Bookbinding and Magic Making Workshop!
Join me and Deborah Stein at Highlights in Penna 23 - 26 October 2025
In-Person Workshop - Applications close Friday, April 25th at Midnight!
We invite you to apply to join us,
and me, Margaux Kent in October at the wondrous Highlights Foundation in Pennsylvania. Highlights in a beautiful retreat center with local food prepared three times a day, trails to explore, and cozy accommodations. We’ll delight in book binding and picture finding, story walking and thing gathering. We will fill our pockets with woodland wonders and our minds with the chatter of the forest and the lodge. We’ll wander through three inspiring days of perusing new processes and filling pages with all manner of the unexpected, tangling and detangling the magic of the season and the land and maybe a little of ourselves.
Both Deb and I love pictures and words and fitting them together. In the mornings after breakfast, we'll enjoy outside workshops and bring our findings back into the studio where we will make books and fill pages with idea jiggling group adventures.
There is only one day left to apply!
When: 23 - 26 October 2025
Where: Highlights Foundation 392 Boyds Mills Rd, Milanville, PA 18443
Who: Workshop lodges 12 and is open to any and all creative humans!
Price includes accommodations, all meals, Peg and Awl goodie bag, and shared art supplies.
Single rooms are $1600 and Double rooms are $1440 per person.
Applications are open now through April 25th
If selected, you will be notified by May 1st!
We shall spend our time:
- Making a variety of books and journals
- Filling our pages with messes and magic
- Playing with watercolor and ink, pencil and dip-pen
- Tetrapak printing and making watercolors by hand
- Poking images to make words and words to make pictures
- Playing games and making stories
- And hiking, stargazing, collecting, eating, and making art together in the beautiful misty rabbit and bird-filled hills of the Highlights Foundation in Pennsylvania
About Highlights
The campus is located in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, and features a 5,200-square-foot gathering and dining space (The Barn), 21 cabins, a lodge, and several other outbuildings. It was built by and for people who believe in the power of story for kids, and is sustainably cared for by the family of the founders of Highlights for Children.
What a magical adventure this would be. I wonder what could happen if I applied and THEN worked out the “how to get there” bit????! Sigh….
I’d love to host you here though, if that was something you’d ever consider 🙏🏻💛😘
Done!