A bookmaking workshop will be held Saturday, March 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Ponca City Art Center taught by Betty Bowen. Learn how to create a book by hand. Students will use basic materials, such as artisan papers, bone folders, cloth, board and adhesives to handcraft a book. The leaves of paper are folded and gathered into signatures, then sewn together. Each student will create a finished bound book with a ribbon bookmark. No experience necessary.

The class fee for each workshop is $50; materials provided. Class size is limited to 12 participants.

Betty Bowen

Bowen is a printmaker, painter and teacher living in Cushing. After receiving a bachelor's degree in art from Oklahoma City University in 1983, she moved to North Carolina where she studied painting and printmaking at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A fellow painter suggested she go to graduate school in Wisconsin. She took his advice, and in 1990 she received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin. She moved back to Oklahoma in 2000, where she teaches art at Cushing Middle School. Bowen participates in individual and group art shows.

Registration forms are available at the Ponca City Art Center. The center is open Wednesday to Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. For further information call Jerry Cathey at 765-9746.