Center teaches book-crafting skills

Here’s one for the books - at least for making them, anyway.

The Virginia Arts of the Book Center will offer two weeklong summer seminars in printing and book arts techniques at its studeio in the Ix complex at 977 Second St. SE.

The center, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, will start the first session on Monday with “Loaded Words: Combining Text and Image in the Artist’s Book.” Instructor Lindsey Mears will lead the seminar, which will explore letterpress, monoprint, linocut and other processes.

“Works on Paper: A Collaborative Creation,” which will focus on the cyanotype photographic process and the intaglio and lithography printmaking processes, begins July 20. Stacey Evans will be the instructor.

Each seminar meets from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

Tuition is $325 for the week, and prorated one-day sessions are available. Drop-in students are welcome while space is available.

Learn more about the classes at virginiabookarts.org. For registration and details, call Kevin McFadden at 243-5520.