Coptic Stitch Bookbinding w/ Magaly Cantu

Free for CU Members | $30 tickets for public

Join Magaly Cantú in this one-day workshop covering advanced bookbinding techniques. During this workshop, you will learn how to make a hardcover book, coptic binding techniques, and how to make a sleeve case. Among this, you’ll learn how the book functions as an artistic tool and its historical importance. All supplies and lunch provided!

Magaly Cantú (MFA) is an interdisciplinary artist based in the DFW metroplex. She works between traditional printmaking, painting, and expanded ceramic practices. Through the translation of familial relationships, personal memories, photographs, and daydreams. Magaly dissects experiences of girlhood as a Latina and the impacts of navigating in-between tradition and modernization. Magaly has shown work at Arts Fort Worth, 500X Gallery, the University of West Virginia, and the K Space Contemporary.

Her work has also been added to multiple collections such as Marais Press print collection at The Hilliard Art Museum and Incisori Contemporanei, Villa Benzi Zecchini, in Caerano di San Marco, Italy.

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