LitFest: Bookbinding Workshop

With the belief that arts are critical to the advancement of cultural citizenship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship supports artists and arts workers in the heart of Oklahoma’s Green Country. Socially invested artistic practitioners live and work here, intentionally engaging with our city.

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A 3-part symposium with panels & a workshop about independent publishing & its creative communities; part of Publishing From the Ground Up.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2026 | 1:30-3:00 PMTULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP FLAGSHIP | 112 N. BOSTON AVE • TULSA, OK The University of Tulsa, in partnership with LitFest, Art Directors Club, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, presents Publishing from the Ground Up, a symposium about independent publishing and the creative communities it sustains. Join us on Saturday, April 25, for two roundtable conversations and a workshop with creatives who are working at the forefront of literary and art publishing across the US. Please join us for the final segment of LitFest’s Publishing From the Ground Up to learn the art of bookbinding using simple stitching techniques.M. Wright will be leading this workshop. Participants will learn this age-old craft and take home a handmade blank book. All ages and experience levels are welcome. Materials and light refreshments will be provided. PUBLISHING FROM THE GROUND UPFull Schedule9:30 AM - 10:50 AM |<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/publishing-from-the-ground-up-tickets-1985282972814?aff=odcleoeventsincollection" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/publishing-from-the-ground-up-tickets-1985282972814?aff=odcleoeventsincollection" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Panel 1: Promoting Translation &amp; Building Readerly Communities</a>11:00 AM –12:15 PM | <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/litfest-the-art-of-publishing-community-solidarity-tickets-1987643486173?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/litfest-the-art-of-publishing-community-solidarity-tickets-1987643486173?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Panel 2: The Art of Publishing &amp; Community Solidarity</a>1:30 PM –3:00 PM | <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/litfest-bookbinding-workshop-tickets-1987701658167?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/litfest-bookbinding-workshop-tickets-1987701658167?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bookbinding Workshop</a>

ABOUT LITFEST TULSA<a href="https://tulsa.okstate.edu/poets-writers/litfest.html" title="https://tulsa.okstate.edu/poets-writers/litfest.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tulsa LitFest</a> brings together diverse literary artists and writers to collaborate and inspire, enriching the Tulsa community. The free festival includes events ranging from open mic nights and live readings to a small press book fair and a jazz show, presented in a variety of bookstores, taprooms and museums near downtown. Tulsa LitFest is presented by the Center for Poets and Writers at OSU-Tulsa, Whitty Books, Tri-City Collective, and Fulton Street Books and Coffee and is supported by Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

ABOUT THE MODERATORS:<a href="https://utulsa.edu/people/maia-wright/" title="https://utulsa.edu/people/maia-wright/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">M. Wright</a> is an associate professor of graphic design and creative director of TU’s Third Floor Design Studio. She received her MFA in visual communication design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, after an undergraduate degree in comparative literature at Princeton University. Over the past 20 years, she has built a creative practice that specializes in collaborations with artists and cultural institutions. Her design work has garnered national and international awards, and has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, and Barcelona. Her work is in permanent collections including the National Design Archives, the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection at Columbia University, and the Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is co-founder of the queer-feminist art and design collective AK/OK, whose work has been presented at venues including the Brooklyn Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Bishopsgate Institute (London), SOMA (Mexico City), and Stockholm University of the Arts. As co-director of OK Stamp Press based in Tiotià:ke, Montreal, she investigates artistic publishing practices with an emphasis on social justice and sustainable production methods.

<a href="https://thepickup.com/masthead" title="https://thepickup.com/masthead" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Matt Carney</a> is the Editor-In-Chief of The Pick Up. He was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma and has worked as an editor, reporter and nonprofit manager since earning his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. He has contributed writing to Outside, This Land, The Tulsa Voice, KOSU, Oklahoma Gazette, Tulsa World and The Oklahoman. He now lives in midtown with his wife, daughter and son.

ABOUT THE HOST:<a href="https://bdralyuk.wordpress.com/" title="https://bdralyuk.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Boris Dralyuk</a> is a poet, translator, and critic. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, and has taught there and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Tulsa. His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New Republic, London Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, and other journals. He is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022) and Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 (Brill, 2012), editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press, 2016), co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015), and translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and other authors. He received first prize in the 2011 Compass Translation Award competition and, with Irina Mashinski, first prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition. In 2020 he received the inaugural <a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/06/29/washington-monthly-announces-the-2020-kukula-award-winners/" title="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/06/29/washington-monthly-announces-the-2020-kukula-award-winners/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing</a> from the Washington Monthly. In 2022 he received the inaugural <a href="https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/03/24/announcing-the-2022-nbcc-award-winners/" title="https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/03/24/announcing-the-2022-nbcc-award-winners/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize</a> from the National Book Critics Circle for his translation of Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees. In 2024 he received a <a href="https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2024-literature-awards/" title="https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2024-literature-awards/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Literature Award</a> from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2024-2026 Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Formerly the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/" title="https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nimrod International Journal</a>.

ABOUT TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIPEstablished in 2015, <a href="https://www.tulsaartistfellowship.org/" title="https://www.tulsaartistfellowship.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tulsa Artist Fellowship</a> was created as a place-based initiative by the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) that addresses pressing challenges faced by contemporary artists and arts workers living in and joining Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Artist Fellowship believes the arts are critical to advancing cultural citizenship and supports community-invested practitioners who intentionally engage with our city. Our exhibitions and events are free, documented, and archived. VISITOR EXPERIENCE<a href="https://www.tulsaartistfellowship.org/exhibitions#flagship" title="https://www.tulsaartistfellowship.org/exhibitions#flagship" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tulsa Artist Fellowship – Flagship</a> accommodates wheelchairs and strollers. Variable seating is provided, along with areas for distanced standing and wheelchairs. Family-scale private washrooms are available to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers who need access to increased square footage and changing tables.Tulsa Artist Fellowship strives to provide a welcoming and accessible experience. All exhibitions and events are free, documented, and archived.

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