With: Nancy Botkin

Class Fee: $20.00 plus $5.00 material fee

Class size: 6 /Adults and children 12+ accompanied by an adult

This year we’ll make a couple of simple and beautiful handmade books using basic materials including cardboard, string, glue, cloth and paper. The books will work nicely as miniature albums or scrapbooks. Please bring some small photos, poems and/or pictures to cut up and glue or transcribe into a book.

Note: this class will be learning different techniques from the 2021 class, but doesn’t require any prerequisite.

Nancy Botkin is a granddaughter of Heman and Edith Chase, so she has always spent a lot of time in Mill Hollow. One of her biggest treats as a kid was to get invited to "work" alongside Heman in his office while he was working on his maps. In recent years, Nancy's main creative outlet has been book crafts, including handmade books, miniature books, and decorative paper techniques. Although mostly self-taught, Nancy has taken a few classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book. She often creates maps for group walks, recruiting friends for "map-folding parties."