Dear All, Please join me at the Center for Book Arts in NYC for the upcoming workshop: Conservation Enclosures - June 21, 11-5 . Closing registration June 7, 2025 We love our books and to care and preserve them you can make protective enclosures that support and protect your special and unique books from environmental damages. Additionally for the artist they can also serve as an extension of their book to enhance their presentation and provide another surface where one can customize the box’ design to reflect the contents. Learn to make two archival enclosures that enable you to store your books in an acid free protective environment. We will make the archival phase box enclosure used by the Library of Congress, as an alternative to the clamshell box and a self-closing wrapper. The class will cover do’s and don’ts in conservation enclosures and materials, show examples of damages from bad conservation practices along with learning to measure for custom fit, creating jigs, adhesives, and other helpful hints. For the book artist, librarian and collector. No experience necessary, just come with your books. For more information, please visit: https://centerforbookarts.org/classes/in-person/25mbm000i Looking forward to meeting you Maria Maria G Pisano Memory Press MGP Studio Arts www.mariagpisano.com Maria G Pisano’s Book Via Dolorosa: From Sea to Shining Sea will be part of the exhibit: Who is America at 250? Artists’ Books on the State of Democracy, opening at San Francisco Center for the Book during the 2026 international CODEX Symposium and Book Fair. https://www.mariagpisano.com/books/memory-press/via-dolorosa-from-sea-to-shining-sea/ Posts from the NML on Memory Press works https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2021/08/05/the-artist-book-cover-to-cover-with-maria-pisano-part-i https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2021/08/12/the-artist-book-cover-to-cover-with-maria-g-pisano-part-ii/ See Memory Press book: Fractured: Covid 19 - Memento Mori vs. Memento Vivere - https://www.mariagpisano.com/books/memory-press/fractured-covid-19-memento-mori-vs-memento-vivere/ "All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place." 1984 by George Orwell