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Bookmaking for All: Professional Development Workshop

Thursday, November 9, 2023 | 4:30–6:30pm

ADMISSION: Free with advance registration

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 methods, including techniques you can use with students. No prior bookmaking experience is required. Add new artistic skills to your teaching toolkit and find out how bookmaking can serve to integrate art and literacy, spark student imagination and ingenuity, and yield remarkable creative projects. The workshop will also introduce and orient participants to the Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Project. Dinner will be served. 

This workshop is open to all educators; the Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Project is open to SFUSD teachers and students.  

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About the Bookmaking Project
About the Book Arts Roadshow

 Book Arts Roadshow provides hands-on book arts instruction to children, teens, families, adults, and educators at museums, libraries, schools and other venues. Book Arts Roadshow is always on-the-go!  

About the presenters
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C.K. Itamura

C.K.Itamura is a Yonsei, Nikkei interdisciplinary artist. Her conceptual, visual, performance and community engagement art serve to engage 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 a co-founder of Book Arts Roadshow, the creator of Collab Arts Lab, the founder and publisher of Kanreki Press, an artist/director on the board of Berkeley Commonplace, and a former director of San Francisco Center for the Book.  

Itamura is an Artist-in-Residence of the San Francisco Unified School District Library Department via SFArtsEd, and works with San Francisco Public Library, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Mateo County Libraries, San Mateo County Office of Education, and South San Francisco Unified School District via Young Audiences of Northern California, and others to create and provide professional development workshops for educators; hands-on art making workshops for students; and to make art making accessible to the general public.  

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Cheryl Ball

Cheryl Ball is a native San Franciscan who has always loved books and paper. Ball is an ILSP Apprentice with the Alameda County Office of Education. She 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.