Spring 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog

Creative Bookmaking At The Art Studio (B314)

B – Fine Arts

Have fun with bookmaking in this five-part series. First, explore Japanese stab binding with a 4-hole sewn binding, then building on what we learn, advance on to one to three traditional and much more intricate binding styles. Class then makes an accordion and star book. These are great for your own journaling or fantastic as gifts. Class is offered in partnership with The Art Studio, the arts education center of New Castle Countys Department of Community Services, located at 310 Kiamenski Road, Wilmington, DE 19804. Additional fee: Please note that this course requires an additional fee of $95. Participants receive a payment link from OLLI prior to the first class. There is also an additional $25 material fee due to the instructor at the first class.

This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTORS: Katherine Lecocq, Nicole Sexton

LECOCQ, KATHERINE–Work ranges from the whimsical and playful to staid and evocative representations of the natural world. Painting and drawing since she was a child, her work is rendered in media that include acrylic, pen and ink, charcoal, and watercolor and ranges in size from artist trading cards to full murals. She has exhibited her work throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. LeCocq is originally from Seattle, and is now based in Wilmington after graduating from Rutgers University’s distinguished Mason Gross School of Fine Arts.

SEXTON, NICOLE–Coordinator for The Art Studio of the New Castle County Department of Community Services.

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