Big adventures deserve a little book to remember them! Join artist and educator Jose Luis Garcia to discover the art of bookmaking and create handmade books small enough to fit right in your pocket. Using simple folds and everyday materials, you’ll learn how to make Leporello books, accordion books, and simple zines that you can fill with drawings, stories, notes, and memories. Tuck your creation into your pocket and keep it handy to capture all the adventures you’ll have throughout Children’s Alley!

This event is a ticketed Create! featured workshop. All featured workshops require a free ticket to attend due to limited seating. Tickets may be picked up at the Info Booth in Children’s Alley; a standby line will be available for each workshop in the event a ticketed attendee does not show up.

Jose Luis Garcia is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Miami. He earned a BFA in visual art from the New World School of the Arts/University of Florida, and an MFA in studio art from Florida International University. He has exhibited locally in venues such as the Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Coral Gables Museum, O Cinema Wynwood in partnership with ArtCenter/South Florida, Bakehouse Art Complex, Laundromat Art Space, and the PhotoAlicante Photography Festival in partnership with DORCAM, Alicante, Spain. Garcia has taught various educational residencies as a teaching artist with Arts for Learning Miami, led workshops with the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s The Vasari Project, and was a professor of art and photography at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus and Broward College North Campus. He is currently an assistant professor of photography at New World School of the Arts. Learn more about him and his work at avantgarci.com.