Visiting Artist Series- Andrew Huot: Protecting your Pop-Ups: Preservation Enclosures
Adult Course | This program is completed
One of the best ways to protect your book collections is to create preservation enclosures, boxes and wrappers made of archival materials. In this workshop, we’ll make three preservation enclosures to protect your items from damaging light, dust, and changes in humidity and temperature. These boxes are constructed with simple hand tools and can be made in just a few minutes. The enclosures include the Tuxedo Box, the Folger Wrapper, and the Soft Sided Slipcase.
- ASLD will provide:
- Self-Healing Cutting Mats for everyone, 12 x 18 or larger
- Unprinted newsprint
- Instructor will bring for each student:
- Bone Folders
- 90 degree plastic triangles
- Scissors
- Xacto / Cutting Knives
- Corner rounder
- Glue Brushes
- 10 pt Archival Board
- 20 pt Archival Board
- Book Cloth
- 415 Double Sided Tape
- PVA Adhesive
- Wax Paper
- Blue Tape
Andrew Huot
Andrew Huot is a book artist, bookbinder, and conservator in Atlanta, Georgia, where he operates Big River Bindery, a studio for bookmaking and letterpress printing, book conservation, and design. He holds a Masters in Book Arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He was the Conservator at Illinois State University and has worked or interned at the University of Oregon, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The Wagner Institute of Free Science Library, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Andrew teaches at the University of Illinois School of Information and workshops across the country the John C Campbell Folk School, BookArtsLA, the International Preservation Studies Center, and the Guild of Book Workers, among others. He now teaches online at bookpaperthread.com