Conservation Enclosures

Conservation EnclosuresCourse Code: 25SBM000I This one day, in person workshop takes place at CBA on Saturday, January 25th, 2025 from 11: 00 AM5: 00 PM ET. Saturday, January 25th, 11: 00 AM to 5: 00 PM ET Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on January 11th, 2025 at 11: 59 pm. About the Workshop: This in person class at Center for Book Arts is taught by instructor Maria G. Pisano. Protective enclosures are made to support and protect your books from

Course Code: 25SBM000I

This one-day, in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Saturday, January 25th, 2025 from 11:00 AM–5:00 PM ET.

• Saturday, January 25th, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on January 11th, 2025 at 11:59 pm.

About the Workshop:

This in-person class at Center for Book Arts is taught by instructor Maria G. Pisano. 

Protective enclosures are made to support and protect your books from environmental damages.  Additionally for the artist they can also serve as an extension of their book to enhance their presentation and provide another surface where one can customize the box to reflect the contents.

Learn to make two archival enclosures that enable you to store your books in an acid free protective environment. We will make the archival phase box enclosure used by the Library of Congress, as an alternative to the clamshell box and a self-closing wrapper.  The class will cover do’s and don’ts in conservation enclosures and materials, show examples of damages from bad conservation practices along with learning to measure for custom fit, creating jigs, adhesives, and other helpful hints. For the book artist, librarian and collector. No experience necessary, just come with your books.

Required Materials:

• Bring 2 books you want to make enclosures for:
• A soft cover book
• A hard cover book 
• Additionally each participant should have the basic conservation tools below
  • A small breakaway knife
  • a bonefolder
  • plastic or metal triangle
  • a microspatula
  • 1” glue brush

About Maria G. Pisano

Maria G. Pisano (she/her) is a book artist, printmaker, curator and educator. Memory Press works are represented in The Library of Congress, 9-11 Memorial Museum, National Library of Medicine, Columbia University, NY Public Library and many more. Currently her book Caudex Folium is in the exhibit “Towers Rising“, at the 9-11 Memorial Museum in NYC, and in 2022 her work was in “And Yet We Rise: A Retrospect of the Days and Times Surrounding 9/11″ at the American Consulate in London. She has curated a number exhibits including Book as Witness: The Artist’s Response at CBA in NYC and Crossroads: Book Artists’ Impassioned Responses to Immigration, Human Rights and Our Environment, at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, NJ. Ms. Pisano contributes to book arts publications and has presented lectures at the Library of Congress, College Book Arts Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America. Her article “Mark To Impress” was published in California Society of Printmakers and The Blue Notebook in the UK. She continuously gives workshops nationally and internationally, at her studio, libraries and institutions such as Bridwell Library, TX, CBBAG and Center for Book Arts in NYC.

All images courtesy of the instructor.