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Bookmaking for All: Professional Development Workshop

Sunday, November 6, 2022 | 1–4pm

ADMISSION: Free with advanced registration

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2022-09-15 10:00:00 UTC2022-09-15 23:00:00 UTC America/Los_AngelesThe CJM - 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CABookmaking for All: Professional Development WorkshopJoin us in person at The CJM for a hands-on bookmaking workshop for educators! Book Arts Roadshow co-founders Cheryl Ball and C.K. Itamura will guide participants through several bookmaking techniques, including techniques you can use with students. No prior bookmaking experience is required. Add new artistic skills to your toolkit, and find out how bookmaking can serve to integrate student writing and art, increase student engagement and ownership, and yield projects worth sharing. 

Join us in person at The CJM for a hands-on bookmaking workshop for educators! Book Arts Roadshow co-founders Cheryl Ball and C.K. Itamura will guide participants through several bookmaking techniques, including techniques you can use with students. No prior bookmaking experience is required. Add new artistic skills to your toolkit, and find out how bookmaking can serve to integrate student writing and art, increase student engagement and ownership, and yield projects worth sharing. 

The workshop will also orient participants to the Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Project, and will conclude with an optional short introduction to The Museum’s current exhibitions for participants interested in staying after the workshop to explore the galleries. Beverages and light refreshments will be served. 

This workshop is open to all educators; the Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Project is open to teachers and students in the San Francisco Unified School District.

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Reserve your space in the workshop by registering below. Please note that this is an in-person event at The CJM; make sure to review our health and safety guidelines before your visit.

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About the Bookmaking Project
About the Book Arts Roadshow

Book Arts Roadshow was co-founded by Cheryl Ball & C.K.Itamura to provide Book Arts instruction to and hands-on learning experiences for children, families & grown-ups at museums, libraries and public events, and for educators by working with schools and school districts. Book Arts Roadshow is on-the-go! 

About the presenters
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C.K. Itamura
Co-founder

C.K.Itamura is a Yonsei, Nikkei interdisciplinary artist based in Sonoma County, California. Her conceptual, visual, performance, and community engagement art serves to engage diverse multicultural, intergenerational audiences in the exploration of observation, contemplation, and expressive imagination. 

Itamura is a recipient of the 2019 Discovered Awards for Emerging Visual Artists made possible, in part, by Creative Sonoma and Community Foundation Sonoma County. She is: an Artist-in-Residence of The Imaginists, Chalk Hill Residency, and In Cahoots Residency; a co-founder of Book Arts Roadshow; an artist/director on the board of Berkeley Commonplace; a Guesthouse custodian artist of The Imaginists; an advisory committee member of Write Now! SF Bay; and a former director of San Francisco Center for the Book. She has served in directorial, managerial and/or production roles for live theatrical performances, live events, concerts and festivals, radio shows and video productions. 

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Cheryl Ball
Co-founder

Cheryl Ball is a native San Franciscan who has always loved books and paper. Cheryl is an ILSP Apprentice with the Alameda County Office of Education. Cheryl has taken Master Classes in bookbinding with Dominic Riley and Michael Burke, and has completed the Bookbinding Certification at the San Francisco Center for the Book. She brought her love of bookmaking to her former position at a San Francisco Public Elementary-Middle School as their Art Coordinator and now, the students there create original story-filled bound books and participate in the Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition each year. 

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School and Teacher Programs are made possible by generous support from the Jim Joseph Foundation, The Bavar Family Foundation, California Arts Council, The Ullendorff Memorial Foundation, Toole Family Charitable Foundation, and Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund.