Join Melissa Potter to bind handmade covers for the Myth of the Organic City exhibition catalog. In July with Nathan Lewis of Out of Step Press, workshop attendees helped create handmade paper from cut and pulped veteran uniforms. Building on this work, attendees will learn artists' book assembly and contribute to the collective effort of this limited edition publication featuring the artists in the exhibition. Each participant gets a copy of the catalogue!

Melissa Hilliard Potter is a feminist interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. Potter is a Professor at Columbia College Chicago and collaborates with artists in the medium of hand papermaking. She travels throughout the country teaching, lecturing, and conducting interviews. Melissa lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Nathan Lewis is a papermaker, book artist and Iraq War veteran.  He makes prints, journals, and chapbooks that focus on U.S militarism and reacts to his experiences in the U.S Army through his artwork.  He has taught workshops in papermaking and bookbinding through Combat Paper, Frontline Arts, Veterans' Sanctuary, and the USO.  He maintains Out Of Step Press, a book arts studio and micro press in Ithaca, NY. 

Handmade Exhibition Catalogue Cover by Nathan Lewis, Out of Step Press