An Upcycled Book
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At the beginning of the Covid-19 quarantine, many art supplies were hard to come by. So I started to take items that were destined for the recycling/trash bin and make books out of them. In this tutorial, I will show you some samples of this work and also walk through some tips on how to make one yourself.
Sarah Matthews is a MA Art & the Book graduate from the Corcoran College of Arts and Design at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Matthews also received an MBA with a Marketing Concentration in 2005 and a BS in Sociology in 2000 from Bowie State University in Bowie, MD. Mrs. Matthews’ work has been exhibited in the US and is a part of the permanent collections of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, George Washington University’s Gelman Library, University of Puget Sound, and Samford University. Mrs. Matthews is a full-time artist and currently teaches bookbinding and printmaking at Frederick Book Arts Center & Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.
