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Sketchbook Saturday
I’m stuck home recovering from the flu—a good time to start posting my series on past sketchbook pages which I’ve been meaning to do for a while now.
This weekend we go back 25 years (eek!) to 2001, when I fully embraced the sketchbook as my portable studio. It was my first summer as a studio assistant at @andersonranchartscenter which ultimately set the tone for my deep fascination with outdoors culture. Let’s see: 3x5 print sheets from a camera roll (yes, that’s tennis star Jennifer Capriati), printed emails, receipts from Aiko’s (the personalized cat drawings from Kimmy alone are worth framing), a drawing done by my nephew gifted to me from my sister, and some random landscape drawings. The yellowed corners are aged receipts from the Village Market in Snowmass. I did extensive journal entries in small script throughout—getting back to that again—and on what appears to be some directions to a party on Brush Creek Rd.
Book is 9“ x 12” x 2.25”
More next week!
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#sketchbooks #2001 #bestofsevenart #drawing #collage
Last BookLab session of the semester!
Thank you, @saic_booklab and @saic_library for hosting our sessions this past semester! And special thanks to @very.rachel and @crazyhotcomicbookboyfriend for organizing. We’ll see you all again in the fall!
Happy summer, everyone!
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#makebooks #saic #studentbookmakersclub #supportcommunitybinding #artistsbooks
🛎️ giveaway alert 🔔
Giving away two tickets to a workshop event next Tuesday hosted by author @megykarydes and @readandruntours exploring science-backed ways to lower anxiety including:
🌸 Floral therapy with Vanessa Flowers of @flowergirlsmeet
📗 Bookbinding with Regin Igloria of @northbranchprojects
🌳 Walking + nature therapy with Anthony Scott of @chicagogentswhostroll and nature educator Bonnie Tawse
@sourcebooks@fabriksocialspaces
HOW IT WORKS:
🔹 To enter, all you have to do is LIKE THIS VIDEO and FOLLOW both MY ACCOUNT and MEGY KARYDES’ ACCOUNT @megykarydes
🔹 Tag a friend in the comment for extra entries!
🔹 Must be local to Chicago or willing to fly in ;)
‼️ Giveaway ends at 11:59pm CST on Sunday, May 3rd ‼️
Once the giveaway ends, I’ll pick the winners and reach out to handle ticket exchange!
#mentalhealthawarenessmonth #giveawayalert
@fleetfeetlincolnsquare and @newbalancerunning celebrated Earth Day with @reginigloria@northbranchprojects for a book binding workshop.
In this collaborative session, participants learned accessible bookbinding techniques-such as hand-sewn pamphlets and zines-while transforming repurposed materials (including running shoe packaging) into unique, handmade books.
Join us in person for the Earth Day Workshop with Fleet Feet & New Balance—fun, fitness, and sustainability!
Get ready to celebrate Earth Day by joining us for a fun and eco-friendly workshop hosted by Fleet Feet and New Balance!
Join visual artist Regin Igloria, founder of North Branch Projects, for a hands-on Community Binding workshop that brings together creativity, sustainability, and movement. In this collaborative session, participants will learn accessible bookbinding techniques—such as hand-sewn pamphlets and zines—while transforming repurposed materials (including running shoe packaging) into unique, handmade books.
Designed for runners, creatives, and curious beginners alike, the workshop explores the connection between artistic practice and active lifestyles, with a special focus on sustainability within the running community. Guided prompts will help participants develop personal content, and everyone will leave with several handmade books while contributing to an ongoing community archive.
All materials are provided. No experience necessary.
Your $10 ticket will get you a $10 gift voucher to use at Fleet Feet Chicago.
Many thanks to @jillianmanfredi and @fitfooddreams@friendsrunning_chicago for the support in initiating this project with us, and to @goconrad_photo for the 📸📸📸
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#makebooks #supportcommunitybinding #earthday #workshop #artandathleticism
Meet the workshop facilitator: Regin Igloria of North Branch Projects 📖✨
Regin Igloria (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator originally from Manila and now based in the Chicagoland area. His drawings, artists’ books, sculptures, and performances portray the human condition as it relates to the natural environment and inhabited spaces. In 2010, he founded North Branch Projects, an organization that builds connections through the book arts, which allows him to work with various communities to create crossover between disparate populations.
Regin will be facilitating the bookbinding workshop at @fabriksocialspaces on Tuesday, May 5 as part of the event More Calm, Less Stress: An Experiential Evening with Author Megy Karydes.
At this interactive event, you’ll meet Megy and experience several of the science-backed practices featured in her book through hands-on mini workshops.
Tap the ‘Events’ link in bio to learn more and get tickets.
I’m pleased to be exhibiting some new work at @open_studio_project in Evanston. It opens this Saturday, April 4, with a reception taking place 3-5 pm. Please stop by if you can!
Storaging: This Necessary Moment
“Regin Igloria combines his ongoing community bookbinding project, North Branch Projects (NBP), with the excavation process of his recently vacated storage unit. The exhibition consists of sculptural pieces resembling household furniture and hybrid objects that house hand-made books, collages, and book-related ephemera, revealing the fraught movement between past histories and a hopeful future.”
I’ll be offering a free Community Binding session on April 11 at the studio as well. Please join me and make books! Details in link in bio.
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#exhibition #communitybinding #makebooks #bestofsevenart #storaging
We’re back at @saicpics for the new student club, @saic_booklab every other Monday learning new binding techniques and making books!
DM us for more info on our next meeting!
Many thanks to @saic_library for hosting us 😎📚✌🏽
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#saicbooklab #bookbinding #buttonholestitch #bookarts #supportcommunitybinding
A beautiful day for a workshop at @elawafarm 📚
Today we worked on the buttonhole stitch and came away with a versatile handbound journal/sketchbook. Many thanks to the staff and participants—what a great group of students (with such sharp color choices)! Afterwards, I enjoyed a cold brew from the cafe and couldn’t resist the market. I’ve started a tradition: books…then beets. So good!
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#makebooks #supportcommunitybinding #workshops #buttonholestitch #bookbinding
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Sketchbook Saturday ✌🏽
Today we go back to 1999, a century coming to a close and a glimpse into another sketchbook falling apart and needing some repair. I’ll do a short video on how I restitch these one day.
I devoted quite a few pages on my trip to Iceland to run the Reykjavik Marathon in August—my first trip to Europe and first international marathon. I was still capturing photos with a disposable camera and getting blurry prints of the course. It was a small-ish race that looped twice around the city, much of it without any crowds or fanfare. I got 25th place—that’s how small the field was!
I enjoyed reading the journal entries towards the end of the book: plotting and scheming for a cross country bicycle trip (which ultimately happened but on the West Coast), ambitions to do a residency at Ragdale (lol), ideas for a Polaroid sketch project of everyone I encounter starting in 2000, some serious naïveté about making art all the time, and correspondences (an actual letter!) from people I no longer know of their whereabouts.
Next week I will dig into some storage unit excavations (we’re talking high school sketchbooks). Fun 😎
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#sketchbooks #1999 #iceland #snailmail #sketchbooksaturday
We made a few books with some young folks at CSO during Teen Night this evening! Many thanks to @hydeparkartcenter for the invite to share their program table, and to @chicagosymphonystudents for hosting—what a talented and well-spoken group of panelists 📚🎶
