This workshop is full! Contact workshops@publicspaceone.com to join the waitlist. Clamshell Boxmaking (April 2026) from $30.00 with Alexandra Janezic Sun. April 12 & April 19, 10a-1p at the IC Press Co-op (225 N. Gilbert) pay-what-you-can: $30-$150 In this two-day workshop, students will learn the fundamental concepts involved in boxmaking—grain direction, measuring from an object, how to accurately cut board/bookcloth, and board attachment. Students will make a clamshell box made to house an object of their choosing. You will go home with a clamshell box made with your own two hands! Open to ages 18+. Registration deadline: Feb. 15 *PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from Hills Bank and individual donors. $132 is the true cost of the workshop, and we encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford, or pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees. workshop cost: Select workshop cost $150 (help someone else attend) $132 (true cost) $75 (subsidized) $30 (subsidized) Register TEACHING ARTIST: Alexandra is a bookbinder, letterpress printer, and book artist living in Iowa City. She earned her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book (UICB). She is currently Associate Preparator at the Stanley Museum of Art and adjunct faculty at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She has taught bookbinding workshops at Penland School of Craft and Public Space One.
Public Space One is a community-driven contemporary art organization in Iowa City: home of @icpresscoop @afrofuturist.center @ps1_mac @bigfieldfund
