Boxmaking Fundamentals Mini-Series
Adult Course | Registration opens 5/6/2025 7:00 AM MDT
In this beginners 2-day mini course, students will focus on the fundamental skills for building several types of boxes: a paper folded portfolio, a slipcase, and a small lidded box.
As a fundamentals class, all the components and materials will be cut and prepared. This allows students to focus on the assembly and craft of the box, and learn the skills needed to make them again.
We will discuss unconventional structures and creative modifications, so bring your sketches and questions.
Learning Objectives:
Folding, measuring basics, gluing and assembling box pieces, formulas for cutting box pieces yourself, and traditional techniques for covering boxes with paper.
- Bookmaking, intro to books, or equivalent experience; please inquire if you are unsure if your experience matches.
- Apron
- Mechanical pencil
- Notebook
- Scissors
- X-Acto or snap blade knife
- 1/2 flat glue brush
- Washcloth
- Bone folder
- Small 45 degree triangle (3"-4”)
- 12” metal ruler
- Cutting mat 12” or larger
Optional Materials: Iokta Nepalese papers, or other decorative papers (wait to purchase until class has begun)
Rhiannon Alpers
Rhiannon Alpers is a papermaker, letterpress printer, and book artist. She has an MFA and a BA in Book Arts and Papermaking. She has taught academic courses and workshops nationally since 2003, and relocated to the Denver area with her family in 2021 from San Francisco. She produces limited edition and sculptural artist books under the imprint of Gazelle and Goat Press. Rhiannon is a member of Spark Gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District. Visit her website at rhiannonalpers.com for more information and artwork.