Masterclass Artist Talk with John DeMerritt: Building a Living Craft

Masterclass Artist Talk with John DeMerritt
February 7, 2025 | Friday, 6pm

Free w/ RSVP

Join us for a very special talk with renowned Bay Area-based bookbinder John DeMerritt as he shares with us the unique editions of books, boxes, and housings he creates for artists, galleries, fine art publishers, and institutions. John will discuss how he has developed his studio practice and his origins as an edition binder. Much of John’s recent commissioned work has been to create housings for digital media art projects. This has propelled him into new areas of edition binding that require him to embrace new technologies and expand the traditional role of the binder in terms of ‘book’ work. This year, John began working at Arion Press, where he has been able to incorporate new ideas and techniques of edition binding into the larger, traditional publishing program at Arion. Using these projects as a platform, John will discuss how working with new media and formats has simultaneously transformed his studio practice and reinforced its traditional origins.

John will also teach a Masterclass bookbinding workshop with PCNW on Saturday and Sunday, February 8 and 9.

Photo courtesy of John DeMerritt