Book Making

Book Making with Kelsey Dawn Pearson

This workshop will provide you with all the required knowledge to bind your own book with objects that can be easily found in most homes.

Photo: Kelsey Dawn Pearson

This workshop will provide you with all the required knowledge to bind your own book with objects that can be easily found in most homes or dumpsters, or stolen from bureaucrats or office spaces. You will be provided with all required materials, but if you have paper or materials you would like to use, you may bring them with you. You will learn to use the versatile (and beginner) coptic stitch binding along with some other bookmaking tricks! You will leave this workshop with a completed hand-bound journal.


Kelsey Dawn Pearson’s work often includes illustrative and graphic imagery with little breathing room, rendered using print and fibres. Through the use of craft techniques taught to them by their mother and grandmothers, they reflects on functionality and it’s in(ability) to blur aesthetic value. They develops imagery composed of figures emerging from a natural environment, like smoothed rocks protruding from the dirt. These images illustrate outwardly confrontational narratives while pointing inward at personal doubts and prolonged dysmorphia. Why is flesh so dangerous? Her work is seemingly supernatural, chaotic and colourful swampwater. Fictions of Fictions. They often pair exterior scenes with domestic symbols. They wade in the spaces where they meet. They explore themes of distorted reality, confront personal ethics, battle dysphoria, bridge fiction and the present through the use of portals, pry at trauma, loss and guilt, touch and feel, and challenge perception…In a world bordering ours.


Ville : Montréal

Date : Samedi 6 août - 10h à 15h (4h + 1h pour diner)

Lieu : UQAM Pavillon de danse, QG

Limite max. de participant.e.s : 10

Noter que cet atelier sera donné en anglais.

Cette activité est incluse dans le prix de participation aux labos. Il est possible de participer à cette activité à la carte pour un frais de 15$ - payment sur place ou à l'avance en écrivant à nous@lete.ca. Réservez votre place!