Shawn Sheehy – Virtual Lecture

In this 4-hour virtual workshop, renowned book artist Shawn Sheehy will lead attendees through structural basics and advanced techniques for creating pop-up books. Sheehy will also present a virtual lecture about his work at 12 p.m. His trade pop-up books Welcome to the Neighborwood and Beyond the Sixth Extinction (both mass-market versions of previous artist books) were published by Candlewick and have won numerous awards. Sheehy has been teaching book arts courses and workshops since 2001. His broadsides and artist book editions have been collected by such prestigious institutions as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. Sheehy served as director of The Movable Book Society from 2018 to 2023. He holds an MFA in Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago.