This exciting workshop is offered in partnership with the public art and storytelling exhibition, The Stories of Us (thestoriesofus.org). Hosted by Y Arts at the Boll Family YMCA, talented artist Darius Baber will share his knowledge of book binding in a FREE workshop to those 15 and above.

About the Artist: Darius Baber

Matched by an occasional waft of curry powder and exuberant xylophones, an unspoken poetry persists stories above the momentous streets of Detroit’s historic Boston Edison district. The houseplants casing the windows for sunlight sprout from their respective pots engaging in a complicated tango with a warm oil portrait of the old Kanye. Surrounded by this airy splendor, fine artist and craftsman, Darius Baber tends a garden assortment of creations mounted about his home studio.As most creatives can attest, our work renounces a strict uniform and instead follows the sporadic pulse of its own path. This is an unmistakable fact upon descent to Darius’s living room where extensions of his mind shuffle from exposed pages in sketchbooks to canvases; even making cameos within the periodic freestyles we spit over loud and timely instrumentals playing from a nearby speaker.