Eli Whitney Museum

Learn to love paper. It's not just 8.5 x 11. It's an art form from the very beginning to the final product. Learn to make paper with materials you'd never think could become paper. Use paper to build structures: cut it, fold it, tear it, paint it, dye it...

Then ask, what is a book? And what is an Artist's Book? On a Wednesday visit to Dexterity Press, learn about letterpress and then give it a try yourself. Kerri and Jeff Mueller will guide you on their Vandercook press. Then you will build a flag book with Kerri which you'll bring back to the Museum and populate with the samples you worked on all week. It's a book design you wont forget and one which will just make you want to learn other constructions. You'll get to use our own little tabletop card letterpress now that you know how to do it.