The Art -
The Artist - The
Inspiration/Alaska
Alaskan artist Sherri McDonald has been binding
books and creating with paper since 1993. Although
before that, her earliest memories of art began
at her grandmother’s kitchen table. That started
a long life of love for the arts of all kinds. She
attended the University of Minnesota where she studied
printing and paper making. After graduating, she
began her bookbinding career apprenticing under
a Japanese style bookbinder, Karen Saro, in Stevenson,
Washington. Sherri then continued working at a hand
bindery, BookLab, in Austin, Texas until she moved
to Juneau, Alaska. It was here she had the opportunity
to start her own bookbinding art business, Bound
to the Word Bookbinding.
