In Cahoots Residency, an Artist-In-Residence Alumna of Chalk Hill Artist Residency, an artist member of The Center for Book Arts, a former director of San Francisco Center for the Book, and a board member of Healdsburg Center for the Arts.
Gloria Maciejewski has worked in San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) since 1997 in a variety of roles, from paraprofessional to classroom teacher. Her time as a classroom teacher was split between an arts magnet school (John Swett Alternative, now closed) and a science magnet school, Spring Valley Science School. Maciejewski has taken bookmaking classes at City College as well as many workshops with the SFUSD library department and Visual and Performing Arts department. Her favorite children's author is, in fact, Ezra Jack Keats, and she currently serves as a teacher-librarian at the San Francisco Public Montessori school.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM), the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation (EJK Foundation), the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), and the SFUSD are pleased to present the ninth annual Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Project. This year, instead of physically collecting and awarding books, we’ll share and celebrate the books together in new ways. All types of books, including digital, are welcome! Learn more about the project and how to participate below.
The CJM offers a number of programs and educational resources available for teachers, caregivers, and students to access from home or in the classroom. To see more related videos and resources, visit our teacher resource page.
School and Teacher Programs are made possible by major support from The Hearst Foundations and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Generous support is provided by Alaska Airlines, The Bavar Family Foundation, California Arts Council, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, Toole Family Charitable Foundation, Ullendorff Memorial Foundation, and Ezra Jack Keats Foundation.