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The Living Page: Artist Books Inspired by Art that Breathes (May 2 & 3)

$165.00

2-Day Workshop: May 2 & 3, 2026
10:00 - 4:00 pm daily

Instructor: Tony Lemos

Where plants, pigments, and place shape the story. A weekend immersion in ecological book arts.

In this two-day workshop, participants will create a small suite of intimate artist books shaped by the Art that Breathes philosophy—an approach that centers relationship, slowness, ecological awareness, and sensory connection to place.

Working with botanicals mostly gathered from the land, students will explore eco-printing, botanical cyanotype, and low-impact print processes to generate pages rich with texture, memory, and story. We’ll pair these pages with approachable binding techniques—such as pamphlet stitch, accordion forms, and simple folded structures—allowing each participant to build 2–3 unique artist books that reflect their own conversation with the landscape.

Throughout the weekend, we’ll ground in mindful observation, reciprocity with plant materials, and the understanding that the book is a living vessel—an archive of relationship between maker, material, and place. No previous experience required; all levels welcome.

All workshop materials will be provided.

Students are asked to bring a lunch each day.

This class is open to students ages 16+
Skill Level: 1-5, all levels welcome.

Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.

Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.

Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced

2-Day Workshop: May 2 & 3, 2026
10:00 - 4:00 pm daily

Instructor: Tony Lemos

Where plants, pigments, and place shape the story. A weekend immersion in ecological book arts.

In this two-day workshop, participants will create a small suite of intimate artist books shaped by the Art that Breathes philosophy—an approach that centers relationship, slowness, ecological awareness, and sensory connection to place.

Working with botanicals mostly gathered from the land, students will explore eco-printing, botanical cyanotype, and low-impact print processes to generate pages rich with texture, memory, and story. We’ll pair these pages with approachable binding techniques—such as pamphlet stitch, accordion forms, and simple folded structures—allowing each participant to build 2–3 unique artist books that reflect their own conversation with the landscape.

Throughout the weekend, we’ll ground in mindful observation, reciprocity with plant materials, and the understanding that the book is a living vessel—an archive of relationship between maker, material, and place. No previous experience required; all levels welcome.

All workshop materials will be provided.

Students are asked to bring a lunch each day.

This class is open to students ages 16+
Skill Level: 1-5, all levels welcome.

Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.

Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.

Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced

Instructor: Tony(a) Lemos

Tony(a) Lemos is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work lives at the intersection of art, ecology, and herbalism. Rooted in a lifelong relationship with plants and shaped by her Mediterranean heritage, her practice explores the ways creativity, healing, and the more-than-human world continually inform one another. She is the creator of "Art that Breathes", a process-based methodology that collaborates with plants through eco-printing, alternative photography, and pigment extraction. Working with leaves, flowers, and roots gathered with reciprocity on site specific projects, she creates works that invite stillness, kinship, and sensory engagement with the living world.

For more than twenty-five years, Tonya has taught herbalism, holistic well-being, and plant-centered creative practice, integrating embodied learning with ecological awareness. As an educator, she emphasizes ethical wildcrafting, slow craft, and relational methodologies that honor land, lineage, and community. Her work is guided by the belief that art is a form of listening, and that healing is a collaborative act between humans and the Earth.